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
