Dr Taner Doğan

Dr Taner Doğan is a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, LSE, and a Lecturer and Programme Leader in the Division of Media, Communications and Performing Arts at Queen Margaret University. He is also the author of ‘Communication Strategies in Turkey’ (I.B.Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2021).

Grounded in the philosophy of technology, Dr Doğan’s research investigates how digitalisation reshapes contemporary society and the ways in which human beings think. He asks how the digital regime erodes contemplation, reduces truth to calculability, and subjugates knowledge to metrics of optimisation and control. He also engages critically with Orientalism and cultural self-Orientalism, with a particular focus on Global South contexts.

Dr Doğan holds a PhD in Journalism from City, University of London, where his thesis examined the political communication strategies of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP). He earned an MA in Global Media and Post-national Communication at SOAS, University of London. His dissertation—The Mobilisation of Tahrir Square as an Arab Street and Al Jazeera’s Role—was grounded in fieldwork in Cairo and Doha, including interviews with journalists, activists, and politicians; during this period, he was a Research Fellow at the American University in Cairo.

Dr Doğan serves on the editorial board of the Turkish Review of Communication Studies and is a member of the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network and IAMCR. Bilingual in German and Turkish, he has professional experience in broadcast and digital journalism and has taught at King’s College London (Digital Humanities) and at LSE (Media and Communications).

Expertise

Philosophy of technology, Digital culture, Political communication and populism, Religion, media and the public sphere