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My research lies at the intersections of media, migration and society
Dr. Aziz is a Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. He is a Bridging Divides Future Leaders Fellow (2026) at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.
Dr. Aziz is a Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. He is a Bridging Divides Future Leaders Fellow (2026) at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.
Dr. Aziz's interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of media, migration, im/mobility and intercultural studies, with a focus on how digital, social, and cultural practices shape mobility, inclusion, and belonging among marginalised communities. As a critical qualitative and ethnographic researcher, he explores communities in the Global South, especially those living at the margins under conditions of precarity, displacement, and social exclusion.
He completed a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, and Master (MA in Digital Communication) from Salzburg University, Austria, and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, under the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's program (DCLead).
He received the Transformative Research Award for his outstanding work on the construction of the Rohingya diaspora, digital resistance, and activism online (published in New Media & Society). His research articles have appeared in top-quality Q1 journals, including Policy & Internet; New Media & Society; Media Culture & Society; International Journal of Communication; Communication, Culture and Critique; Contemporary South Asia; Asiascape: Digital Asia; and Technology in Society; and presented papers at major conferences such as ICA, IAMCR & AoIR.
He writes for public media (such as academic blogs and magazines), including The Diplomat, The Conversation, Monash Lens and 360info, and he has also been interviewed by journalists, including the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS Bangla) in Australia. Before joining Monash, he served as a sessional academic at QUT's School of Communication and as a research assistant at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. All of his published research articles can be accessed [here PDF]
His forthcoming edited volume, Shifting Mediascapes in Bangladesh: Youth, Marginality and Social Change, is under contract with Routledge.
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Here’s a snapshot of my recent work and the projects currently in progress
Here’s a snapshot of my recent work and the projects currently in progress
- Presentation at Research Seminar, School of Media, Film & Journalism, Caulfield, Australia
- Organizing a panel titled "Media, Marginality and Youth: Shifting Mediascapes and Social Change in Bangladesh" at AAS-in-Asia (Association for Asian Studies conference, Lahore University of Management Sciences
- My latest paper introduces the concept "Mediated Information Grounds," published in Information, Communication & Society
Projects/manuscript in Progress....!
- Shifting Mediascapes in Bangladesh: Youth, Marginality and Social Change" (edited by Dr Aziz) will be published by Routledge (within the series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia).
- Negotiating digital piety through w'az on social media: a new emergence of digital economy and participatory culture at the margins
- Mediated visibility, affective politics of solidarity and resistance on social media during the youth-led movement in Bangladesh
How the Rohingya refugees negotiate identity, inclusion and citizenship in a digital age
How the Rohingya refugees negotiate identity, inclusion and citizenship in a digital age
Mapping Social Exclusion, Digital Divide and Literacy among Marginalised Communities in Bangladesh
Understanding Digital Inclusion and Social Inequality among Low-Income Migrant Communities in Australia
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