Dr Maria Kyriakidou
Senior Lecturer
School of Journalism, Media and Culture
- kyriakidoum@cardiff.ac.uk
- Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Maria Kyriakidou is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture.
Her research engages with the relationship between media and globalisation, with a particular focus on the mediation of distant suffering and global crises. She has published work on audience engagement with distant disasters, the media coverage of the Euro crisis, and global media events.
She is currently Co-I on the AHRC project entitled 'Countering disinformation: enhancing journalistic legitimacy in public service media' (2020-2022), led by Prof Stephen Cushion.
She is the vice-chair of the Temporary Working Group on the Ethics of Mediated Suffering.
Maria teaches BA modules on media, globalisation and journalism, and an MA module on media theory.
Before joining Cardiff, Maria was a lecturer in Media, Cultural Politics and Communications at the University of East Anglia. She holds an MSc in Social and Public Communication and a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics.
Biography
Publications
2022
- Morani, M., Cushion, S., Kyriakidou, M. and Soo, N. 2022. Expert voices in the news reporting of the coronavirus pandemic: A study of UK television news bulletins and their audiences. Journalism (10.1177/14648849221127629)
- Kyriakidou, M., Cushion, S., Hughes, C. and Morani, M. 2022. Questioning fact-checking in the fight against disinformation: An audience perspective. Journalism Practice (10.1080/17512786.2022.2097118)
- Cushion, S., Morani, M., Kyriakidou, M. and Soo, N. 2022. (Mis)understanding the coronavirus and how it was handled in the UK: An analysis of public knowledge and the information environment. Journalism Studies 23(5-6), pp. 703-721. (10.1080/1461670X.2021.1950564)
- Cushion, S., Morani, M., Kyriakidou, M. and Soo, N. 2022. Why media systems matter: A fact-checking study of UK television news during the Coronavirus pandemic. Digital Journalism 10(5), pp. 698-716. (10.1080/21670811.2021.1965490)
- Kyriakidou, M. 2022. Audience understandings of disinformation: navigating news media through a prism of pragmatic scepticism. Journalism
2021
- Kyriakidou, M., Morani, M., Soo, N. and Cushion, S. 2021. Reporting from the front line: the role of health workers in UK television news reporting of COVID-19. In: Lewis, M., Govender, E. and Holland, K. eds. Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 41-58., (10.1007/978-3-030-79735-5_3)
- Kyriakidou, M. 2021. The audience of humanitarian communication. In: Chouliaraki, L. ed. Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. Routledge International Handbooks Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 88-103.
- Kyriakidou, M. and Garcia-Blanco, I. 2021. Introduction: Innovations, transformations and the future of journalism. Journalism Practice 15(6), pp. 723-727. (10.1080/17512786.2021.1935301)
- Kyriakidou, M. and Cushion, S. 2021. Journalistic responses to misinformation. In: The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism. Routledge, (10.4324/9781003004431-55)
- Kyriakidou, M. 2021. Hierarchies of deservingness and the limits of hospitality in the 'refugee crisis'. Media, Culture and Society 43(1), pp. 133-149. (10.1177/0163443720960928)
2020
- Morani, M., Kyriakidou, M., Soo, N. and Cushion, S. 2020. The 'hospectacle' of reporting from ICUs: what does the public want to see?. [Online]. LSE COVID-19 Blog: London School of Economics and Political Science. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/05/29/the-hospectacle-of-reporting-from-icus-what-does-the-public-want-to-see/
- Kyriakidou, M., Morani, M., Soo, N. and Cushion, S. 2020. Government and media misinformation about COVID-19 is confusing the public. [Online]. LSE Blogs: LSE. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/05/07/government-and-media-misinformation-about-covid-19-is-confusing-the-public/
- Soo, N., Morani, M., Kyriakidou, M. and Cushion, S. 2020. Research suggests UK public can spot fake news about COVID-19, but don’t realise the UK’s death toll is far higher than in many other countries. [Online]. LSE Blogs: LSE. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/04/28/research-suggests-uk-public-can-spot-fake-news-about-covid-19-but-dont-realise-the-uks-death-toll-is-far-higher-than-in-many-other-countries/
2019
- Prentoulis, M. and Kyriakidou, M. 2019. Media and collective action in Greece: from indignation to solidarity. International Journal of Communication 13, pp. 22-40.
- Kyriakidou, M. 2019. The audience of distant suffering and the question of (in)action. In: Paulmann, J. ed. Humanitarianism and the Media, 1900-2015. New German Historical Perspectives Berghahn, pp. 281-298.
2018
- Kyriakidou, M., Skey, M., Uldam, J. and McCurdy, P. 2018. Media events and cosmopolitan fandom: 'Playful nationalism' in the Eurovision Song Contest. International Journal of Cultural Studies 21(6), pp. 603-618., article number: 136787791772023. (10.1177/1367877917720238)
- Kyriakidou, M. and Garcia-Blanco, I. 2018. Safeguarding the status quo: the press and the emergence of a new left in Greece and Spain. In: Bausu, L., Schifferes, S. and Knowles, S. eds. The Media and Austerity: Comparative Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 128-139.
- Kyriakidou, M., Olivas Osuna, J. and Hanska-Ahy, M. 2018. The Indignados in the European press: beyond the protest paradigm?. In: Wimmer, J. et al. eds. (Mis)Understanding Political Participation: Digital Practices, New Forms of Participation and the Renewal of Democracy. Routledge
2017
- Kyriakidou, M. and Olivas Osuna, J. J. 2017. The Indignados protests in the Spanish and Greek press: moving beyond the 'protest paradigm'?. European Journal of Communication 32(5), pp. 457-472. (10.1177/0267323117720342)
- Kyriakidou, M. 2017. Remembering global disasters and the construction of cosmopolitan memory. Communication, Culture and Critique 10(1), pp. 93-111. (10.1111/cccr.12142)
2016
- Kaun, A., Kyriakidou, M. and Uldam, J. 2016. Political agency at the digital crossroads?. Media and Communication 4(4), pp. 1-7. (10.17645/mac.v4i4.690)
- Skey, M., Kyriakidou, M., McCurdy, P. and Uldam, J. 2016. Staging and engaging with media events: A study of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. International Journal of Communication 10, pp. 3381-3399.
2015
- Kyriakidou, M. 2015. Media witnessing: exploring the audience of distant suffering. Media, Culture and Society 37(2), pp. 215-231. (10.1177/0163443714557981)
2014
- Kyriakidou, M. and Olivas Osuna, J. J. 2014. Press coverage and civic engagement during the euro crisis: Reporting the Indignados. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 10(2), pp. 213-220. (10.1386/macp.10.2.213_3)
- Kyriakidou, M. 2014. Distant suffering in audience memory: the moral hierarchy of remembering. International Journal of Communication 8, pp. 1474-1494.
2009
- Kyriakidou, M. 2009. Imagining ourselves beyond the nation? Exploring cosmopolitanism in relation to media coverage of distant suffering. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 9(3), pp. 481-496. (10.1111/j.1754-9469.2009.01062.x)
2008
- Kyriakidou, M. 2008. Rethinking media events in the context of a global public sphere: Exploring the audience of global disasters in Greece. Communications 33(3), pp. 273-291. (10.1515/COMM.2008.018)
- Kyriakidou, M. 2008. Mediated cosmopolitanism: Global disasters and the emergence of cosmopolitan solidarity. Global Studies Journal 1(3), pp. 123-130. (10.18848/1835-4432/CGP/v01i03/40954)
- Kyriakidou, M. 2008. Feeling the pain of others: Exploring cosmopolitan empathy in relation to distant suffering. In: Olsson, T. et al. eds. Democracy, Journalism, and Technology: New Developments in an Enlarged Europe. The intellectual work of ECREA's 2008 European media and communication doctoral summer school. Tartu University Press
