Publications

This paper tries to develop a theoretical understanding of parallels between countries of Southern Europe and Latin America, focusing particularly on the concept of political clientelism. It focuses on the four European countries  of Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, plus three cases in Latin America – Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.

This chapter aims to explain the processes and effects of the deregulation that took place in European television  systems in the 1980s and 1990s. Most of the themes outlined in this chapter are dealt with in some detail in the subsequent chapters of the book.

The first chapter of the book: "Television in the 21st century". This chapter studies among others, the globalization of television, of media and of communication. 

This article examines Europe as a exemplary landscape for comprehending globalization. This paper was presented during the Symposium: What is global about global media?

This paper tries to discuss the development of digital television in Greece. It traces the players, the economics and the politics associated with this new television medium, and it argue that the domestic market, is difficult to create
the needed economies of scale of the development of digital television.

This article constitutes a presentation of the media systems of 7 countries, namely Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Portugal, Turkey, Malta and Cyprus, that represent what Daniel Hallin and Paolo Mancini propose as the Mediterranean or Polarized Pluralistic model.

Professor Stylianos Papathanasopoulos' article about Satellite Television in the International Encyclopedia of Communication. There are many different uses for satellite technology, and television broadcasting is only one of them.

This book aims to discuss the contemporary concerning issues to the field of communication and by extension, to the field of theory and research. Among the issues discussed in the book the broader communication environment, the changes in the field of mass media and the information society are included.

In this chapter, the writer will critically analyze the Greek subsidy scheme for newspaper. He will argue that state aid for the press has been heavily influenced by the troubled Greek patronage politics.

This article investigates the volume of foreign news provided by public service and commercial TV channels in countries with different media systems, and how this corresponds to the public's interest in and knowledge of foreign affairs.

This article aims to present the basic characteristics of the Greek users of Facebook. It also examines sheds light on the users' relationship with traditional media and the social capital they gain from their participation in Facebook. 

This study aims to investigate the news coverage of political events in Greece in the three larger media (TV, newspapers, internet) in a specific phase of the financial crisis. It tries to shed light on the specifics of journalistic practice in relation to the promotion of politics.

This article seeks,  to identify differences between countries in the sources quoted in the news, to establish whether there are consistent differences across countries between types of media in their sourcing patterns and to trace any emergent consistent patterns of variation between different types of organization across different countries.

This book analyses how viewers use and react to television screen and its programmes. It discusses the theories of television viewing behaviour, the uses and misuses of TV ratings, the role of TV remote control on television behaviour and its social and cultural effects as well as the ways Greek viewers watch television since the deregulation of Greek television systems, the evolution of the genres of programmes they prefer in this period.

We are in the eve of a new century and there are many questions and scenarios regarding the day after. As the world becomes more complicated, the media occupy a prominent role in the society and influence other social, economic and political institutions. In the new century we are in front of a fast and important transformation where the media institutions and processes are in the centre of these developments as well as conflicts.