Myria Georgiou

Myria Georgiou is Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on media and the city; urban technologies and politics of connection; and the ways in which migration and diaspora are politically, culturally and morally constituted in the context of mediation. Her latest book is Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and Difference (Polity Press, 2013).

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1December 1, 2016<January 17, 2017

Reflecting on the Media City’s Stranger

In this response, Myria Georgiou asks if the mediation of ordinary urbanity can go beyond rearticulating the existing order, thereby opening up spaces of thinking of the stranger beyond Otherness.

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1November 15, 2016<January 17, 2017

Right to the City, or Compulsion to Connect?

In the third essay, Myria Georgiou reflects on the politicized relationships between the right to the city and emergent compulsions to communicate digitally.