Dr Myria Georgiou teaches at the Dept. of Media and Communications, LSE. She has a PhD in Sociology (LSE), an MSc in Journalism (Boston University) and a BA in Sociology (Panteion University, Athens) and her research focuses on the areas of diaspora, transnationalism and the media, and media and the city. Before joining the LSE, Myria Georgiou was a Senior Lecturer in International Communications and Director of Postgraduate Taught Studies at ICS, University of Leeds (2003-2009). She has also worked as a journalist for BBC World Service, Greek press, and the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
Her PhD was conducted under the guidance of Roger Silverstone and her doctoral thesis was an ethnography of media consumption and identity construction within the London Greek Cypriot diaspora. After her PhD, she took up a postdoctoral position at the LSE, working again with Roger Silverstone (EMTEL2 Network; FP5), and conducting the first ever mapping of diasporic media in the EU. Dr Georgiou has served as the Chair of the Ethnicity and Race in Communication (ERIC) Division of ICA (2009-11); she is the founder and former chair of the Diaspora, Migration and Media section of ECREA. Her expertise in the area of cultural diversity and mediation has led to a number of invited consultancies and advisory roles for various organisations, including the Council of Europe; International Broadcasting Trust (IBT); Panos Paris; and Panos London. Her work has been published in English, French, Japanese, and Greek.
Research interests
For more than 12 years, Myria Georgiou has been researching cross-border communication cultures and transnational identities. Her current research has three distinct, though interconnected, strands. The first strand focuses on media consumption and its role in identity construction, especially among diasporic and migrant audiences. The second strand explores notions and experiences of citizenship as these relate to mediated communication in and across culturally diverse societies and their policy implications. The third strand focuses on the cosmopolitan city as a distinct cultural and political location of juxtapositions of difference that involve people, technologies and media cultures.
These strands are explored in a series of recent and current research project, that include a cross-European project on Arab audiences and citizenship (FP7); a study of the British press representation of minorities (EU Fundamental Rights Agency); and a study of transnational mediated gendered networks (WUN; University of Leeds). She is currently writing a book titled Media and the City (forthcoming, Polity Press).
Current and recent research projects
(2008-2011) Media and Citizenship: Transnational Television Cultures Reshaping Political Identities in the European Union; European Commission FP7 (Partner, leading research in the UK, Spain, Cyprus)
(2007-2008) International Networks Collaboration Mediated Networks: Engendered Diaspora and Global Citizenship (funded by the World Universities Network and the University of Leeds)
(2007-2009) Representation of Minorities in the European Press - UK Team leader. EU Fundamental Rights Agency
Selected recent academic publications
Authorships and editorships
(forthcoming) Media and the City: Close Encounters in the Cosmopolis. Cambridge: Polity Press
(2007) co-edited with O. Guedes-Bailey and R. Harindranath. Transnational Lives and the Media: Reimagining Diasporas. Basingstoke: Palgrave
(2006) Diaspora, Identity and the Media: Diasporic Transnationalism and Mediated Spatialities. New York: Hampton Press
(2008) Guest editor, with Cornel Sandvoss. Special Issue on the Politics and Cultures of the Eurovision Song Contest, Popular Communication 6(3)
(2006) Guest editor, with Eugenia Siapera. Special issue of the journal International Cultural and Media Politics, titled 'From Culture to Politics and Back: Revisiting Multiculturalism' 2(3)
(2005) Guest editor, with Roger Silverstone. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Special Issue 'Media and Minorities in Multicultural Europe' 31(3)
Articles and chapters
(2011) Watson, S. 'Mediating Diaspora, Identity And Ethnicity: An Interview with Myria Georgiou', PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication 3 (1): 54-59. Available at http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/v3i1_georgiou.html ||
(2011) 'Networked Diaspora: Practicing Citizenship in Transnational Spaces', in M.Christensen, A.Jansson and C.Christensen (eds.) Online Territories. New York and Berlin: Peter Lang
(2011) 'Media and Diaspora' in I.Volkmer (ed.) Handbook of Global Media Research. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell
(2010) Commentary 'Media and the City: Making sense of place'. Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, (6) 3: 343-350
(2010) Media use at the Crossroads: Nicosia (with Fatima El Issawi). Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 11 (6): 32-37
(2010) 'Identity, Spatiality and Media Culture' Revue Europeanne des Migrations Internationales, 26 (1): 17 - 36
(2010) 'Media Representations of Diversity: The Power of Mediated Images' in A.Block and J.Solomos (eds.) Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave
(2009) 'Representing Difference in the British Media' (with Jae-Won Joo) in C.Frachon (ed.) Media and Cultural Identity in Europe and North America. Paris: Karthala
(2008) '"In the end, Germany will always resort in hot-pants": Watching Europe Singing, Constructing the Stereotype', Popular Communication 6(3): 141-154
(2008) 'Urban Encounters: Juxtapositions of Difference and the Communicative Interface of Global Cities', International Communication Gazette 70(3-4): 223-235
(2008) 'Shifting Cultural Landscapes, Shifting Boundaries: Diasporic Media in Europe' in M. Christensen & E. Erdogan (eds.) Shifting Landscapes: Media and Film in European Context, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press (currently translated in French)
(2007) 'Transnational Crossroads for Media and Diaspora: Three Challenges for Research' in O.Guedes-Bailey, M.Georgiou, R.Haridranath (eds.) Transnational Lives and the Media: Reimagining Diasporas. Basingstoke: Palgrave (translated in Japanese)
(2007) 'Islam in Western Europe' in EuropaWorld (online and hard copy edition). London and New York: Routledge
(2006) 'Cities of Difference: Cultural Juxtapositions and Urban Politics of Representation' in International Journal of Cultural and Media Politics, 2(3): 283-298
(2006) (with R.Silverstone) 'Diaspora and Contra-flows beyond Nationcentricm' in D. Thussu (ed.) Media on the Move. London and New York: Routledge
(2006) 'Diasporic Communities On Line: A Bottom Up Experience of Transnationalism' in K.Sarikakis and D.Thussu (eds.) The Ideology of the Internet: Concepts, Policies, Uses. New York: Hampton Press
(2005) 'Mapping Diasporic Media Cultures: A Transnational Cultural Approach to Exclusion' in R. Silverstone (ed.) From Information to Communication: Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe. London: Ashgate
(2005) 'Diasporic Media Across Europe: Multicultural Societies and the Universalism-Particularism Continuum'. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31(3): 481-498
(2003) 'Consuming Ethnic Media, Constructing Ethnic Identities, Shaping Communities: The Case Study of Greek Cypriots in London', in R. A. Lind (ed) Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content and Producers. Boston, MA: Allyne & Bacon
(2002) 'Les Diasporas en Ligne: Une ExpŽrience Concrte de Transnationalisme'. Hommes & Migrations, 1240: 10-18
(2001) 'Crossing the Boundaries of the Ethnic Home: Media Consumption and Ethnic Identity Construction in the Public Space: The Case of the Cypriot Community Centre in North London'. International Communication Gazette, 63(4): 311-329
Reports
(2010) Georgiou, Myria and L. Haddon and E.Helsper and Y.Wang ÔExistential field 8: Special Focus Pieces. In Family Platform Project. London: LSE
(2010) Muslims in Europe: Identity and Politics. Research Note for the Institute for Strategic Studies Andreas Papandreou (ISTAME) (Greek Government think tank for political research and public policy analysis).
(2009) Representation of Minorities in the British Press (with J. Firmstone, C. Husband, M. Marinkova, F. Stiebel). EU Fundamental Rights Agency.
(2007) New Media and Development: Young Audiences' Engagement with the Media and the World, with Stephen Coleman, IBT, London
(2005) Minority Representations in the Media: UK. A Report for Facild (French Government Organisation for Social Integration), Panos Paris
(2003) Diasporic Media in Europe: A Mapping. A Report for the European Commission, LSE, London
Research Students
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Heba Elsayed
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May Jacob
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Jae-Won Joo
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Rahoul Masrani
Contact details
Dr Myria Georgiou
Room S119a
Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7955 6177
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7955 7248
email: m.a.georgiou@lse.ac.uk|