EMTEL II Fellows


  
Dr. Myria Georgiou
 
 

Department of Sociology
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
tel.+44 (0)20 7955 6649
fax+40 (0)20 7955 7405
m.georgiou@lse.ac.uk


  
Qualifications
  • BA in Sociology – Panteion University, Athens – 1993
  • MSc in Journalism – Boston University, Boston, MA – 1994
  • PhD in Media and Communications – LSE, London – 2001
Honours and Prizes
  • Prizes of excellence awarded to me every year of my secondary education for performance in all classes (1982-88)
  • Ranking first among candidates from Cyprus seeking a place for sociology studies in Greek universities (1988)
  • Awarded an A.B.Botsis Journalism Foundation scholarship for my postgraduate studies (MSc)
  • Awarded an Onassis Foundation scholarship for my doctoral studies (PhD)
Career
  • Oct. 1989 – June 1996 – Journalist, Athens daily Avgi, education correspondent (1990 - ’93), research and investigative reporting (1994 - ’96)
  • Sept. 1990 – May 1993 – Correspondent in Athens, Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Third Radio Program
  • January 1994 – August 1996 – Journalist, Athens daily Eleftherotypia; new technologies’ reporting, columnist
  • October 1997 – June 1999 – Visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster; teaching for the Master’s Programme in Journalism Studies.
Professional Activities
  • Organiser of two sessions, the 3rd Crossroads Conference in Cultural Studies, Birmingham, June 2000
  • Conference Presentations:
  • ‘Flicking through Identities: Constructing Ethnic Identities in a Media-Saturated World.’ Paper presented at the 2nd Crossroads Conference in Cultural Studies, Tampere, July 1998
  • ‘Negotiations and Co-existences – Global and Local Ethnic Media and the Construction of Multiple Identities: The Case of Greek Cypriots of London.’ Paper presented at the IAMCR Conference, Leipzig, July 1999
  • ‘Constructing the Public Space – Constructing Identities: Using Ethnic Media in the Cypriot Community Centre of North London.’ Paper presented at the ‘Identities in Action Conference, Gregynog, Wales, November 1999
  • ‘Being Here, There and In-Between: Consuming Ethnic Media and Constructing British Greek Cypriot Identities in Everyday Life.’ Paper to be presented at the 3rd Crossroads Conference in Cultural Studies, Birmingham, June 2000
Publications
  • (2000) ‘Beyond the Domestic: Constructing Ethnic Identities and Media Consumption in the Public Ethnic Space: The Case of the Cypriot Community Centre in North London’. In www.photoinsight.org.uk
  • (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’. Forthcoming in the Gazette, 63(4)
  • ‘Negotiated Uses, Contested Meanings, Changing Identities: Greek Cypriot Media Use and Ethnic Identity Formations in North London’ (forthcoming) in Multiple Ethnicities, edited by F.P.Gingras
Languages
  • Greek
  • English
  • French
  • German