Dominic Boakye

Doctoral Advisor: Srivi Ramasubramanian, Ph.D

Education:
B.A., Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication (Beijing, China)
M.A., Marquette University (Wisconsin, USA)

Areas of Research: Digital politics; race, gender, culture, ideology, and power in media; social media dynamics and polarization; computational and mixed-methods approaches.

Presentations & Publications:

Boakye, D., & Roy, S. (2025). Framing Gender and Intersectional Identities: A Comparative Analysis of CNN and Fox News Coverage of U.S. Presidential Debates in 2016 and 2024. International Communication Association, Denver, 2025.

Boakye, D., Roy, S., & Xu, L. Z. (2025). “They Not Like Us”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” and the Politics of Authenticity in Hip-hop Culture. (Under Journal Review)

Bio: Dominic is from the Ashanti Region of Ghana in West Africa. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication in China and a master’s degree from Marquette University in Wisconsin, where he also taught public speaking as a teaching assistant. He is a mixed-methods and computational methods scholar, and his research interests center on digital politics, particularly politics of race, gender, culture, ideology and power. He is currently a research member of the CODE^SHIFT Lab, a multidisciplinary “collaboratory” for communication and data justice at Newhouse.