!!Myria Georgiou - Biography
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Professor Myria Georgiou (PhD Sociology, LSE 2001; MA Journalism, Boston University US 1994; BA Sociology, Panteion University, Greece 1993). Georgiou is Professor of Media and Communications and Head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is author or editor of six books and more than 60 peer reviewed publications. She has also worked as a consultant for regional and international organisations, most importantly, the Council of Europe on three projects. She has written for, and been interviewed by, national and international media. Before becoming a full-time academic, she worked as a journalist for BBC World Service, Greek press, and the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. For more than 20 years, Professor Georgiou has been researching media and communications’ role in constructing meanings of identity and citizenship. Her research has three distinct, but interconnected strands. The first examines the synergetic relation between media and the city and the ways in which their close interconnection organises and regulates urban publics and communities. The second examines media’s role in identity construction, especially among diasporic populations and migrants. The third explores the ways in which diversity is represented in the media and the consequences of these representations for the European ethical and political space. These strands are explored in a series of research projects one of which led to her recent monograph, Being Human in Digital Cities (Polity, 2023). This book explores the manifestations and contestations of the digital order in cities through the lens of competing claims to urban humanity by different actors – from Big Tech to dwellers of cities. Her co-authored book, The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power, (NYU Press, 2022), brought together research over five years across Europe exploring the technological and symbolic construction of borders and the politics of racial assortment of humanities, separating those who have the right to dignity and rights from those who do not. Georgiou’s commitment to investigating the ethics and politics of migration is also expressed in a series of projects (e.g. with young urban refugees in Europe and with Ukrainian refugees at the Polish/Ukrainian border) that bring the voices and experiences of migrants to the foreground in her research. Her works are translated into French, Japanese, Portuguese and Greek.
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Georgiou is co-editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies and editorial board member of leading journals including the International Journal of Communication and has served as invited peer reviewer for the EC Horizon programme, the European Research Council, and for the Dutch Council for the Humanities and Dutch Social Sciences Foundation. She has served as External Member of PhD Committies at the universities of Ghent, Utrecht and Antwerp as well as the University of Southern California in the US and as External PhD Examiner at Stockholm University, Antwerp University, Utrecht University, Söndertörn University and University of Vienna as well as at universities in Australia, Canada, South Africa and the UK.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit mgeorgiou}][{ALLOW upload mgeorgiou}][{ALLOW comment All}]