Publications
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PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Issaka, B*., Aidoo, E. A. K., Wood, S., & Mohammed, F. (2024). “Anxiety is not cute”: Analysis of Twitter users’ discourses on romanticizing mental illness. BMC Psychiatry, 24(221), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05663-w
Peng, W., Meng, J., & Issaka, B. (2024). Navigating persuasive strategies in online health misinformation: An interview study with older adults. Plos One, 19(7), e0307771.
Muturi, N., & Issaka, B. (2024). Media use and the motivational factors for preventing communicable diseases among African immigrants in the United States. Howard Journal of Communications, 35(1), 33-55.
REFEREED CHAPTERS
Issaka, B. (2023). Different together: Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in advertising and public relations. In A. Kononova, S. McFarlane-Alvarez, & T. Mastin (Eds.), Different together: Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in advertising and public relations (Chapter 6).
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Issaka, B., Young, A., & Tan, P. N. (2024). Conversational agents as an aid for cancer survivors’ information search. In Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Kononova, N., Issaka, B., & Moldagaliyeva, M. I, (under review). Structure, and Dasein: Qualitative exploration of adults’ experiences with digital information and communication technologies in the context of aging.
Alhabash, S., Issaka, B., Smith, S., & White, L. (under review). Does ‘what happens on social media stay on social media’? A TPB analysis of the relationship between platform preference and alcohol posting on Halloween among underage youth. Journal of American College Health.
Issaka, B.*, Aidoo, E. A. K., Allor, P., Wood, S., Amissah, A., & Muturi, N. (under review). Enhancing cancer prevention behaviors through social media: The role of source credibility and message characteristics in Ghana. BMC Public Health.
Issaka, B. (under review). Beyond the veil, a need for minority voices: Identity (mis) representations of Muslim women in U.S. media and Muslim women’s coping strategies of mitigation. Media Culture and Society Journal.
Aidoo, E. A. K., Issaka, B., & Wood, S. (under review). The role of patient-centered communication in minority health competence and outcomes in the United States. International Journal for Equity in Health.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Issaka, B., & Choung, H. Supportive communication with LLMs: Evaluation through chatbot-assisted messages writing tasks
Issaka, B., Kononova, N., & Moldagaliyeva, M. “Alexa helps me out during the day”: How older adults with cognitive deficits navigate ICT use in the (post)pandemic world.
Issaka, B., Alhabash, S. Post-partum depression: Information-seeking behaviors among new mothers through online channels.
Zou, W., Issaka, B., Peng, W., Lu, T., Meng, J. Using ChatGPT for information gathering and advice generation: A qualitative study