Publications

Published Refereed Journal Articles

Aronis, C., Shrikant, N. & Arthur, T.O. (2025). Tracing the Historical Journey of “Ain’t I a Woman?”: Rhetorical and Mediated Appropriation of the Black Woman’s Voice. Howard Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2025.2461062. IF: 1.5

Enyinnaya, J. & Arthur, T.O. (2024). African Technocultural Feminist Theory (ATFT). Feminist Media Studies, 24(4), 851–868. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2229048. IF: 1.6

Arthur, T.O. (2023). White Travel Imaginary and Media Contestations of Race. Annals of Tourism Research, 100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103546 (lead article). IF: 10.4

Arthur, T.O. (2023). “Hello Ableds, Is It Vacation Yet?” Disability, Domesticity, and Digital Alchemy During COVID-19. Persona Studies, 8(2), 27-41.

Arthur, T.O. (2022). “We Bring Home the Roots”: Black Women Travel Influencers, Digital Culture Bearing, and African Internationalism in Instagram. Social Media + Society, 8, 1-11. IF: 5.5

Arthur, T.O. & Ukelina, B. U. (2021). Gateway to Africa: The History of Television Service in Late Colonial Nigeria. Africa Bibliography, 2020, vii-xiv.

Arthur, T.O. (2021). #Catchmeinashithole: Black Travel Influencers and the Contestation of Racialized Place Myths. Howard Journal of Communication, 32(4), 382-393. IF: 1.0

Arthur, T.O. (2021). “Been Exploring the Globe”: Black Women’s Internationalism and Race and Gender and Counter-power Truths in the Instagram Digi-Sphere. Florida Communication Journal, 49(1), 47-76.

Arthur, T.O. (2020). ‘We're Out Here’: Black Identity and Digital Resistance in Instagram Travelogues. Ohio Communication Journal, 58, 1-11 (lead article).

Arthur, T.O. (2019). Sexual Real Estate: Repatriation, Reterritorialization, and the Digital Activism of Nicole Amarteifio’s Web Series An African City. Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, 20, 57-85.

Arthur, T.O. (2017). Glocal Nollywood: The Politics of Culture, Identity, and Migration in African Films Set on American Shores. Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2, 1-28.

Arthur, T.O. (2016). Nollywood Afrogeeks: Nigerian Cinema, Digital Diasporas, and African Immigrants in the United States. International Journal of E-Politics, 7(3), 49-64.

Arthur, T.O. (2014). “Reimagining the ‘Blockbuster’ for Nigerian Cinema: The Nollywood Narrative Aesthetic of Affective Spectacle,” Journal of Pan-African Studies, 6(9), 101-116.

Published Refereed Chapters in Books

Arthur, T.O. (2019). The Performative Digital Africa: iROKOtv, Nollywood Televisuals, and Community Building in the African Digital Diaspora. In Kevin Smets, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn, Koen Leurs, and Radhika Gajjala (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration, (pgs. 207-219). London: SAGE. 

Invited Book Chapter

Arthur, T.O. (2022). iROKOtv: Drama for the ‘Small-Small’ Screen. In Derek Johnson (Ed.), From Networks to Netflix: A Guide to Changing Channels, Second Edition. London: Routledge, 279-290.

Published Book Reviews

Arthur, T.O. (2020). A Review of Patricia Santana de Pinho’s Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil. Luso-Brazilian Review, 57(2).

Arthur, T.O. (2017). A Review of Leah Perry’s The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration: Gender, Race, and Media. Feminist Media Studies, 17(2), 35-36.

Arthur, T.O. (2016). Black Spectral Lives Matter: A Review of Tiya Miles’s Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era. PLURAL, Revista do Programa de Pós- Graduação em Sociologica da USP, São Paulo, 23(2), 134-137.