Myria Georgiou

• London School of Economics and Political Science

The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration offers a comprehensive overview of media and migration through new research, as well as a review of present scholarship in this expanding and promising field. It explores key interdisciplinary concepts and methodologies, and how these are challenged by new realities and the links between contemporary migrati...

This chapter advocates an understanding of diaspora as inherently cosmopolitan, but not as inherently progressive. It is argued that, rather than being a privilege, cosmopolitanism has become increasingly ordinary and incorporated in diasporic imaginaries: a way of living (a practice) and seeing (an ethics) in an intensely interconnected and cultur...

This article identifies the visual representation of Europe’s “refugee crisis” in the media as a key dimension of the communicative architecture of the crisis and its aftermath. Effectively, it argues, the powerful, even iconic, imagery that the media produced and shared during the 2015 “crisis” affirmed ideological frames of incompatible differenc...

This article examines a number of digital initiatives where refugees and migrants speak with/to Europe in the context of the “migration crisis.” The analysis of four institutional and grassroots initiatives illustrates digital Europe’s symbolic articulations of borders that divide people and territories. As argued, the mediated visibility and voice...

With new waves of immigration and shifting distribution of ethnic groups in urban and suburban areas, recent decades have witnessed a rapid transformation in the demographic composition of many neighborhoods. The experience of living in residential communities is increasingly defined by ethnic mixing and the encounter of difference. However, while...

This article analyses cosmopolitan imagination and ambivalent morality at times of urban crisis. It focuses on #LondonIsOpen – the city’s media campaign in response to the nation’s Brexit vote. In this case, cosmopolitanism’s discursive tools – especially the ideals of the Open city and hospitality – are mobilised to summon a range of actors in def...

This paper explores the communicative architecture of reception at the peak of Europe's 2015–2016 “migration crisis.” Drawing on fieldwork at one of Europe's outer borders—the Greek island of Chios—the paper examines the border as a site where refugee and migrant reception takes place and where the parameters of Europe's ethico-political response t...

A new study finds some disturbing trends in the European press coverage of refugees and the purported consequences of their arrival. While it is now more common for “the refugee crisis” to be referred to in the media as last year’s affair, 2016 has been the deadliest year for refugees trying to reach Europe by sea. Only the recorded deaths in the M...

This article interrogates the ways in which urban communication enables or prevents politics of conviviality in the multicultural city. A multimethod, primarily qualitative study in a London neighborhood exposed extensive communicative fragmentation along ethnic and class lines. Does such communicative separation lead to segregation? Is togethernes...

This epilogue draws the various themes, issues and questions addressed in this OBS* special issue together. For this purpose, a duo-interview was conducted with Myria Georgiou and Scott McQuire. Georgiou and McQuire are unquestionable pioneers in the terrain of media city research. McQuire’s The media city. Media, architecture and urban space (Sage...

With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories of urban societies are increasingly urgent. Media and the City explores the global city as the site where these questions become most prominent. As a space of intense communication and difference, the global city forces us to th...

This article argues that we need to understand media as spaces where minorities increasingly communicate interests, make claims and mobilize identities. With a focus on diasporic groups, the article looks at the multi-spatial character of communication and mobilization and its consequences for expression and communication of cultural and political...

This article discusses a bipolar and highly politicized set of positions adopted by Arab speakers in Europe, as they attempt to define the meanings and limits of their subjectivity, especially through their media consumption. The article draws from focus group research in three European capital cities: London, Madrid and Nicosia. Findings show that...

In introducing this special issue, we raise a number of key questions with regard to the ways in which we understand the audience and the family through the lens of migration. We then propose a discursive understanding of audiences, and conclude with a brief overview of the contents and of the context of their conception. The interest of this speci...

This article examines the role of transnational television in supporting transnational subjects' ontological security in a world of information, risk, interconnected spaces but fragmented social relations. The discussion draws from Silverstone's and Giddens's work on ontological security and modernity. It revisits Silverstone's analysis of televisi...

This paper focused on an area of transnational Arabic television, which has attracted little scholarly attention: soap operas and their consumption among women in the Arab diaspora. Focus groups with Arab audiences in London revealed the significant role that soap operas play in sustaining a gendered critical and reflexive proximity to the Arab wor...

Mediated representations of gender, ethnicity and migration play an increasingly important role in the way these categories are understood in the public sphere and the private realm. As media often intervene in processes of individual and institutional communication, they provide frameworks for the production and consumption of representations of t...

This article focuses on young Londoners’ everyday digital connectedness in the global city and examines the urban imaginaries these connections generate and regulate. Young people engage with a range of mobilities, networks, and technologies in trying to find their place in a city, which is only selectively hospitable to them. Offline and online co...

Cyprus has always been a crossroads between continental Europe and the Middle East and the history of migration from this region to the eastern Mediterranean island can be traced back more than two thousand years. Contemporary migration has had its distinct history with significant waves of refugees migrating from the Middle East to Cyprus since th...

This paper proposes a spatial approach to identity and mediation as, it is argued, this approach provides a framework for grasping and analysing the complex and changing formation of identity in current times and in an interconnected world. More specifically, it looks at the significance of mobility, immediate and mediated intersections and juxtapo...

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is an annual popular music event that attracts millions of people who consume it with enthusiasm, irony, humor, but also sometimes with anger. The contest has been increasingly dressed with numerous stereotypes about the nation, Europe, and cultural difference. This paper looks at two different groups of ESC audien...

This article explores the communicative interface of global cities, especially as it is shaped in the juxtapositions of difference in culturally diverse urban neighbourhoods. These urban zones present powerful examples, where different groups live cheek by jowl, in close proximity and in intimate interaction — desired or unavoidable. In these urban...

This article explores the communicative interface of global cities, especially as it is shaped in the juxtapositions of difference in culturally diverse urban neighbourhoods. These urban zones present powerful examples, where different groups live cheek by jowl, in close proximity and in intimate interaction — desired or unavoidable. In these urban...

This paper explores urban politics of representation and their role in processes of political and cultural participation for migrant and diasporic urban dwellers. Urban politics of representation are about finding a location in the city and about locating the city (or one's own city) in the world. Living, representing and being represented in the c...

This book is an attempt to understand recent changes in the grammars of diasporic politics and cultures, including the media. At its heart is the feeling that contemporary diasporas present us with profound transformation, with a shift from the traditional political formations and identities characterizing diasporic communities, to the ways we lear...

The extension of diasporic life across cultural and political spaces has challenged a number of key conceptual and methodological trends in social sciences. The diversification of cultural and political affairs within and across countries, next to the vast growth of more varied media production and consumption, have significantly altered the roles...

In this chapter three scenarios for challenging hegemonic, cenntralized and homogenizing ideologies in transnational spaces with the appropriation of the Internet are discussed with reference to three examples of diasporic public use of the Internet.

Media on the Move provides a critical analysis of the dynamics of the international flow of images and ideas. In this chapter the authors consider the diasporic dispersal of populations as the impetus for the dispersal of communications. They consider how diasporic groups mediate communications, providing a basis for enquiry into the operation of c...

This publication offers a comprehensive and multispatial analysis of transnational life across the highly mediated worlds where diaspora is lived and imagined. In a detailed and stimulating discussion, the author unravels processes of diasporic identity construction in everyday life. Media consumption and communication technologies’ appropriation b...

This issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies focuses on the role of the media in an increasingly multicultural Europe. It investigates the significance of a diversity of media through an analysis of a diversity of cultures and cultural practices. It links often-small-scale specific empirical studies of particular media or minorities wi...

Europe is a cultural space of meeting, mixing and clashing; a space of sharing (and not sharing) economic, cultural and symbolic resources. Dominant ideologies of Europeanism project an image of Europe as a common and distinct cultural Home, a Home that excludes and (re-)creates Otherness when it does not fit a model of universalism and appears as...

This research investigates the links between exclusion and the cultural sphere as they emerge in the context of mediated communication and of everyday life. It uses the example of diasporic media practices.

The author considers the reception, use, and interpretation of media content by diasporic Greek Cypriot communities.

The European Media Technology and Everyday Life Network (EMTEL) was funded by the European Commission (grant number HPRN ET 2000 00063) under the 5th Framework Programme. This report is one of 12 submitted to the EU in September 2003 as final deliverables for the project. The paper attempts to create a cross-European mapping of cultural diversity (...

This article reviews websites from the Kurdish, Ethiopian and Greek diaspora to consider the impact of the Internet on these three communities. The author argues that it offers a means to empower often marginalised communities.

The focus of this article is on media consumption, as it relates to ethnic identity construction. In an attempt to surpass the domination of the domestic as the singular point of reference and research in media studies, the author turns to the public. On one hand, this choice relates to the conceptualization of media consumption as a cultural proce...

A large number of Greek Cypriots live in North London, where the sense of belonging in an ethnic community is daily and actively renewed through multiple mechanisms of participation and multileveled communication. A variety of ethnic media, which people consume in everyday life, have their role in the processes of (re)invention and (re)construction...

The ethnic home is the first habitat of ethnicity - it is the starting point, where ethnic bonds and relations initially develop, where people learn their first words in the ethnic language, both the spoken and the unspoken. The ethnic home formalises ethnic identities, as the hierarchy of family relations and the conservative culture of the -still...

Diasporic media have developed rapidly in the last few years with consequences for ethnic minorities' communication among themselves and with Others in local, national and transnational contexts. ICTs have been of central significance in the development of diasporic media produced and consumed in local and global spaces; these media are increasingl...