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Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
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.
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- 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
- Cunningham, S., Banks, J., Tyack, A., Dehghan, E., Keogh, B., Nicoll, B. & Brand, J. (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
- Rethinking the Public Sphere in India: Analysing the Discursive Dynamics in Social Media
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Axel Bruns, Associate Professor Timothy Graham - Participatory Disinformation and Online Radicalisation With QAnon as a Case Study
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Timothy Graham, Professor Daniel Angus - Cosmopolitanism of 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