Amin Alhassan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4909354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amin Alhassan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amin |
| FAMILY NAME | Alhassan |
| SIGNATURE | ALHASSAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5735-6057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Radio Univers: The Story of Ghana’s Pioneer Campus-Community Radio Station
There is a paucity of academic literature on Radio Univers 26 years after it first took to the airwaves as Ghana’s first authorized campus-community broadcaster. Drawing mainly on direct observations and interviews, this paper accounts for the origins of the station, and the role it has played in Ghana’s mediascape, not only in contributions to the public sphere and local music industry but also the opportunities it has created for self-expressio…
Effects of technology dissemination approaches on agricultural technology uptake and utilization in Northern Ghana
Cultural and Moral Implications of Soli and Its Effects on Journalism in Northern Ghana
The issue of soli (Soli is a Ghanaian journalistic parlance referring to the practice where journalists accept money or other forms of gifts as sitting allowance after covering an event.) or content-influencing gifts and its relations to the professional practice of journalist and other media workers has become a subject of discussion among academic researchers and general audiences. It is against this background that this article examines media …
Commodification of Development Programming on Radio in Northern Ghana
This article discusses the commodification of development programming such as news and other content in the Ghanaian media space. It uses the case of two NGOs operating in the Northern Region to examine how development programming is transmitted via FM radio stations in the region. Using in-depth interviews and observations as methodologies, the study investigates the evolving phenomenon of development NGOs buying airtime to broadcast development…
Postcolonial Media Policy Under the Long Shadow of Empire
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Communication Policy as Development: The View from the South Colonial Power and the Rule of Law The Nostalgia for NWICO in Retrospect Neoliberal Techno-Politics and Civil Society in the Era of WSIS Conclusion References
The Canonic Economy of Communication and Culture: The Centrality of the Postcolonial Margins
This paper examines three major paradigms—mass communications, political economy, and poststructuralism—to demonstrate how the process of knowledge production erases their connection with their postcolonial subjects and locations. This mapping indicates that what one perceives to be at the margins actually subtends or holds together the theoretical centre. As such, I explore and explain how a canonic economy of value operates within the field of …
Market valorization in broadcasting policy in Ghana: Abandoning the quest for media democratization
Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) policies have inaugurated a new paradigm in postcolonial governance that is characterized by a predilection for market instrumentality in policy articulation. A review of colonial and, indeed, early post-colonial communication policies demonstrates that the state had always resisted the lure of the market because of the quest to democratize media access. The early postcolonial state thought of national resource…
Cultural and Moral Implications of Soli and Its Effects on Journalism in Northern Ghana
The issue of soli (Soli is a Ghanaian journalistic parlance referring to the practice where journalists accept money or other forms of gifts as sitting allowance after covering an event.) or content-influencing gifts and its relations to the professional practice of journalist and other media workers has become a subject of discussion among academic researchers and general audiences. It is against this background that this article examines media …
The Canonic Economy of Communication and Culture: The Centrality of the Postcolonial Margins
This paper examines three major paradigms—mass communications, political economy, and poststructuralism—to demonstrate how the process of knowledge production erases their connection with their postcolonial subjects and locations. This mapping indicates that what one perceives to be at the margins actually subtends or holds together the theoretical centre. As such, I explore and explain how a canonic economy of value operates within the field of …
Effects of technology dissemination approaches on agricultural technology uptake and utilization in Northern Ghana
Market valorization in broadcasting policy in Ghana: Abandoning the quest for media democratization
Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) policies have inaugurated a new paradigm in postcolonial governance that is characterized by a predilection for market instrumentality in policy articulation. A review of colonial and, indeed, early post-colonial communication policies demonstrates that the state had always resisted the lure of the market because of the quest to democratize media access. The early postcolonial state thought of national resource…
Market valorization in broadcasting policy in Ghana: Abandoning the quest for media democratization
Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) policies have inaugurated a new paradigm in postcolonial governance that is characterized by a predilection for market instrumentality in policy articulation. A review of colonial and, indeed, early post-colonial communication policies demonstrates that the state had always resisted the lure of the market because of the quest to democratize media access. The early postcolonial state thought of national resource…
The Canonic Economy of Communication and Culture: The Centrality of the Postcolonial Margins
This paper examines three major paradigms—mass communications, political economy, and poststructuralism—to demonstrate how the process of knowledge production erases their connection with their postcolonial subjects and locations. This mapping indicates that what one perceives to be at the margins actually subtends or holds together the theoretical centre. As such, I explore and explain how a canonic economy of value operates within the field of …
Postcolonial Media Policy Under the Long Shadow of Empire
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Communication Policy as Development: The View from the South Colonial Power and the Rule of Law The Nostalgia for NWICO in Retrospect Neoliberal Techno-Politics and Civil Society in the Era of WSIS Conclusion References
Commodification of Development Programming on Radio in Northern Ghana
This article discusses the commodification of development programming such as news and other content in the Ghanaian media space. It uses the case of two NGOs operating in the Northern Region to examine how development programming is transmitted via FM radio stations in the region. Using in-depth interviews and observations as methodologies, the study investigates the evolving phenomenon of development NGOs buying airtime to broadcast development…
Cultural and Moral Implications of Soli and Its Effects on Journalism in Northern Ghana
The issue of soli (Soli is a Ghanaian journalistic parlance referring to the practice where journalists accept money or other forms of gifts as sitting allowance after covering an event.) or content-influencing gifts and its relations to the professional practice of journalist and other media workers has become a subject of discussion among academic researchers and general audiences. It is against this background that this article examines media …
Radio Univers: The Story of Ghana’s Pioneer Campus-Community Radio Station
There is a paucity of academic literature on Radio Univers 26 years after it first took to the airwaves as Ghana’s first authorized campus-community broadcaster. Drawing mainly on direct observations and interviews, this paper accounts for the origins of the station, and the role it has played in Ghana’s mediascape, not only in contributions to the public sphere and local music industry but also the opportunities it has created for self-expressio…
Effects of technology dissemination approaches on agricultural technology uptake and utilization in Northern Ghana
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Business (2 works)