Associate Professor Levi Obijiofor
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Arts
+61 7 334 68241
Publications
Books
Obijiofor, Levi and Murray, Richard (2022). Challenges of reporting Africa for an international audience. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Obijiofor, Levi (2015). New technologies in developing societies: from theory to practice. Houndmills, Hampshire, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137389336
Obijiofor, Levi and Hanusch, Folker (2011). Journalism across cultures: An introduction. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Chapters
Obijiofor, Levi and Hanusch, Folker (2019). Global Journalism. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. edited by Jon Nussbaum. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.820
Hebbani, Aparna, Obijiofor, Levi and Bristed, Helen (2013). Navigating intercultural difference: understanding the perspective of Sudanese former refugee women in Australia. South Sudanese diaspora in Australia and New Zealand: reconciling the past with the present. (pp. 157-172) edited by Jay Marlowe, Anne Harris and Tanya Lyons. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Obijiofor, Levi (2012). Death of the gatekeeper: foreign news reporting and public sphere participation in Africa. International news in the digital age: East-West perceptions of a new world order. (pp. 41-59) edited by Judith Clarke and Michael Bromley. New York, United States: Routledge.
Obijiofor, Levi (2011). New technologies as tools of empowerment: African youth and public sphere participation. Popular media, democracy and development in Africa. (pp. 207-219) edited by Herman Wasserman. Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203843260
Obijiofor, Levi (2010). ICTs as tools of empowerment: How Indigenous people in a remote Canadian community are harnessing new technologies. Indigenous societies and cultural globalization in the 21st Century: Is the global village truly real?. (pp. 92-112) edited by Nnamdi Ekeanyanwu and Chinedu Okeke. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.
Obijiofor, L. M. (2006). Indigenous knowledge in the age of new technologies: Whose knowledge?. Intellectual Property Rights and Communications in Asia: Conflicting Traditions. (pp. 103-115) edited by Associate Professor Pradip Ninan Thomas and Professor Jan Servaes. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Obijiofor, L. M. (2002). The telephone - Africa's future in the age of technology. Technology, Sustainability & Future Generations. Transforming Communication. (pp. 66-75) edited by Sohail Inayatullah and Susan Leggett. Westport, CT, USA: Praeger.
Journal Articles
Obijiofor, Levi and M’Balla-Ndi Oelgemoeller, Marie (2022). Journalism education, research, and practice in Africa: toward a transformative approach. International Communication Gazette, 1-20. doi: 10.1177/17480485221126344
Navuku, Kylie and Obijiofor, Levi (2021). Conflict, COVID-19, climate change: The emergence and possible evolution of peace journalism. Australian Journalism Review, 43 (2), 211-225. doi: 10.1386/ajr_00069_1
Obijiofor, Levi and Singh, Shailendra B. (2020). Coping with change in India’s media: struggles of English-language journalists in an evolving mediascape. Pacific Journalism Review: Te Koakoa, 26 (2), 261-278. doi: 10.24135/pjr.v26i2.1076
Oelgemoller, Marie M'Balla-Ndi and Obijiofor, Levi (2020). Media freedom in Melanesia: the challenges of researching the impact of national security legislation. Pacific Journalism Review, 26 (1), 75-85. doi: 10.24135/pjr.v26i1.1087
Obijiofor, Levi, Colic-Peisker, Val and Hebbani, Aparna (2018). Methodological and ethical challenges in partnering for refugee research: evidence from two Australian studies. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 16 (3), 217-234. doi: 10.1080/15562948.2016.1250977
Khawaja, Nigar G., Hebbani, Aparna, Obijiofor, Levi and Gallois, Cindy (2017). Refugee parents’ communication and relations with their children: development and application of the refugee parent-child relational communication scale. Journal of Family Communication, 17 (4), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2017.1362409
Obijiofor, Levi, Murray, Richard and Singh, Shailendra B. (2017). Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries. International Communication Gazette, 79 (4), 379-399. doi: 10.1177/1748048516682147
Obijiofor, Levi and MacKinnon, Mairead (2016). Africa in the Australian press: does distance matter?. African Journalism Studies, 37 (3), 41-60. doi: 10.1080/23743670.2016.1210017
Obijiofor, Levi (2015). African journalists as an endangered breed. African Journalism Studies, 36 (1), 122-128. doi: 10.1080/23743670.2015.1008178
Breit, Rhonda, Obijiofor, Levi and Fitzgerald, Richard (2013). Internationalization as de-westernization of the curriculum: the case of journalism at an Australian university. Journal of Studies in International Education, 17 (2), 119-135. doi: 10.1177/1028315312474897
Hebbani, Aparna Girish, Obijiofor, Levi and Bristed, Helen (2012). Acculturation challenges that confront Sudanese former refugees in Australia. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 28 (28).
Obijiofor, Levi (2011). Peace and conflict reporting: Strategies for knowledge sharing in Africa and the Pacific. The Journal of Pacific Studies, 31 (2), 241-258.
Obijiofor, Levi (2010). Press coverage of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and the socio-cultural barriers that inhibit media coverage. China Media Research, 6 (4), 24-31.
Hebbani, Aparna, Obijiofor, Levi and Bristed, Helen (2010). Intercultural communication challenges confronting female Sudanese former refugees in Australia. The Australasian Review of African Studies (ARAS), 31 (1), 37-61.
Obijiofor, Levi M. (2009). Mapping theoretical and practical issues in the relationship between ICTs and Africa's socioeconomic development. Telematics and Informatics, 26 (1), 32-43. doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2007.12.002
Aparna Hebbani, Obijiofor, Levi M. and Bristed, Helen (2009). Generational differences faced by Sudanese refugee women settling in Australia. Intercultural Communication Studies, XVIII (1), 66-82.
Obijiofor, Levi M. (2009). Journalism in the digital age: The Nigerian press framing of the Niger Delta conflict. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 30 (2), 175-203. doi: 10.3368/ajs.30.2.175
Obijiofor, Levi (2009). Is bad news from Africa good news for Western media?. Journal of Global Mass Communication, 2 (3/4), 38-54.
Hanusch, Folker, Obijiofor, Levi M. and Volcic, Zala (2009). Theoretical and practical issues in team-teaching a large undergraduate class. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 21, 66-74.
Obijiofor, Levi M. (2008). Africa's socioeconomic development in the age of new technologies: exploring issues in the debate. Africa Media Review, 16 (2), 1-9.
Hanusch, Folker and Obijiofor, Levi (2008). Toward a More Holistic Analysis of International News Flows. Journal of Global Mass Communication, 1 (1/2), 9-21.
Obijiofor, Levi M. (2007). Mass Media, socio-cultural factors and rural development: A study of two Nigerian communities. The Journal of Development Communication, 18 (2), 38-57.
Servaes, Jan E.J. and Obijiofor, Levi M. (2007). Questions related to indigenous cultures and diffusion of innovations: Introductory observations. International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 6 (6), 593-599.
Obijiofor, L. M. (2005). How students perceive journalism education and practice in Australia. Australian Studies in Journalism, 15 (-), 192-218.
Obijiofor, L. M. (2003). New technologies and journalism practice in Nigeria and Ghana. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 2003 (14), 36-56.
Obijiofor, Levi and Hanusch, Folker (2003). Foreign news coverage in five African newspapers. Australian Journalism Review, 25 (1), 145-164-164.
Obijiofor, Levi (2001). Singaporean And Nigerian Journalists' Perceptions Of New Technologies. Australian Journalism Review, 23 (1), 131-151.
Obijiofor, L. M. and Green, K. (2001). New technologies and the future of newspapers. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 11 (July-December), 1-13.
Obijiofor, L. M., Inayatullah, S. and Stevenson, T. (2000). Impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) on socio-economic and educational development of Africa and the Asia-Pacific. Journal of Futures Studies, 4 (2), 21-66.
Obijiofor, Levi (1998). Africa's dilemma in the transition to the new information and communication technologies. Futures, 30 (5), 453-462. doi: 10.1016/S0016-3287(98)00048-2
Obijiofor, Levi (1998). Future of communication in Africa's development. Futures, 30 (2-3), 161-174. doi: 10.1016/S0016-3287(98)00023-8
Obijiofor, Levi (1996). Knowing the future through the present. Futures, 28 (6-7), 643-645. doi: 10.1016/0016-3287(96)84467-3
Ihsan, Samar, lnayatullah, Sohail and Obijiofor, Levi (1995). The futures of communication. Futures, 27 (8), 897-903. doi: 10.1016/0016-3287(95)00053-Y
Conference Papers
Hebbani, Aparna , Obijiofor, Levi and MacKinnon, Mairead (2018). Examining intergenerational cultural transmission in refugee families: a study of Congolese, Burmese, and Ethiopian refugee families resettled in Australia. International Communication Association Preconference: Inclusivity and Family Communication Research: Advances and Innovations from across the Discipline, Prague, Czech Republic, 22-23 May 2018.
Obijiofor, Levi, Murray, Richard and Singh, Shailendra (2016). Locating journalism in three post-military non-Western countries. World Journalism Education Congress. Identity and Integrity in Journalism Education, Auckland, New Zealand, 14-16 July 2016.
Hebbani, Aparan, Khawaja, Nigar, Colic-Peisker, Val, Obiojiofor, Levi and Gallois, Cindy (2012). Integration challenges that face Congolese, Sudanese, and Somali former refugees in Australia. The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference (TASA 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 26-29 November 2012.
Kwansah-Aidoo, and Obijiofor, L. M. (2006). Patterns of internet use among university students in Ghana. International Academy of African Business and Development, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, 23-27 May, 2006. Accra, Ghana: Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.
Obijiofor, L. M. (2004). Indigenous knowledge in the age of new technologies: whose knowledge. Intellectual Property Rights, Communication, and the Public Domain in the Asia-Pacific Region, UQ, Brisbane, 14 to 17 December 2004. Brisbane, UQ: WACC, School of Journalism and Communication.
Lawe Davies, Chris, Connelly, Brian and Obijiofor, Levi (2003). Campfire culture and computer culture: Museums of the present. Panamerican Colloquium: Cultural Industries and Dialogue between Civilizations in the Americas, Montreal, Canada, 22-24 April 2002. Montreal, Canada: Presses de l'Universite de Laval.
Obijiofor, L. M., Lawe Davies, C. R., Connelly, B., Haswell, S. J., McIlwaine, S. J., Mccarthy, N. and Ester, H. (2001). Television in a remote Aboriginal community: Social justice or injustice. 2001 Journalism Education Association Conference, Perth, 03-07 December, 2001. Perth: Journalism Education Association.
Obijiofor, L. M. (2000). Overseas student journalists and their approaches to learning. Journalism Education Association Conference 2000, Mooloolaba, Queensland, 05-08 Dec 2000.
Research Report
Hebbani, Aparna, Khawaja, Nigar, Colic-Peisker, Val, Obijiofor, Levi, Gallois, Cindy and MacKinnon, Mairead (2016). Refugee settlers in South-East Queensland: Employment, aspirations and intergenerational communication about future occupational pathways: final report. Brisbane, Australia: School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland.