Dr Ehsan Dehghan
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Ehsan is a senior 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
- Senior 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. & Nagappa, A. (2022). Politicization and radicalization of discourses in the alt-tech ecosystem: a case study on Gab social. Social Media and Society, 8(3), 1–12. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/233029
- Dehghan, E. & Bruns, A. (2022). The Dynamics of Polarisation in Australian Social Media: The Case of Immigration Discourse. In D. Palau-Sampio, G. Lopez Garcia & L. Iannelli (Eds.), Contemporary politics, communication, and the impact on democracy (pp. 57–73). IGI Global. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/213693
- Dehghan, E. & Glazunova, S. (2021). 'Fake news' discourses: An exploration of Russian and Persian tweets. Journal of Language and Politics, 20(5), 741–760. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211938
- Glazunova, S., Dehghan, E., FitzGerald, K., Wikstrom, P. & Myint, Z. (2021). Disinformation Risk Assessment: The online news market in Australia. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/213665
- 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 (Ed.), Produsing Theory in a Digital World 3.0: The Intersection of Audiences and Production in Contemporary Theory (pp. 159–177). Peter Lang Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/133877
- 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. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203917
- Keogh, B., Nicoll, B., Brand, J., Cunningham, S., Dehghan, E., Banks, J. & Tyack, A. (2019). Victoria's Digital Games Sector Research Report.
- 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, 266–270. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120223
QUT ePrints
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Supervision
Current supervisions
- Populist Publics and Public Sphere(s): Analysing the Discursive Dynamics of Emerging Digital publics on Social Media in India
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Axel Bruns, Associate Professor Timothy Graham - Participatory Conspiracy Theorising Online: A Case Study of QAnon
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Timothy Graham, Professor Daniel Angus - Cosmopolitanism in Transnational Digital Publics
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Axel Bruns, Dr Sofya Glazunova - Mapping the dynamics of partisanship and polarisation within online news-sharing spaces: A case study of environmental discourses and information flows in Australia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Axel Bruns