Publications

For more than a decade, following the peak of the debt crisis, Greece has been facing multiple challenges. Amongthem, a pandemic (COVID-19) that brought the global and thus the Greek economy to a halt, an energy crisis that threatens to flatten entire social classes, a refugee crisis, and wider regional instability.

In the post truth era the limits between facts and beliefs, science and pseudo-science seem to be quite blurred. Social media platforms, such as Facebook, provide the ideal vehicle for the widespread sharing of misinformation, by fostering the creation of “filter Bubbles” and “echo chambers”.

Public service media (PSM) are grappling with structural shifts in the audio-visual sector, notably the shift of audiences towards over-the-top (OTT) or subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services.

The emergence and growth of the internet and social media platforms have engendered significant transformations in everyday life, affecting not only society’s most innermost life but also its structural organization.

The distinction between beliefs and facts, as well as between science and pseudoscience, appears to be hazy in the post-truth era.

(Online) hate speech appears as a growing problem in Greece and Cyprus attributed to prejudices toward specific groups, the evolution of online media, lack of awareness and of appropriate educational tools to recognize and counter it.

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".