Social media, traditional media and party politics in Ghana

Gyampo, Ransford Edward Van

doi:10.1080/09744053.2017.1329806

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“…Among the general populace, there is a widely held view that Ghanaians like to complain or “talk too much” (Anonymous, 2014, 2015; Doku, 2021). It feeds into a perception of the media as providing a platform for uninformed and unsophisticated political discourse (Van Gyampo, 2017: 134). Rather tellingly, a 2018 report found dwindling popular support for a free media, with 57% of Ghanains holding that the government should be able to prevent the publication of information it deems harmful (Endert, 2018).…”

Section: Ghana’s Development Narrative and The Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media

Agana

Prempeh

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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As social media democratize participation in the public sphere, new voices are emerging that challenge the status quo of public political discussion in important ways. In particular, social media are allowing ordinary citizens to offer their appraisals of government policy and their diagnoses of the problems besetting development. Through a rhetorical analysis of online videos by selected social commentators, we show how development is framed by today’s Ghanaian youth as an engagement with local and global vistas. Although lacking in nuanced historical and theoretical framing, and espousing an idealized-Western vision of development, our interlocutors play an important role in spurring active youth engagement in democratic discourse and in bringing to the popular stage contemporary national and global discourses surrounding development, identity, and the role of digital media in shaping modern public debate in democratic societies.

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Section: Ghana’s Development Narrative and The Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media

Agana

Prempeh

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Besides, the tilted media ownership has led to a situation where information on traditional media reflects the political views of the owners. As such very few media houses are trusted for reliable information (Dzisah, 2018;Gyampo, 2017;Shardow & Asare, 2016). In this circumstance, the only trusted source of reliable information on political parties is the parties' official websites or documents.…”

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Of Parochial Partisanship and Education: Towards Civic Duty or Polarization?

Asekere¹,

Amanor-Lartey²

2021

JPL

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This article explored parochial partisanship among university students amid growing concerns about political polarization in Ghana. The paper used mixed research methods to gather data with the aid of an interview guide and a questionnaire. It argued that university education inculcates in and endows young people with a sense of civic-minded duty to prioritize the collective good of society and subordinate parochial partisan preferences in an analysis of political policies. The novel finding is that university education in Ghana has enlightened many young people to decipher between the facts and the propagandistic view held by political activists because of parochial partisan interest. However, university education was found to be a necessary but not sufficient condition to wipe out parochial partisanship which is the bane behind the growing political polarization in Ghana. The paper recommends continuous seminars on the dangers associated with negative partisanship in all tertiary educational institutions. Further, the winner-takes-all politics should be reviewed.

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“…New media or social media can be an alternative but, in most of Africa, the technology is limited to the most well‐resourced and hence is not democratic (Murphy and Carmody ; Gyampo ). While these new media outlets are potentially very important, the lack of checks and balances on their reporting make them vulnerable to manipulation.…”

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Transnational Corporations and Urban Development

Obeng‐Odoom¹

2018

American J Econ Sociol

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Transnational corporations (TNCs) in Africa play significant roles in controlling utilities, privately appropriating common resources, and planning urban space. On the one hand, the extralegal powers of TNCs are legitimized with patronizing discourses about the incompetence of African nations in managing their own affairs and with the specter of a “resource curse” that supposedly immobilizes the self‐governing capacities of Africans. On the other hand, TNCs arrogate to themselves statutory municipal power, ignore or manipulate various channels of accountability, and privately appropriate sociallycreated rents. Some critics of TNCs propose a withdrawal from globalization or greater regulation to limit the power of TNCs. But protectionist or isolationist approaches are entirely mistaken and further undermine the social management of the commons in Africa. Instead, Africans should seek directly to break the chains of monopoly and oligopoly, especially over natural resources. They should also strive to use land for the common good and to systematically build social states in Africa to overcome subservience to TNCs. While previous attempts at autonomous development in Africa have sometimes led to military action by former colonizers and current neo‐colonial imperialists, recent evidence from Africa suggests that such a strategy might succeed now. This article proposes to extend the politics of urban reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in the United States to contemporary Africa. In doing so, it shows how African cities today are working to create local capacity by municipalizing services that have been privatized, such as distribution of water. Despite many obstacles posed by TNCs and their home governments, Africans are making great strides to overcome the enduring legacies of colonialism.

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Social media, traditional media and party politics in Ghana

Cited by 36 publications

References 10 publications

Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media

Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media

Of Parochial Partisanship and Education: Towards Civic Duty or Polarization?

Transnational Corporations and Urban Development

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