Dr Ehsan Dehghan
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Ehsan is a lecturer in Digital Media at the School of Communication, QUT, and a chief investigator at the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC). He received his PhD in Digital Media from QUT (2020), and has a background in Discourse Studies and Philosophy. His main research interests are in the inter-relationship of social media and democracy. Ehsan employs and has developed innovative mixed-methods approaches to studying communication on social media platforms, drawing from social media analytics, network analysis, corpus linguistics, and discourse theory. His recent work has focused on the dynamics of polarisation in a number of case studies in the Australian Twittersphere. His work includes the investigation of issues such as polarisation, political discussions on social media, 'fake news', information flows on platforms, and the dynamics of discursive struggles on social media.
Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Keywords
social media, discourse theory, antagonism, agonism, polarisation, discourse analysis, social network analysis, mixed methods, methodology, digital discourse studies
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), QUT Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
Publications
- Dehghan E, Glazunova S, (2021) 'Fake news' discourses: An exploration of Russian and Persian tweets, Journal of Language and Politics, 20 (5) p741
- Dehghan E, Bruns A, Mitchell P, Moon B, (2020) Discourse-analytical studies on social media platforms: A data-driven mixed-methods approach. In RA Lind, Produsing Theory in a Digital World 3.0: The Intersection of Audiences and Production in Contemporary Theory, Peter Lang Publishing p159
- Dehghan E, (2019) In each other we (strategically) trust: The discursive networks of trust in Twitter discussions of immigration in Australia, AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2019: 20th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers p
- Keogh B, Nicoll B, Brand J, Cunningham S, Banks J, Tyack A, Dehghan E, (2019) Victoria's Digital Games Sector Research Report, p
- Dehghan E, (2018) A year of discursive struggle over freedom of speech on Twitter: What can a mixed-methods approach tell us?, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society p266
QUT ePrints
To find publications by Ehsan, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Rethinking the Public Sphere in India: Analysing the Discursive Dynamics in Social Media
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Axel Bruns, Dr Timothy Graham