Dr Giota Alevizou is a digital culture scholar with an expertise on civic methods and collective intelligence, digital literacies and information politics as well as data ethics.

Giota is particularly interested in socially and politically motivated aspects surrounding the Open Web and Collective Intelligence, and, in methods to incentivise collaboration and social change. She has had the opportunity to investigate these topics in more than five national and European projects, often...

Keys: social computing, digital citizenship, collective intelligence, information credibility, data ethics

Alevizou, G. (2020) Civic media and technologies of belonging: Where digital citizenship and 'the right to the city' converge, 16, pp. 269-290

Alevizou, G. (2020) Virtual schooling, Covid-gogy and digital fatigue

Alevizou, G. (2020) Civic Media & Placemaking: (Re)Claiming Urban & Migrant Rights Across Digital and Physical Spaces The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration, eds. Kevin Smets,Koen Leurs,Myria Georgiou,Saskia Witteborn,Radhika Gajjala, SAGE

Alevizou, G. (2020) Virtual Schooling, COVID-Inequalities: Building Resilience and Digital Literacies for Uncertain Futures Virtual Schooling, COVID-Inequalities: Building Resilience and Digital Literacies for Uncertain Futures

Alevizou, G. and Vrikki, P. (2018) One day without us: mining Twitter, framing solidarity

Alevizou, G. and Scazzocchio, L. (2017) Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

Alevizou, G. (2017) From mediation to datafication: theorizing evolving trends in media, technology and learning Education and technology: critical approaches, eds. G. M. S. Ferreira,L. A. S. Rosado,J. S. Carvalho, pp. 332-357, Editora UNESA/SESES

Alevizou, G. (2017) From digital commons to the data-fied urge: Theorising evolving trends in the intersections of digital culture and open education From digital commons to the data-fied urge: Theorising evolving trends in the intersections of digital culture and open education, 22

Alevizou, G. (2016) Austerity and the mediated networks of solidarity in Greece

Zamenopoulos, T., Alexiou, K., Alevizou, G., Chapain, C., Sobers, S. and Williams, A. (2016) Varieties of Creative Citizenship The Creative Citizen Unbound: How social media and DIY culture contribute to democracy, communities and the creative economy, eds. Ian Hargreaves,John Hartley, pp. 103-128, Policy Press

Alexiou, K., Aguista, E., Alevizou, G., Chapain, C., Greene, C., Harte, D., Ramster, G. and Zamenopoulos, T. (2016) Asset mapping and civic creativity The creative citizen unbound: How social media and DIY culture contribute to democracy, communities and the creative economy, eds. Ian Hargreaves,John Hartley, pp. 181-204, Policy Press

Alevizou, G., Alexiou, K., Harte, D., Sobers, S., Zamenopoulos, T. and Turner, J. (2016) Civic cultures and modalities of place-making The creative citizen unbound: How social media and DIY culture contribute to democracy, communities and the creative economy, eds. Ian Hargreaves,John Hartley, pp. 205-230, Policy Press

Alevizou, G., Alexiou, K. and Zamenopoulos, T. (2016) Making sense of assets: Community asset mapping and related approaches for cultivating capacities

Alevizou, G. (2015) From OER to MOOCs: Critical perspectives on the historical mediation trajectories of open education From OER to MOOCs: Critical perspectives on the historical mediation trajectories of open education, 11, pp. 203-224

Alevizou, G. (2015) Wikis The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society (3rd ed), eds. Peng Hwa Ang,Robin Mansell,Charles Steinfield, pp. 1180-1187, Wiley-Blackwell

Alexiou, K., Alevizou, G. and Zamenopoulos, T. (2014) Wards Corner Community Plan Case Study Variety Pack: Inspiring Digital Ideas From Community Projects, eds. D Lockton,K. Greene,A Casey,L Raby,A Vickress, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design

Alevizou, G., Alexiou, K. and Ramster, G. (2013) Communications by design? Community spaces, neighbourhood media & creative citizens, IAMCR 2013 Conference: Crises, 'Creative Destruction' and the Global Power and Communication Orders, Dublin, Ireland

Alevizou, G., Alexiou, K., Greene, C. and Ramster, G. (2013) Communications by design? Intersections of creative citizenship, community media and participatory design, Communication and the City: Voices, Spaces, Media, Leeds, UK

Greene, C., Alevizou, G., Ramster, G., Alexiou, K., Zamenopoulos, T., Outten, A. and Corzannelli, C. (2013) Creative communities, creative assets: exploring methods of mapping community assets, Nordes2013: Experiments in Design Research: Expressions, Knowledge, Critique, Copenhagen, Denmark/Malmö, Sweden

Alexiou, K., Zamenopoulos, T. and Alevizou, G. (2013) Valuing Community-Led Design

Alevizou, G. (2012) The dark side of the knowledge commons?: Open educational media and tensions surrounding autonomy and novel spheres of control, ECREA 2012 Pre-Conference: Imposing Freedoms: The Role of Copyright, Privacy and Censorship Governance in the Re/definition of Rights in Digital Media, Istanbul, Turkey

Alevizou, G. (2012) Open to interpretation? Productive frameworks for understanding audience engagement with Open Educational Resources Open to interpretation? Productive frameworks for understanding audience engagement with Open Educational Resources, 9, pp. 3-19

Alevizou, G. (2012) Open to interpretation?: productive frameworks for understanding audience engagement with OER, Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact – Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education, a joint meeting of OER12 and OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2012, Cambridge, UK

Alevizou, G., Galley, R. and Conole, G. (2012) Collectivity, performance and self-representation: analysing Cloudworks as a public space for networked learning and reflection Exploring the Theory, Pedagogy and Practice of Networked Learning, eds. Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld,Vivien Hodgson,David McConnell, pp. 75-97, Springer

Alevizou, G. (2010) Media literacies in transition? A review of practices within higher education contexts, Media Literacy Conference, Institute of Education, London

Alevizou, G. (2010) Distributed mentoring: peer interaction and collaborative learning in P2PU, Open ED 2010: Seventh Annual Open Education Conference, Barcelona, Spain

Alevizou, G. and Forte, A. (2010) Engaging with open education, Panel in 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, WikiSym '10, Gdansk, Poland

Alevizou, G., Conole, G., Culver, J. and Galley, R. (2010) Ritual performances and collective intelligence: theoretical frameworks for analyising activity patterns in Cloudworks, 7th International Conference in Networked Learning, Aalborg, Denmark

Alevizou, G., Wilson, T. and McAndrew, P. (2010) Conceptualising collaborative participation and engagement for learning and creativity in OER communities, OER10 Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Alevizou, G. (2010) Mediating open education: popular discourses, situated policies and institutional practices for participatory learning, Media Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

Alevizou, G., Conole, G. and Galley, R. (2010) Using Cloudworks to Support OER Activities

Alevizou, G. (2010) Book review: Ruth Wodak & Veronika Keller (eds.), Handbook of communication in the public sphere. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008 Book review: Ruth Wodak & Veronika Keller (eds.), Handbook of communication in the public sphere. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008, 39, pp. 555-561

Alevizou, G. (2008) Analysing mainstream perceptions of online encyclopaedias' legitimacy, Media, Communication and Humanity Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science

Alevizou, G. (2008) Authorship, authority and citizenship: discourses of participation in open content communities, 51st Annual Conference of the International Association of Media and Communications Researchers, Stockholm, Sweden

Alevizou, G. (2007) As we think? Collective intelligence, knowledge sharing and encyclopaedias in the digital media age, Annual Conference of the International Association of Media and Communications Researchers (IAMCR), Paris

Alevizou, G. (2007) Collective intelligence and the cult of open production: critical reflections on theory and methodology, Ecrea Digital Culture and Communication Section Workshop: Digital Media: European Perspectives, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Alevizou, G. (2006) Encyclopaedia or cosmopedia? Collective intelligence for knowledge technospaces, 2nd Wikimania Conference, University of Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Alevizou, G. (2005) Digital generations: Children, young people and new media Digital generations: Children, young people and new media, 5, pp. 83-90

Alevizou, G. (2002) To wire or not to wire? Encyclopaedia Britannica versus Microsoft Encarta To wire or not to wire? Encyclopaedia Britannica versus Microsoft Encarta, 5, pp. 163-167