Maria Avraamidou

University of cyprus
vrije universiteit brussel

MARIA AVRAAMIDOU is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cyprus and a research fellow at VUB. Since completing her PhD in Communication and Internet Studies (December 2015), she developed a research and teaching portfolio in media, culture and power with a particular focus on media approaches to migrant and refugee reception, and their interplay with nationalism and ethno-racialization in the context of global divisions and inequalities. Her academic focus is positioned by a diverse educational and professional background as she holds an MA in Multi-Media Journalism and a BA in Law with a specialization in migration and refugee law. Before taking an academic turn, she held professional posts with UNHCR and anti-racist NGOs as well as journalism posts. Recently she gained a post-doctoral award (Research Promotion Foundation) to study international media, press agencies and forced human mobility from the Global South to the North.

Recent publications

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Avraamidou M., Kadianaki E., Ioannou M, & Panayiotou E., (2018) Representations of Europe at times of massive border movements: A qualitative analysis of Greek-Cypriot newspapers during the 2015 refugee crisis. Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, Javnost - The Public.
Kadianaki I., Avraamidou M., Ioannou M. & Panayiotou E., (forthcoming). Examining dialogicality in contexts of social debate: The topic of migration in the Greek-Cypriot Press. Peace and Conflict: Journal of peace psychology.
Avraamidou M. (2017). Exploring Greek-Cypriot Media Representations of National Identities in Ethnically Divided Cyprus: The case of the Annan Plan negotiations from 2002 to 2004. National Identities.
Avraamidou M. & Kyriakides C. (2015) Media, Nationalism and the Negotiation of Inter-Ethnic Peace in Cyprus. GMJ: Mediterranean Edition, 10 (2).

Manuscripts accepted/under review

Avraamidou M. & Psaltis, C. Blocking the solution: Representations of threats and stigmatization of alternative representations in the Greek-Cypriot Press during negotiations for a Peace settlement. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour.

Book chapters

Airaghi G. & Avraamidou M. (2017) PAX TROIKANA: The UK Media and the Symbolic Conflicts on Cyprus' 2013 “Rescue”. In Carpentier N., & Doudaki V (Eds.) Conflict and Media. The enduring conflict in Cyprus and its imaginings. Berghahn: New York.
Milioni, D.L., Avraamidou, M. (2017) ‘It is not the time for intifada’: A framing and semiotic analysis of televised representations of the 2013 Cypriot protests. In Suman Gupta and Tao Papaioannou (Eds), Grievances, Identities and Agency: Media Representations of Anti-Austerity Protests in the EU. Routledge: New York.

Reports

Kadianaki I., Avraamidou M., Panayiotou E. & Ioannou M. (April 2018). Lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender content in Greek-Cypriot newspapers: A descriptive analysis between 2011 and 2015. Nicosia, University of Cyprus.
Avraamidou M., Kadianaki E., Ioannou M. & Panayiotou E. (January 2018). Migration in the Greek-Cypriot Press between 2011-2015: Visibility, topics, trends and the debate between pro and anti-migrant discourses. Nicosia, University of Cyprus.
Kyriakides C., Avraamidou M., Bajjali L. (March 2012) Shaping Perceptions and Attitudes to Realize the Diversity Advantage: Intercultural Integration in the City of Limassol. Limassol, Council of Europe