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DR Dounia Mahlouly's Outputs (4)

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. Journal of Dialogue Studies, 12, 193-214. 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..

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.

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.