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      Dr Sophia Drakopoulou

      ROLE: Director of Programmes - Moving Image
      DEPARTMENT: Media
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 4791
      EMAIL: S.Drakopoulou@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Current work

        • Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Communications
        • Director of Programmes, Media and Communications Directorate, Department of Media
        • HKUSPACE Link Tutor 

        Articles and chapters in edited books

        • 'User Generated Content. An exploration and analysis of the temporal qualities and elements of authenticity and immediacy in UGC' in First International Conference on Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Research. 22-24 November 2011. Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
        • '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

        • 'User Generated Content. An exploration and analysis of the temporal qualities and elements of authenticity and immediacy in UGC' paper presented at First International Conference on Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Research. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 22-24 November 2011
        • '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

        www.Cybersalon.org

        Languages spoken

        Fluent in Greek and English

        Conversational and written French


        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        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.

      • Research Outputs &
        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

        • Digital Bill of Rights Campaign 2012-2016. See "The Campaign for Digital Citizenship" and "The Digital Liberties cross-party campaign" (reprint)
        • '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).

        Publication Feed

        Open data today and tomorrow: the present challenges and possibilities of open data

        Drakopoulou, Sophia (2018) Open data today and tomorrow: the present challenges and possibilities of open data. International Journal of Electronic Governance , 10 (2). pp. 151-171. ISSN 1742-7517

        Researching YouTube

        Arthurs, Jane and Drakopoulou, Sophia and Gandini, Alessandro (2018) Researching YouTube. Convergence , 24 (1). pp. 3-15. ISSN 1354-8565

        "We can remember it for you": location, memory, and commodification in social networking sites

        Drakopoulou, Sophia (2017) "We can remember it for you": location, memory, and commodification in social networking sites. SAGE Open , 7 (3). pp. 1-13. ISSN 2158-2440

        The Digital Liberties cross-party campaign

        Drakopoulou, Sophia (2017) The Digital Liberties cross-party campaign. In: Our Digital Rights to the City. Shaw, Joe and Graham, Mark , eds. Meatspace Press, UK, pp. 28-29. ISBN 9780995577602

        The campaign for digital citizenship

        Drakopoulou, Sophia and Grossman, Wendy and Moore, Phoebe Veronica (2016) The campaign for digital citizenship. Soundings , 2016 (62). pp. 107-120. ISSN 1362-6620

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        Cybersalon Think-Tank, Co-Founder. Visit Cybersalon.org

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