Faculty and Staff Profile

Enamul Kabir

Educational Background

2023 Bowling Green State University Ph.D. Media & Communication

2020 Minnesota State University-Mankato Masters Communication Studies

2017 University of Dhaka BSS Political Science

Courses Taught

Social Media & Sports

Profile

Dr. Enamul Kabir is the Co-Director of Research at Clemson University’s Social Media Listening Center. With expertise in social media listening and analytics at the center, his team helps organizations adopt smarter strategies to triumph their social media presence. Kabir’s work examines how data-driven insights can transform strategic and crisis communication, with a blend of computational techniques. He is currently leading a CDC-funded project investigating Vaccine Hesitancy in South Carolina.

Research Interests

Social Media Analytics, Crisis Communication, Computational Method

Research Publications

Kabir, M. E., & Ha, L. (2025). Influencers Against Hate: A Comparison of Counter Speech Strategies Among South Asian, East Asian, and Non Asian American Social Media Influencers. Howard Journal of Communications, 1-19.

DiRusso, C., Kabir, M. E., Hagan, A. H., & Boatwright, B. (2025). Why is the Southeastern United States late to adopt electric vehicles? Analyzing trends in social media conversation to form marketing recommendations. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 32, 101509.

Boatwright, B. C., Cranmer, G. A., Kabir, M. E., & Warms, C. (2025). Nation branding via sportswashing: An exploration of pro-China YouTube influencers and commenters around the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Public Relations Review, 51(4), 102611.

Ha, L., Ofori, M., Kabir, E., Sena Dogbatse, F., Khan, A., & Khan, S. (2025). Communication scholarship impact reality check: a comparison of SSCI journals’ research orientations and citation metrics. Annals of the International Communication Association, 49(2), 108-121.

Kabir, M. (2022). Topic and sentiment analysis of responses to Muslim clerics’ misinformation correction about COVID-19 vaccine: Comparison of three machine learning models. Online Media and Global Communication, 1(3), 497-523. https://doi.org/10.1515/omgc-2022-0042

Cranmer, G. A., Kabir, M. E, & Boatwright, B. (2025). A UFC Fighter’s Use of X as a Site for Building Dissent Community Around Fighter Pay. In Social Media in Sport: Analysis and Application Across Contexts. Cognella.

Kabir, M. E., & Ha, L. (2023). How Mobile Users Differ from Non-Mobile Users in# IndiaFightsCorona on Twitter: An LDA Topic Modeling and Content Analysis. In Mobile Communication in Asian Society and Culture (pp. 119-137). Routledge.

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