Publications

The media sector almost everywhere around the globe has entered a period of changes driven by technological advances, increasing competition and commercialization, and consolidation in the ownership status as well as the rise of digital media. Traditional news media companies have tried to invent new business models, but, at the time, without considerable success. These new developments have affected the news media sector, especially journalism.

By reviewing the existing literature on populism in Greece, this chapter, aims at providing a systematic framework to understand the role of populist rhetoric in the formation of the modern Greek state and in contemporary Greek political culture.

This article explores how Athenian university students “manage” their privacy on Facebook while socially interacting with other users. Survey data of undergraduate students in Athens reveal that the social network site use “validates” and enhances the pre-existing social context and that the relationship level has an impact on the way users contact other users on it.

Media policy addresses a wide range of contemporary concerns regarding the structure and the performance of media systems. Although it has often been argued that media policy has been largely technology driven, most of the decisions taken to deal with change are framed by political, economic, and institutional dimensions as well as by international factors.

This study tests the associations between news media use and perceived political polarization, conceptualized as citizens' beliefs about partisan divides among major political parties.

During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens.

This chapter aims at describing the effects of media modernisation and commercialisation on journalism and politics in contemporary Greece.

This chapter argues that since the mid-1980s, the European Union (EU) has sought to initiate policies to ‘Europeanize’ the whole communication sector of its Member States. These policies have sought to Europeanize, i.e., harmonize as well as to protect, the media sector and to make it competitive both in the internal European market and in the global market.

By reviewing the existing literature on populism in Greece, this chapter, aims at providing a systematic framework to understand the role of populist rhetoric in the formation of the modern Greek state and in contemporary Greek political culture.

This article attempts to describe and interpret broadcasting deregulation in Greece, by looking at the role of the state in broadcasting affairs.

This article attempts to describe and examine the concept of public service broadcasting, its Justifications and the deregulatory trends on the European Continent. It was published in 1990 in the Journal of Information Science. 

The technological, political and regulatory developments have introduced a complexity of new forces which are transforming the medium into an international one. This papers sets out both to identify and document the process of internationalization.

This article examines the notion of the "Americanization" of political and campaign communication. It explores the significance of the convergence of practices and the implications for future patterns of political communication and sociopolitical development.

This article attempts to review and analyse the politics of deregulation of Greek broadcasting and the side-effects of an undisciplined television environment.

This article makes an effort to examine the positions of fourteen leading Greek newspapers, taking as a point of departure an earlier study on the Macedonian question and expanding it to include the interim accord between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

This article explores the ways that Greek election campaigns have changed as a result of the development and growing dominance of private television. It sketches some of the reasons behind those changes and discusses the centrality of television in contemporary Greek election campaigning and politics.