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Biography
G'Son is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His works focus on the symbiosis of new media and its data and how they become socio-culturally invested with ideals of precision, reliability, objectivity in the politico-commercial nexus, and how they influence individual and public opinion.
Research Interests
- Social media
- Media effects
- Persuasion
- Computational media analysis
Courses Taught
CMN 111: Oral and Written Communication
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