Mirca Madianou#
| Membership Number: | 4859 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/madianou |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - today Reader, Goldsmiths - University of London
- 2013 - 2015 Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths - University of London
- 2011 - 2013 Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester
- 2004 - 2011 Newton Trust Lecturer in Sociology and Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
- 2002 - 2004 Research Fellow (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology), UCL
Fields of Scholarship
- Communication for development and social change
- Humanitarian communication
- Mobile and social media in the global south
- Media and identities in national and transnational contexts
- Media audiences, especially the audiences for news media
- Comparative ethnography
- Migration and transnational families
- Social uses and consequences of communication technologies
- Digital media in personal relationships
Honours and Awards
- 2014 - 2015 Principal Investigator on ESRC grant (ES/M001288/1) ‘Humanitarian Technologies: an ethnographic assessment of communication environments in disaster recovery and humanitarian intervention’
- 2007 - 2011 Principal Investigator on ESRC Research Grant (RES-000-22-2266): ‘Migration, ICTS and the transformation of transnational family life’
