Studying the Digital Public Sphere
My work examines how social media platforms shape political identity, information credibility, and public discourse — with a sustained focus on Ghana and the African context, and a parallel inquiry into AI-mediated communication.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2025
Acquaful, J. (2025). Framing Geopolitical Crises: A Comparative Study of US and Middle Eastern Media Narratives, Bias, and Influence. Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 9(1).
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Work-In-Progress
- Acquaful, J. (2025).Performing Credibility: Social Media Influencers, Political Messaging, and Misinformation in Ghana’s #FixTheCountry Campaign. Manuscript in progress
- Gajjala, R, Makmun. T, Gajjala, V., Jacob, J., Stanfield, K and Acquaful, J and Rahut, D.: Imaging and Imagining Subalternity: Thinking across generations and across two decades of online microlending in Elgar Companion on Gender and the SDGs, Edited by Chopra D and Raghavan P.
- Acquaful, J: Reimagining Black Activism: Afro-Pessimism, Black Optimism, and the Role of Social Media
Conference Presentations
- Presenter: National Communications Associations Annual Convention, 2025, Denver, USA
- Presenter: 25th Black Issues Conference, BGSU, March 2025 (Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism in the Digital Age: Exploring Black Identity, Activism, and Resistance)
- Panel: Central States Communication Association Convention, April 2025 (How Do Students Consume Humanitarian Crisis Media Content? Discussing, Deliberative Democratic Pedagogy, and the Israel-Hamas Conflict)
- Panel: Central States Communication Association Convention, April 2025 (Political Social Media Influencers and Generative Artificial Intelligence in an Election Year and Beyond: Similarities and Differences across the Globe)