Broadly framed, my research interest lies in the interplay between (mediated) communication resources and society, and can be categorized into three closely related areas of inquiry, namely: communication and social change; political economy of communication; and global media flows.

In the area of communication and social change, I am interested in looking at how the intervention of communication repertoire such as ICTs, infrastructures, or policy frameworks bring about (or undermine) social development, empowerment, and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Framed from a critical posture, my inquiries in this research cluster deal with development communication theory and practice in the context of the African continent and its peoples. My scholarship also engages with political economy of communications where I probe issues of capital and power relations in society, and how these relations are conditioned by the production, distribution, and consumption of communication resources. With a primary focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, I specifically look at how media industries, institutions, communication resources, regulatory frameworks, and labor are situated in the interplay between state, the corporate domain, and society. My third area of research interest involves global media flows, which focuses on intercultural encounter representations mainly from a postcolonial perspective. My scholarship in this area deals with a critical examination of how media content and artifacts produced in certain geographic locales are negotiated, appropriated and/or resisted in other parts of the world. Specifically, my research in this cluster interrogates culinary adventure reality television programs by critically examining how they portray African foodways and cultural expressions.

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