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Biography
G'Son is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work examines how media, psychological processes, and intergroup dynamics shape public opinion, bias, and political behavior across diverse social contexts.
Research Interests
- Social media
- Media/Message effects
- Political communication
- Experimental Design
Awards and Honors
- Elizabeth Winter Young Fellowship (Summer 2025)
Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - The University Block Grant Fellowship (Summer 2025)
Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Friends Travel Support Award (Spring 2025)
Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (Summer 2024)
- Adenauer fellowship for media and communication in Asia (2021-2022)
Media Programme Asia, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), Germany
[$6,000 + $1,500 (for travel)] - Professor Abu Rush’d Matinuddin Memorial Trust scholarship 2017
(for achieving the highest overall GPA in the senior year)
Department of English, Jahangirnagar University - Master of Arts Merit Scholarship (2016-2017)
Jahangirnagar University( for being in the top 4% in class of 2017)
Courses Taught
CMN 111/112: Oral and Written Communication I & II
CMN 102: Introduction to Communication
CMN 574: Research Methods in Communication (only applied statistics with R)
Highlighted Publications
G.Son, G. B. (2021). Migration Memes & Social Gaze: An Analysis of Facebook Memes on Rohingya Community in Bangladesh. Social Transformations: Journal of the Global South, 9(2). https://dx.doi.org/10.13185/STJGS2021.09206
Caesar, G. B. and G.Son, G. B. (2021). Ab/uses of Brechtian Techniques in South Asian Commercial Films. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2021.1948650
Recent Publications
G.Son, G. B. (2021). The Heteroglossic Rumi on New Media vis-à-vis Sufism. Darul Irfan Research Journal, 1(1), 30-43. https://www.diri.org.bd/pdf/ebook/diri/Darul%20Irfan%20Research%20Journ…
G.Son, G. B. (2020). Treatment of Caribbean Colonial Historical Experience in Walcott and Brathwaite’s Poems: Finding the Long Lost ‘Root’ in the Route. Green University Review of Social Sciences, 5(1), 105-119.
G.Son, G. B. (2019). The Commodification of Bodily Disgust in TVCs Broadcast in Bangladesh: Manufacturing Sense of Disabilities by ‘Enforcing Normalcy.’ Bangladesh Cinema and Television Institute Journal, 9(2), 25-44. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4346280