Betty Ackah
Biographic Data
| ID | 6251631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Betty Ackah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Betty |
| FAMILY NAME | Ackah |
| SIGNATURE | ACKAH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3689-1880 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disruptive identity politics around Black Lives Matter and Blue/All Lives Matter
In this study, we present a cross-national comparative analysis of online trolling by focusing on Russian and Iranian trolls who discussed the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Blue/All Lives Matter (B/ALM) movements with what we term disruptive identity politics . Leveraging identity politics, they impersonated US nationals to legitimize their disinformation activities. Using novel digital tools to extract the data and employing manual multimodal ana…
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians
Research has shown that Black politicians in the Global North contend with higher instances of abusive language on social media platforms. The study investigates how public interactions engage with the intersectional positionalities of nine Black Canadian politicians. We collected all the replies to tweets posted by the politicians from 2006 to 2021. Results from the manual analysis showed that 56% of the tweets had a neutral tone, meaning that e…
Ghana’s blockchain scene on WhatsApp
Social media sites with global reach like Twitter and WhatsApp are playing a paramount role in the communication, socializing, and business practices of Ghana’s blockchain community. Specifically, WhatsApp has become the platform powering the principal instantiation of blockchain in Ghana, which is trading and investing in cryptocurrencies. Considering the country’s high internet fees and sometimes unreliable network access, WhatsApp is a particu…
Afrofemtrism
Existing theories in technology and society studies do not comprehensively address the realities of people of African descent, including factors such as their histories, evolving cultures, and power dynamics. The article addresses this gap by constructing afrofemtrism, a gender justice theory which interrogates gender realities in the context of a society’s peculiar interaction with technological advancements. A salient feature of afrofemtrism’s …
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Africa
Dialogues for equity
The COVID-19 pandemic amplified inequities around parent-scholars in the neoliberal gig academy. This paper documents the stories and intersectional struggles of four precarious parent-scholars as they navigated doctoral work, dissertation defenses, research, remote teaching, and family life during the pandemic. We illustrate how we navigated our neoliberal subjectivities and the extending multifold crises around the division of labor between aca…
Revisiting the healthy immigrant effect with diabetes risk in Canada
Objective: Evidence shows that recent immigrants are healthier than the native-born population, a phenomenon known as the healthy immigrant effect. With increasing duration of stay, this health gap significantly narrows as immigrants' health deteriorates to either resemble or become worse than the host population. However, little is known about the category of immigrants for whom this decline is most pronounced since the extant research largely c…
Afrofemtrism
Existing theories in technology and society studies do not comprehensively address the realities of people of African descent, including factors such as their histories, evolving cultures, and power dynamics. The article addresses this gap by constructing afrofemtrism, a gender justice theory which interrogates gender realities in the context of a society’s peculiar interaction with technological advancements. A salient feature of afrofemtrism’s …
Revisiting the healthy immigrant effect with diabetes risk in Canada
Objective: Evidence shows that recent immigrants are healthier than the native-born population, a phenomenon known as the healthy immigrant effect. With increasing duration of stay, this health gap significantly narrows as immigrants' health deteriorates to either resemble or become worse than the host population. However, little is known about the category of immigrants for whom this decline is most pronounced since the extant research largely c…
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Africa
Dialogues for equity
The COVID-19 pandemic amplified inequities around parent-scholars in the neoliberal gig academy. This paper documents the stories and intersectional struggles of four precarious parent-scholars as they navigated doctoral work, dissertation defenses, research, remote teaching, and family life during the pandemic. We illustrate how we navigated our neoliberal subjectivities and the extending multifold crises around the division of labor between aca…
The Intersectionality of Twitter Responses to Black Canadian Politicians
Research has shown that Black politicians in the Global North contend with higher instances of abusive language on social media platforms. The study investigates how public interactions engage with the intersectional positionalities of nine Black Canadian politicians. We collected all the replies to tweets posted by the politicians from 2006 to 2021. Results from the manual analysis showed that 56% of the tweets had a neutral tone, meaning that e…
Ghana’s blockchain scene on WhatsApp
Social media sites with global reach like Twitter and WhatsApp are playing a paramount role in the communication, socializing, and business practices of Ghana’s blockchain community. Specifically, WhatsApp has become the platform powering the principal instantiation of blockchain in Ghana, which is trading and investing in cryptocurrencies. Considering the country’s high internet fees and sometimes unreliable network access, WhatsApp is a particu…
Afrofemtrism
Existing theories in technology and society studies do not comprehensively address the realities of people of African descent, including factors such as their histories, evolving cultures, and power dynamics. The article addresses this gap by constructing afrofemtrism, a gender justice theory which interrogates gender realities in the context of a society’s peculiar interaction with technological advancements. A salient feature of afrofemtrism’s …
Disruptive identity politics around Black Lives Matter and Blue/All Lives Matter
In this study, we present a cross-national comparative analysis of online trolling by focusing on Russian and Iranian trolls who discussed the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Blue/All Lives Matter (B/ALM) movements with what we term disruptive identity politics . Leveraging identity politics, they impersonated US nationals to legitimize their disinformation activities. Using novel digital tools to extract the data and employing manual multimodal ana…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · ICT in Developing Communities (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Opposition (politics (2 works)