Gorg Mallia

Dr Gorg Mallia is on the staff of the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta. He holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of Sheffield, UK. He specializes in Print and Presentation Media, Graphic Communications, Personal Communications & Branding, and Instructional Design & Technology (particularly Transfer of Learning). His main areas of research are Social Network and New Media Technology impacts on the individual and in education. He also researches...See more

Dr Gorg Mallia is on the staff of the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta. He holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of Sheffield, UK. He specializes in Print and Presentation Media, Graphic Communications, Personal Communications & Branding, and Instructional Design & Technology (particularly Transfer of Learning). His main areas of research are Social Network and New Media Technology impacts on the individual and in education. He also researches the storytelling techniques of graphic narrative. He has presented at international conferences and published extensively in both of these areas. Dr Mallia is one of the organisers of the annual International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education (ICICTE). He has lectured in a number of countries, particularly at the Universities of Lund and Malmoe in Sweden. Outside his academic work, he is a published children's author, illustrator and cartoonist. From 2005 to 2013 he was the chairman of the Maltese National Book Council. See less