Dr Galina Miazhevich
Senior Lecturer
School of Journalism, Media and Culture
- miazhevichg@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 0644
- Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS
Overview
Galina Miazhevich is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media, and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. Galina currently leads an AHRC grant (2018-2020) exploring media representations of non-heteronormative sexuality in Russia.
Before joining JOMEC in January 2018, Galina Miazhevich was a lecturer at the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester (2012-2017). Previously Galina was the Gorbachev Media Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK (2008-2012). Galina received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, where she then worked for two years as a Research Associate on an AHRC-funded project on representations of Islam as security threat.
Galina’s research interests include media representations of Islam and multiculturalism in Europe; media and democracy in post-communist Europe; gender, media and emergent forms of post-Soviet identity; diaspora, transnationalism and media. Galina have extensively published in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored several monographs. She also serves on editorial boards of several international media journals, and regularly reviews for leading journals in the field of communication, media, culture and area studies.
Biography
Publications
2021
- Brock, M. and Miazhevich, G. 2021. From high camp to post-modern camp: queering post-Soviet pop music. European Journal of Cultural Studies (10.1177/13675494211021413)
- Miazhevich, G. 2021. An innocent provocation or homoerotic challenge? Mediations of the 'Satisfaction' video parody in the Russian mediascape. Information, Communication and Society 24(8), pp. 1123-1139. (10.1080/1369118X.2020.1764607)
2020
- Miazhevich, G. 2020. Dis/engagement in post-soviet communicative ecologies: re-framing the ‘Chinatown’ dissent campaign in Belarus. In: Karatzogianni, A., Schandorf, M. and Ferra, I. eds. Media Technologies and Protest Revolutions: The Long Durée. Bingley: Emerald
- Karatzogianni, A., Miazhevich, G. and Denisova, A. 2020. A comparative cyberconflict analysis of digital activism across post-soviet countries. In: Karatzogianni, A., Schandorf, M. and Ferra, I. eds. Media Technologies and Protest Revolutions: The Long Durée. [A Comparative Cyberconflict Analysis of Digital Activism across Post-Soviet Countries]. Bingley, UK: Emerald, pp. 61-82.
2019
- Lehtisaari, K. and Miazhevich, G. 2019. Introduction: the Russian media system at a crossroads. Russian Journal of Communication 11(1), pp. 1-5. (10.1080/19409419.2019.1567378)
- Miazhevich, G. 2019. Negotiating non-heteronormative identities in post-Soviet Belarus and Lithuania. In: Mole, R. C. M. ed. Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series London and New York: Routledge, pp. 192-209.
- Miazhevich, G. 2019. Mediated resistance in post-Soviet communicative ecologies: the case of 'Chinese industrial park' in Belarus. Russian Journal of Communication 11(2), pp. 109-125. (10.1080/19409419.2019.1621192)
2018
- Bolin, G. and Miazhevich, G. 2018. The soft power of commercialised nationalist symbols: Using media analysis to understand nation branding campaigns. European Journal of Cultural Studies 21(5), pp. 527-542., article number: 136754941775115. (10.1177/1367549417751153)
- Miazhevich, G. 2018. Nation branding in the post-broadcast era: The case of RT. European Journal of Cultural Studies 21(5), pp. 575-593. (10.1177/1367549417751228)
2017
- Miazhevich, G. 2017. The dilemmas of social media-enabled civic activism: The case of sexual minorities in Lithuania. In: Surowiec, P. and Stetka, V. eds. Social Media and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies London and New York: Routledge, pp. 182-197.
- Miazhevich, G. 2017. The dilemmas of social media-enabled civic activism The case of sexual minorities in Lithuania. In: Sorowiec, P. and Stetka, V. eds. Social Media and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies London and New York: Routledge, pp. 182-197.
- Karatzogianni, A., Miazhevich, G. and Denisova, A. 2017. A comparative cyberconflict analysis of digital activism across post-Soviet countries. Comparative Sociology 16(1), pp. 102-126. (10.1163/15691330-12341415)
- Miazhevich, G. 2017. Paradoxes of new media: digital discourses on Eurovision 2014, media flows and post-Soviet nation-building. New Media and Society 19(2), pp. 199-216. (10.1177/1461444815591968)
2016
- Miazhevich, G. 2016. International broadcasting and the conflict-related national media events: The framing of EuroMaidan by the BBC and RT. In: Mitu, B. and Poulakidakos, S. eds. Media Events: A Critical Contemporary Approach. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 53-70.
2015
- Miazhevich, G. 2015. Sites of subversion: online political satire in two post-Soviet states. Media, Culture and Society 37(3), pp. 422-439. (10.1177/0163443714567015)
2014
- Miazhevich, G. 2014. Russia Today's coverage of Euromaidan. Russian Journal of Communication 6(2), pp. 186-191. (10.1080/19409419.2014.908692)
2012
- Miazhevich, G. 2012. Ukrainian nation branding off-line and online: Verka Serduchka at the Eurovision Song Contest. Europe-Asia Studies 64(8), pp. 1505-1523. (10.1080/09668136.2012.712274)
2010
- Miazhevich, G. 2010. Moderating the extreme: The role of Vladimir Pozner’s Vremena in Russian state television responses to the rise of xenophobia. Television & New Media 12(1), pp. 23-45. (10.1177/1527476410365704)