Marc Owen Jones is an Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Hamad bin Khalifa University, where he lectures and researches on political repression and informational control strategies. His recent work has focused on the way social media has been used to spread disinformation and fake news in the Middle East. In March 2019, he published ‘The Gulf Information War| Propaganda, Fake News, and Fake Trends: The Weaponization of Twitter Bots in the Gulf Crisis’, in the International Journal of Communication. His upcoming book on Disinformation and Deception in the Middle East will be published by Hurst Books and Oxford University Press in 2021. His previous work has focused on political repression. His recent monograph, Political Repression in Bahrain, was published in July 2020 by Cambridge University, Press. Jones’s PhD thesis in Government and International Affairs from Durham University won the 2016 AGAPS best thesis award, and he is the editor of numerous books on Bahrain and the Gulf, including Gulfization of the Arab World, published in 2018 by Gerlach Press. Jones also specialises in providing timely analysis on disinformation campaigns, and has taken an active role in numerous high profile investigations.

Communications

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Cultural Studies

Gulf Studies

Media

Middle East/Near East Studies

Technology

Twitter Bots, Repression, Political Repression, Pr

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