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 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.

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.