Editorial Board
The editorial collective
The DDSS editorial board brings together researchers from diverse regions, disciplines, and languages. The members listed below have agreed to participate and approved their public profiles; the list is updated as new appointments are confirmed.
Board members
Özgür Yılmaz
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Lecturer, PhD
Institutional affiliation: Kilis 7 Aralık University, International Relations Office
Country: Türkiye
Email: ozgur.yilmaz@kilis.edu.tr
ORCID: 0000-0003-3020-8550
Research interests: Critical Communication Studies; Digital Colonialism; Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge; Media and Power; Decolonial Studies
Lyla Latif
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Chair and Research Lead
Institutional affiliation: Committee on Fiscal Studies, University of Nairobi
Country: Kenya
Email: latif@uonbi.ac.ke
Research interests: Technology Governance; Global Tax; Public Finance
Linda Brancaleone
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: PhD Candidate in Legal Philosophy (XXXIX Cycle)
Institutional affiliation: Department of Law, Economics and Sociology, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro
Country: Italy
Email: linda.brancaleone@studenti.unicz.it
Research interests: Critical Legal Theory; Feminist Legal Theory; Gender and Queer Studies; Citizenship Studies; Intersectionality; Intimate Citizenship; Human Rights; Migration; European Citizenship
Editorial languages: English; French; Spanish; Italian
Fatma Elzahraa Elsayed
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Full Professor; Vice Dean, Faculty of Mass Communication
Institutional affiliation: Egyptian Chinese University, Cairo
Country: Egypt
Email: zahraafat@cu.edu.eg
ORCID: 0000-0002-1700-4126
Research interests: Digital Media; Islam; MENA Region; Identity; Global South
Ateeya Kandalle Mmadi
Editorial Board Member
Institutional affiliation: Curriculum Studies Discipline, School of Social Sciences, College of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Country: South Africa
Email: ateeyammadi@gmail.com
ORCID: 0009-0000-3519-6988
Research interests: Digital Integration in Underserved Communities; Generative AI and AI Use by First-Year Higher Education Students; Digital Technology; Infrastructure Inequality; Digital Divide; Under-Resourced Schools
Yin Wang
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: PhD Candidate
Institutional affiliation: Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London
Country: United Kingdom
Email: yin.1.wang@kcl.ac.uk; selenacsm@outlook.com
ORCID: 0009-0001-2286-3849
Research interests: Digital Economy; Digital Labour; Gender; AI; Political Economy
Lethiwe Siphenduliwe Masinga
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Researcher; Coordinator, Pan-African Humanities Doctoral Training Programme; PhD Candidate
Institutional affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal
Country: South Africa
Email: MasingaL2@ukzn.ac.za; Lethiwe714@gmail.com
Research interests: Gender-Based Violence (GBV); Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being; Gender, Power and Social Inequality; Decolonial Approaches to Social Justice; Intersectionality and Human Rights
Darsha Indrajith
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: MA
Institutional affiliation: Digital Media Sociology Lab, Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town
Country: South Africa
Email: INDDAR001@myuct.ac.za; darsha.indrajith@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-2132-216X
Research interests: Affect; Human-Machine Intimacy; Feminist Theory
Yazid Zahda
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Independent Researcher
Country: Palestine and North Macedonia
Email: yazidzahda@gmail.com
ORCID: 0009-0005-8697-837X
Research interests: Development Planning; International Political Economy; Critical Realism
Giuliana da Cunha Facciolli
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Junior Researcher, PhD
Institutional affiliation: Department of Social Sciences, LUT University
Country: Finland
Email: giuliana.facciolli@lut.fi
ORCID: 0009-0008-3661-5636
Research interests: Heterodox Political Economy; Cognitive Technologies; Authoritarian Modernization; Sociology of Developing Societies
Muskan Raj
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Doctoral Researcher
Institutional affiliation: Center for Communication and Media Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Country: India
Email: muskanphdmandc24@efluniversity.ac.in; rajmuskan.113@gmail.com
Research interests: Advertising; Artificial Intelligence; Creativity; Digital Media; Human-AI Collaboration
Abhilash Bapanasha
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Research Scholar
Institutional affiliation: Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Tezpur University
Country: India
Email: abmcj@tezu.ernet.in; bapanashaa@gmail.com
ORCID: 0009-0009-5568-8133
Research interests: Communication and Culture; Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Food Studies; Intercultural Communication
Reda Mokhtar El Ftouh
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Honorary Research Fellow
Institutional affiliation: Center for Global Studies, International University of Rabat
Country: Morocco
Email: mokhtarftouh@outlook.com
ORCID: 0009-0004-8263-0395
Research interests: Law and Social Theory; Law and Banking; Monetary Theory; Financial History; Commodification
Hande Uz Özcan
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: PhD Student
Institutional affiliation: Media and Communication Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
Country: Canada
Email: handeuzozcan@cmail.carleton.ca
ORCID: 0000-0002-3852-0306
Research interests: Digital Authoritarianism; Political Self-Censorship; Critical Humour Studies; Digital Surveillance; Online Censorship
Preferred contributions: Copy/Language Editor; Multilingual Editorial Collaboration
Orhan Sezgin
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Research Assistant, PhD
Institutional affiliation: Faculty of Fine Arts, Harran University
Country: Türkiye
Email: orhan_oli_sezgin@hotmail.com
Research interests: Decolonial Cinema; Lusophone Cinemas; Glauber Rocha; Global South Media Studies; Cultural Diplomacy; Decolonial Aesthetics; Dewesternizing Cinema
Preferred contributions: Associate Editor; Copy/Language Editor
Editorial languages: Turkish (native, editorial); English (fluent, editorial); Portuguese (research proficiency)
Aparna Baiju E
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: PhD Research Scholar
Institutional affiliation: The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Country: India
Email: aparnaphdmandc24@efluniversity.ac.in
Research interests: Digital Media; Artificial Intelligence; News Framing; Media Narratives
Nelisiwe Magubane
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: PhD Candidate in Social Sciences
Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Country: South Africa
Email: nelisiwedibantu@gmail.com
Research interests: Decoloniality, African Epistemologies and Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Land Restitution, Khoisan Dispossession and Ontological Justice; Decolonising Digital Social Sciences and Epistemic Transformation; Public Policy, Governance and Social Justice; Sustainable Development, Transformative Education and African Futures
Jacqueline Meireles
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Professor; PhD in Psychology
Institutional affiliation: Department of Psychology, Federal University of São João del-Rei
Country: Brazil
Email: Jmeireles@ufsj.edu.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-0570-0407
Research interests: Educational Psychology; Cultural-Historical Psychology; Human Development
Ayşegül Akaydın Aydın
Editorial Board Member
Academic title / position: Associate Professor, PhD
Institutional affiliation: Independent Researcher
Country: Türkiye
ORCID: 0000-0001-5772-4008
Research interests: Mass Communication; New Television Technologies; Television Culture; History of Communication
Contribute as an editor
We welcome expressions of interest from researchers and practitioners working across decolonial inquiry, digital technologies, and the social sciences. Contributions may include editorial assessment, section development, language editing, and multilingual publishing.
Please send your name, affiliation or independent researcher status, country, research interests, languages in which you can assess submissions, a short biography (50–100 words), and an ORCID or academic profile if available. Indicate the contribution you would like to make and your availability.
Joining the board is discussed and agreed with the editorial team; an expression of interest does not create an appointment. Email addresses and photographs will be published only with permission.
Editorial approach
DDSS uses editorial assessment rather than external peer review. Editors assess fit with the journal’s scope, originality, conceptual and methodological clarity, ethical transparency, and contribution to the field, and may request revisions. Publication does not mean that a work has undergone external peer review. Editors are expected to handle submissions fairly, disclose conflicts of interest, respect confidentiality, and support transparent and ethical scholarship.
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