Yasmin Ibrahim

Dr. Yasmin Ibrahim is a Reader in International Business and Communications at Queen Mary, University of London. She researches on new media technologies exploring the cultural dimensions and social implications in the appropriation of ICTs in different contexts and has written on a diverse range of issues. Beyond new media and digital technologies she writes on political communication and political mobilisation from cultural perspectives. Her other research interests include globalization, Islam, visual culture and memory studies. She is a visiting professor at MYRA School of Business in Mysore, India.

Publications

Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Internet Activism and Political Participation
Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Internet Activism and Political Participation
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2020. 368 pages.
International politics is witnessing a rapid transformation due to the emerging impact of the internet and digital media. Activists in various countries have been given a new...
Resistance and Protests Through the “Selfie”: Recasting the Self Through the Politics of Protest
Resistance and Protests Through the “Selfie”: Recasting the Self Through the Politics of Protest
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2020. 15 pages.
Conjoining images of digital self-portraits (i.e., ‘selfies') with protests and resistance recasts the self through new paradigms of enquiry in the social media landscape....
Food Porn and the Invitation to Gaze: Ephemeral Consumption and the Digital Spectacle
Food Porn and the Invitation to Gaze: Ephemeral Consumption and the Digital Spectacle
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2019. 13 pages.
In the digital world, notions of intimacy, communion and sharing are increasingly enacted through new media technologies and social practices which emerge around them. These...
Preface
Preface
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2017. 4 pages.
This Preface is included in the book Politics, Protest, and Empowerment in Digital Spaces.
Self and the Relationship with the Screen: Interrogating the Fictive and Banal in Self Production
Self and the Relationship with the Screen: Interrogating the Fictive and Banal in Self Production
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2017. 9 pages.
The self is performed through the banal of the everyday on social media. The banality of the everyday constitutes an integral part of our communication on digital platforms....
Ubiquitous Food Imaging: Food Images as Digital Spectacle
Ubiquitous Food Imaging: Food Images as Digital Spectacle
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2017. 12 pages.
In our digital world, our notions of intimacy, communion and sharing are increasingly enacted through new media technologies and social practices which emerge around them. These...
Mobile Devices and Recording in the Classroom: A Survey of Policy in UK Higher Education Institutions
Mobile Devices and Recording in the Classroom: A Survey of Policy in UK Higher Education Institutions
Yasmin Ibrahim, Anita Howarth. © 2014. 12 pages.
Mobile technologies such as tablets, iPads, laptops, netbooks as well as mobile phones with internet connectivity and recording features present new challenges to the academy. In...
The Politics of Watching: Visuality and the New Media Economy
The Politics of Watching: Visuality and the New Media Economy
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2012. 11 pages.
What does it mean to consume and produce images non-stop in the new media economy? Images can be captured, uploaded, downloaded, and disseminated with ease in digital platforms...
Interview with Catarina Carneiro de Sousa: Multimedia Artists and Art Educator
Interview with Catarina Carneiro de Sousa: Multimedia Artists and Art Educator
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2012. 5 pages.
The Politics of Image: The Image Economy on Facebook
The Politics of Image: The Image Economy on Facebook
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2012. 13 pages.
This paper explores the politicization of the image in social media and how image can be attributed different values in the online environment. Facebook’s decision to invoke its...
The Regulation of Gaze and Capture: New Media and the Image Economy
The Regulation of Gaze and Capture: New Media and the Image Economy
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2012. 16 pages.
The increasing use of the body for embedding technology as well as the convergence of multiple features in mobile telephony have made image capture an important phenomenon that...
Bearing Witness through Technology: War and Visual Culture in a Converged World
Bearing Witness through Technology: War and Visual Culture in a Converged World
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2011. 16 pages.
The convergence of technologies brings a two-fold phenomenon into our technologically mediated world. Firstly, mobile technologies have enabled the recording of war and conflict...
The Advent of Play and Pursuit
The Advent of Play and Pursuit
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2011. 16 pages.
Multimedia advertising on the internet has demanded that advertisers and marketers become more creative and adventurous in their pursuit of consumers. This chapter argues that...
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour. Est. 2010.
The International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) provides a critical forum that discusses the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as it applies to global...
The Breastfeeding Controversy and Facebook: Politicization of Image, Privacy and Protest
The Breastfeeding Controversy and Facebook: Politicization of Image, Privacy and Protest
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2010. 13 pages.
Facebook’s decision to invoke its obscenity clause to bar users from posting pictures of breastfeeding ignited a controversy. Members protested against the ban both offline and...
The Regulation of Gaze and Capture: New Media and the Image Economy
The Regulation of Gaze and Capture: New Media and the Image Economy
Yasmin Ibrahim. © 2010. 15 pages.
The increasing use of the body for embedding technology as well as the convergence of multiple features in mobile telephony have made image capture an important phenomenon that...