Levi Obijiofor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3075178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Levi Obijiofor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Levi |
| FAMILY NAME | Obijiofor |
| SIGNATURE | OBIJIOFOR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6341-6623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Managing Difficult Relationships
This research systematically and empirically examines challenges that confront Nigerian foreign correspondents, including how foreign correspondents manage the demands of their job such as pressures from senior editors at their head offices, restricted access to information and state officials, and government officials interfering with objective news reporting.The study also looks at correspondents' accounts of their individual experiences and th…
Journalism education, research, and practice in Africa
Western conceptualisation of journalism as a profession and an academic discipline fundamentally represents systemic challenges to how journalism could be theorised, researched, and practised in ways that address and reflect the specificities of non-Western contexts such as Africa. It is in this context that calls for recognition of locally relevant epistemologies of journalism have generated vigorous debates among journalists, journalism educato…
Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Partnering for Refugee Research
In this article we reflect on methodological and ethical challenges encountered while conducting two large, nationally funded studies on refugee resettlement in Australia. We focus on collaborative research partnerships, specifically with “industry partners,” wherein the partners may have different understandings of the research process and different agendas, and with bilingual research assistants. We analyze methodological challenges primarily p…
Refugee Parents’ Communication and Relations With Their Children
The study had two goals: First, a 20-item “Refugee Parent-Child Relational Communication Scale ” was developed for parents from refugee backgrounds. Former refugee parents from Ethiopia, Congo, and Burma (= 221) completed this and other questionnaires measuring demographics, acculturation, and acculturative stress. Exploratory factor analysis indicated three factors: “Engagement,” “Hope and Aspirations,” and “Dissonance.” The subscales were inter…
Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries
There have been significant changes in journalistic practices in various countries over the years. Yet little is known about the nature of changes in journalism in transitional developing countries following military rule. Drawing on email surveys of journalists in Nigeria and Fiji, two countries with recent histories of military dictatorship that are rarely examined in the research literature, this comparative study investigates journalistic pra…
Africa in the Australian press
This study examined the level of coverage given to Africa in the Australian press, including the topics that received prominence in the news, in order to understand how Africa is portrayed in Australia’s press. Drawing on content analysis as a method, the research found that Africa was not portrayed in predominantly negative ways or largely misrepresented in the news, as previous studies had suggested. The result challenges the literature that su…
The African Public Sphere in the Electronic Era
In different parts of the world, new technologies serve diverse purposes for different people. They facilitate democracy; they empower the citizens by giving voice to the voiceless; they encourage civil society to contribute to the democratic process; and they assist citizens to hold public officials to account. New technologies encourage the development of a vigorous public sphere in which the citizens engage freely in participatory communicatio…
Ethnographic Research in ‘Offline’ and Online Worlds
Despite decades of research investigations conducted via ethnographic tools such as participant observations, interviews, focus groups and document analysis, debate has persisted over the usefulness of ethnography as a valid research method. Researchers who hold the position that knowledge can only be obtained through direct examination and testing of phenomena argue that ethnography is methodologically unsound and unreliable because of lack of c…
Tradition Versus Modernity in HIV/Aids Prevention
Since the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1981, the global race to halt the spread of the virus has accelerated. There are many reasons to be concerned about the spread of HIV/AIDS. If the global community does not respond to the pandemic, there will be catastrophic consequences for the human race. Healthcare systems will be overwhelmed, economies will be under severe pressure, …
Changing Technologies and the Changing Role of Citizens
New technologies are having profound impacts on the way journalism is practised across the world. Technological changes have also challenged traditional forms of journalism, redefining the relationship between professional journalists and citizens. In the digital era, Singer (2006) argues that the free, participatory and democratic appeal of online media has encouraged all types of news, resulting in different kinds of news reporters and differen…
New Technologies and the Socioeconomic Development of Africa
There is a growing belief that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) play an important role in the economic growth of nations. However, the extent to which new technologies accelerate the socioeconomic development of developing countries has been debated vigorously in the development literature. While some scholars see a direct relationship between the uptake of new technologies and enhancement of economic development, other schol…
Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights in a New Age
Concerns have persisted about the state of Indigenous knowledge and intellectual property rights of Indigenous people in the digital age. Central to the debate is the ownership and preservation of Indigenous knowledge, art, craft and traditional practices, as well as respect for the cultural expressions of Indigenous people. In the age of new technologies, there are reasons why Indigenous people should be concerned about the extent to which infor…
Public Service Broadcasting for Economic Growth and Language Development
The history of public service broadcasting (PSB) has been dominated by critical questions about its remit, the best funding mechanism to sustain the broadcasting system, the defining elements that distinguish PSB from commercial channels, what its role should be in democratic societies, and latterly its relevance in the age of new technologies in which information is openly available on the Internet. The emergence of the World Wide Web has not ea…
Mobile Phones Transforming Public Communication in Africa
The introduction of mobile phones in Africa is having a profound impact on modes of communication and how people interact. Mobile phones are transforming not only the way African people communicate but also the way they do business, the way teachers and students interrelate and the way news and entertainment are disseminated. Mobile phones have reduced or removed the physical distance between people who reside in rural and remote communities and …
African journalists as an endangered breed
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLevi ObijioforLevi Obijiofor is senior lecturer in Journalism at the School of Communication and Arts, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
New Technologies in Developing Societies
New technologies may have transformed human societies, but not much has been written on how they are impacting people in Africa and other developing regions, in terms of how they use technology to enh
Acculturation challenges that confront Sudanese former refugees in Australia
This study investigated acculturation challenges that Sudanese former refugees faced as a consequence of settling in South-East Queensland, Australia. A total of 28 females and 11 males participated in focus groups. The findings indicate that both women and men face acculturation issues relating to successful settlement. The women were particularly challenged by low English language proficiency and parenting issues, while the men faced challenges…
Journalism Across Cultures
In today's global digital world, journalists are required to be cognizant of ethical and cultural issues beyond usual national boundaries. Drawing on global examples, this text examines international journalism through the authors' wide variety of cultural, educational, teaching and learning backgrounds, including their professional and practical experiences. While existing books tend to be more focused on specific regions or specific aspects of …
Journalism in the Digital Age
This paper analyzes how four Nigerian newspapers framed the local Niger Delta conflict between January and May 2008. It also analyzes the main sources of news reports on the confl ict, including the extent to which journalists relied on new technologies, as well as the ethical implications of such practice. Drawing on the theoretical framework of peace and confl ict reporting, the methodological context of framing analysis, as well as content ana…
Africa's dilemma in the transition to the new information and communication technologies
Future of communication in Africa's development
Knowing the future through the present
The futures of communication
Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries
There have been significant changes in journalistic practices in various countries over the years. Yet little is known about the nature of changes in journalism in transitional developing countries following military rule. Drawing on email surveys of journalists in Nigeria and Fiji, two countries with recent histories of military dictatorship that are rarely examined in the research literature, this comparative study investigates journalistic pra…
Acculturation challenges that confront Sudanese former refugees in Australia
This study investigated acculturation challenges that Sudanese former refugees faced as a consequence of settling in South-East Queensland, Australia. A total of 28 females and 11 males participated in focus groups. The findings indicate that both women and men face acculturation issues relating to successful settlement. The women were particularly challenged by low English language proficiency and parenting issues, while the men faced challenges…
Refugee Parents’ Communication and Relations With Their Children
The study had two goals: First, a 20-item “Refugee Parent-Child Relational Communication Scale ” was developed for parents from refugee backgrounds. Former refugee parents from Ethiopia, Congo, and Burma (= 221) completed this and other questionnaires measuring demographics, acculturation, and acculturative stress. Exploratory factor analysis indicated three factors: “Engagement,” “Hope and Aspirations,” and “Dissonance.” The subscales were inter…
The futures of communication
Journalism education, research, and practice in Africa
Western conceptualisation of journalism as a profession and an academic discipline fundamentally represents systemic challenges to how journalism could be theorised, researched, and practised in ways that address and reflect the specificities of non-Western contexts such as Africa. It is in this context that calls for recognition of locally relevant epistemologies of journalism have generated vigorous debates among journalists, journalism educato…
Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Partnering for Refugee Research
In this article we reflect on methodological and ethical challenges encountered while conducting two large, nationally funded studies on refugee resettlement in Australia. We focus on collaborative research partnerships, specifically with “industry partners,” wherein the partners may have different understandings of the research process and different agendas, and with bilingual research assistants. We analyze methodological challenges primarily p…
Africa's dilemma in the transition to the new information and communication technologies
Managing Difficult Relationships
This research systematically and empirically examines challenges that confront Nigerian foreign correspondents, including how foreign correspondents manage the demands of their job such as pressures from senior editors at their head offices, restricted access to information and state officials, and government officials interfering with objective news reporting.The study also looks at correspondents' accounts of their individual experiences and th…
Africa in the Australian press
This study examined the level of coverage given to Africa in the Australian press, including the topics that received prominence in the news, in order to understand how Africa is portrayed in Australia’s press. Drawing on content analysis as a method, the research found that Africa was not portrayed in predominantly negative ways or largely misrepresented in the news, as previous studies had suggested. The result challenges the literature that su…
Future of communication in Africa's development
The futures of communication
Knowing the future through the present
Africa's dilemma in the transition to the new information and communication technologies
Future of communication in Africa's development
Journalism in the Digital Age
This paper analyzes how four Nigerian newspapers framed the local Niger Delta conflict between January and May 2008. It also analyzes the main sources of news reports on the confl ict, including the extent to which journalists relied on new technologies, as well as the ethical implications of such practice. Drawing on the theoretical framework of peace and confl ict reporting, the methodological context of framing analysis, as well as content ana…
Journalism Across Cultures
In today's global digital world, journalists are required to be cognizant of ethical and cultural issues beyond usual national boundaries. Drawing on global examples, this text examines international journalism through the authors' wide variety of cultural, educational, teaching and learning backgrounds, including their professional and practical experiences. While existing books tend to be more focused on specific regions or specific aspects of …
Acculturation challenges that confront Sudanese former refugees in Australia
This study investigated acculturation challenges that Sudanese former refugees faced as a consequence of settling in South-East Queensland, Australia. A total of 28 females and 11 males participated in focus groups. The findings indicate that both women and men face acculturation issues relating to successful settlement. The women were particularly challenged by low English language proficiency and parenting issues, while the men faced challenges…
The African Public Sphere in the Electronic Era
In different parts of the world, new technologies serve diverse purposes for different people. They facilitate democracy; they empower the citizens by giving voice to the voiceless; they encourage civil society to contribute to the democratic process; and they assist citizens to hold public officials to account. New technologies encourage the development of a vigorous public sphere in which the citizens engage freely in participatory communicatio…
Ethnographic Research in ‘Offline’ and Online Worlds
Despite decades of research investigations conducted via ethnographic tools such as participant observations, interviews, focus groups and document analysis, debate has persisted over the usefulness of ethnography as a valid research method. Researchers who hold the position that knowledge can only be obtained through direct examination and testing of phenomena argue that ethnography is methodologically unsound and unreliable because of lack of c…
Tradition Versus Modernity in HIV/Aids Prevention
Since the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1981, the global race to halt the spread of the virus has accelerated. There are many reasons to be concerned about the spread of HIV/AIDS. If the global community does not respond to the pandemic, there will be catastrophic consequences for the human race. Healthcare systems will be overwhelmed, economies will be under severe pressure, …
Changing Technologies and the Changing Role of Citizens
New technologies are having profound impacts on the way journalism is practised across the world. Technological changes have also challenged traditional forms of journalism, redefining the relationship between professional journalists and citizens. In the digital era, Singer (2006) argues that the free, participatory and democratic appeal of online media has encouraged all types of news, resulting in different kinds of news reporters and differen…
New Technologies and the Socioeconomic Development of Africa
There is a growing belief that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) play an important role in the economic growth of nations. However, the extent to which new technologies accelerate the socioeconomic development of developing countries has been debated vigorously in the development literature. While some scholars see a direct relationship between the uptake of new technologies and enhancement of economic development, other schol…
Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights in a New Age
Concerns have persisted about the state of Indigenous knowledge and intellectual property rights of Indigenous people in the digital age. Central to the debate is the ownership and preservation of Indigenous knowledge, art, craft and traditional practices, as well as respect for the cultural expressions of Indigenous people. In the age of new technologies, there are reasons why Indigenous people should be concerned about the extent to which infor…
Public Service Broadcasting for Economic Growth and Language Development
The history of public service broadcasting (PSB) has been dominated by critical questions about its remit, the best funding mechanism to sustain the broadcasting system, the defining elements that distinguish PSB from commercial channels, what its role should be in democratic societies, and latterly its relevance in the age of new technologies in which information is openly available on the Internet. The emergence of the World Wide Web has not ea…
Mobile Phones Transforming Public Communication in Africa
The introduction of mobile phones in Africa is having a profound impact on modes of communication and how people interact. Mobile phones are transforming not only the way African people communicate but also the way they do business, the way teachers and students interrelate and the way news and entertainment are disseminated. Mobile phones have reduced or removed the physical distance between people who reside in rural and remote communities and …
African journalists as an endangered breed
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLevi ObijioforLevi Obijiofor is senior lecturer in Journalism at the School of Communication and Arts, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
New Technologies in Developing Societies
New technologies may have transformed human societies, but not much has been written on how they are impacting people in Africa and other developing regions, in terms of how they use technology to enh
Changes in journalism in two post-authoritarian non-Western countries
There have been significant changes in journalistic practices in various countries over the years. Yet little is known about the nature of changes in journalism in transitional developing countries following military rule. Drawing on email surveys of journalists in Nigeria and Fiji, two countries with recent histories of military dictatorship that are rarely examined in the research literature, this comparative study investigates journalistic pra…
Africa in the Australian press
This study examined the level of coverage given to Africa in the Australian press, including the topics that received prominence in the news, in order to understand how Africa is portrayed in Australia’s press. Drawing on content analysis as a method, the research found that Africa was not portrayed in predominantly negative ways or largely misrepresented in the news, as previous studies had suggested. The result challenges the literature that su…
Refugee Parents’ Communication and Relations With Their Children
The study had two goals: First, a 20-item “Refugee Parent-Child Relational Communication Scale ” was developed for parents from refugee backgrounds. Former refugee parents from Ethiopia, Congo, and Burma (= 221) completed this and other questionnaires measuring demographics, acculturation, and acculturative stress. Exploratory factor analysis indicated three factors: “Engagement,” “Hope and Aspirations,” and “Dissonance.” The subscales were inter…
Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Partnering for Refugee Research
In this article we reflect on methodological and ethical challenges encountered while conducting two large, nationally funded studies on refugee resettlement in Australia. We focus on collaborative research partnerships, specifically with “industry partners,” wherein the partners may have different understandings of the research process and different agendas, and with bilingual research assistants. We analyze methodological challenges primarily p…
Journalism education, research, and practice in Africa
Western conceptualisation of journalism as a profession and an academic discipline fundamentally represents systemic challenges to how journalism could be theorised, researched, and practised in ways that address and reflect the specificities of non-Western contexts such as Africa. It is in this context that calls for recognition of locally relevant epistemologies of journalism have generated vigorous debates among journalists, journalism educato…
Managing Difficult Relationships
This research systematically and empirically examines challenges that confront Nigerian foreign correspondents, including how foreign correspondents manage the demands of their job such as pressures from senior editors at their head offices, restricted access to information and state officials, and government officials interfering with objective news reporting.The study also looks at correspondents' accounts of their individual experiences and th…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Journalism (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Business (5 works)