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Ehsan Dehghan

@essideh.com

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Academic @QUT; Researching various things, all related to antagonism/agonism/discourse online 🌐: https://www.essideh.com

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Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · 11d

It's great! I played the browser version. I'll play more on the desktop app soon. A Steam release sounds exciting!

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · 11d

I was just playing this! Amazing game. I didn't expect it to be this fast paced!

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florian-toepfl.bsky.social @florian-toepfl.bsky.social · 22d

A highly recommended read: policyreview.info/articles/ana...

Facebook, the EU and Russia’s war: Challenges of moderating authoritarian news

Despite several measures to curb their visibility, this study shows how Facebook mediates predominantly Russian state-aligned news during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine

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Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · 23d

I had a lot of fun chatting with Klaus (@klaus.bsky.social) about The Discursive-Digital Link. You can listen to the episode on the Read Them Sideways podcast.

QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 24d

After a brief hiatus, the Read Them Sideways podcast is back! In this week's episode, Klaus Groebner (@gklaus.bsky.social) interviews Dr Ehsan Dehghan (@essideh.com) about his new book: The Discursive-Digital Link.

Listen to Klaus and Ehsan chat about the new book below!

Episode 32: The Discursive-Digital Link with Ehsan Dehghan

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Sep 4

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 13

Thanks Axel!

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 12

Thanks Eddy!

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 12

Thanks Johan!

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 12

And Majid KhosraviNik @mkhosravinik.bsky.social says it provides "an integrative understanding of meaning-making in online spaces".

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 12

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social calls it "a much needed contribution to strengthening democracy".

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 12

Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social sees it as "a much needed counterpoint to deterministic narratives around digital media".

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 12

David Howarth views it as "an urgent, compelling, and original intervention".

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 12

Natalie Fenton calls it "though-provoking and challenging", and "written with an urgent elegance".

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 12

I am humbled by the generosity of the first readers and endorsers of The Discursive-Digital Link, who dedicated their time to critically engage with the book and share their thoughts and kind words.

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 12

In the Discursive-Digital Link, I develop a social ontology that engages with the entanglement of discourse, digital media, and structure. I also present a methodology to critically study these discursive-digital entanglements. Here's a sneak peak of the metaphoric representation of the framework:

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 12

"We are in deep shit, literally and figuratively".
That's the first sentence of the book, and it's not hyperbole. Democracy is under threat. The world is in crisis mode, and there is a multitude of entangled components involved. We need new frameworks to understand the how and the why of it all.

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · Aug 12

Very excited to share that my book, The Discursive-Digital Link, is now available for pre-order on Routledge: tinyurl.com/the-ddl. The e-book is already available to order with a 30% discount!
You can also read the synopsis and the Introduction chapter on my website: essideh.com/ddl/

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Silvia Montaña @silmonn.bsky.social · May 24

On May 28, I'll be the keynote speaker at the Inaugural conference of Congreso H (Hermes) in Spain, online edition. I'll talk about the reinvention of journalistic verifiability across platforms and AI ecosystems. My first time presenting my research in Spanish! www.congresoh.com/schedule/con...

Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · May 13

Brilliant comments/thread! Very well put, Tim

Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · May 13

Here's me saying it like it is regarding Elon Musk and X as a propaganda tool that is increasingly biased towards the far right.

The article is in French - in this thread are some auto-translated excerpts from my comments. Shout out to @markandrejevic.bsky.social

www.rtbf.be/article/comm...

Comment Elon Musk utilise son réseau X pour faire monter l'extrême droite en Europe - RTBF Actus

Voici un extrait du compte X (anciennement Twitter) de Dries Van Langenhove, ex-député Vlaams Belang condamné en 2024 à...

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Kateryna Kasianenko @kkasianenko.bsky.social · May 12

Made it to my final seminar (thesis pre-defence) today - thanks to the efforts and support of my supervisors, research participants, and many others.

Axel Bruns @snurb.info · May 12

Wonderful to see another excellent @qutdmrc.bsky.social PhD student reach her final seminar milestone – @kkasianenko.bsky.social with a thesis on cosmopolitan responses to the Russian war on Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🫶

Kateryna Kasianenko presenting her opening slide.

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · May 12

Wonderful to see another excellent @qutdmrc.bsky.social PhD student reach her final seminar milestone – @kkasianenko.bsky.social with a thesis on cosmopolitan responses to the Russian war on Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🫶

Kateryna Kasianenko presenting her opening slide.

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Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social · May 9

Serving on the PhD admission committee this year. We're offering two scholarships in Digital Culture and Communication—one specifically for international candidates.

Know talented candidates passionate about digital culture? Send them our way!

Details: www.uniurb.it/concorsi/9085

Abbiamo pubblicato un nuovo bando nella sezione PhD - Dottorati di Ricerca / SU. Per informazioni, clicca qui.

Avviso pubblicato il giorno 8/5/2025 con scadenza 10/6/2025

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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · May 8

"At the root of our problems with social media is... a mistake: that we delegated to profit-seeking businesses what I call “the space of the world”."

Read @couldrynick.bsky.social s piece for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · Apr 30

🗽 Big day for new publications: the special issue of _Comunicazione Politica_ that @gboccia.bsky.social, @essideh.com, Laura Iannelli, and I edited has now come out, and includes our introduction on Fringe Democracy and the Platformisation of the Public Sphere.

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Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Axel Bruns, Ehsan Dehghan, Laura Iannelli

Fringe Democracy and the Platformization of the Public Sphere

ABSTRACT
This article introduces the concept of «fringe democracy» as a multidimensional phenomenon emerging in the contemporary public sphere when alternative digital platforms (spaces/affordances/governance patterns), marginalized actors (groups/practices/ideologies), and heterodox narratives (contents/imaginaries/representations) challenge liberal democratic processes. Fringe democracy is not merely about the rise of non-mainstream platforms but arises from complex interactions between fringe and mainstream platforms, actors, and narratives (as shown by recent changes in mainstream platform moderation practices, which reduce fringe actors’ dependence on alternative, freer spaces). While some marginalized actors may propose heterodox narratives driven by democratic values, fringe democracy functions as a form of pseudo-democracy from the margins, [...]

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Apr 28

Remember when social media was sometimes good, thanks to users and what they built? We do! Please check out this 'minor history' of Twttr and its community-created bots from @domcarlon.bsky.social @kkasianenko.bsky.social & me, out now in Convergence journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The lives and afterlives of community-created bots on Twitter: A minor history - Dominique Carlon, Jean Burgess, Kateryna Kasianenko, 2025

This article presents a minor history of the beneficial community-created bots that once flourished on Twitter, showcasing their important but overlooked role i...

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