Sophia Drakopoulou
Senior Lecturer
Department: Media Culture and Communications - School of Arts and Education
Contact
- Telephone: 020 8411 4791
- E-mail: S.Drakopoulou@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
- BA (hons) Contemporary Media Practice, University of Westminster
- MA in Hypermedia Studies, University of Westminster
- PG cert HE, Middlesex University
- PhD candidate Centre for Cultural Studies Goldsmiths University of London (completing 2010)
Research Interests
- Mobile Phone Culture.
- Network Theory.
- History and Theory of Video Games.
- Development of Location Based Games. Locative Media. Urban Screens.
- User Generated Content.
- Situated Interaction.
Current and Past Research Projects
- 'A Moment of Experimentation: Spatial Practice and Representation of Space as Narrative Elements in Location-Based Games' Aether: The Journal of Media Geography, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2010.
- 'Kino-Phone, Location Autonomy and Broadcast', in Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, Special issue on Mobile Histories, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2006.
- 'Return to the Playground: Location Based Games', in Gaming Realities: A Challenge For Digital Culture (Medi@terra, 2006).
Teaching Interests
- Media Theory.
- War and The Media.
- Postmodernism.
- History and Theory of the Internet and Web 2.0 Online Practices.
- Online journalism.
- Viral Marketing.
- Website design.
- Desktop Publishing Design.
- Hybridity, Postcolonialism.
Biography
Current work
- Senior Lecturer, Department of Media Culture and Communications.
- Programme Leader BA Media and Cultural Studies
- DProf Consultancy Centre for Work Based Learning
- Dubai Campus University Link Tutor and co-ordinator
- AKTO Athens University Link Tutor: BA Marketing and Advertising
Articles and chapters in edited books
- 'A Moment of Experimentation: Spatial Practice and Representation of Space as Narrative Elements in Location-Based Games' Aether: The Journal of Media Geography, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2010.
- 'Kino-Phone, Location Autonomy and Broadcast', in Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, Special issue on Mobile Histories, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2006.
- 'Return to the Playground: Location Based Games', in Gaming Realities: A Challenge For Digital Culture (Medi@terra, 2006).
Conferences
- 'Return to the Playground: Location Based Games' paper presented at Research Centre "Media Upheavals" University of Siegen, Germany, Locative Media Summer Conference September 3-5, 2007
- 'Where are you now? Time, Duration and Instantaneous Mobile Messaging' paper presented at University of Tokyo, 'Theory. Culture & Society 25th Anniversary' Conference, 'Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations', 13-16 July, 2007
- 'London Calling. Happy Slapping, Tooting and Bluetoothing' paper presented at Institute of Network Culture 'New Network Theory' Conference, Amsterdam 28-30 June, 2007.
- 'Return to the Playground. Location Based Games' Paper presented at Medi@terra 2006 Gaming Realities, Athens, 5 October 2006
- Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College 'Arts & Media 8th Annual Conference'. 'Technology, Performance & Identity', paper presentation London Calling. Bluetoothing and Happy Slapping 28 April 2006.
- 'Future Wireless' Cybersalon (Science museum) My Location dot Left paper presentation, October 2005.
- Panellist in 'Educating in Pixels' Cybersalon with Douglas Rushkoff , ICA London June 2001.
- Symposium and online discussion moderator, for the 'Net.Music' Cybersalon with Jacques Attali, ICA London April 2001.
Links with partner/business organisations
Languages spoken
Fluent in Greek and English
Conversational and written French
