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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Mass Communication

Teaching areas

Media, Journalism, Digital Journalism, Documentary, Multiplatform Storytelling, Social Media, Film.

Research areas

Civic Media, Social Media, Web Documentary, Media Ecology in the Arab World, Digital Storytelling, Transmedia, Youth Engagement on Social Media Platforms.

Education

PhD, University of Technology, Sydney 2014

Professional experience

University of Technology, Sydney 2010-2013
Australian Film, Television and Radio School, 2007-2010

Contact

sdahdal@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2530

Dr. Suheil Dahdal

Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Suheil Dahdal has taught media and journalism at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and at the University of Technology, Sydney. Dr. Dahdal’s areas of interests are social media, cultural diversity in media and new forms of documentary film making. He is also an award-winning filmmaker with 20 years’ experience in creating documentaries and media stories for some of the most innovative media companies in Australia including Lonely Planet Publications, SBS and ABC Television Stations.

Publications

Blood, Sweat, and Cheers TV Documentary, ABC Television, 2004.
Long Journey, Young Lives Interactive Documentary, ABC Television, 2002.
Swapping Lives, SBS Television, 2006
First Australians Documentary, SBS Television, 2008
Dahdal, Sohail. "Using Collaborative Gaming to Engage Arab Youth in Cultural Memes." The Journal of Social Media in Society 5, no. 3. 2016.
Social media and the Arab Spring, Proceedings of the International Conference on E-Democracy and Open Governments, 2012

Conference Presentations

Dahdal, Sohail. "Engaging Audience in Interactive Movies." Paper presented at the Australia Screen Production Education & Research Association (ASPERA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, June 21-23, 2017.
Dahdal, Sohail. "Engaging Audience in Interactive Fiction." Paper presented at the Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference, Edinburgh, UK, March 30-31, 2017.
Ayish, Mohammad, and Sohail Dahdal. "Perceptions of Mobile Devices as News TV News Gathering Tools A Survey of Mass Communication Students." Paper presented at the Innovation Arabia, Dubai, UAE, March 11-13, 2017.
Dahdal, Sohail. "Gaming Story Worlds to Create Immersive Transmedia Narratives." Paper presented at the Central and Eastern European Game Studies Conference, Lupin, Poland, October 20-22, 2016. 10, 2016 5
Dahdal, Sohail. "Using Collaborative Gaming to Engage Arab Youth in Cultural Memes." Paper presented at the Reinvestigating Culture in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences conference, Belgrade, Serbia, May 26-28, 2016.
Dahdal, Sohail. "Arabic Cultural Memes: Creating a Cultural Space to Engage Arab Youth." Paper presented at the ECREA Communication and Democracy 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 9-10, 2015.
Dahdal, Sohail. "Crowd sourcing Arab Identity: Using Social Media to Engage Youth in Creating a New Arab Narrative." Paper presented at the 13th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, Athens, Greece, May 11-14, 2015.
Jakubowicz, Andrew, and Sohail Dahdal. "Cultural Diversity, creativity and innovation: exploring how migration generates new synergies." Paper presented at the The 5th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, Sydney, Australia, November 27-29, 2014.
Dahdal, Sohail. "The Role of Social Media in Participatory Intercultural Dialogue." Paper presented at the Internet Research 13 Conference, Salford, UK, October 18-21, 2013.
Social media and the Arab Spring, International Conference on E-Democracy and Open Governments, 2012

Awards and Honors

Winner of the Interactive Media Awards, New York 2006
Winner of AIMIA Award - best cultural, lifestyle and art 2006
Best of Rotterdam International Film Festival 2002
Winner of Australian National Youth Media Awards 2002

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