Melina Meimaridis

BRAZIL

Melina Meimaridis has a Ph.D. from the Postgraduate Program in Communication at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Brazil, where she is a post-doctoral researcher with a fellowship from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). A media studies scholar, Melina has been publishing about internet-distributed television in the Brazilian market since 2016. Melina’s research interests include the economies of media industries, fictional institutions in scripted narratives, and internet-distributed television in national and regional markets. Among her current projects is the study of Netflix’s transitional expansion and its impact on countries belonging to the global periphery.