Research

Selected Publications

  • Tawiah, A. (2025). Social Media Campaign Strategies: A Case Study of Political Issue Framing by 2024 Presidential Candidates in Ghana. Journalism and Media, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia6020072
  • Higgins Joyce, V., Kalinina, E., Tawiah, A., & Chiedozie, P. (2026). Framing the Immigration Story. In Race/Gender/Class/Media (Routledge, 6th Ed.) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003537601 
  • Stewart, N.K., JM Nicolaï., Tawiah, A. (Under Review). Breaking Conspiracy News: A Techno-Figurational Approach to Platform Conspiracism’s Actors, Routines, and Organizations. Communication Research
  • Tawiah, A., Higgins Joyce, V. de M., Kalinina, E. A., & Chiedozie, P. A. (Under Review). Digital News and Political SelfEfficacy: The Role of Intentional and Incidental Exposure in Latin America. Online Media and Global Studies (OMGC).

Work in Progress

 

  • Currently exploring how audiences interpret and respond to algorithmic decision-making in AI-based news recommendation systems
  • Currently working on platform labor and circulation in a livestreamed network
  • Currently working on news credibility as performance on TikTok

Awards

  • 2026 Best Paper Abstract Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)- Oklahoma, March 2026
  • Texas State Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in the Social Sciences, Business and Education- November 2025
  • National Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award- August 2025
  • Top Paper Award, AEJMC International Communication Division Student Competition (August 2025)
  • AEJMC Midwinter Conference, University of Oklahoma (March 2025)
  • Top graduating student award, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Texas State- April, 2025
  • Outstanding graduate student award, College of Fine Arts and Communication, Texas State- April 2025.
  • Dr. Ralph Harrel Scholar, College of Fine Arts and Communication, Texas State, September 2024
  • Excellence in Journalism Award, Society of Professional Journalists San Antonio Pro Chapter, May 2024
  • Texas State University Student Government Award, May 2024
  • Texas State University Mary Rose Brown Scholar, August 2023
  • Texas State University Graduate College Scholarship, (2x) March 2023, March 2024
  • Texas State University Graduate Merit Fellowship Award, March 2023
  • Best Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award by the Department of History at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), August 2021.
  • Best student blogger, writer, and author of the year award at Ghana Student Awards, November 2021.
  • Faculty of Social Sciences Awards, “Best Media House of the Year”; under my leadership as founder and CEO of Thriller News Ghana Media, September 2021.
  • The Best Student Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award at 2020 Ghana Student Awards.