Author

Vincent Adakole Obia

Observed names: Obia, Vincent, VINCENT ADAKOLE OBIA, Vincent Obia

Observed institutions: Birmingham City University, University of Lagos, University of Sheffield

ORCID: 0000-0003-1650-9103

Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-1650-9103

OpenAlex ID: A5075915882

Twitter activism: Understanding the Twittersphere as the foremost community for activism and dragging in Nigeria

2023 · Vincent Obia · New Media & Society · 20

Regulatory Annexation: Extending Broadcast Media Regulation to Social Media and Internet Content

2023 · Vincent Obia · Communication Law and Policy · 9

The costs of connection: how data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism

2022 · Vincent Obia · Information Communication & Society · 9

Global AI Cultures

2025 · Simone Natale, Federico Biggio, et al. · Communications of the ACM · 8

The politics of locationality: Interrogating AI development, locational (dis)advantage and governance in Africa

2025 · Vincent Obia · Media Culture & Society · 7

Digital policy and Nigeria’s Platform Code of Practice: towards a radical co-regulatory turn

2025 · Vincent Obia · Data & Policy · 6

Political Advertising in Nigeria's 2015 Presidential Election

2018 · Joseph Adepoju Tejumaiye, Gildas Simon, et al. · Global media journal Australia · 5

Borrowing lenses from the West: Analysis of an African media representation of western nations

2022 · Vincent Obia, Ismail A. Ibraheem, et al. · Journal of African Media Studies · 3

Use of indigenous languages for social media communication

2018 · Oloruntola Sunday, Ayo Yusuff, et al. · Routledge eBooks · 2

Matrix of Dependence, Postcolonialism, and Social Media Regulation in an African Context

2023 · Vincent Adakole Obia · AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research · 1

Uganda election: Museveni social media ban caps violent campaign

2021 · Vincent Obia · 1

Creative higher education in Nigeria and the case of University of Lagos

2020 · Vincent Obia, Lauren England, et al. · Routledge eBooks · 1

Ethical dimension of newspaper management and production: an inquiry into the failed evening newspapers in Lagos, Nigeria

2019 · Ibitayo S. Popoola, Olubunmi Ajibade, et al. · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 1

Uses and gratifications of the internet among university of Lagos undergraduates

2018 · Joseph Adepoju Tejumaiye, Godwin Iretomiwa Simon, et al. · Journal for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences · 1

Introduction: Regulating Digital Media in Africa – Politics, Law and Governance

2026 · Vincent Obia, Sulayman Bah · BCMCR new directions in media and cultural research.

Regulating new media in Africa politics, law and governance

2026 · Obia, Vincent, Bah, Sulayman, et al.

Regulating Social Media in Nigeria

2025 · Vincent Obia · Springer eBooks

Alternatives to Government Regulation of Social Media: Opportunities and Challenges

2025 · Vincent Obia · Springer eBooks

Opposing Regulatory Annexation Through the #SayNoToSocialMediaBill Corpus: The Struggle for Digital Freedom

2025 · Vincent Obia · Springer eBooks

2025 · Vincent Obia · Springer eBooks

Nigeria’s Social Media Policy Approaches: The Struggle Between Securitisation and Freedom

2025 · Vincent Obia · Springer eBooks

Regulatory Annexation as Control: Designating Social Media Users as Publishers

2025 · Vincent Obia · Springer eBooks

2025 · Vincent Obia · Springer eBooks

Objectification and Exaggeration

2025 · Godwin Simon, Vincent Obia, et al.

News framing of traffic congestion in Nigeria’s urban areas

2020 · VINCENT ADAKOLE OBIA, EMMANUEL PAUL IDAKWO · Journal of Communication and Media Research

Works count: 32

Citation count: 74

H-index: 6

I10-index: 1