Chouliaraki, Lilie


Professor Lilie Chouliaraki  

Department

Position held

Department of Media and Communications

Professor of Media and Communications, and Head of Department

POLIS

Research Director

Experience keywords:

media ethics; public sphere and civil action; humanitarian communication; media representations of suffering and violence; corporate communication and branding

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Lilie Chouliaraki’s research focuses on the imagery and language of the media, including television news, photojournalism, humanitarian campaigns and films, from the perspective of how they may facilitate civil action and cosmopolitan citizenship.

She has published extensively on the moral implications of the media in contemporary public life, some of her key themes being the discourses of news on distant suffering; the aesthetic properties of war reporting and the intersection between humanitarianism and corporate communication.

Languages:

French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Intermediate]; Spanish [Spoken: Basic, Written: Intermediate]; Danish [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Fluent]; Greek [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

Radio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7852 3790

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Chouliaraki, L. (2013) Mediating vulnerability: cosmopolitanism and the public sphere. Media, culture and society, 35 (1). pp. 105-112. ISSN 0163-4437

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2013) The humanity of war: iconic photojournalism, 1914-2012. Visual communication, 12 (3). ISSN 1470-3572

2012

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2012) The ironic spectator: solidarity in the age of post-humanitarianism. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780745642109

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2012) Re-mediation, inter-mediation, trans-mediation. Journalism studies, 14 (2). pp. 267-283. ISSN 1461-670X

Chouliaraki, Lilie, (ed.) (2012) Self-mediation: new media, citizenship and civil selves. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415672122

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2012) Between pity and irony: paradigms of refugee representation in humanitarian discourse. In: Moore, Kerry and Gross, Bernhard and Threadgold, Terry, (eds.) Migrations and the media. Peter Lang, New York, USA. ISBN 9781433107726

2011

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2011) 'Improper distance': towards a critical account of solidarity as irony. International journal of cultural studies, 14 (4). pp. 363-381. ISSN 1367-8779

Chouliaraki, Lilie and Orgad, Shani (2011) Proper distance: mediation, ethics, otherness. International journal of cultural studies, 14 (4). pp. 341-345. ISSN 1367-8779

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2011) The theatricality of humanitarianism: a critique of celebrity advocacy. Communication and critical/cultural studies, 9 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 1479-1420

2010

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2010) Self-mediation: new media and citizenship. Critical discourse studies, 7 (4). pp. 227-232. ISSN 1740-5904

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2010) Ordinary witnessing in post-television news: towards a new moral imagination. Critical discourse studies, 7 (4). pp. 305-319. ISSN 1740-5904

Chouliaraki, Lilie and Fairclough, Norman (2010) Critical discourse analysis organizational studies: towards an integrationist methodology. Journal of management studies, 47 (6). pp. 1213-1218. ISSN 1467-6486

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2010) Discourse and mediation. In: Allan, Stuart, (ed.) Rethinking communication: keywords in communication research. Hampton Press, New York, USA . ISBN 1572739567

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2010) Post-humanitarianism: humanitarian communication beyond a politics of pity. International journal of cultural studies, 13 (2). pp. 107-126. ISSN 1367-8779

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2010) Global representations of distant suffering. In: Coupland, Nikolas, (ed.) The handbook of language and globalization . Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, USA, pp. 608-625. ISBN 9781405175814

Chouliaraki, Lilie and Morsing, Mette, (eds.) (2010) Media, organizations and identity. Macmillan Publishers Limited, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230515512

2009

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2009) Journalism and the visual politics of war and conflict. In: Allan, Stuart, (ed.) Routledge companion to news and journalism. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 520-533. ISBN 9780415465298

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2009) Witnessing war: economies of regulation in reporting war and conflict. The communication review, 12 (3). pp. 215-226. ISSN 1071-4421

2008

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2008) The media as moral education: mediation and action. Media, culture & society, 30 (6). pp. 831-852. ISSN 0163-4437

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2008) The mediation of suffering and the vision of a cosmopolitan public. Television & new media, 9 (5). pp. 371-391. ISSN 1552-8316

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2008) Distant suffering in the media. In:Professor Lilie Chouliaraki Inaugural Public Lecture (27 February 2008 : LSE).

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2008) Symbolic power of transnational media: managing the visibility of suffering. Global media and communication, 4 (3). pp. 329-351. ISSN 1742-7665

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2008) Discourse analysis. In: Bennett, Tony and Frow, John, (eds.) The SAGE handbook of cultural analysis. SAGE Publications, London, UK, pp. 674-698. ISBN 9780761942290

2007

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2007) Global politics-local action: the discursive politics of mediation. In: Hansen, Hans Krause and Salskov-Iversen, Dorte, (eds.) Critical perspectives on private authority in global politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK. ISBN 9781403989468

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2007) Mediation, text and action. In: Bhatia, Vijay and Flowerdew, John and Jones, Rodney, (eds.) Advances in discourse studies. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415398107

Chouliaraki, Lilie, (ed.) (2007) Soft power of war. John Benjamins Publishing, Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 9789027222336

2006

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2006) Aestheticization of suffering on television. Visual communication, 5 (3). pp. 261-285. ISSN 1470-3572

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2006) Towards an analytics of mediation. Critical discourse studies, 3 (2). pp. 153-178. ISSN 1740-5904

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2006) Spectatorship of suffering. SAGE, London. ISBN 9780761970392

Chouliaraki, Lilie and Beckett, Charlie and Mansell, Robin (2006) Morality and media in the 21st Century - a panel in celebration of the work of Professor Roger Silverstone. In:Morality and media in the 21st Century - a panel in celebration of the work of Professor Roger Silverstone (16th October 2006 : LSE).

2005

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2005) The soft power of war: legitimacy and community in Iraq war discourses. Journal of language and politics, 4 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1569-2159

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2005) Spectacular ethics: On the television footage of the Iraq war. Journal of language and politics, 4 (1). pp. 143-159. ISSN 1569-2159

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2005) Universal and particular meanings: the dynamics of dialogic interaction. DELTA. journal on discourse and language, 7 (2-3). ISSN 0102-4450

2004

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2004) Media discourse in the public sphere. In: Howarth, David and Torfing, Jacob, (eds.) Discourse theory in European politics: identity, policy, and governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 275-297. ISBN 9781403917195

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2004) Watching 11 September: the politics of pity. Discourse & society, 15 (2-3). pp. 185-198. ISSN 0957-9265

2002

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2002) Contingency of universality: some thoughts on discourse and realism. Social semiotics, 12 (1). pp. 83-114. ISSN 1035-0330

2000

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2000) Reflexivity and late modern identity. In: Reisigl, Martin and Wodak, Ruth, (eds.) Semiotics of racism. Passagen Verlag, Vienna, pp. 305-330. ISBN 3851653688

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2000) Youth politics in television. Secretariat for Youth, Ministry of Education, Athens, Greece

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2000) Political discourse in the news : democratizing responsibility or aestheticizing politics? Discourse & society, 11 (3). pp. 293-314. ISSN 0957-9265

1999

Chouliaraki, Lilie and Fairclough, Norman (1999) Language and power in Bourdieu: on Hasan's “the disempowerment game”. Linguistics and education, 10 (4). pp. 399-409. ISSN 0898-5898

Chouliaraki, Lilie (1999) Regulative practices in a 'progressivist' classroom: 'good habits' as a 'disciplinary technology'. Language and education, 10 (2). pp. 103-118. ISSN 0950-0782

Chouliaraki, Lilie (1999) Media discourse and national identity: death and myth in a news broadcast. In: Wodak, Ruth and Ludwig, Christoph, (eds.) Challenges in a changing world: issues in critical discourse analysis. Passagen, Vienna, pp. 37-62. ISBN 3851653254

Chouliaraki, Lilie and Fairclough, Norman (1999) Discourse in late modernity: rethinking critical discourse analysis. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748610822

1998

Chouliaraki, Lilie (1998) Regulation in `progressivist' pedagogic discourse: individualized teacher-pupil talk. Discourse & society, 9 (1). pp. 5-32. ISSN 0957-9265

Chouliaraki, Lilie (1998) Power and heteroglossia in institutional talk. In: Cacoullos, Ann and Sifianou, Maria, (eds.) Anatomies of silence : selected papers [from the] second HASE International Conference on autonomy of logos. Parousia, Athens, Greece, pp. 246-257. ISBN 9789608424111

1997

Chouliaraki, Lilie (1997) Media discourse and national identity among young Greeks. Secretariat for Youth, Ministry of Education, Athens, Greece

1995

Chouliaraki, Lilie (1995) The constitution of ethnographic texts in social scientific discourse: ‘realist’ and 'polyphonic’ representations. Interface: journal of applied linguistics, 10 (1). pp. 27-46.

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