Read Them Sideways
by DMRC
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The #MahsaAmini Movement on Twitter w/ Pardis Yarahmadi (#49)
The #MahsaAmini Movement on Twitter w/ Pardis Yarahmadi (#49)
About this podcast
Read Them Sideways is the podcast produced by the Digital Media Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology. Your hosts Sam, Sebastian, Kate and Klaus take turns to chat with academics from around the world about issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 49 episodes
- The #MahsaAmini Movement on Twitter w/ Pardis Yarahmadi (#49) · 39 minThere is a content warning for this episode for discussion of state-sanctioned violence. In this episode, your host Klaus Groebner speaks with DMRC PhD Reseacher, Pardis…
- Teaching Deliberative Democracy to Young People; The Compartilha Project (#48) · 28 minIn this episode, your host Sam Vilkins speaks with two visiting scholars to the Digital Media Research Centre - Julia Ester de Paula and Thales Antonelli. They speak about the…
- Are generative AI chatbots encouraging conspiracy theories? (#47) · 28 minIn this episode, host Dr Sebastian Svegaard speaks with PhD researcher Kate FitzGerald about her recently published paper considering the safety guardrails in place when…
- Social media and politics: 2016 versus today (#46) · 34 minIn this episode, your host Dr Sam Vilkins speaks with DMRC scholars Professor Axel Bruns and Dr Kateryna Kasianenko on the newly released second edition of the Routledge…
- Gendered Political Communication w/ Tom Bidewell (#45) · 27 minIn this episode, your host Kate FitzGerald speaks with Tom Bidewell, a visiting scholar to the Digital Media Research Centre. They discuss Tom's recent paper, Gendered…
- Journalism, Misinformation and Truth Claims w/ Phoebe Matich (#44) · 29 minPhoebe Matich is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Automated Decision-Making and Society research centre at QUT. In this episode, your host Sebastian speaks to Phoebe about…
- TikTok recommender systems and the 'For You' project w/ Patrik Wikstrom (#43) · 30 minEach year, the Digital Media Research Centre hosts a week-long Summer School filled with symposiums, workshops, and networking. This week's episode is a recording of a discussion…
- Rethinking contemporary public communication spaces w/ Axel Bruns (#42) · 32 minEach year, the Digital Media Research Centre hosts a week-long Summer School filled with symposiums, workshops, and networking. This week's episode is a recording of a discussion…
- 20 Years of Twitter Roundtable (#41) · 47 minOn the 21st of March, 2006, Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet: "just setting up my twttr". This was the start of a significant social network, both for researchers and the general…
- Investigating media diets in the 21st century w/ Amanda Lotz & Gabriela Lunardi (#40) · 33 minEach year, the Digital Media Research Centre hosts a week-long Summer School filled with symposiums, workshops, and networking. This week's episode is a recording of a panel…
- Misinformation on Climate Change and Energy w/ Caroline Gardam & Carly Lubicz-Zaorski (#39) · 33 minIn 2025, the Australian Government appointed a committee to investigate the prevalence and impacts of misinformation and disinformation which relates to climate change and…
- Brazilian elections and the impact of social media with Bruna Paroni (#38) · 53 minIn this episode, your host Sebastian Svegaard speaks with DMRC visiting fellow, Bruna Paroni. Bruna discusses her PhD project, the social media climate in Brazil, and how this…
- The Iranian digital blackout, and how you can help (#37) · 53 minRead Them Sideways is back for 2026 with a critically important discussion between Dr Ehsan Dehghan and PhD student Pardis Yarahmadi. In this episode, Ehsan and Pardis explain…
- The social media ban: how we got here and what to expect (#36) · 21 minThe Australian Government's social media ban comes into effect on the 10th of December, 2025. Digital Media Research Centre director, Daniel Angus, provides an overview and his…
- The DMRC, 10 Years On - How to Build a Research Centre (#35) · 25 minIn this special episode, we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Digital Media Research Centre! Featuring interviews with Distinguished Professor Jean Burgess, Professor…
- Responding to the children's social media ban controversy panel discussion (#34) · 1 h 5 minREGISTER FOR SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 BY CLICKING HERE! The Summer School promotes a culture of supportive research, and informed and stimulating engagement among our researchers…
- Fandom and Politics with Sebastian Svegaard (#33) · 28 minIn this episode, your host Kate FitzGerald speaks with Sebastian Svegaard about the intersection between fan studies and politics. Sebastian, along with our colleague Sam…
- The Discursive-Digital Link with Ehsan Dehghan (#32) · 48 minIn this episode, Klaus Groebner spoke with Dr Ehsan Dehghan, a Chief Investigator at the Digital Media Research Centre about his newly published book - The Discursive-Digital…
- Conspiracy Nation Book Launch with Ariel Bogle and Cameron Wilson (#31) · 35 minIn this week's episode, your host Kate FitzGerald chats with special guests and friends of the Digital Media Research Centre, Ariel Bogle and Cameron Wilson about their new book…
- Digital Peacebuilding in the Philippines with Lynrose Genon (#30) · 37 minIn this episode, your host Klaus Groebner speaks with PhD candidate Lynrose Genon. Lynrose speaks about the history and provides a political context of the Philippines…
