I am a graduate of the Department of Language and Intercultural Studies and have been a member of the group since its early days. This academic year (2024–2025), I am pursuing a Master’s degree in Digital Culture Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
For me, Volos Linguistic Landscape Research Group has been and continues to be a safe space where our concerns, doubts, and thoughts can be expressed and collectively transformed into open research questions, enriching one another’s ideas. It gave me the opportunity to explore issues that deeply interested me, such as the semiotic and spatial construction of social identities and groups, including children, individuals in detention facilities and refugees.
Through this journey, I developed a deep engagement with the critical study of the semiotic and linguistic landscape, which has since become an integral part of my academic identity. My research interests are reflected in both my undergraduate thesis on street naming and my master’s dissertation, which examines the ideological construction of space through artificial intelligence, more specifically through ChatGPT. Broadly, I am interested in exploring how space is semiotically constructed and naturalized, while simultaneously serving as a medium through which knowledge and narratives are produced, reproduced and contested.
