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Staff Profile

Dr Majid Khosravinik

Reader in Digital Media & Discourse Studies

  • Telephone: 0191 208 6571
  • Address: Media, Culture, Heritage
    School of Arts & Cultures
    Armstrong Building
    缅北禁地
    缅北禁地 Upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

I am a Reader in Digital Media & Discourse Studies; teaching and researching the intersection of participatory web, discourse, society & politics. My research trajectory comprises of theorisation and integration of discourse studies in various digital media practices on a range of topics including social media discourses on (national/ethnic/gender/group) identity, digital populism, immigration/racism/nationalism, political communication, discourses of cyber terrorism, online misogyny, and the notion of Techno-Discursive Analysis. As a general encapsulation, I am interested in the interplay of digital media technologies/affordances of representation, discourse and politics. 

 

Before joining 缅北禁地, I held lectureship and research positions at Northumbria and Lancaster University where I did my PhD research in critical discourse studies. I have been involved in the ESRC funded research project RASIM, . My co-edited volume on was published in 2013. My research on representations in discourses of Iran's nuclear programme was published in 2015 by John Benjamins as . Since 2013, my work has particularly focused on digital mediation technologies and discourse including three edited volumes on digital discourse and society e.g. and .

I am concentrated on developing a model under the rubric of Social Media Critical Discourse Studies () which involves transdisciplinary examination of and methodological challenges of applying a discourse analytical approach to i.e. social media including major case studies on discourses of  , , etc. . In more recent work, I have proposed the notion of in social media whereby algorithmic regimentation of content and practices are theorised as fundamental contexts of meaning making and politics of representation/perception. Together with integration of research in Affects, Big Data, , I am exploring the critical implications of the shifts in discourse formation and consumption in and its consequential impact on understanding of politics and participation in both late-capitalist contexts of the global 'north' as well as the developing global 'south' contexts. I am founder and convenor of and member of academic board for and  I also serve as an Expert Reviewer for European Research Council actions, including Marie Curie IF, Combating Digital Misogyny, Islamophobia and Racism, British ESRC among several other international funding organisations. 

I have taught on a wide range of subjects at UG, PGT, and PhD levels since 2006. This includes modules on Digital Discourses & Identity, Critical Discourse Studies, Digital Politics, Power and Communication, Analysing Media, Research Methodologies, Advertising Production and Texts, TV Studies etc. I currently lead and teach Digital Discourses & Identity and Politics, Power and Communication in addition to BA/MA/PhD supervisions and post-doc mentorships. 

I am interested in supervising/leading research projects including PhDs, post-docs, fellowships and grant applications drawing on Techno-Discursive Analysis and on a range of topics including but not limited to digital media and social/political identities, participatory web and immigration, digital media and democracy, discourses of fake news and conspiracy theories, digital authoritarianism and counter publics, digital fascism/nationalism/racism, politics of social media and algorithms, digital representation and regimentation in international conflicts esp. the Middle East etc.

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Research


My research trajectory comprises of theorisation, characterisation, and integration of discourse studies in various digital media practices on a range of topics including social media discourses and (national/ethnic/gender/group) identity, digital populism, immigration/racism/nationalism, political communication, discourses of cyber terrorism, online misogyny, and the notion of Techno-Discursive Analysis. As a general encapsulation, I am interested in the interplay of digital media technologies/affordances of representation, discourse and politics. 

Teaching

Undergraduate: MCH3085: Digital Discourses & Identity; MCH3077: Politics, Power and Communication; MCH3072/3073 UG Dissertation in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies

Postgraduate: MCH8177: Politics, Power and Communication; MCH8058: Methodologies: Researching Media, Culture and Society; MCH8199/8299 PGT Dissertation in Media.

BA/MA/PhD supervisions. 


Publications

  • Articles

    • Peng AY, Hou JZ, KhosraviNik M, Zhang X. . Social Semiotics 2023, 33(4), 750-768.
    • KhosraviNik M, Amer M. . Critical Discourse Studies 2022, 19(2), 124-143.
    • Sarkhoh N, KhosraviNik M. . World Englishes 2020, 39(4), 609-622.
    • KhosraviNik M. . Fundan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2018, 11(4), 427-442.
    • KhosraviNik M, Esposito E. . Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 2018, 14(1), 45-68.
    • Khosravinik M. . Insight Turkey 2017, 19(3), 53-68.
    • KhosraviNik M, Sarkhoh N. . International Journal of Communication 2017, 11, 3614-3633.
    • Kelsey D, Mueller F, Whittle A, KhosraviNik M. . Critical Discourse Studies 2016, 13(1), 1-19.
    • KhosraviNik M. . Discourse and Society 2015, 26(1), 52-73.
    • KhosraviNik M, Zia M. . Journal of Language and Politics 2014, 13(4), 755-780.
    • KhosraviNik M. . Journal of Language and Politics 2010, 9(1), 1-28.
    • KhosraviNik M. . Critical Discourse Studies 2010, 7(1), 55-72.
    • KhosraviNik M. . Discourse and Society 2009, 20(4), 477-498.
    • KhosraviNik M. British newspapers and the representation of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants between 1996 and 2006. Centre for Language in Social Life 2008.
    • Baker P, Gabrielatos C, KhosraviNik M, Krzyżanowski M, McEnery T, Wodak R. . Discourse & Society 2008, 19(3), 273-306.
    • Yarmohammadi L, KhosraviNik M. A critical analysis of news discourses in Iranian newspapers, a socio-semantic approach. Nameh Farhang (Letter of Culture) Quarterly 2002, 42.

  • Authored Book

    • KhosraviNik M. . Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015.

  • Book Chapters

    • KhosraviNik M, Amer W. . In: Majid KhosraviNik, ed. Social Media Critical Discourse Studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023, pp.6-25.
    • Esposito E, KhosraviNik M. . In: Esposito E; KhosraviNik M, ed. Discourse in the Digital Age : Social Media, Power and Society. London: Routledge, 2023, pp.1-17.
    • Esposito E, KhosraviNik M. . In: KhosraviNik, Majid, ed. Social Media and Society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse. John Benjamins, 2023, pp.15-37.
    • KhosraviNik M. . In: KhosraviNik, Majid, ed. Social Media and Society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse. John Benjamins, 2023, pp.1-14.
    • KhosraviNik M. . In: Flowerdew,J; Richardson,J, ed. Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies. London, UK: Routledge, 2017, pp.582-596.
    • KhosraviNik M, Unger J. . In: Ruth Wodak and Michael Meyer, ed. Methods of Critical Discourse Studies. Sage Publications Ltd, 2016, pp.206-233.
    • Unger J, Wodak R, KhosraviNik M. . In: Silverman, D, ed. Qualitative Research. London: SAGE, 2016, pp.277-293.
    • KhosraviNik M. . In: Hart, C; Cap, P, ed. Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014, pp.501-519.
    • KhosraviNik M. . In: Kopytowska, M.; Kalyango, Y, ed. Why Discourse Matters: Negotiating Identity in the Mediatized World. New York, NY, USA: Peter Lang, 2014, pp.287-306.
    • Wodak R, KhosraviNik M. . In: Wodak, R., KhosraviNik, M., Mral, B, ed. Right-Wing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013, pp.xvii-xxviii.
    • KhosraviNik M, Wodak R, Krzyzanowsky M. . In: M. Messer, R. Schroeder and R. Wodak, ed. Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2012, pp.283-295.

  • Edited Books

    • KhosraviNik Majid, ed. . London: Routledge, 2023.
    • KhosraviNik M, ed. . John Benjamins, 2023.
    • Esposito E, KhosraviNik M, ed. . New York: Routledge, 2023.
    • Kelsey D, Mueller F, Whittle A, KhosraviNik M, ed. . London: Routledge, 2017.
    • Kelsey D, Mueller F, Whittle A, KhosraviNik M, ed. . Abingdon: Routledge, 2016.
    • Wodak R, KhosraviNik M, Mral B, ed. . London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

  • Review

    • KhosraviNik M. . Journal of Language and Politics 2011, 10(1), 129-132.