Associate Professor Levi Obijiofor
Senior Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
+61 7 334 68241
| Featured projects | Duration |
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Examining refugee employment trajectories and the role of intergenerational communication in enabling settlement UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund |
2011–2013 |
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Refugees employment aspirations and inter-generational communication about future occupational pathways ARC Linkage Project |
2013–2015 |
Publications
Books
Obijiofor, Levi New technologies in developing societies: from theory to practice. Houndmills, Hampshire, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. doi:10.1080/23743670.2015.1119497
Obijiofor, Levi and Hanusch, Folker Journalism across cultures: An introduction. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Book Chapters
Obijiofor, Levi and Hanusch, Folker (2019). Global Journalism. In Jon Nussbaum (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication () 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. In Jay Marlowe, Anne Harris and Tanya Lyons (Ed.), South Sudanese diaspora in Australia and New Zealand: reconciling the past with the present (pp. 157-172) Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Obijiofor, Levi (2012). Death of the gatekeeper: foreign news reporting and public sphere participation in Africa. In Judith Clarke and Michael Bromley (Ed.), International news in the digital age: East-West perceptions of a new world order (pp. 41-59) New York, United States: Routledge.
Obijiofor, Levi (2011). New technologies as tools of empowerment: African youth and public sphere participation. In Herman Wasserman (Ed.), Popular media, democracy and development in Africa (pp. 207-219) 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. In Nnamdi Ekeanyanwu and Chinedu Okeke (Ed.), Indigenous societies and cultural globalization in the 21st Century: Is the global village truly real? (pp. 92-112) Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.
Obijiofor, L. M. (2006). Indigenous knowledge in the age of new technologies: Whose knowledge?. In Associate Professor Pradip Ninan Thomas and Professor Jan Servaes (Ed.), Intellectual Property Rights and Communications in Asia: Conflicting Traditions first ed. (pp. 103-115) New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Obijiofor, L. M. (2002). The telephone - Africa's future in the age of technology. In Sohail Inayatullah and Susan Leggett (Ed.), Technology, Sustainability & Future Generations. Transforming Communication 1 ed. (pp. 66-75) Westport, CT, USA: Praeger.
Journal Articles
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. (2016) Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries. International Communication Gazette, 79 4: 379-399. doi:10.1177/1748048516682147
Obijiofor, Levi, Colic-Peisker, Val and Hebbani, Aparna (2016) Methodological and ethical challenges in partnering for refugee research: evidence from two Australian studies. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 16 3: 1-18. doi:10.1080/15562948.2016.1250977
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.
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 (2009) Is bad news from Africa good news for Western media?. Journal of Global Mass Communication, 2 3/4: 38-54.
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 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, Aparan, Khawaja, Nigar, Colic-Peisker, Val, Obiojiofor, Levi and Gallois, Cindy (2012). Integration challenges that face Congolese, Sudanese, and Somali former refugees in Australia. In: 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. In: O. Felix Ayadi, African Development: What Role for Business?. International Academy of African Business and Development, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, (359-365). 23-27 May, 2006.
Obijiofor, L. M. (2004). Indigenous knowledge in the age of new technologies: whose knowledge. In: S.Liu, J. Servaes and P.Thomas, Intellectual Property Rights, Communication, and the Public Domain in the Asia-Pacific Region. Intellectual Property Rights, Communication, and the Public Domain in the Asia-Pacific Region, UQ, Brisbane, (1-11). 14 to 17 December 2004.
Lawe Davies, Chris, Connelly, Brian and Obijiofor, Levi (2003). Campfire culture and computer culture: Museums of the present. In: G. Tremblay, Panam: industries culturelles et dialogue des civilisations dans les Amériques. Panamerican Colloquium: Cultural Industries and Dialogue between Civilizations in the Americas, Montreal, Canada, (557-571). 22-24 April 2002.
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. In: Justice & Journalism. 2001 Journalism Education Association Conference, Perth, (1-13-13). 03-07 December, 2001.
Obijiofor, L. M. (2000). Overseas student journalists and their approaches to learning. In: Journalism Education Associateion Conference 2000: 'Journalism Education Futures'. Journalism Education Association Conference 2000, Mooloolaba, Queensland, (1-35). 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