Τμήμα Κοινωνικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών / Department of Social and Political Sciences
Recent Submissions
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Television Vs Web 2.0 in the new media age: the effects of information upon university students
(LABCOM, 2014)Information mechanisms tend to adopt new forms in order to adjust their functions in the overwhelming power of the Web. The Television Vs Web ‘competition’ brings ahead several effects, especially when it comes ...
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Book chapter
Broadcast journalism: television
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2019)This entry provides a broad overview of broadcast journalism in television. Tracing the historical evolution of television reporting, this entry describes both traditional and new forms of broadcast journalism in television, ...
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Big data, gender, and civic engagement
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020)Civic engagement is essential to democracy in the sense that it secures social justice for all genders. To this end, understanding data, and more importantly Big Data, is very important in the area of gender studies, and ...
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Affective labour and perceptions of trauma journalism in crisis-ridden countries: a qualitative approach
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020)This chapter assesses the trauma that media professionals experience as eye-witnesses of the disturbing and intense events associated with their everyday working routine. In particular, this chapter examines recent ...
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Book Chapter
Misinformation and user-generated content: applying participatory practices in fact-checking
(Cardiff University Press, 2020)In the evolving news media landscape, the proliferation of user-generated content in online news outlets and social media platforms has triggered changes in traditional processes and relationships. However, the coexistence ...
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Reporting on health issues: communicating public health through the press in times of crisis
(2015)Concern for public health is considered to be of crucial societal value for the national policy of every democratic government. As usually happens, the status and changes to social policy may be widely communicated by the ...
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Media Plurality Report for 2022: Cyprus, Greece and Malta
(MedDMO Consortium, 2023)This report presents and assesses the plurality and diversity of news media ecosystems in 2022 in the three countries comprising the Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory (MedDMO) Hub.
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From PSB to Privatisation: Structures and Vulnerabilities of the Greek-Cypriot Broadcasting sector
(2017)Around the world, the historical evolution of television follows every country’s history and is closely related to the structures of every society within which it operates. In Cyprus, broadcasting remained under the direct ...
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Watch-dog Journalism or hush puppies silencing? Framing the banking crisis in Cyprus through the press
(Intellect, 2017)From Ida Tarbell to Bob Woodward, journalists crusading for truth have bravely defended democracy from the incursions of corruption and undue influence despite being forced to live with the ‘consequences’ of their actions. ...
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Book Chapter
Representation of gender relations in the Cypriot popular culture: the cases of the Cypriot Radio Sketch and Lifestyle Magazines
(Brill, 2013)Mass media concurrently shape and are shaped by social norms, in Cyprus as in all other cultures. Specific images, speech and/or actions are gendered in the media and such gendering is both linked to, and influential of, ...
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The Utilization of journalistic sources in the national press: Communicating the transition from economic crisis to sustainable growth
(CNS, 2017)This paper discusses the role and utilization of journalistic sources in the process of communicating the transitional path of a society in crisis towards economic and sustainable growth. It is mainly concerned with the ...
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Book Chapter
Journalism Education in the era beyond digitalization: the impact of fact-checking and verification techniques upon journalism students
(2020)Fact checking and verification techniques have been called to tackle disinformation (Silverman, 2014) as a significant problem for journalists and news organizations around the world. A thorough understanding of how to ...
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Embedding a chatbot in a news article: design and implementation
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2019)Since the information communication conversion took place during the two last decades of the twentieth century, significant changes occurred in the media industry. The journalistic narrative has been enriched with multimedia ...
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Television beyond digitalization: Economics, competitiveness and future perspectives
(Intellect, 2018)In an unstable and fragmented global media environment, beset by an economic crisis and technological changes, the future of traditional television seems bleak and uncertain. The age of digitalization brought a series of ...
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The Mediated Data Model of Communication Flow: Big Data and Data Journalism
(Hungarian Communication Studies Association, 2018)In recent decades, journalism has undergone considerable transformation, initially fuelled by the digitalization of journalistic work flows and subsequently by the introduction of the Internet, its services, and its effects. ...
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Visual Infotainment in the political news: A cultural approach in the post-truth era
(MedieKultur, 2019)Th is article introduces the concept of visual infotainment, the aspects of infotain-ment found in visual artefacts employed in the news. Using a case study, we examine the photographs published in the digital media to ...
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Transformations of television consumption practices: An analysis on documentary viewing among post-millennials
(2019)The adaptation of new infrastructure in the media industry, as well as the evolution of Web 2.0 and beyond, has decisively altered the ways of producing and consuming audiovisual content. The forthcoming generation of ...
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Political conflicts in the Cypriot football fields: A Qualitative Approach through the Press
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Sports and especially football have often become a field for political conflict in several societies around the world. In Cyprus the history of football follows the overwhelming history of the country, since, during the ...
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The salience of fakeness: Experimental evidence on readers’ distinction between mainstream media content and altered news stories
(Sage, 2020)This experiment was designed to explore people’s critical, differentiating capacity between actual news and content that looks like news. Four groups of postmillennials read four versions of a news story. While the first ...
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Recurrent Narratives Around the COVID-19 Crisis in Social Networks: A Case Study Analysis on Facebook
(2020)In recent years, social networks have played a significant role during major crisis events as citizens use these networks to seek information, discuss and share personal news stories, while interacting with other users ...