
Dr. Sophia Bakogianni

Dr. Sophia Bakogianni is an archaeologist – art historian at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens. She holds a Doctoral Degree in Social Information Systems from the Open University of Cyprus.
Jahna Otterbacher, who is an Associate Professor at the Open University of Cyprus, supervised her PhD study.
Her PhD dissertation, entitled “Understanding Museum Social Media Experiences“, concerns people’s perceptions, preferences, feelings and practices through their interaction with museums on social media, such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Particularly, she is interested in user-centered methods in order to comprehend user agency on museum social media, beyond the metrics and analytics offered by the platforms.