Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece

Anastasia Veneti is Principal Academic in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University and Program Leader of the MA International Political Communication. Her research focuses on the intersection of media and politics, including political communication, digital political campaigning, media framing, protests and social movements.Athina Karatzogianni is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. She researches the ideology, political economy and organization of non-state actors in global politics, focusing on their use of digital communication.

A very welcome and much needed collection and synthesis of the current state of digital media, journalism and politics in Greece. While it is often thought that Greek digital journalism and digital politics lags behind those of other European countries, chapters here reveal a vibrant and diverse digital landscape, constituted as a terrain of political, economic, technological and social struggle. It is a pleasure to read contributions from a new generation of media and journalism researchers alongside those of well-known scholars.  This volume is a must read for anyone interested in digital media in Greece and beyond, as it establishes the state of the art in digital media research in protracted crisis and sets the agenda for the future.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Athina Karatzogianni and Anastasia Veneti Part 1: The Technological: Digital Journalism TransformationsChapter 2. Mind the ‘lag’: The political economy of the Internet in Greece; Korinna Patelis Chapter 3. Radio, Web-Radio and Podcasting in Greece: Past, Present and Futures; Evi Karathanasopoulou  Chapter 4. SEO and Web analytics in journalism: Case studies from the Greek news media landscape; Dimitrios Giomelakis and Andreas VeglisChapter 5. Participatory journalism in Greece: An analysis based on journalist-centered and audience-based studies; Theodora Saridou and Andreas Veglis Chapter 6. Citizens as actors in the field of journalism: Exploring users’ agency and perceptions of participatory affordances; Paschalia (Lia) Spyridou Chapter 7. Online news consumption habits of university students in Greece and Turkey; Eylem Yanardağoğlu Chapter 8. Foreign correspondents: Fading elitism or a new professional discourse inthe light of the digitization era?; Iliana Giannouli Part 2: The Economic Crisis; Impact on Digital Journalism Chapter 9. The Greek media at the intersection of the financial crisis and the digital disruption; Stylianos Papathanassopoulos Chapter 10. Alternative digital journalism in Greece under conditions of austerity; Dimitris Boucas and Petros Iosifidis Chapter 11. Journalistic professionalism in Greece: Between chronic and acute crises; Achilleas Karadimitriou Chapter 12. Affective labour and perceptions of trauma journalism in crisis-ridden countries. A qualitative approach; Lambrini Papadopoulou and Theodora Maniou Chapter 13. Journalistic freedom and self-censorship in the case of the Greek Memoranda (2010-2015): Christos Kostopoulos Chapter 14. Self-orientalization and the “Greek crisis” in liberal mainstream news media; Yannis Mylonas Part 3: The Political: Elections, Campaigns and Political Discourse Chapter 15. Changes and shifts in political communication and media democracy landscape in Greece from 1981-2019; Anastasia Deligiaouri Chapter 16. The brand has left the building: the cases of governing PASOK, ND and Syriza at a time of economic crisis (2009-2019); Panos Koliastasis   Chapter 17. Political elites and Media in Greece: Publicity as an electoral factor for political personnel: Gerasimos Karoulas Chapter 18. Them and Us: the politics of exclusion in Greece in times of polarization; Theofanis Exadaktylos Chapter 19. The rise of SYRIZA in Greece 2009-2015: The Digital battlefield; Nikos Smyrnaios and Athina Karatzogianni     Chapter 20. Twitter’s agenda building and agenda setting effects: Evidence from Political Leaders in Greece; Amalia Triantafillidou, Prodromos Yannas, and Anastasia Kani Chapter 21. Visual Self-Presentation Strategies of Greek Political Leaders through their YouTube Political Advertisements for the 2019 EU Elections; Anastasia Veneti and Petros Ioannidis Chapter 22. The Greek political leaders on Instagram: Comparing Instagram activity during electoral and non-electoral periods; Stamatis Poulakidakos Part 4: The Social: Environment, Homelessness, Migration & Social Movements Chapter 23. From ‘illegals’ to ‘unfortunates’: News framing of immigration the refugee crisis in crisis- stricken Greece; Naya Kalfeli Chapter 24. Media representations of the "voice" of the homeless in street network journals during the Greek economic crisis: A case study of the street journal "Schedia"; Savvas Makridis, Vassiliki Papageorgiou and Dimitrios M. Papadakis Chapter 25. Digital media and environmental protests in Greece: #Skouries; Charis Gerosideris and Ioanna Ferra  Chapter 26. Social media-led protest movements: Dangers of mobilizing large crowds within an ideological void and Heritage to mediated mobilization; Stamatia Zestanaki