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Research Member
Dr Saira Ali
Dr Saira Ali, Senior Lecturer
University of Adelaide
Contact
saira.ali@adelaide.edu.auInstitution
University of Adelaide
Research Areas
TerrorismExtremismSecuritizationNews & social mediaJournalistic practiceStrategic communication.
Saira Ali is a Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Adelaide. Her current program of research focuses on mediatisation of risk and the construction of security narratives across diverse cultural sites. She produces quality multidisciplinary research that draws from media, social sciences, and cultural studies. She regularly publishes in leading international journals and has authored books with Routledge and Oxford University Press. Her research trajectory has been aimed at contributing to contemporary debates, generating knowledge about the impact of media on risk perception, as well as exploring how East-West security policy and practice intersect.
Key Publications
Journal Articles
| A Sense of Home: two migrant personas during COVID-19 (2023) | Barbour, K., & Ali, S. |
| Reporting terrorism in Muslim Asia: the Peshawar massacre (2019) | Ali, S., & Khattab, U. |
| Trans-mediatized terrorism: The Sydney Lindt Café siege (2018) | Ali, S., & Khattab, U. |
| East–west trans-mediatisation of terrorism and Islamophobia: Sydney siege and Peshawar massacre (2017) | Ali, S., & Khattab, U. |
Books
| Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk (2022) | Ali, S. |
| Public Relations and Strategic Communication (2019) | Sutherland, K., Ali, S. & Khattab, U. |