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Papathanassopoulos, S., Karadimitriou, A., Souliotis, D., & Rousopoulos, V. (2025). Social Media Campaigning in Greece: The Case of the 2023 National Parliamentary Elections

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In contemporary democracies, social media platforms are widely used for political campaigning, with political figures seeking to connect with diverse segments of the public. This study aims to illuminate the implementation of online political campaigning in Greece by analysing the content shared on four social media platforms (Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok) by the leaders of the three principal political parties during the 2023 pre-election phase. 

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Papathanassopoulos, S., & Giannouli, I. (2025). Political Communication in the Age of Platforms. Encyclopedia

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Political communication has been extensively studied through both the broader context of societal and political systems, as well as through the lens of mediatization, which emphasizes the intersection of political and media logics.

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Zervakaki, V., Papathanassopoulos, S., & Karadimitriou, A. (2025). Re-training Greek journalists on new media practices: Expecting Re-employment, yet falling short

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This paper examines how Greek journalists perceive the effectiveness of new-media practices-oriented journalism education in their profession, using the retraining seminars on new media technologies conducted by the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (JUADN) between 2019 and 2022 as a case study. 

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Papathanassopoulos, S. Xepapadea, C. (2024). The Decline of Music Magazines in Greece

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Greek music magazines have witnessed a sharp decline over the years. This study posits that this decline cannot be attributed solely to the advent of the internet but is the culmination of various factors. 

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Archontaki, I., Giannouli, I., Karadimitriou, A., & Papathanassopoulos, S. (2024). Talking Green on social media: An exploratory study of online environmental communication in Greece

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Traditional news media have long been the primary source of information on environmental issues, influencing public perceptions and shaping discourse on ecological sustainability. 

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-Papathanassopoulos, S. (2024). The Greek media in the Metapolitefsi (Restoration of Hellenic Democracy) In Nicolaides, H. (ed.). Achievements and crises of Metapolitefsi (Restoration of Hellenic Democracy), challenges for the future

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This paper examines the transformation of the Greek media landscape since the Metapolitefsi period (1974-1989), highlighting its shift from a state-controlled system to a fragmented yet politically dependent one. 

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Archontaki, I., Karadimitriou, A., Giannouli, I., & Papathanassopoulos, S. (2024). Consumption patterns on mainstream SVoD services platforms across 10 European countries

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Over the last years, media viewing behaviors have undergone remarkable changes resulting from the wide availability of streaming services and VoD platforms.

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(with AndreaMiconi- editors) (2025) The European Media in the Platform Era. Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication. Springer, Cham.

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This book examines the significant changes reshaping the European media landscape in the context of rapid technological advancements, political shifts, and economic pressures.

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Archontaki, I., Karadimitriou, A. Giannouli, I., Papathanassopoulos, S. (2023) “Mapping Europeanization in the Greek online public sphere: Assessing the Europeanizing dynamics of social media”

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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.

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Giannouli, Ι. Archontaki, Ι, Karadimitriou, Α., Papathanassopoulos, S. (2024). “Medical science in peril? analyzing the anti-vaccine rhetoric on Greek Facebook in the COVID-19 era”

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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”.

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Karadimitriou A, Papathanassopoulos S. (2024). Public Service Media in the Platform Era: The Cases of Britain, Denmark, and Greece

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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.

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Giannouli, I., Karadimitriou, A., Archontaki, I. and Papathanassopoulos, S. "COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: analyzing anti-vaccine rhetoric on Greek Facebook"

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

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Cochliou, D., Poulakidakos, S., Rigou, M., & Papathanassopoulos, S. (2024). Hate-Speech in Greece and Cyprus: How Public Communication Practitioners Discuss the Phenomenon

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(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.

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Papathanassopoulos, S., Armenakis, A., Karadimitriou, A. (2022). The Greeks and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assessing the Credibility and Effectiveness of the Main Social Institutions and Public Sphere Players

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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. 

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