Dr Taner Doğan is a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, LSE, and a Lecturer Lecturer and Programme Leader in the Division of Media, Communication and Performing Arts at Queen Margaret University. He is also the author of "Communication Strategies in Turkey" (I.B.Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2021). Dr Doğan earned his PhD in Journalism from City, University of London. His doctoral research examines the political communication strategies of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), drawing on political communication approaches and social movement theories to analyse the party’s transformations. He completed his MA in Global Media and Postnational Communication at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His MA dissertation, entitled “The Mobilisation of Tahrir Square as an Arab Street and Al Jazeera’s Role,” involved research in Doha and Cairo, where he conducted in-depth interviews with journalists, activists, and politicians. During his time in Egypt, he served as a Research Fellow at the American University in Cairo. Dr Doğan's research focuses on the nexus of communication, politics, and religion, particularly in Turkey and the MENA region. He explores the impact of digital media on contemporary society, examining its interconnection with thinking and its influence on identity (trans)formation and interaction with technological and neoliberal developments.