Researcher Profile

  • Lecturer Media Studies at the University of Adelaide

  • Mediatisation of risk, journalistic practices, censorship, digital media, terrorism/counterterrorism, political violence, CVE, Othering, radicalisation & extremism, strategic communication.

  • Mediatisation of risk, journalistic practices, terrorism/counterterrorism, Othering, censorship, strategic communication, digital media.

  • Sutherland, K., Ali, S. & Khattab, U. (2020) Public Relations and Strategic Communication. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

    Ali, S. & Khattab, U. 2019. Reporting terrorism in Muslim Asia: The Peshawar massacre. Media International Australia Incorporating Culture & Policy, vol. 173, no. 1, pp. 108–124.

    Ali, S. & Khattab, U. 2018. Trans-mediatised terrorism: Sydney Lindt Café siege. Global Media and Communication, 14(3), pp. 301-323.

    Ali, S. & Khattab, U. 2017. East-West trans-mediatisation of terrorism and Islamophobia: Sydney siege and Peshawar massacre. The International Communication Gazette, 79(8), pp.722-745.

    Khattab, U., Ali, S. & Fonn, S. 2017. Strategic communication management of corporate crises: Case analysis. Journal of Social & Behavioural Research in Business, 8(1), pp: 15-40.

    Ali, S. & Khattab, U. 2016. Australian talkback radio prank strategy: A media-made crisis. Journal of Communication Management, 20(1), pp. 56 – 74.

  • Online Behaviour And Profiling; Disinformation And Social Cohesion; Radicalisation And Extremism; and Insider Threats


  • Twitter Handle     @sairaali2
    Email Address saira.ali@adelaide.edu.au

 

Saira Ali

Overview

Saira Ali is an early career researcher (PhD in 2019) with over 10 years of experience in the media industry. As Lecturer in Media and the Program Coordinator of the Master of Media (Strategic Communication) at the University of Adelaide, she currently teaches courses on media law and policy, digital promotion and management, risk & crisis communication, and media identities and professions. Saira’s research focuses on the mediatisation of risk, security, and othering; journalistic practices, censorship; emerging media; terrorism/counterterrorism and strategic communication. She has published in top-ranking academic journals such as International Communication Gazette, Global Media and Communication and Media International Australia, and is the co-author of Public Relations & Strategic Communications (Oxford University Press, 2019).