Publications

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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

The sharing of news across various social media platforms has become an integral part of our daily information intake. 

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. 

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

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.