A brief description of the experience
Nino Abzianidze is an Associate Professor at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Sciences (CSS), Tbilisi, Georgia. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Zurich. At various times, she has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen and the Central European University in Budapest. Nino has also conducted research at the School of Media and Communication of the University of Leeds (UK). Her academic teaching experience comprises institutions such as the Universities of Zurich and Fribourg as well as Tbilisi State University. Beyond academic teaching, Nino has been also actively conducting trainings within the framework of various international projects. Her research interests revolve around the issues of political communication in ethnically divided societies, as well as media research in the contexts of democratization, European integration, nationalism and civil conflicts. Currently, as a CSS researcher, Nino is involved in the Horizon2020 project MediatizedEU, which focuses on the elite-media-public triangle and looks at how the media discourses are constructed to foster or hamper the European project and how they resonate among the public.
Courses:
- Political communication
- English for political science
- Nationalism, Democratization and Media (Multimedia Journalism and Media Management Master’s program)
Research and Publications:
- Tsuladze, Lia, Abzianidze Nino, Amashukeli Mariam and Lela Javakhishvili (2023): De-Europeanization as discursive disengagement: has Georgia “got lost” on its way to European integration? Journal of European Integration, DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2278072
- Abzianidze, N (2021). Media Coverage of Ultranationalist Groups in Georgia: Mapping the Structure of the Discourse. Working Paper #15, Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP), Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Tsomaia, T., Abzianidze, N. & Makhviladze N. (2021). Migration coverage by Georgian media: Media monitoring study covering the period 2019-2021. Prepared by the Georgian Institute for Public Affairs on behalf of International Centre for Migration PolicyDevelopment (ICMPD) Vienna – Austria. December, 2021, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Abzianidze, N. (2020). Us vs. Them as Structural Equivalence: Analysing Nationalist Discourse Networks in the Georgian Print Media, Politics & Governance, 8 (2), pp. 243-256.
- Abzianidze, N. (2020) Democratization, Nationalism and Media on the Path to Civil Conflict: Structure and Dynamics of Nationalist Appeals in Georgian Print Media, University of Zurich. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-186209
Projects:
- Horizon2020: MEDIATIZED EU – Mediatized Discourses on Europeanization and Their Representations in Public Perceptions;
- Erasmus CBHE: “Capacity building in higher education curriculum development – Joint MA Program in Political Science JOPSCIP“;
- Project funded by GIPA’s research grant: How does Georgian media covers new wave of immigration induced by the war in Ukraine.
Research interests:
Political communication; democratization; nationalism; European integration; ethnically divided societies; media research; political methodology; quantitative content analysis; text analysis; social network analysis (SNA).
