Journal Article: Managing difficult relationships: the case of foreign correspondents in Nigeria, state officials, and senior editors in overseas media
Obijiofor, Levi and M’Balla-Ndi Oelgemoeller, Marie (2023). Managing difficult relationships: the case of foreign correspondents in Nigeria, state officials, and senior editors in overseas media. Journalism Studies, 25 (3), 319-336. doi: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2297784
Journal Article: Journalism education, research, and practice in Africa: toward a transformative approach
Obijiofor, Levi and M’Balla-Ndi Oelgemoeller, Marie (2022). Journalism education, research, and practice in Africa: toward a transformative approach. International Communication Gazette, 85 (6), 1-20. doi: 10.1177/17480485221126344
Book: Challenges of reporting Africa for an international audience
Obijiofor, Levi and Murray, Richard (2022). Challenges of reporting Africa for an international audience. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
(2013–2015) ARC Linkage Projects
(2011–2013) UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund
Empowering the Sudanese community: A project to improve community relations through a media platform
(2011) Sudanese Community Association of Queensland Inc
Media and Conflict: Analysing West African Media Coverage of Conflict through War and Peace Journalism Framework
Doctor Philosophy
(2021) Doctor Philosophy
Constructions of Good and Evil: The Koreas in International News
(2020) Doctor Philosophy
Examining the impediments to media freedom in Commonwealth countries.
The project examines factors that impede media freedom in Commonwealth countries. Some of the obstacles include national security legislation, media laws, FoI, structural constraints, etc.
Impact of national security legislation on public interest journalism in Australia
The research examines the tensions between the need to safeguard Australia's national interests and the need for journalists to be allowed to do their work that is in the public interest.
Challenges of reporting Africa for an international audience
Obijiofor, Levi and Murray, Richard (2022). Challenges of reporting Africa for an international audience. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
New technologies in developing societies: from theory to practice
Obijiofor, Levi (2015). New technologies in developing societies: from theory to practice. Houndmills, Hampshire, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137389336
Journalism across cultures: An introduction
Obijiofor, Levi and Hanusch, Folker (2011). Journalism across cultures: An introduction. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.
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.
Death of the gatekeeper: foreign news reporting and public sphere participation in Africa
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.
New technologies as tools of empowerment: African youth and public sphere participation
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.
Indigenous knowledge in the age of new technologies: Whose knowledge?
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.
The telephone - Africa's future in the age of technology
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.
Obijiofor, Levi and M’Balla-Ndi Oelgemoeller, Marie (2023). Managing difficult relationships: the case of foreign correspondents in Nigeria, state officials, and senior editors in overseas media. Journalism Studies, 25 (3), 319-336. doi: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2297784
Journalism education, research, and practice in Africa: toward a transformative approach
Obijiofor, Levi and M’Balla-Ndi Oelgemoeller, Marie (2022). Journalism education, research, and practice in Africa: toward a transformative approach. International Communication Gazette, 85 (6), 1-20. doi: 10.1177/17480485221126344
Conflict, COVID-19, climate change: The emergence and possible evolution of peace journalism
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
Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries
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
Africa in the Australian press: does distance matter?
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
African journalists as an endangered breed
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
Acculturation challenges that confront Sudanese former refugees in Australia
Hebbani, Aparna Girish, Obijiofor, Levi and Bristed, Helen (2012). Acculturation challenges that confront Sudanese former refugees in Australia. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 28 (28).
Peace and conflict reporting: Strategies for knowledge sharing in Africa and the Pacific
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.
Press coverage of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and the socio-cultural barriers that inhibit media coverage
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.
Intercultural communication challenges confronting female Sudanese former refugees in Australia
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
Generational differences faced by Sudanese refugee women settling in Australia
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.
Is bad news from Africa good news for Western media?
Obijiofor, Levi (2009). Is bad news from Africa good news for Western media?. Journal of Global Mass Communication, 2 (3/4), 38-54.
Journalism in the digital age: The Nigerian press framing of the Niger Delta conflict
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
Theoretical and practical issues in team-teaching a large undergraduate class
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.
Africa's socioeconomic development in the age of new technologies: exploring issues in the debate
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.
Toward a More Holistic Analysis of International News Flows
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.
Mass Media, socio-cultural factors and rural development: A study of two Nigerian communities
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.
Questions related to indigenous cultures and diffusion of innovations: Introductory observations
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.
How students perceive journalism education and practice in Australia
Obijiofor, L. M. (2005). How students perceive journalism education and practice in Australia. Australian Studies in Journalism, 15 (-), 192-218.
New technologies and journalism practice in Nigeria and Ghana
Obijiofor, L. M. (2003). New technologies and journalism practice in Nigeria and Ghana. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 2003 (14), 36-56.
Foreign news coverage in five African newspapers
Obijiofor, Levi and Hanusch, Folker (2003). Foreign news coverage in five African newspapers. Australian Journalism Review, 25 (1), 145-164-164.
Singaporean And Nigerian Journalists' Perceptions Of New Technologies
Obijiofor, Levi (2001). Singaporean And Nigerian Journalists' Perceptions Of New Technologies. Australian Journalism Review, 23 (1), 131-151.
New technologies and the future of newspapers
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.
Africa's dilemma in the transition to the new information and communication technologies
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
Future of communication in Africa's development
Obijiofor, Levi (1998). Future of communication in Africa's development. Futures, 30 (2-3), 161-174. doi: 10.1016/S0016-3287(98)00023-8
Knowing the future through the present
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
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.
Locating journalism in three post-military non-Western countries
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.
Integration challenges that face Congolese, Sudanese, and Somali former refugees in Australia
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.
Patterns of internet use among university students in Ghana
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.
Indigenous knowledge in the age of new technologies: whose knowledge
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.
Campfire culture and computer culture: Museums of the present
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.
Television in a remote Aboriginal community: Social justice or injustice
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.
Overseas student journalists and their approaches to learning
Obijiofor, L. M. (2000). Overseas student journalists and their approaches to learning. Journalism Education Association Conference 2000, Mooloolaba, Queensland, 05-08 Dec 2000.
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.
(2013–2015) ARC Linkage Projects
(2011–2013) UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund
Empowering the Sudanese community: A project to improve community relations through a media platform
(2011) Sudanese Community Association of Queensland Inc
(2010–2011) UQ FirstLink Scheme
(2003) UQ Early Career Researcher
Impact of television on a remote Aboriginal community: A case study
(2000) ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
Impact of new communication technologies on journalism practice
(1999) UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
Media and Conflict: Analysing West African Media Coverage of Conflict through War and Peace Journalism Framework
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
How a single-party country constructs worldview of COVID-19 pandemic to manufacture domestic publics' consent
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
(2021) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Constructions of Good and Evil: The Koreas in International News
(2020) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Settlement Experiences of Iranian Migrants on Humanitarian and Non-Humanitarian Visas in Australia
(2019) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Television and the cultural globalisation of food, clothing and music in Doi Moi Vietnam
(2017) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Nitaqat: An Investigation of a Developmental Policy in Saudi Arabia
(2016) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2016) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Television in Botswana: Development and Policy Perspectives
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Mobile phones and their implications for teenagers in Brunei Darussalam
(2014) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2011) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
An Analysis of Islamic Conceptualisations of Press Freedom in Malaysia
(2010) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2010) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
A STUDY OF DOMINANT DISCOURSE ON NEWS-MAKING DECISIONS IN INDONESIAN NEWSPAPERS (A case study of news coverage of the Bali bombing of 2002)
(2007) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
THE COVERAGE OF DEATH IN THE FOREIGN NEWS OF GERMAN AND AUSTRALIAN QUALITY NEWSPAPERS.
(2006) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
COMPUTER-ASSISTED REPORTING IN ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES OTHER THAN THE UNITED STATES
(2003) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2019) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Iterative Change in ABC Journalistic Craft and Inquiry: 1960-2017
(2018) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Folk media forms and their potential for food security communication in eastern Tigray, Ethiopia
(2017) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
(2009) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
IMPACT OF PRIVATE AND FOREIGN TELEVISION ON INDIA'S NEWS AND AUDIENCES: 1991 - 2001
(2006) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.
Examining the impediments to media freedom in Commonwealth countries.
The project examines factors that impede media freedom in Commonwealth countries. Some of the obstacles include national security legislation, media laws, FoI, structural constraints, etc.
Impact of national security legislation on public interest journalism in Australia
The research examines the tensions between the need to safeguard Australia's national interests and the need for journalists to be allowed to do their work that is in the public interest.