Dr Ehsan Dehghan
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Dr Ehsan Dehghan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication and a Chief Investigator at the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC). His research investigates the entanglement of the discursive and the digital, with particular focus on digital communication technologies and media. Ehsan primarily studies the dynamics of discursive struggles in digitally mediated political communication. This interest has led to research projects across the various dimensions of this entanglement, including antagonism, polarisation, ‘fake news’, fact-checking, and political communication on mainstream and fringe social media platforms.Ehsan has developed theoretical and methodological approaches to studying digitally mediated communication. His work has been published in Social Media+ Society, Media and Communication, Politics and Governance, Internet Policy Review, among others. His book, The Discursive-Digital Link, synthesises and extends this research.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Keywords
discursive-digital analysis, discourse theory, discourse analysis, democracy, antagonism, agonism, polarisation, social media, mixed methods, methodology
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), QUT
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
International Communication Association (ICA)
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., Banks, J., Tyack, A. & Dehghan, E. (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
- Participatory Conspiracy Theorising and Knowledge Production Practices Online: A Case Study of QAnon
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Timothy Graham, Professor Daniel Angus - Mapping the dynamics of Australian climate change partisanship and polarisation in online communication and policy spaces
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Axel Bruns, Dr Samantha Vilkins - Platformed Ethnic Antagonism and The Challenges of Content Moderation on Social Media in Ethiopia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Patrik Wikstrom, Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez
Supervision topics
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.