Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces" (Routledge, 2025)
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Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces" (Routledge, 2025)

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 22, 202647 min
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We are in a state of crisis. Democracy is under threat, authoritarian politics are on the rise, and digital media—once heralded as emancipatory technologies—are increasingly implicated in democratic erosion. The Discursive-Digital Link offers a critical framework for understanding the entangled relationships between discourse, digital media, and the hidden dynamics behind antagonism and polarisation. The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces (Routledge, 2025) presents a fluid social ontology that theorises how discourses and digital communication technologies are inseparably entangled, and how this entanglement contributes to the formation of complex hierarchical relations. Drawing on discourse theory and new m...

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Welcome to the New Books Network. Welcome to New Books Network. I'm your host, Pete Kunze. My guest today is Ehsan Digon, Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication

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and a Chief Investigator at the Digital Media Research Center at the Queensland University of Technology. He is also the author of The Discursive Digital Link, Antagonism and Polarization in Digital Spaces,

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published by Rutledge and available from online booksellers. Good morning, Ehsan. How are you today? Good morning, Pete. Thank you. I hope you're fine too. I'm hanging in there. I'm glad we have time to talk today.

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