Esi Thompson Tani-Eshon
Biographic Data
| ID | 326266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esi Thompson Tani-Eshon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esi Thompson |
| FAMILY NAME | Tani-Eshon |
| SIGNATURE | TANI-ESHON E T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Media School, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0772-0997 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sense-Making During the RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Pilot Implementation in Ghana
The pilot implementation of the RTS,S/AS01E (Mosquirix) malaria vaccine marked a significant step in addressing one of Africa's leading causes of mortality by providing essential data that led to its approval for use in children under two years old in malaria-endemic regions. However, little attention has been given to the lived experiences of caregivers and how they made decisions about participating in the vaccine pilot implementation. This pap…
Narratives of living through Ebola
The Ebola outbreak in 2014–2016 was the worst of its kind. Its end has been credited in part to community level communication and engagement. But scholarship has not focused much on community members agentic sensemaking expressions and processes during the outbreak. This study focuses on a Liberian community members’ agency in their sensemaking communicative processes that constituted their lived negotiations of health and wellbeing during the Eb…
Do knowledge, trust in source content, and magnitude of information influence Covid-19 risk perceptions? Comparing Ghanaian and US respondents
Diverse outcomes from the COVID-19 pandemic from different countries raise questions about how information related factors influence judgements about the risks of the outbreak. Adopting a comparative survey approach, this study investigates whether and how, knowledge, content trust, and content magnitude are associated with COVID-19 risk perception among respondents in Ghana and the United States (n = 736) during the first phase of the pandemic (…
Comparing how information source and trust influence risk perception about Ebola in Ghana and Liberia
The increasing occurrence of diseases across geographical borders creates a need to understand how information source preferences and trust in those sources influence risk perception across contexts. However, cross-context studies about information sources are not common in health communication and promotion scholarship. Using a survey, the research team compared how information sources, perceived usefulness of Ebola information, interpersonal an…
Advocacy and Mobilizing for Health Policy Change
In Ghana, the year 2018 saw many news articles about the youth, market women, and students increasingly abusing two opioids: tramadol and codeine-containing cough syrups. Our study examines Ghanaian news media framing of the opioid abuse crisis in Ghana to determine if and how the amount and framing of media coverage may have helped push the issue onto the policy agenda. We content analyzed all available online versions of print media coverage of…
Risk communication in a double public health crisis
During 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic, many West African countries experienced perennial outbreaks of various infectious diseases. Given the geographic dynamics of disease outbreaks in the region, it seems obvious that research on risk communication needs to contemplate how these countries manage risk communication about simultaneously occurring infectious diseases. Yet, this is missing in risk communication scholarship. I draw on insights from the soc…
Of Disputes and Petitions
This exploratory study investigates how the media in Ghana framed the 2012 presidential Election Petition case. Using quantitative content analysis of stories from the digital platforms of an elite and a popular commercial radio station in Ghana, I found that both digital platforms relied mainly on game and conflict frames and the use of official sources in presenting stories. The use of the game frame was associated with the presence of official…
Communicating a Health Risk/Crisis
Media are an indispensable partner in health communication, but there is often concern about how the media cover health and science issues. These critiques tend to be based on analyses of news content that don’t consider the production process of the content. Using a media sociology framework, the article examines the news production process of the Ebola outbreak from the perspective of Ghanaian journalists. The study finds that existing and new …
Health information from elite to popular media
In countries where illiteracy levels are high, media platforms such as print have tended to be exclusive of certain segments of the population, and therefore not wholly effective in reaching the masses with information, such as that relating to health. In Ghana, this barrier between literacy, media and audiences is blurring, as radio ‘converges’ with print such that newspaper stories of the day form the basis for morning radio (local language) di…
Communicating a Health Risk/Crisis
Media are an indispensable partner in health communication, but there is often concern about how the media cover health and science issues. These critiques tend to be based on analyses of news content that don’t consider the production process of the content. Using a media sociology framework, the article examines the news production process of the Ebola outbreak from the perspective of Ghanaian journalists. The study finds that existing and new …
Of Disputes and Petitions
This exploratory study investigates how the media in Ghana framed the 2012 presidential Election Petition case. Using quantitative content analysis of stories from the digital platforms of an elite and a popular commercial radio station in Ghana, I found that both digital platforms relied mainly on game and conflict frames and the use of official sources in presenting stories. The use of the game frame was associated with the presence of official…
Risk communication in a double public health crisis
During 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic, many West African countries experienced perennial outbreaks of various infectious diseases. Given the geographic dynamics of disease outbreaks in the region, it seems obvious that research on risk communication needs to contemplate how these countries manage risk communication about simultaneously occurring infectious diseases. Yet, this is missing in risk communication scholarship. I draw on insights from the soc…
Health information from elite to popular media
In countries where illiteracy levels are high, media platforms such as print have tended to be exclusive of certain segments of the population, and therefore not wholly effective in reaching the masses with information, such as that relating to health. In Ghana, this barrier between literacy, media and audiences is blurring, as radio ‘converges’ with print such that newspaper stories of the day form the basis for morning radio (local language) di…
Communicating a Health Risk/Crisis
Media are an indispensable partner in health communication, but there is often concern about how the media cover health and science issues. These critiques tend to be based on analyses of news content that don’t consider the production process of the content. Using a media sociology framework, the article examines the news production process of the Ebola outbreak from the perspective of Ghanaian journalists. The study finds that existing and new …
Risk communication in a double public health crisis
During 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic, many West African countries experienced perennial outbreaks of various infectious diseases. Given the geographic dynamics of disease outbreaks in the region, it seems obvious that research on risk communication needs to contemplate how these countries manage risk communication about simultaneously occurring infectious diseases. Yet, this is missing in risk communication scholarship. I draw on insights from the soc…
Of Disputes and Petitions
This exploratory study investigates how the media in Ghana framed the 2012 presidential Election Petition case. Using quantitative content analysis of stories from the digital platforms of an elite and a popular commercial radio station in Ghana, I found that both digital platforms relied mainly on game and conflict frames and the use of official sources in presenting stories. The use of the game frame was associated with the presence of official…
Advocacy and Mobilizing for Health Policy Change
In Ghana, the year 2018 saw many news articles about the youth, market women, and students increasingly abusing two opioids: tramadol and codeine-containing cough syrups. Our study examines Ghanaian news media framing of the opioid abuse crisis in Ghana to determine if and how the amount and framing of media coverage may have helped push the issue onto the policy agenda. We content analyzed all available online versions of print media coverage of…
Comparing how information source and trust influence risk perception about Ebola in Ghana and Liberia
The increasing occurrence of diseases across geographical borders creates a need to understand how information source preferences and trust in those sources influence risk perception across contexts. However, cross-context studies about information sources are not common in health communication and promotion scholarship. Using a survey, the research team compared how information sources, perceived usefulness of Ebola information, interpersonal an…
Narratives of living through Ebola
The Ebola outbreak in 2014–2016 was the worst of its kind. Its end has been credited in part to community level communication and engagement. But scholarship has not focused much on community members agentic sensemaking expressions and processes during the outbreak. This study focuses on a Liberian community members’ agency in their sensemaking communicative processes that constituted their lived negotiations of health and wellbeing during the Eb…
Do knowledge, trust in source content, and magnitude of information influence Covid-19 risk perceptions? Comparing Ghanaian and US respondents
Diverse outcomes from the COVID-19 pandemic from different countries raise questions about how information related factors influence judgements about the risks of the outbreak. Adopting a comparative survey approach, this study investigates whether and how, knowledge, content trust, and content magnitude are associated with COVID-19 risk perception among respondents in Ghana and the United States (n = 736) during the first phase of the pandemic (…
Sense-Making During the RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Pilot Implementation in Ghana
The pilot implementation of the RTS,S/AS01E (Mosquirix) malaria vaccine marked a significant step in addressing one of Africa's leading causes of mortality by providing essential data that led to its approval for use in children under two years old in malaria-endemic regions. However, little attention has been given to the lived experiences of caregivers and how they made decisions about participating in the vaccine pilot implementation. This pap…
Political science (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Disease (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Risk Perception and Management (3 works) · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (3 works)