DR Dounia Mahlouly's Outputs (15)

The Myth of the Vulnerable Audience: Exploring Counter-Intuitive Approaches to Post-Truth Populism in the New Mass Media. (2025)
Journal Article
Mahlouly, D. (2025). The Myth of the Vulnerable Audience: Exploring Counter-Intuitive Approaches to Post-Truth Populism in the New Mass Media. https://doi.org/10.55207/EEYP7156

This paper interrogates the liberal policy discourse surrounding populism, which is often characterised as a communicative style linked to ‘post-truth’ politics. Analysing grey literature and scholarly sources, the study critiques the liberal policy... Read More about The Myth of the Vulnerable Audience: Exploring Counter-Intuitive Approaches to Post-Truth Populism in the New Mass Media..

Pro-Palestinian activism: Resisting the digital occupation (2023)
Book Chapter
Mahlouly, D., & Erhaim, Z. (2023). Pro-Palestinian activism: Resisting the digital occupation. In N. Miladi (Ed.), Global Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Reporting the Sheikh Jarrah Evictions (237-250). I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755649921.ch-014

Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings: Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon (2023)
Book
Mahlouly, D. (2023). Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings: Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755645206

This book offers a ten-year perspective on ongoing and evolving digital activism practices across the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on interviews and ethnographic evidence collected between 2012 and 2020. It addresses the shifting narratives... Read More about Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings: Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon.

Reconciling Impact and Ethics: An Ethnography of Research in Violent Online Political Extremism (2019)
Book
Mahlouly, D. (2019). Reconciling Impact and Ethics: An Ethnography of Research in Violent Online Political Extremism. VOX-Pol Network of Excellence

Gathering empirical evidence from interviews and focus groups, this study highlights some of the ethical dilemmas face d by the academic community tasked with developing new methodological tools and conceptual frameworks for the study of violent onli... Read More about Reconciling Impact and Ethics: An Ethnography of Research in Violent Online Political Extremism.

Trump’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Conspiratorialism in the Arab Media Sphere (2018)
Book Chapter
Mahlouly, D., & Al Saud, A. (2018). Trump’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Conspiratorialism in the Arab Media Sphere. In C. Happer, A. Hoskins, & W. Merrin (Eds.), Trump's Media War (241-256). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94069-4_15

This chapter explores how president Trump’s discourse on foreign policy and global security is reported in the MENA region. We identify how Trumps’ allegedly alternative approach to foreign policy impacted on the geopolitical concerns of US allies in... Read More about Trump’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Conspiratorialism in the Arab Media Sphere.

A Tale of Two Caliphates: Comparing the Islamic State’s Internal and External Messaging Priorities (2018)
Book
Mahlouly, D., & Winter, C. (2018). A Tale of Two Caliphates: Comparing the Islamic State’s Internal and External Messaging Priorities. VOX-Pol Network of Excellence

The Google voter: search engines and electoral information flows in the new media ecology (2016)
Journal Article
Trevisan, F., Hoskins, A., Oates, S., & Mahlouly, D. (2018). The Google voter: search engines and electoral information flows in the new media ecology. Information, Communication and Society, 21(1), 111-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1261171

This paper explores key Internet search trends for electoral information vis-à-vis the broader media ecology in the UK and the US. An innovative methodology is introduced that maps the informational trajectories of key election events by combining Go... Read More about The Google voter: search engines and electoral information flows in the new media ecology.

Shura or Democracy: debating online over the 2012 constitutional debate in post-revolutionary Egypt (2016)
Book Chapter
Mahlouly, D. (2016). Shura or Democracy: debating online over the 2012 constitutional debate in post-revolutionary Egypt. In S. Bratosin, & M. A. Tudor (Eds.), Religion, laïcité et sociétés au tournant des humanités numériques: actes du 3e Colloque international Comsymbol (428-452). IARSIC (Institute for Advanced Religious Studies and Internetworking Communication

Campaigning with Twitter in Post-Revolutionary Egypt (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahlouly, D. (2014, September). Campaigning with Twitter in Post-Revolutionary Egypt. Presented at European Consortium for Political Research 2014 General Conference, University of Glasgow

Googling for Votes: Using Publicly Accessible Search Engine Data to Capture Information Flows in Elections (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahlouly, D., & Trevisan, F. (2014, August). Googling for Votes: Using Publicly Accessible Search Engine Data to Capture Information Flows in Elections. Paper presented at 12th Annual APSA Pre-Conference on Political Communication, Washington DC

Rational Criticism, Ideological Sustainability and Intellectual Leadership in the Digital Public Sphere (2014)
Journal Article
Mahlouly, D. (2014). Rational Criticism, Ideological Sustainability and Intellectual Leadership in the Digital Public Sphere. International journal of e-politics, 5(1), 78-90. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijep.2014010105

This review postulates that today's digital environments unveil an era of connectivity, in which digital communication devices exercise a general influence on social interactions and public deliberation. From this perspective, it argues that connecti... Read More about Rational Criticism, Ideological Sustainability and Intellectual Leadership in the Digital Public Sphere.

The New Voter Ecology: Search Engines and Comparative Electoral Information Flows (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahlouly, D. (2014, January). The New Voter Ecology: Search Engines and Comparative Electoral Information Flows. Paper presented at Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association annual conference, University of Bournemouth

Google: The Role of Internet Search in Elections in Established and Challenged Democracies (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahlouly, D. (2013, October). Google: The Role of Internet Search in Elections in Established and Challenged Democracies. Paper presented at Challenges to Campaigning Conference, University of Edinburgh

Rethinking the Public Sphere in a Digital Environment: Similarities between the Eighteenth and the Twenty-First Centuries (2013)
Journal Article
Mahlouly, D. (2013). Rethinking the Public Sphere in a Digital Environment: Similarities between the Eighteenth and the Twenty-First Centuries. e-sharp, 20(6),

Journalism and State Feminism in Morocco
Book Chapter
Mahlouly, D. (in press). Journalism and State Feminism in Morocco. In D. Matar (Ed.), Reframing Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa (93-105). Bloomsbury