Lela Mosemghvdlishvili (1982) has recently joined the Department of Media & Communication at Erasmus University as a lecturer and a PhD candidate. She will be teaching courses on Organizational Communication, and Media Processes and Influences to the students of the International Bachelor Program Communication and Media. Apart from teaching Lela will dedicate time to her PhD research Getting Smarter, Having Smarter Phones, which aims to explore the possible social changes that mass adoption of Smartphones will bring.
In 2004 Lela graduated (cum laude) from Tbilisi State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism. She has held several positions in media production companies, such as being the producer of youth educational TV program Zoom and later a presenter of a live show Good Morning, Georgia.
After moving to the Netherlands she expanded her interests from journalism to media studies and graduated (cum laude) from University of Amsterdam with a MSc degree in Communication Studies. Her master thesis Framing and Praising Allah on YouTube studied how Islam was framed in self-produced YouTube videos and what motivated users in various countries to videoblog about this religion.
The past two years Lela spent working as an analyst in TCM (Technology, Communication and Media) practice at a multinational executive search firm Spencer Stuart in Amsterdam.
Apart from her mother tongue Georgian, Lela is fluent in Russian and English and is working on her Dutch language skills. Her extracurricular interests include classic literature and poetry, contemporary dance and documentary photography. |
