Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the resilience of society’s institutions in many parts of the world. In Greece, where trust in social-political institutions had been tested several times in the past, the coronavirus pandemic was a new context in which their effectiveness was challenged, when the government was forced to make crucial policy decisions and impose unprecedented restrictive measures in the name of the common good.
It is widely argued that the success of the European Union has delivered more than half a century of peace, stability, and prosperity in Europe, and that this is the outcome of the Europeanization process. In this paper we support the idea that although Europeanization is a fashionable concept, it is also a contested one.
It is widely recognized that Greece effectively managed the COVID-19 pandemic crisis through the early implementation of stringent measures and the imposition of lockdowns, similar to strategies adopted by other nations.
This open access book traces the evolution of the European media landscape in the last 30 years, from 1990 to 2020. It is based on the theoretical classical hypotheses of regional media systems provided by Hallin and Mancini and at the same time puts them to test.
In this edited volume, renowned scholars from around the globe rethink and update important political communication concepts in the light of the most recent changes that have been occurring in media environments.
Greece provides another, although timid, example of how financial crisis and the technological advancements have affected national media systems.
This chapter describes the structure and development of the media sector in Greece. It explores the relationship between media, political elites, and vested private interests.
This research investigates links between the Euro Crisis and populism and asks whether there are patterns of populism in different election campaigns, namely is there country-specific populist rhetoric or similar anti-elite criticisms?
Freedom, equality and control are core values of democracy. In the Media for Democracy Monitor (MDM) we translate these values into communication functions.
This book aims to highlight the key features of this new communication condition, as the consumption of modern media content is performed "among 4 screens".
The unique context of the September 2015 election provided an opportunity to examine how the Greek media covered the campaign, using analytical tools from agenda-setting and media-framing theory. We investigated nine media outlets’ coverage of the September 2015 election campaign in Greece.
Early optimistic internet evangelists addressed news and information as an area in which digital technologies would eradicate social inequality; social networks, social media and other forms of grass root or Indymedia would establish a powerful counter-public. From today’s perspective, such digital over-optimism is no longer justified.
Η θεαματική αύξηση των επικοινωνιακών μοντέλων μέσω διαδικτύου είχε δραματικό αντίκτυπο στον τρόπο με τον οποίο οι κοινωνίες, τα μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης και οι πολιτικοί φορείς ενεργούν και αλληλοεπιδρούν στον εικοστό πρώτο αιώνα. Η πολιτική επικοινωνία αλλάζει, αλλά δεν είναι σαφές πώς σχετίζονται οι αλλαγές με τις ανησυχίες σχετικά με τις ανισότητες στον τομέα της επικοινωνίας και ενημέρωσης.
This text discusses the political communication campaigning of the 2019 European elections in Greece.
This chapter is a product of a comparative research. It focuses on trends in reporting over time. It examines the presence of populist key messages in “news coverage of immigration” and “commentaries on current political events” in European newspapers at two points in time, namely spring 2016 and spring 2017.
The media sector almost everywhere around the globe has entered a period of changes driven by technological advances, increasing competition and commercialization, and consolidation in the ownership status as well as the rise of digital media. Traditional news media companies have tried to invent new business models, but, at the time, without considerable success. These new developments have affected the news media sector, especially journalism.