Sylvester Senyo Ofori-Parku
Biographic Data
| ID | 4258325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvester Senyo Ofori-Parku |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvester Senyo |
| FAMILY NAME | Ofori-Parku |
| SIGNATURE | OFORI-PARKU S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7695-3161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Influence of PR Sources’ Payments on Journalistic Integrity: Roles of Salary Satisfaction and Tolerance Attitude/Behavior
‘Funny’ Politics: Stand-up Political Comedy, Public Engagement, Critical Thinking, and Opinion Sharing in India
This study hypothesised that (a) exposure to online comedy about political issues promotes public engagement, critical thinking, and opinion sharing; (b) the relationship between exposure to online comedy and the dependent variables is mediated by self-perception of critical thinking on religious freedom (as an example of social justice issues); and (c) the relationship between online comedy and dependent variables (perception of public engagemen…
Navigating Public Service and Profit-Making Mandates: The Case of the Daily Graphic Newspaper
This study examines how Ghana's Daily Graphic, a public newspaper operating as a limited liability company, balances its public service mandate with its economic rationality. The case study combined data from interviews with the newspaper's reporters, editors, managers, and advertising agency executives with a study of official documents and analysis of newshole versus advertisement space allocation. The findings reveal the complicated nature of …
Fighting the global counterfeit medicines challenge: A consumer-facing communication strategy in the US is an imperative
The headline of a January 18, 2022 news story in the Wall Street Journal read “Drugmaker Gilead Alleges Counterfeiting Ring Sold Its HIV Drugs.” The article reported that counterfeit HIV medicines sometimes contained over-the-counter painkillers or antipsychotic drugs. Unfortunately, the subject in this title is not a one-off occurrence; it is a global health issue. [...]
I (Don’t) want to consume counterfeit medicines: Exploratory study on the antecedents of consumer attitudes toward counterfeit medicines
The results of this study indicate that consumer knowledge (albeit in an unexpected direction), people's expectations about what will impress their significant others, their ethical judgments about selling and consuming counterfeits, and their risk-aversion are associated with their decision-making about counterfeit medicines. The study offers insights into a demand-side approach to addressing SFM consumption in the U.S. Implications for public h…
When Public and Business Interests Collide: An Integrated Approach to the Altruism-Instrumentalism Tension and Corporate Social Responsibility Theory
This article attends to the debate of what motivations – instrumental or altruistic – should drive corporate social responsibility (CSR) decisions and practice; I offer an integrated instrumental and duty-based framework. While the win-win instrumentalism that underlies much of CSR practice is problematic and needs addressing, the notion of altruism is also flawed. Such an application of deontological principles, while well-intentioned, is a) bas…
Advocacy and Mobilizing for Health Policy Change: Ghanaian News Media’s Framing of a Prescription Opioid Crisis
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…
Fifty years after surgeon general’s report: Cultural cognition, biased assimilation, and cigarette smoking risk perceptions among college students
Research suggests that cultural worldviews bias how and what people think about various societal risks. But how does this mechanism manifest when people receive balanced information about a highly publicised health issue such as cigarette smoking? Using the cultural cognition worldview scales, we demonstrate that despite the considerable interventions post the 1964 landmark Surgeon General’s Report, young adults in the U.S. still perceive smoking…
This is (Not) Journalism”: Corruption, Subterfuge, and Metajournalistic Discourses on Undercover Journalism in Ghana
There remains broad agreement on the principles and norms of journalism. However, what the practice means also emerges in context, manifesting in and constituted by the language actors use to contest or affirm the boundary of acceptable practices. Using Ghanaian undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ 2018 report on football and corruption as a case, this study examines social media actors’ discourse, identifying points of view on the legitimac…
Tacit knowledge and risk perceptions: Tullow Oil and lay publics in Ghana’s offshore oil region
This study examines how local residents make sense of offshore oil production risks in Ghana’s nascent petroleum industry. From a naturalistic-interpretive perspective, it is primarily based on in-depth interviews with community residents: 8 opinion leaders, 15 residents, and 1 journalist. Residents associate Tullow’s oil activities with health concerns (e.g. conjunctivitis), environmental challenges (e.g. the emergence of decomposed seaweeds alo…
Whale Deaths” Are Unnatural: A Local NGO’s Framing of Offshore Oil Production Risks in Ghana
The past several decades have seen a shift in environmental and risk communication that emphasizes harnessing local knowledge to enhance environmental advocacy. As a result, one would expect local advocacy organizations to manifest this shift. Using Friends of the Nation (FoN; a Ghanaian local advocacy organization) as a case study, this research examines how FoN is constructing offshore oil production risks. The study found that FoN uses “whale …
Discovery channel’s Jungle Gold in Ghana: Hegemonic globalization sparks resistance and policy action
Discovery Channel’s Jungle Gold follows two American real estate moguls who lost their fortunes in the 2008 economic collapse to the Ashanti region of Ghana, West Africa, where they unabashedly engage in illegal gold mining (galamsey). This article examines the dialectic between the forces of hegemonic globalization and resistance by critically examining the content of the television series, the ensuing discourse, and policy actions in Ghana. Bor…
Reality effect or media effect? Television's moulding of the environmental sanitation agenda in Ghana
Mass media have a responsibility to popularise social and developmental issues. This is a central thesis of the normative view of mass media and development. Given the precarious nature of environmental sanitation in the West African country, Ghana, what is the nature of media coverage of environmental sanitation? And how does media coverage relate to people's perceptions of and attitudes toward the problem? While it may be counterintuitive for p…
This is (Not) Journalism”: Corruption, Subterfuge, and Metajournalistic Discourses on Undercover Journalism in Ghana
There remains broad agreement on the principles and norms of journalism. However, what the practice means also emerges in context, manifesting in and constituted by the language actors use to contest or affirm the boundary of acceptable practices. Using Ghanaian undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ 2018 report on football and corruption as a case, this study examines social media actors’ discourse, identifying points of view on the legitimac…
Whale Deaths” Are Unnatural: A Local NGO’s Framing of Offshore Oil Production Risks in Ghana
The past several decades have seen a shift in environmental and risk communication that emphasizes harnessing local knowledge to enhance environmental advocacy. As a result, one would expect local advocacy organizations to manifest this shift. Using Friends of the Nation (FoN; a Ghanaian local advocacy organization) as a case study, this research examines how FoN is constructing offshore oil production risks. The study found that FoN uses “whale …
Navigating Public Service and Profit-Making Mandates: The Case of the Daily Graphic Newspaper
This study examines how Ghana's Daily Graphic, a public newspaper operating as a limited liability company, balances its public service mandate with its economic rationality. The case study combined data from interviews with the newspaper's reporters, editors, managers, and advertising agency executives with a study of official documents and analysis of newshole versus advertisement space allocation. The findings reveal the complicated nature of …
Discovery channel’s Jungle Gold in Ghana: Hegemonic globalization sparks resistance and policy action
Discovery Channel’s Jungle Gold follows two American real estate moguls who lost their fortunes in the 2008 economic collapse to the Ashanti region of Ghana, West Africa, where they unabashedly engage in illegal gold mining (galamsey). This article examines the dialectic between the forces of hegemonic globalization and resistance by critically examining the content of the television series, the ensuing discourse, and policy actions in Ghana. Bor…
Reality effect or media effect? Television's moulding of the environmental sanitation agenda in Ghana
Mass media have a responsibility to popularise social and developmental issues. This is a central thesis of the normative view of mass media and development. Given the precarious nature of environmental sanitation in the West African country, Ghana, what is the nature of media coverage of environmental sanitation? And how does media coverage relate to people's perceptions of and attitudes toward the problem? While it may be counterintuitive for p…
Discovery channel’s Jungle Gold in Ghana: Hegemonic globalization sparks resistance and policy action
Discovery Channel’s Jungle Gold follows two American real estate moguls who lost their fortunes in the 2008 economic collapse to the Ashanti region of Ghana, West Africa, where they unabashedly engage in illegal gold mining (galamsey). This article examines the dialectic between the forces of hegemonic globalization and resistance by critically examining the content of the television series, the ensuing discourse, and policy actions in Ghana. Bor…
Whale Deaths” Are Unnatural: A Local NGO’s Framing of Offshore Oil Production Risks in Ghana
The past several decades have seen a shift in environmental and risk communication that emphasizes harnessing local knowledge to enhance environmental advocacy. As a result, one would expect local advocacy organizations to manifest this shift. Using Friends of the Nation (FoN; a Ghanaian local advocacy organization) as a case study, this research examines how FoN is constructing offshore oil production risks. The study found that FoN uses “whale …
Tacit knowledge and risk perceptions: Tullow Oil and lay publics in Ghana’s offshore oil region
This study examines how local residents make sense of offshore oil production risks in Ghana’s nascent petroleum industry. From a naturalistic-interpretive perspective, it is primarily based on in-depth interviews with community residents: 8 opinion leaders, 15 residents, and 1 journalist. Residents associate Tullow’s oil activities with health concerns (e.g. conjunctivitis), environmental challenges (e.g. the emergence of decomposed seaweeds alo…
This is (Not) Journalism”: Corruption, Subterfuge, and Metajournalistic Discourses on Undercover Journalism in Ghana
There remains broad agreement on the principles and norms of journalism. However, what the practice means also emerges in context, manifesting in and constituted by the language actors use to contest or affirm the boundary of acceptable practices. Using Ghanaian undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ 2018 report on football and corruption as a case, this study examines social media actors’ discourse, identifying points of view on the legitimac…
Fifty years after surgeon general’s report: Cultural cognition, biased assimilation, and cigarette smoking risk perceptions among college students
Research suggests that cultural worldviews bias how and what people think about various societal risks. But how does this mechanism manifest when people receive balanced information about a highly publicised health issue such as cigarette smoking? Using the cultural cognition worldview scales, we demonstrate that despite the considerable interventions post the 1964 landmark Surgeon General’s Report, young adults in the U.S. still perceive smoking…
When Public and Business Interests Collide: An Integrated Approach to the Altruism-Instrumentalism Tension and Corporate Social Responsibility Theory
This article attends to the debate of what motivations – instrumental or altruistic – should drive corporate social responsibility (CSR) decisions and practice; I offer an integrated instrumental and duty-based framework. While the win-win instrumentalism that underlies much of CSR practice is problematic and needs addressing, the notion of altruism is also flawed. Such an application of deontological principles, while well-intentioned, is a) bas…
Advocacy and Mobilizing for Health Policy Change: Ghanaian News Media’s Framing of a Prescription Opioid Crisis
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…
Fighting the global counterfeit medicines challenge: A consumer-facing communication strategy in the US is an imperative
The headline of a January 18, 2022 news story in the Wall Street Journal read “Drugmaker Gilead Alleges Counterfeiting Ring Sold Its HIV Drugs.” The article reported that counterfeit HIV medicines sometimes contained over-the-counter painkillers or antipsychotic drugs. Unfortunately, the subject in this title is not a one-off occurrence; it is a global health issue. [...]
I (Don’t) want to consume counterfeit medicines: Exploratory study on the antecedents of consumer attitudes toward counterfeit medicines
The results of this study indicate that consumer knowledge (albeit in an unexpected direction), people's expectations about what will impress their significant others, their ethical judgments about selling and consuming counterfeits, and their risk-aversion are associated with their decision-making about counterfeit medicines. The study offers insights into a demand-side approach to addressing SFM consumption in the U.S. Implications for public h…
‘Funny’ Politics: Stand-up Political Comedy, Public Engagement, Critical Thinking, and Opinion Sharing in India
This study hypothesised that (a) exposure to online comedy about political issues promotes public engagement, critical thinking, and opinion sharing; (b) the relationship between exposure to online comedy and the dependent variables is mediated by self-perception of critical thinking on religious freedom (as an example of social justice issues); and (c) the relationship between online comedy and dependent variables (perception of public engagemen…
Navigating Public Service and Profit-Making Mandates: The Case of the Daily Graphic Newspaper
This study examines how Ghana's Daily Graphic, a public newspaper operating as a limited liability company, balances its public service mandate with its economic rationality. The case study combined data from interviews with the newspaper's reporters, editors, managers, and advertising agency executives with a study of official documents and analysis of newshole versus advertisement space allocation. The findings reveal the complicated nature of …
Influence of PR Sources’ Payments on Journalistic Integrity: Roles of Salary Satisfaction and Tolerance Attitude/Behavior
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