All Publications

Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Rape news in Bangladesh, 2020-21. Funded by Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. Amount: ≈ $1,200.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Online misinformation, 2019-20. Funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh. Amount: ≈ $1,400.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Rethinking the Environment of Bangladesh, 2019. Funded by Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA), Bangladesh, and Inter Pares, Canada. Amount: ≈ $3,000.

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JOURNAL PAPER

Mridha Md. Shiblee Noman & Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, The Use of Religion Online by Indian Political Entities During the 2024 Lok Sabha Election: Religiopolitical Propaganda on Social Media?, Social Science Computer Review, pp.1-22, 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251319740
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Do the reasons for social media censorship vary across political regimes and social media platforms?, Communication Reports, pp.1-14, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2024.2432320
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Patterns and trends of global social media censorship: Insights from 76 countries, International Communication Gazette, pp.1-26, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485241288768
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Mridha Md. Shiblee Noman, Rise of Digital Authoritarianism? Exploring Global Motivations Behind Governmental Social Media Censorship, Javnost — The Public, 31, 4, pp.529-544, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2024.2396211
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Mohammad Harun Or Rashid, The Humanitarian Crisis in the Media: Framing Analysis of Rohingya-Related International News Using BERTopic, Journalism Studies, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2024.2412205
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Mohammad Harun Or Rashid, Global Media Sentiments on the Rohingya Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of News Articles from Ten Countries, Journalism and Media, 5, 3, pp.1098-1111, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia5030070
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Social media users’ engagement with religious misinformation: An exploratory sequential mixed methods analysis, Emerging Media, pp.1-29, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543241257715
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Ayushi Khemka, Andy Zhang & Geoffrey Rockwell, The Defining Characteristics of Ethics Papers on Social Media Research: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Journal of Academic Ethics, pp.1-27, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-023-09491-7
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Mridha Md. Shiblee Noman, Investigating political news coverage patterns in Bangladesh during 2013-2022 using computational methods, Newspaper Research Journal, pp.1-24, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/07395329231221515
Kakulee Akter & Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Digital Media in the Economic Empowerment of the Hijra (Third Gender) Community, Media Asia, pp.1-18, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2024.2386497
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Social media politics uncovered: exploring user engagement with political parties on Facebook in Bangladesh, Media Asia, pp.1-9, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2023.2276997
Mohammad Harun Or Rashid & Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, What Do Social Media Users in Host Countries Talk about Refugees?: A Thematic Analysis of Rohingya-Related Online Discourse, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, pp.1-14, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2023.2263842
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Mridha Md. Shiblee Noman, A dataset on social media users’ engagement with religious misinformation, Data in Brief, 49, pp.1-6, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109439
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, A review of literature on information poverty, Geo Journal, pp.1-14, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-023-10901-x
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Mridha Md. Shiblee Noman, Art and environmental communication in Bangladesh: perceptions of artists and environmentalists, World Art, pp.1-23, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2023.2190999
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Social Media Celebrities in Bangladesh, Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 11, 1, pp.49-60, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1633/JISTaP.2023.11.1.4
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, A computer-assisted textual analysis of 10,191 rape news headlines shared on social media, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 7, 1, pp.1-9, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100437
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Social mediatization of religion: Islamic videos on YouTube, Heliyon, pp.1-6, 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09083
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Mohammad Harun Or Rashid, Social media users’ reactions to suicide, Journal of Loss & Trauma, pp.1-15, 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2022.2044701
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Tasnuva Alam Ahona, Users’ reactions to rape news shared on social media: An analysis of five Facebook reaction buttons, Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research, 10, 1, pp.51-73, 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.15206/ajpor.2022.10.1.51
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Prevalence and source analysis of COVID-19 misinformation of 138 countries, IFLA Journal, pp.1-16, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/03400352211041135
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Online misogyny in Bangladesh, Asian Women, 37, 3, pp.1-24, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.14431/aw.2021.9.37.3.1
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Social media and COVID-19 misinformation: How ignorant Facebook users are?, Heliyon, 7, 5, pp.1-9, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07144
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Tamera Khan, Framing environmental news in Bangladesh, Media Asia, pp.1-12, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2021.1997526
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, An exploratory study of the Facebook contents and users’ engagement on the COVID-19 vaccine issue, F1000 Research, 10, pp.236, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.51210.3
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Mridha Md. Shiblee Noman, Social media news in crisis? Popularity analysis of the top nine Facebook pages of Bangladeshi news media, Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 9, 2, pp.18-32, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.1633/JISTaP.2021.9.2.2
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Social media and COVID-19 information in Bangladesh, Media Asia, pp.1-8, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2021.1920114
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, A thematic analysis of misinformation in India during the COVID-19 pandemic, The International Information and Library Review, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/10572317.2021.1908063
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Religious Communication in Digital Public Sphere, Jurnal Penelitian, 17, 1, pp.29-42, 2020. doi: http://doi.org/10.28918/jupe.v17i1.2450
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, COVID-19-related social media fake news in India, Journalism and Media, 2, 1, pp.100-114, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia2010007
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Politics meets healthcare? Religious misinformation in India during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jurnal Sosial Humaniora, 13, 2, pp.146-150, 2020. doi: http://doi.org/10.12962/j24433527.v13i2.8119
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Tamera Khan, Eco-painting in environmental communication, Media Asia, pp.1-6, 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2021.2006406
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Digital Media and Political Communication of Bangladesh: A New Wave of Democratic and Pluralistic Politics?, Artha Journal of Social Sciences, 19, 2, pp.1-19, 2020. doi: http://doi.org/10.12724/ajss.53.1
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Are social media users becoming more visually biased?, Media Asia, pp.1-4, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2021.1966577
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, COVID-19 'solutions' in Bangladesh, Journal of Korean Medical Science, 36, 22, pp.1-3, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e160
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, A content analysis of social media users’ reaction to disinformation in Bangladesh, Library Philosophy and Information, February, February, pp.1-17, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Islamic vigilantism and women in social media, Informasi, 51, 1, pp.65-92, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.21831/informasi.v51i1.38170
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Digital Disinformation and Communalism in Bangladesh, China Media Research, 15, 2, pp.68-76, 2019. doi: http://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/8s6jd
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Yasir Alimi, Islam, Religious Confrontation and Hoaxes in the Digital Public Sphere: Comparison of Bangladesh and Indonesia, Komunitas: International Journal of Indonesian Society & Culture, 13, 2, pp.206-223, 2021. doi: 10.15294/komunitas.v13i2.27223
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Rural Culture in the 21st Century Films of Bangladesh, Development Compilation, 15, 1, pp.89-102, 2019.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Sifat Al Sife, Musfika Sultana, Mahbuba Akbar, Kazi Taznahel Sultana Ahona & Nandita Sarkar, Social Media Rumors in Bangladesh, Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 8, 3, pp.77-90, 2020. doi: http://doi.org/10.1633/JISTaP.2020.8.3.6
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Healthcare crisis in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic, The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 103, 4, pp.1357-1359, 2020. doi: http://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0826
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Social media fake news in India, Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research, 9, 1, pp.25-47, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.15206/ajpor.2021.9.1.25
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, A bibliometric and co-occurrence analysis of COVID-19-related literature published between December 2019 to June 2020, Science Editing, 8, 1, pp.57-63, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.230
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Islam and Online Piety in Bangladesh, International Journal of Islamic Studies and Humanities, 3, 2, pp.67-73, 2020. doi: http://doi.org/10.26555/ijish.v3i2.2222
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, COVID-19-related online misinformation in Bangladesh”, Journal of Health Research, 35, 4, pp.364-368, 2021. doi: http://doi.org/10.1108/JHR-09-2020-0414
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Gendered Communication and Women’s Vulnerability in Digital Media, The Jahangirnagar Review, Part II: Social Sciences, 44, pp.65-80, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Impact of Digital Media on Electoral Campaign: The Case of the 11th Parliamentary Election of Bangladesh, The Jahangirnagar Review, Part II: Social Sciences, 42, pp.407-420, 2020.
Uzzwal Kumar Mondal & Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, New Media in Cultural Transmission: A Study on a Peri-urban Society of Bangladesh, The Jahangirnagar Review, Part III: Arts and Humanities, 29, pp.307-323, 2019.

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CONFERENCE PAPER

Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Zahed Arman, Hasan Mahmud Faisal & Rubaiya Zannat, Hashtivism against Authoritarianism: Analyzing Key Mediators, Geospatial Trends, and Narratives in the #StepDownHasina Hashtag in Social Media, 75th Annunal International Communication Association (ICA) Conference 2025, Colorado, US, 12-16 June, 2025.
Zahed Arman, Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Hasan Mahmud Faisal & Rubaiya Zannat & Mostak Ahammed Sumon, Acceptance of ChatGPT in Higher Education: An Extended Technology Acceptance Model, 75th Annunal International Communication Association (ICA) Conference 2025, 75th Annunal International Communication Association (ICA) Conference 2025, 12-16 June, 2025.
Khairul Islam, Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Najma Akhther, Value-Driven Brand Crisis and Corporate Reputation Management on Social Media: Applying Situational Crisis Communication Theory in Global South, 75th Annunal International Communication Association (ICA) Conference 2025, Colorado, US, 12-16 June, 2025.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Information Poverty in Bangladesh, Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility (AI4IA) Conference 2023, Information For All Program (IFAP), UNESCO (virtual), 27 September, 2023.
Khairul Islam, Najma Akhter & Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Corporate branding and crisis management in Bangladesh: an analysis of situational crisis communication theory and image repair theory, 107th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Philadelphia, US, 8-11 August, 2024.
Ayushi Khemka, Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Geoffrey Rockwell, Citational Politics and Positionality: Analyzing Ethics of Social Media Research, HASTAC 2023 Conference: Critical Making & Social Justice, New York, US, 8 June 2023.
Catherine Bevan, Jesaya Tunggal, Andy Zhang, Paolo Verdini, Ayushi Khemka, Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Geoffrey Rockwell, The Interactive Gamergate Network: Examinations in Transphobia and Transphobic Conspiracy during Gamergate, 2023 CSDH/SCHN Annual Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, 30 May 2023.

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BOOK

Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Like a Dead Scene (Nihato Drishyer Moto), Kobi Prokashani, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2016.

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BOOK CHAPTER

Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman & Prithula Posun Puja, Storytelling and Rhetoric of Rumor in Social Media, Handbook of Research on Contemporary Storytelling Methods Across New Media and Disciplines, pp.40-62, 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6605-3.ch003
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Digitalization and Transformation of Teaching and Learning in Bangladesh, Challenges and Opportunities in Global Approaches to Education, pp.56-77, 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9775-9.ch004

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AWARD

Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Intissar Mourad Memorial Scholarship in Islamic Studies, University of Alberta, Canada, 2022. $2,000
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Friends of the University of Alberta Society Graduate Award, University of Alberta, Canada, 2022. $5,000
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, Government of Alberta, Canada, 2021-22. $12,000
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Entrance Scholarship, University of Alberta, Canada, 2021. $27,500
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, General Merit Scholarship, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Bangladesh, 2016.

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KEYNOTE SPEECH

Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, All That Glitters is Not Gold: A Modernizing India With Centuries-Old Ethnic Conflicts and a Problem With Fake News, The Science Survey, USA, 2022.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, This photo does not show the baptism of, Agence France-Presse (AFP), France, 2022.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Why do people laugh at rape news on Facebook, Daily Prothom Alo, Bangladesh, 2022.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, How do social media users engage with COVID-19 vaccine content on Facebook?, F1000, Taylor & Francis, UK, 2022.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Facebook and other social media platforms are encouraging four crimes, Daily Prothom Alo, Bangladesh, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, How India unleashed targeted social media campaigns against Pakistan, The Express Tribune, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, India is the world’s top hot spot for COVID-19 misinformation, accounting for roughly one in six pieces of global output, according to a University of Alberta master’s student who studies world media, Global News, Canada, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, India, U.S. account for a quarter of COVID-19 misinformation: study, University of Alberta, Canada, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Quack cures make India the world’s Covid misinformation capital, The Times, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, India world's biggest Covid misinformation source: Study, The Times of India, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, How heavy internet usage and poor digital literacy made India world’s top source of misinformation on COVID-19, First Post, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Most Covid misinformation emerges from India, internet responsible for 90% of it, study says, The Print, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, India top source of social media misinformation on COVID-19: Study, The Week, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, India Top Source Of Social Media Misinformation On COVID-19: International Study, NDTV, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, More Covid-19 disinformation targets India than any other country. Here’s how to spot it, Health Studio, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Covid-19 Wrap-up: Southern states continue to add to India's surge in cases, Deccan Herald, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Latest study finds India world’s biggest ‘fake news producer’, Pakistan Observer, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Misinformation in India, The Associated Press (AP), USA, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Online Behavior in Bangladesh, Facebook Inc., USA, 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Rumor: A Social Tumor, International Republican Institute (IRI), USA, 2021.

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THESIS SUPERVISION

Nahorin Jannat, From Pixels to Peril: Understanding How Targeted Deepfakes Contribute to Cybercrimes in Bangladesh, Master's thesis, Jahangirnagar University, 2024.
Kakulee Akhter, Overcoming Barriers: A Qualitative Exploration of Digital Media's Role in Empowering the Hijra (Third Gender) Community in Bangladesh, Master's thesis, Jahangirnagar University, 2023.

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OTHER

Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Telling good lies: Digital rhetoric and rumor in Bangladesh, South Asian Journal, 2020.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Internet vigilantism: A mushrooming crisis, Daily Observer, pp.5, 2019.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Digital religion and ‘othering’ the co-cultures, The Asian Age, pp.7, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Brave new digital world: How the virtual world is changing our lives, Dhaka Tribune, pp.14, 2017.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Netizens and the virtual neighborhoods, The Independent, pp.6, 2017.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Rise of digital piety in Bangladesh: How extremism found a new nest in cyberspace?, The Independent, pp.7, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Digital culture and cyber-society, New Age, pp.9, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Digitalised human, Daily Sun, pp.7, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, A new wave in education: How digital technology is transforming ‘learning & teaching’?, Daily Sun, pp.7, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Cultural transformation in digital age, The Independent, pp.6, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Digital paradox, Daily Observer, pp.7, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Writing in a digital age, Dhaka Tribune, pp.15, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Growing popularity of EdTech, Daily Sun, pp.7, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Rohingya issue: The construction of identity, Daily Observer, pp.7, 2017.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Urban areas in Bangladesh, Daily Sun, pp.5, 2017.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, How media is reshaping rural Bangladesh?, The Asian Age, pp.8, 2017.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Addressing population problem, The Independent, pp.7, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, The ‘rape culture’ in Bangladesh: Why and how women are becoming prey?, Daily Observer, pp.6, 2017.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Women’s insecurity in public transports, The Independent, pp.6, 2017.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, What makes the war?, Daily Observer, pp.7, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Demystification of Bangabandhu’s Bengalee Muslim, Daily Sun, pp.7, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, The myth of ‘cultural aggression’, The Asian Age, pp.9, 2018.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Understanding cultural transformation, The New Nation, pp.5, 2018.

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