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Overview

Ben O'Loughlin is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Communication, Information Systems, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their main research topics include:

  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Global Security and Public Health
  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
  • Social Media and Politics

Ben O'Loughlin has contributed to several publication venues, notably:

  • Political Insight
  • International Studies Quarterly
  • International Journal of Cultural Policy
  • Digital War
  • Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Their recent peer-reviewed papers include:

  • "Towards a third image of war: post-digital war" (2020) in Digital War
  • "Cycles of insecurities: Understanding the everyday politics of young Londoners" (2022) in Cities

Other related publications by frequent coauthors in their network cover:

  • "Strategic Ontologies: Narrative and Meso-Level Theorizing in International Politics" (2023) by Adam B. Lerner in International Studies Quarterly
  • "Shakespeare Lives on Twitter: cultural diplomacy in the digital age" (2021) by Billur Aslan Ozgul in International Journal of Cultural Policy
  • "The visual politics of the 2015 Iran deal: narrative, image and verification" (2020) by Alister Miskimmon in Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Frequent collaborators of Ben O'Loughlin include Alister Miskimmon, Laura Roselle, Adam B. Lerner, Jinghan Zeng, and James Sloam.

Among their contributions to book publications, Ben O'Loughlin has a work published by Springer International Publishing titled "One Belt, One Road, One Story?" (2020).

Best Publications

  • Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order

    Alister Miskimmon;Ben O'Loughlin;Laura Roselle;Laura Roselle

  • War and media : the emergence of diffused war

    Andrew Hoskins;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Strategic narrative: A new means to understand soft power

    Laura Roselle;Alister Miskimmon;Ben O’Loughlin

  • Social Media Analysis and Public Opinion: The 2010 UK General Election

    Nick Anstead;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Dual Screening the Political: Media Events, Social Media, and Citizen Engagement

    Cristian Vaccari;Andrew Chadwick;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Do tabloids poison the well of social media? Explaining democratically dysfunctional news sharing:

    Andrew Chadwick;Cristian Vaccari;Ben O'Loughlin

  • The Emerging Viewertariat and BBC Question Time: Television Debate and Real-Time Commenting Online

    Nick Anstead;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse

    Andrew Hoskins;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Relations

    Alister Miskimmon;Ben O'Loughlin;Laura Roselle;Laura Roselle

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  • Arrested war: the third phase of mediatization

    Andrew Hoskins;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Radicalisation and Media: Connectivity and Terrorism in the New Media Ecology

    Andrew Hoskins;Akil Awan;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Great Power Politics and Strategic Narratives

    Andreas Antoniades;Alister Miskimmon;Ben O'Loughlin

  • TRUST, CONFIDENCE, AND CREDIBILITY

    Lawrence Ampofo;Nick Anstead;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Russia’s Narratives of Global Order: Great Power Legacies in a Polycentric World

    Alister Miskimmon;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Why People Dual Screen Political Debates and Why It Matters for Democratic Engagement

    Andrew Chadwick;Ben O'Loughlin;Cristian Vaccari

  • Images as weapons of war: representation, mediation and interpretation

    Ben O'loughlin

  • Analyzing the semantic content and persuasive composition of extremist media: A case study of texts produced during the Gaza conflict

    Sheryl Prentice;Paul J. Taylor;Paul Rayson;Andrew Hoskins

  • Dissenting Citizenship? Young People and Political Participation in the Media-security Nexus

    Ben O'Loughlin;Marie Gillespie

  • Text mining and social media: when quantitative meets qualitative, and software meets humans

    Lawrence Ampofo;Simon Collister;Ben O'Loughlin;Andrew Chadwick

  • Media and the myth of radicalization

    Andrew Hoskins;Ben O'Loughlin

  • Television and terror

    Andrew Hoskins;Ben O’Loughlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Chadwick
Andrew Chadwick Loughborough University
Cristian Vaccari
Cristian Vaccari University of Edinburgh
Paul Rayson
Paul Rayson Lancaster University

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