ACADEMIC FORUM FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE

Sofia, 26-27th November, 2010

"GLOBALIZATION AND CRISIS:
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROJECTIONS AND CHALLENGES"

Organizational Committee

Contacts:	02/ 870 55 54 katiajivkova@yahoo.com
Academic status:	PhD (2006) Senior Assistant Professor (2006)
Institutional status:	• University of National and World Economy, Department of Media and Public Communication, Senior Assistant Professor
Membership in professional institutions::	• ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association (2009- );
Scientific interests:	• Theory of media and audiences: industrial and social media; mass audience; the audience as a producer and consumer; • Media sociology and regulation: media as social institutions (public and commercial media); media functions and effects; • Sociology of childhood: social context of child development; socialization of children; media functions in child social development; virtual childhood.
Publications:	Articles and Papers: • Mihailova, К. (2010) *Cyberbullying among children: manifestations and theorization of a new social problem. In: „Elementary education”, 1/2010. pp. 14-24. • Mihailova, К. (2009) Television in child development. In: „Elementary education”, 5/2009. pp. 3-13. • Mihailova, К. (2008) Alternatives for protection of children television audience in the frame of media regulation. In: „Economic Alternatives”, 6/2008. pp. 139-153. • Mihailova, К. (2008) Access and participation of the media audiences in the digital communication space. In: Collection of conference reports of BFU, „Economy of knowledge: new perspectives for development of the higher education”. Volume 1, Bourgas, 2008. pp. 42-50. • Mihailova, К. (2009) The Generation Gap in the Bulgarian Network Society. In: Sapio, B. at all (eds.). The Good, The Bad and The Challenging*. Conference Proceedings. Vol. 2, 2009. pp. 1009-1018.