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

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

. 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. Sustained at a larger scale, it may lead to social transformation or societal transformat ...

and the relationship between

communication Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether Intention, unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not onl ...

development Development or developing may refer to: Arts *Development (music), the process by which thematic material is reshaped * Photographic development *Filmmaking, development phase, including finance and budgeting * Development hell, when a proje ...

and

democracy Democracy (from , ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitiv ...

multiculturalism Multiculturalism is the coexistence of multiple cultures. The word is used in sociology, in political philosophy, and colloquially. In sociology and everyday usage, it is usually a synonym for ''Pluralism (political theory), ethnic'' or cultura ...

, culturalisation of terror, the rise of the

security state Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercion). Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, or any other entity or phen ...

, 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