The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces [Hardcover]

1. INTRODUCTION 2. DISCOURSE, MATERIALITY, AND ONTICAL FLUIDITY 3. THE DISCURSIVE-DIGITAL LINK: A FLUID SOCIAL ONTOLOGY 4. ANTAGONISM AND POLARISATION 5. DISCURSIVE-DIGITAL ANALYSIS: A FLUID METHODOLOGY 6. DISCURSIVE-DIGITAL ALLIANCES 7. ACTIVE PASSIVITY

By revealing the logics of discursive-digital alliances and active passivity, Dehghan provides critical insights for academics, activists, and anyone seeking to foster progressive togetherness. The Discursive-Digital Link offers a powerful theoretical framework and methodology for analysing digitally mediated communication.?

Ehsan Dehghan researches the dynamics of discursive struggles in digitally mediated communication. He is based at the School of Communication and is a Chief Investigator at the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia.

Written with an urgent elegance, Dehghan argues that the sedimentation of neoliberal capitalism is so entangled with our digital existences its imperative to forge progressive alliances and a new simplified politics. Thought provoking and challenging - do as he suggests, turn off technology, escape the noise&.and read this bookNatalie Fenton, Professor of media and communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

This is an urgent, compelling and original intervention that critically explains the vital function of digital platforms in shaping discourses and political contestations in neoliberal capitalism. Based on the articulation of a dynamic social ontology of the discursive-digital complex, which is used to elucidate pressing empirical cases, Ehsan Dehghan develops a novel conceptual grammar for comprehending, dissecting, evaluating, and transforming the different ways that digital media structure political communication and antagonistic relations in contemporary soci