Emmanuel Abeku Essel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4930604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emmanuel Abeku Essel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emmanuel Abeku |
| FAMILY NAME | Essel |
| SIGNATURE | ESSEL E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8500-7505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Addressing Stigma and Structural Barriers to Communicating Covid-19 Using Community Radio
Some studies report that top-down COVID-19 communication interventions failed to address local structural challenges, such as stigma and lack of access to media forms, which led to communicative marginalisation among resource-limited communities. This article explores how the community radio medium could facilitate host community members’ participation in COVID-19 communication interventions amid these local structural factors. Participants were …
Access, participation, and social capital as intangible outcomes of community radio practice in Ghana
The battle for access to free speech and information flow in Ghana occurs within a context of popular resistance, struggles for national liberation and the control of power, knowledge and free expression. This still resonates within Ghana’s radio broadcasting sector. Unlike dominant approaches to communicating development, where change outcomes are exclusively based on quantifiable indicators such as message recall and engagement, communication f…
Putting entertainment and education back into community radio
Health communicators faced substantial challenges in effectively communicating COVID-19 among resource-limited communities due to the rapid changes of the pandemic. This article explores the possibility of communicating COVID-19 via community radio (CR) using entertainment education (EE) based strategies with host communities. A qualitative approach was adopted using focus group discussions and in-depth interviews to collect data, and reflexive t…
Vernacular Radio and the Practice of Resistance
This article explores how local values and social identities can be integrated into Ghana’s formal COVID-19 public health communication interventions using community radio. The study adopted a qualitative approach using focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and reflexive thematic analysis. The ten-step participatory planning and action model to involve the community in the social change process is employed as the theoretical framework for…
Vernacular Radio and the Practice of Resistance
This article explores how local values and social identities can be integrated into Ghana’s formal COVID-19 public health communication interventions using community radio. The study adopted a qualitative approach using focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and reflexive thematic analysis. The ten-step participatory planning and action model to involve the community in the social change process is employed as the theoretical framework for…
Putting entertainment and education back into community radio
Health communicators faced substantial challenges in effectively communicating COVID-19 among resource-limited communities due to the rapid changes of the pandemic. This article explores the possibility of communicating COVID-19 via community radio (CR) using entertainment education (EE) based strategies with host communities. A qualitative approach was adopted using focus group discussions and in-depth interviews to collect data, and reflexive t…
Vernacular Radio and the Practice of Resistance
This article explores how local values and social identities can be integrated into Ghana’s formal COVID-19 public health communication interventions using community radio. The study adopted a qualitative approach using focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and reflexive thematic analysis. The ten-step participatory planning and action model to involve the community in the social change process is employed as the theoretical framework for…
Access, participation, and social capital as intangible outcomes of community radio practice in Ghana
The battle for access to free speech and information flow in Ghana occurs within a context of popular resistance, struggles for national liberation and the control of power, knowledge and free expression. This still resonates within Ghana’s radio broadcasting sector. Unlike dominant approaches to communicating development, where change outcomes are exclusively based on quantifiable indicators such as message recall and engagement, communication f…
Addressing Stigma and Structural Barriers to Communicating Covid-19 Using Community Radio
Some studies report that top-down COVID-19 communication interventions failed to address local structural challenges, such as stigma and lack of access to media forms, which led to communicative marginalisation among resource-limited communities. This article explores how the community radio medium could facilitate host community members’ participation in COVID-19 communication interventions amid these local structural factors. Participants were …
Community radio (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Citizen journalism (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (1 work)