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Dr Mirko Demasi

Senior Lecturer

Mirko is a discursive social psychologist with an interest in extreme prejudice, political communication and the rhetorical nature of facts.

He is interested in the discursive study of political communication. Mirko is interested in how the deployment of facts are used in a rhetorical manner to make moral and ideological arguments, the discursive study of extreme prejudice, hate speech and the role of political communication in military conflicts.

He has published on studies of political debates, and is the co-editor of Political Communication: Discursive Studies (Palgrave, 2021).

Current Teaching

Courses:

BSc Psychology
MSc Psychology

Modules:

Social psychology
Critical and philosophical issues in psychology
Research methods (year 2)
Research methods (MSc)
Final year project supervision

Research Interests

Mirko is currently working on a number of projects to do with political persuasion, broadcast debates and the role of political communication in the Russo-Ukrainian war.

0113 81 22509
Mirko.Demasi@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Queen Square House, G31, City Campus

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Ask Me About

Communications
Peace
Politics
Psychology

Selected Outputs

Somers J; Demasi M; Burke S; Carr P (2022) Toilet talk: (Trans)Gendered negotiation of public spaces. In: Tseliou E; Demuth C; Georgaca E; Gough B ed. Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research.
Demasi M (2022) Discourse. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-9.
Tileaga C; Demasi M; Burke S (2021) The Discursive Psychology of Political Communication. In: Demasi M; Burke S; Tileaga C ed. Political Communication Discursive Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-32.
Burke S; Demasi MA (2020) “This Country Will Be Big Racist One Day”: Extreme Prejudice as Reasoned Discourse in Face-to-Face Interactions. In: Political Communication. Springer International Publishing, pp. 205-229.

Hunt A; Demasi M (In press) “Which would be more democratic? allowing them the opportunity to change their mind or pressing on regardless”: A Discursive Psychological Study of Arguments for and Against Calls for a Second Brexit Referendum. Discourse & Society
Litchfield P; Hunt A; Demasi M; Hum B (2024) ‘Looking after the least fortunate in our society’; Shared membership, commonsense, and morality as resources for identification between politicians and voters. Social Psychological Review, 26 (1), pp. 18-21.

https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsspr.2024.26.1.18
Burke S; Demasi M (2023) Communicating COVID-19: Accountability and ‘British Common Sense’. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, 15 (1), pp. 45-60.

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/journals/cadaad/volume-15-2023/
Demasi M (2022) Accountability in the Russo-Ukrainian War: Vladimir Putin vs NATO. Peace and Conflict: journal of peace psychology

https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000653
Demasi MA; Tileagă C (2021) Rhetoric of derisive laughter in political debates on the EU. Qualitative Psychology, 8 (3), pp. 328-342.

https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000156
Demasi MA (2020) Post‐truth politics and discursive psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 14 (9),

https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12556
Burke S; Demasi MA (2019) Applying discursive psychology to ‘fact’ construction in political discourse. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13 (5),

https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12449
Demasi MA (2019) Facts as Social Action in Political Debates about the European Union. Political Psychology, 40 (1), pp. 3-20.

https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12496