Rate My Professor Abdul Aziz

Dr. Abdul Aziz is a Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, appointed since 13 July 2023. He earned his PhD in Media and Communication from Queensland University of Technology in 2022, where his doctoral research examined how Rohingya refugees in Australia and Bangladesh use digital technologies to negotiate identity, inclusion, and belonging. Prior to this, he completed an MA in Digital Communication at Vrije Universiteit Brussel from 2016 to 2018. Before joining Monash, Aziz served as a sessional academic at QUT's School of Communication and as a research assistant at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. His interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of media, migration, digital culture, and society, employing an ethnographic lens to explore everyday digital media practices among marginalized communities. Key areas include media and diaspora, digital inclusion and participation, youth culture and media, and religion, media, and culture, with a focus on dynamics of immobility, power, inequality, and issues like digital divides, activism, and Islamophobia online.

Aziz's scholarship has been published in high-impact journals including New Media & Society, Media, Culture & Society, Policy & Internet, International Journal of Communication, Communication, Culture & Critique, Asiascape: Digital Asia, Contemporary South Asia, and Technology in Society. Prominent publications encompass 'Rohingya Diaspora Online' (New Media & Society, 2023), which earned the Transformative Research Award 2023; 'Power geometries of mediated care: (re)mapping transnational families and immobility of the Rohingya diaspora in a digital age' (Media, Culture & Society, 2022); 'The unjust burden of digital inclusion for low-income migrant parents' (Policy & Internet, 2024); 'Affective networked space: polymedia affordances and transnational digital communication among the Rohingya diaspora' (International Journal of Communication, 2022); and 'Digital Access, Resources, and Literacy: mapping the digital divide and ICT learning challenges among undergraduate students in Bangladesh' (Asiascape: Digital Asia, 2024). He is editing the forthcoming book Shifting Mediascapes in Bangladesh: Youth, Marginality and Social Change (Routledge). Aziz has received the Future Leaders Fellowship (2025), HASS Grant (2025), Best Poster Award (2022), and Best Presenter award (2025). His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals such as reduced inequalities and sustainable cities. He presents at conferences like ICA and IAMCR, writes for outlets including The Conversation, Monash Lens, and The Diplomat, and has been interviewed by SBS Bangla. Aziz serves as a peer reviewer for journals such as International Journal of Cultural Studies and Contemporary South Asia.