IMS-affiliated researcher received the Walter Benjamin Award
IMS-affiliated researcher Eleni Timplalexi from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) received the Walter Benjamin Award for an outstanding article in the field of Media Ecology.
Image from the cover of the Journal Explorations in Media Ecology - Volume 22, Issue 4, 2023
She received the award for her paper titled “Challenging Key Certainties in Communication Through Elleström’s Medium-Centred Model of Communication: ‘Transfer’ and ‘Medium’.”
The article: https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/eme_00180_1
More information: https://www.media-ecology.org/2025-MEA-Awards
- This is a true honor and builds a strong bridge to the Media Ecology community, says Eleni Timplalexi.
About Eleni Timplalexi
Eleni Timplalexi is a lecturing staff member (E.E.P.) at NTLab, Department of Communication and Media Studies, NKUA. She held a post doc (2015-2017) in Digital Media and Theatre, Department of Theatre Studies, NKUA (IKY Fellowship of Excellence for postgraduate studies in Greece-Siemens Program), where she also completed her PhD with an IKY scholarship. Also, Alexander C. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Scholar in Theatre Practice (2005-07).
She is a collaborating researcher with Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Sweden (IMS).
Her research traces the intersections between Performance, Digital Media, Theatre, Communication and Games. Awarded playwright, theatre director and artist. Artistic director of UtopiArt (2002-08) and co-founder of Magenta Artistic Collaboration (2011 ~). She also collaborates with Spatial Media Research Group, NKUA.
What is MEA?
The Media Ecology Association (MEA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts, and the open exchange of ideas, information, and research among the Association’s members and the larger community.
More: https://www.media-ecology.org/