Gholam Khiabany is an Iranian-British media scholar and Reader in Media and Communications at

Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wo ...

. He is known for his works on media in the Middle East and the relationship between media and religion.

Career

Khiabany is mainly interested in the media and

social change Social change is the alteration of the social order of a society which may include changes in social institutions, social behaviours or social relations. Definition Social change may not refer to the notion of social progress or socio ...

and the relationship between

communication Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inqui ...

development Development or developing may refer to: Arts *Development hell, when a project is stuck in development *Filmmaking, development phase, including finance and budgeting *Development (music), the process thematic material is reshaped * Photograph ...

and

democracy Democracy (From grc, δημοκρατία, dēmokratía, ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which people, the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation ("direct democracy"), or to choo ...

multiculturalism The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use. In sociology and in everyday usage, it is a synonym for " ethnic pluralism", with the two terms often used interchang ...

, culturalisation of terror, the rise of the security state, and anti-Muslim racism. He is a member of

Institute of Race Relations The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is a think tank based in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1958 in order to publish research on race relations worldwide, and in 1972 was transformed into an "anti-racist think tank". Proposed by ''Sund ...

' council of management and an editor of the '' Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication''.

Books

* ''Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity'', Routledge, 2010 ISBN 9780415962896 * ''Blogistan'', with Annabelle Sreberny, I.B.Tauris, 2010 ISBN 9781845116064 * ''Media, Democracy and Social Change: Re-imagining Political Communications''. Davis, Aeron; Fenton, Natalie; Freedman, Des (D. J.) and Khiabany, Gholam. London: SAGE Publications. 2020 ISBN 9781526456960 * ''Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits'' (ed.), Goldsmiths, 2017 * ''After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech'' (ed.), Zed, 2017

References

External links

Gholam Khiabany at Goldsmiths
Living people Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London Alumni of the University of Westminster British media critics Academics of London Metropolitan University Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Iranian people Iranian scholars {{Iran-academic-bio-stub