Majid KhosraviNik

Majid KhosraviNik is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Discourse Studies at Newcastle University, UK.

This involves interdisciplinary examination of theoretical and methodological issues in the field including major studies on discourses of national identity in the Middle East e.g. Arabism.

Together with the integration of research in Affects, Big Data, politics of democratisation and populism, the approach explores the critical implications of shifts in discourse formation and consumption in new media and wider consequences for a fundamental understanding of politics and democracy in both late capitalist context of the West as well as the context of developing world.

[3] He sits on the editorial board of Critical Discourse Studies and Journal of Language and Politics while acting as expert assessor and referee for a range of international publishers and research grant organisations including the EU Commission.

He was part of RASIM, an ESRC funded research project, which explored the representation of migrants in the British press.