Papers by Lambrini Papadopoulou
Journalism, Mar 23, 2024
The issue of SLAPPs remains a largely understudied area in journalism studies. Limited academic w... more The issue of SLAPPs remains a largely understudied area in journalism studies. Limited academic work on the topic mainly focuses on its legal aspects and there is little empirical academic work engaging with the way SLAPPs are experienced by those who are personally involved. This study focuses on illuminating the impact of these vexatious and frivolous lawsuits on investigative journalism and press freedom, and recording whether journalists experience additional or different consequences from SLAPPs in comparison to other types of threats. Based on interviews with journalists who have experienced SLAPPs in recent years and documenting their personal experiences, the study sheds light on the hidden professional and personal costs of investigative reporting, attempts to assess this phenomenon in relation to its effects on journalism and journalists, and is one of the few to record and analyze journalists’ personal beliefs and experiences.
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PAPADOPOULOU, Lambrini, ANGELOU, Ioannis
This report presents the results of the implementation ... more PAPADOPOULOU, Lambrini, ANGELOU, Ioannis
This report presents the results of the implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor for the year 2022 (MPM2023) in Greece. The MPM is a holistic tool geared at assessing the risks to media pluralism in EU member states and selected candidate countries (32 European countries in total, including Albania, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey). The MPM takes into account legal, political and economic variables that are relevant to analysing the levels of plurality of media systems in a democratic society. The Media Pluralism Monitor has been implemented, on a regular basis, by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, since 2013/2014.
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The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece, 2020
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Studies in Media and Communication, 2022
Ioannis Angelou, Anastasia Katsaounidou, Lambrini Papadopoulou
This study focuses on the way(s) ... more Ioannis Angelou, Anastasia Katsaounidou, Lambrini Papadopoulou
This study focuses on the way(s) that the economic and the pandemic crisis were covered by media outlets and aims to research whether journalists' own feelings and experiences of covering both these traumatic events were depicted in their news articles. Drawing on Semetko and Valkenburg's (2000) set of five generic frames this study focuses on Greece, a country that has been severely hit by both these crises and brings together theories about journalism as emotional labour that defy the prevailing notion of the distant and neutral observers. Moving one step further, this study argues that journalists convey their source's emotions, but in some cases, they also reveal their own feelings through their news articles. Findings suggest that apart from the already documented frames, (i.e., attribution of responsibility, conflict, human interest, economic consequences, and morality), journalists used the trauma frame, a notion we use to refer to news articles that essentially reflect and reveal journalists' own emotions. This finding refutes the traditional understanding of quality journalistic discourse as one stripped of emotional expression and opens new pathways for research.
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Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom. , 2022
This report presents the results of the implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor for the yea... more This report presents the results of the implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor for the year 2021 (MPM2022) in Greece. The MPM is a holistic tool geared at assessing the risks to media pluralism in EU member states and selected candidate countries (32 European countries in total, including Albania, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey). The MPM takes into account legal, political and economic variables that are relevant to analysing the levels of plurality of media systems in a democratic society. The Media Pluralism Monitor has been implemented, on a regular basis, by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, since 2013/2014.
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The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies, 2019
This entry provides a broad overview of broadcast journalism in television. Tracing the historica... more 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, its structure and content, and analyzes the ethical values and challenges facing television journalists. The aim is to thoroughly present theoretical and empirical issues regarding television journalism.
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Este artigo trata da mudanca do papel da midia e do jornalismo em um contexto pos-democratico. Ce... more Este artigo trata da mudanca do papel da midia e do jornalismo em um contexto pos-democratico. Centrando-se no caso dos documentarios radicais na Grecia, o texto examina as maneiras pelas quais a politica neoliberal de austeridade tem contribuido para uma mudanca rumo a uma politica pos-democratica onde as decisoes sao tomadas em outros locais e o papel do governo nacional e o de reforcar tais politicas. Neste contexto, perguntamos qual e o papel da midia e do jornalismo e se eles nao podem mais agir como caes de guarda. Examinando os documentarios radicais como parte de um campo mais amplo de midia radical na Grecia, mostramos como eles inauguram uma economia politica diferente, para alem da mercantilizacao de conteudos e da informacao, operando para o beneficio social em vez do lucro. Alem disso, ao documentar a crise, dando voz aos afetados e aqueles que planejam um futuro alem da crise, esses documentarios sao parte de uma mudanca rumo a modelos mais colaborativos de organizacao...
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Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition, 2021
The chapter offers a theoretical overview and understanding on issues regarding the way technolog... more The chapter offers a theoretical overview and understanding on issues regarding the way technological disruption transforms old habits and practices in newsrooms leading to innovative storytelling that transcends time and space. The emergence of social media as a main news source, the extensive use of mobile platforms and the advent of complex technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) are paving the way for new forms of journalism that are shaping the future of the industry. In this context, this chapter defines and adequately describes the term digital media while, at the same time it sheds light on new forms of journalism that arise from the vast outspread of ‘smart technology' such as conversational journalism, data journalism, drone journalism, network journalism, robot journalism, selfie journalism, slow journalism, and virtual reality journalism.
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Journalism, 2021
The article looks to identify and contextualise the shift of journalism towards emotion in terms ... more The article looks to identify and contextualise the shift of journalism towards emotion in terms of broader socio-political shifts. It focuses on ‘hate journalism’, a term we use to describe a new kind of journalism that emerged in Greece during the debt crisis years and is ideologically close to neo-fascist, and ethnonationalist political positions. We understand hate as an action oriented socio-cultural practice and examine the conditions of production and deployment of hate through focusing on Makeleio, the most successful example of this kind of journalism. Within this context, hate is produced and circulated as a ‘hook’ to attract and entice users, by mirroring their emotions; it further constitutes a means of producing and diffusing ideology by helping readers manage uncertainty through putting forward authoritarian solutions. In doing so, hate journalism is involved in social reproduction processes by which (Greek) society produces and sustains itself as ethnically pure, cult...
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Communications, 2022
This article discusses the relationship between the post-2008 global economic crisis and trauma j... more This article discusses the relationship between the post-2008 global economic crisis and trauma journalism through a quantitative study of reporters covering austerity's everyday manifestations and examines the effects on the media professionals involved. The findings indicate that journalists who cover economic crisis-related incidents suffer specific symptoms of trauma. As such, the study re-conceptualizes the economic crisis as primarily affective for media workers, it establishes a direct correlation between the economic crisis and emotional trauma, and provides an insight into the kind of trauma that stems from covering austerity and its impact on society. A regression analysis of symptoms indicates trauma journalism as an emerging field of research into the economic crisis.
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tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Dec 21, 2017
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Studies in Media and Communication, 2021
Papadopoulou, L, Kavoulakos K., & Avramidis, C. (2021)
This study focuses on a variety of grassro... more Papadopoulou, L, Kavoulakos K., & Avramidis, C. (2021)
This study focuses on a variety of grassroots collectives that emerged during the Greek economic crisis and aims to record activists' own perceptions regarding the way that domestic media reacted after these collectives featured on the front pages of global news outlets. Drawing on 10 in depth interviews with activists participating in five grassroots collectives, this study brings together social movement and communications theoretical frameworks. Interviewees were asked about their perceptions regarding the role that global elite media coverage may have played in the salience of their endeavors in domestic media. Subsequently, we tested their personal testimonies by implementing a time series analysis on three Greek newspapers for a period of seven days before and after a front page publication in global elite media. Findings suggest that there is a big discrepancy between the perceived and the actual impact of global elite media on the agenda of domestic newspapers. To this end, further research should be undertaken to specify the exact characteristics that influence which grassroots collective will gain prominence in the public realm.
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Digital Journalism, 2021
Across the globe, governments have issued emergency and drastic measures aimed at tracking the sp... more Across the globe, governments have issued emergency and drastic measures aimed at tracking the spread of COVID-19 and safeguarding public health. Notwithstanding the necessity and importance of some of these measures, this work argues that numerous governments around the world used the pandemic crisis as a pretext to push through restrictions that hamper critical journalism. Drawing from worldwide press freedom monitoring tools and platforms established by various credible global organizations, this study shows that the pandemic crisis exacerbates existing obstacles to press freedom and adds new dimensions to the already documented threats. This is evident not only in authoritarian states, but also in western democracies. Most of the threats documented specifically aim to silence digital journalism, which has gained significant momentum as a result of the pandemic crisis. Overall, the main target of this work is to offer an enriched conceptual approach to the types of threats that press freedom faces in the context of global crisis situations.
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Journalism , 2021
Siapera, E., and Papadopoulou, L. (2021) The article looks to identify and contextualise the shif... more Siapera, E., and Papadopoulou, L. (2021) The article looks to identify and contextualise the shift of journalism towards emotion in terms of broader socio-political shifts. It focuses on ‘hate journalism’, a term we use to describe a new kind of journalism that emerged in Greece during the debt crisis years and is ideologically close to neo-fascist, and ethnonationalist political positions.
We understand hate as an action oriented socio-cultural practice and examine the conditions of production and deployment of hate through focusing on Makeleio, the most successful example of this kind of journalism. Within this context, hate is produced and circulated as a ‘hook’ to attract and entice users, by mirroring their emotions; it further constitutes a means of producing and diffusing ideology by helping readers manage uncertainty through putting forward authoritarian solutions. In doing so, hate journalism is involved in social reproduction processes by which (Greek) society produces and sustains itself as ethnically pure, culturally Christian, and gendered as masculine and virile. Readers are invited to recognise themselves and their practices and vernacular, to be consoled and offered solace and comfort within an unmoored world. They, in turn, offer support to this journalism through consuming it.
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Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 2020
Papadopoulou, L. (2020). This article explores Greek alternative media, records their hybridity a... more Papadopoulou, L. (2020). This article explores Greek alternative media, records their hybridity and analyses them under the prism of political economy. Drawing theoretically on researchers who emphasize the elusiveness and heterogeneity of alternative media and examining them on account of their ownership structures, production practices and media content, I propose their conceptualization as a vibrant organism in a constant dialectic relationship with mainstream media. These ‘alternative hybrid media’ may borrow people, ideas and practices from mainstream media, but they do not compromise their values for the pursuit of profit or political power. This article focuses on Efimerida ton Syntakton, the country’s first national cooperative newspaper, which emerged out of a collective of laid-off journalists and constitutes a representative example of the hybridity that characterizes the Greek alternative media ecosystem. Based on interviews with journalists and secondary data, this article aims to point to the defining characteristics of ‘alternative hybrid media’ and generate a deeper insight into the complex area of alternative media.
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Zines journal, 2020
Papadopoulou, L. (2020). Zining has received little attention from academics, and when it does, i... more Papadopoulou, L. (2020). Zining has received little attention from academics, and when it does, it is usually analysed and discussed in terms of mass media,
popular cultural studies theory or literary criticism (Knobel &
Lankshear, 2002). Following Atton’s (2011) suggestion for a
theory of alternative and radical media that is not limited to
political and ‘resistance’ media but which may also account for
newer cultural forms such as zines, I present “Behind the walls”,
a prison zine that was produced by the inmates of Korydallos’
jail, Greece’s main prison. Following the journal’s call that
allowed for unconventional formats of contribution, I decided
to opt for an interview with the two instructors in the prison’s
Second Chance School, Antigone Eustratoglou (AE) and Iokasti
Mazopoulou (IM) who guided the inmates though their journey
into the world of zining. The two instructors shed light on the
inmates’ transformation through this zine and defined a new
emerging role of prison zines – namely their ability to function
as a radical catalyst not only for the inmates who managed to
take control of the way their identity is constructed, but also
for the society as a whole which is given the chance to defy the
mainstream media’s social constructions and see for themselves
what is really happening “Behind the prison’s walls.”
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Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition, 2021
Papadopoulou, L. and Maniou, T. (2021). The chapter offers a theoretical overview and understandi... more Papadopoulou, L. and Maniou, T. (2021). The chapter offers a theoretical overview and understanding on issues regarding the way technological disruption transforms old habits and practices in newsrooms leading to innovative storytelling that transcends time and space. The emergence of social media as a main news source, the extensive use of mobile platforms and the advent of complex technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) are paving the way for new forms of journalism that are shaping the future of the industry. In this context, this chapter defines and adequately describes the term digital media while, at the same time it sheds light on new forms of journalism that arise from the vast outspread of ‘smart technology' such as conversational journalism, data journalism, drone journalism, network journalism, robot journalism, selfie journalism, slow journalism, and virtual reality journalism.
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• Leandros, Ν. & Papadopoulou L. (2020) Creative destruction in the Greek media landscape: New and alternative business models. In Vovou, Andonova, Y and Kogan A.F. (Eds) Proceedings of The Creative Contagion. The creative contagion. Media, industries, storytelling, communities, pp. 89-97. , 2020
Media industries worldwide are undergoing a process of creative transformation, leading to new bu... more Media industries worldwide are undergoing a process of creative transformation, leading to new business models characterized by connectivity, interactivity, and convergence.
Creativity, however, cannot be examined without also taking the destruction that the worldwide media ecosystem has faced, due to the impact of technological, economic, regulatory, and political developments, into serious consideration.
In Greece, nine years after the onset of the economic crisis, there is no record of the ways in which media organizations are trying to respond and adapt to challenges. The current research aims to study and record the Greek media landscape and the new initiatives that have emerged. The findings suggest that, even in times of turmoil and destruction, creative initiatives can still emerge and effectively address the challenges that managing change involves.
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Papadopoulou, L. (2019). Democracy and media transparency: Systemic failures in Greek radio ecosystem and the rise of alternative and radical web radio. In Chaparro Escudero, Μ., Gabilondo, V., & Espinar Medina, L. (Eds). Transparencia mediática, oligopolios y democracia. Spain: Comunicación Social, 2019
This chapter aims to provide a brief overview of the alternative web radios that have emerged in ... more This chapter aims to provide a brief overview of the alternative web radios that have emerged in the Greek media ecosystem, by describing their basic characteristics, principles, structures and their views on journalistic practices.
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Leandros, Ν. & Papadopoulou L. (2020). Strategic Business Models in Times of Transformational Change and Crisis: A New Typology for Sustainable Media, 2020
Media companies worldwide are trying to adapt to the new challenges brought about by the economic... more Media companies worldwide are trying to adapt to the new challenges brought about by the economic
crisis and technological revolution. However, some of these efforts are doomed to fail because media
tend to concentrate on adapting particular elements of their business models, instead of changing the
entire business model logic. This work proposes an innovative business model typology and is based
on the hypothesis that if a company could re-arrange its structural elements around this typology, it
could have much better chances in its fight to overcome the challenges posed by the ever changing
and competitive digital ecosystem. To test this typology the authors used case study methodology
and drew from evidence collected from in-depth interviews with journalistsfrom two Greek websites.
Ultimately, the article providesthe basisfor generating new theories about business models and finds
that even in times of crisis and transformational change, media companies can survive aslong asthey
perceive crisis -and any other kind of challenge for that matter- as an opportunity for creative change.
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This report presents the results of the implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor for the year 2022 (MPM2023) in Greece. The MPM is a holistic tool geared at assessing the risks to media pluralism in EU member states and selected candidate countries (32 European countries in total, including Albania, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey). The MPM takes into account legal, political and economic variables that are relevant to analysing the levels of plurality of media systems in a democratic society. The Media Pluralism Monitor has been implemented, on a regular basis, by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, since 2013/2014.
This study focuses on the way(s) that the economic and the pandemic crisis were covered by media outlets and aims to research whether journalists' own feelings and experiences of covering both these traumatic events were depicted in their news articles. Drawing on Semetko and Valkenburg's (2000) set of five generic frames this study focuses on Greece, a country that has been severely hit by both these crises and brings together theories about journalism as emotional labour that defy the prevailing notion of the distant and neutral observers. Moving one step further, this study argues that journalists convey their source's emotions, but in some cases, they also reveal their own feelings through their news articles. Findings suggest that apart from the already documented frames, (i.e., attribution of responsibility, conflict, human interest, economic consequences, and morality), journalists used the trauma frame, a notion we use to refer to news articles that essentially reflect and reveal journalists' own emotions. This finding refutes the traditional understanding of quality journalistic discourse as one stripped of emotional expression and opens new pathways for research.
This study focuses on a variety of grassroots collectives that emerged during the Greek economic crisis and aims to record activists' own perceptions regarding the way that domestic media reacted after these collectives featured on the front pages of global news outlets. Drawing on 10 in depth interviews with activists participating in five grassroots collectives, this study brings together social movement and communications theoretical frameworks. Interviewees were asked about their perceptions regarding the role that global elite media coverage may have played in the salience of their endeavors in domestic media. Subsequently, we tested their personal testimonies by implementing a time series analysis on three Greek newspapers for a period of seven days before and after a front page publication in global elite media. Findings suggest that there is a big discrepancy between the perceived and the actual impact of global elite media on the agenda of domestic newspapers. To this end, further research should be undertaken to specify the exact characteristics that influence which grassroots collective will gain prominence in the public realm.
We understand hate as an action oriented socio-cultural practice and examine the conditions of production and deployment of hate through focusing on Makeleio, the most successful example of this kind of journalism. Within this context, hate is produced and circulated as a ‘hook’ to attract and entice users, by mirroring their emotions; it further constitutes a means of producing and diffusing ideology by helping readers manage uncertainty through putting forward authoritarian solutions. In doing so, hate journalism is involved in social reproduction processes by which (Greek) society produces and sustains itself as ethnically pure, culturally Christian, and gendered as masculine and virile. Readers are invited to recognise themselves and their practices and vernacular, to be consoled and offered solace and comfort within an unmoored world. They, in turn, offer support to this journalism through consuming it.
popular cultural studies theory or literary criticism (Knobel &
Lankshear, 2002). Following Atton’s (2011) suggestion for a
theory of alternative and radical media that is not limited to
political and ‘resistance’ media but which may also account for
newer cultural forms such as zines, I present “Behind the walls”,
a prison zine that was produced by the inmates of Korydallos’
jail, Greece’s main prison. Following the journal’s call that
allowed for unconventional formats of contribution, I decided
to opt for an interview with the two instructors in the prison’s
Second Chance School, Antigone Eustratoglou (AE) and Iokasti
Mazopoulou (IM) who guided the inmates though their journey
into the world of zining. The two instructors shed light on the
inmates’ transformation through this zine and defined a new
emerging role of prison zines – namely their ability to function
as a radical catalyst not only for the inmates who managed to
take control of the way their identity is constructed, but also
for the society as a whole which is given the chance to defy the
mainstream media’s social constructions and see for themselves
what is really happening “Behind the prison’s walls.”
Creativity, however, cannot be examined without also taking the destruction that the worldwide media ecosystem has faced, due to the impact of technological, economic, regulatory, and political developments, into serious consideration.
In Greece, nine years after the onset of the economic crisis, there is no record of the ways in which media organizations are trying to respond and adapt to challenges. The current research aims to study and record the Greek media landscape and the new initiatives that have emerged. The findings suggest that, even in times of turmoil and destruction, creative initiatives can still emerge and effectively address the challenges that managing change involves.
crisis and technological revolution. However, some of these efforts are doomed to fail because media
tend to concentrate on adapting particular elements of their business models, instead of changing the
entire business model logic. This work proposes an innovative business model typology and is based
on the hypothesis that if a company could re-arrange its structural elements around this typology, it
could have much better chances in its fight to overcome the challenges posed by the ever changing
and competitive digital ecosystem. To test this typology the authors used case study methodology
and drew from evidence collected from in-depth interviews with journalistsfrom two Greek websites.
Ultimately, the article providesthe basisfor generating new theories about business models and finds
that even in times of crisis and transformational change, media companies can survive aslong asthey
perceive crisis -and any other kind of challenge for that matter- as an opportunity for creative change.
This report presents the results of the implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor for the year 2022 (MPM2023) in Greece. The MPM is a holistic tool geared at assessing the risks to media pluralism in EU member states and selected candidate countries (32 European countries in total, including Albania, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey). The MPM takes into account legal, political and economic variables that are relevant to analysing the levels of plurality of media systems in a democratic society. The Media Pluralism Monitor has been implemented, on a regular basis, by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, since 2013/2014.
This study focuses on the way(s) that the economic and the pandemic crisis were covered by media outlets and aims to research whether journalists' own feelings and experiences of covering both these traumatic events were depicted in their news articles. Drawing on Semetko and Valkenburg's (2000) set of five generic frames this study focuses on Greece, a country that has been severely hit by both these crises and brings together theories about journalism as emotional labour that defy the prevailing notion of the distant and neutral observers. Moving one step further, this study argues that journalists convey their source's emotions, but in some cases, they also reveal their own feelings through their news articles. Findings suggest that apart from the already documented frames, (i.e., attribution of responsibility, conflict, human interest, economic consequences, and morality), journalists used the trauma frame, a notion we use to refer to news articles that essentially reflect and reveal journalists' own emotions. This finding refutes the traditional understanding of quality journalistic discourse as one stripped of emotional expression and opens new pathways for research.
This study focuses on a variety of grassroots collectives that emerged during the Greek economic crisis and aims to record activists' own perceptions regarding the way that domestic media reacted after these collectives featured on the front pages of global news outlets. Drawing on 10 in depth interviews with activists participating in five grassroots collectives, this study brings together social movement and communications theoretical frameworks. Interviewees were asked about their perceptions regarding the role that global elite media coverage may have played in the salience of their endeavors in domestic media. Subsequently, we tested their personal testimonies by implementing a time series analysis on three Greek newspapers for a period of seven days before and after a front page publication in global elite media. Findings suggest that there is a big discrepancy between the perceived and the actual impact of global elite media on the agenda of domestic newspapers. To this end, further research should be undertaken to specify the exact characteristics that influence which grassroots collective will gain prominence in the public realm.
We understand hate as an action oriented socio-cultural practice and examine the conditions of production and deployment of hate through focusing on Makeleio, the most successful example of this kind of journalism. Within this context, hate is produced and circulated as a ‘hook’ to attract and entice users, by mirroring their emotions; it further constitutes a means of producing and diffusing ideology by helping readers manage uncertainty through putting forward authoritarian solutions. In doing so, hate journalism is involved in social reproduction processes by which (Greek) society produces and sustains itself as ethnically pure, culturally Christian, and gendered as masculine and virile. Readers are invited to recognise themselves and their practices and vernacular, to be consoled and offered solace and comfort within an unmoored world. They, in turn, offer support to this journalism through consuming it.
popular cultural studies theory or literary criticism (Knobel &
Lankshear, 2002). Following Atton’s (2011) suggestion for a
theory of alternative and radical media that is not limited to
political and ‘resistance’ media but which may also account for
newer cultural forms such as zines, I present “Behind the walls”,
a prison zine that was produced by the inmates of Korydallos’
jail, Greece’s main prison. Following the journal’s call that
allowed for unconventional formats of contribution, I decided
to opt for an interview with the two instructors in the prison’s
Second Chance School, Antigone Eustratoglou (AE) and Iokasti
Mazopoulou (IM) who guided the inmates though their journey
into the world of zining. The two instructors shed light on the
inmates’ transformation through this zine and defined a new
emerging role of prison zines – namely their ability to function
as a radical catalyst not only for the inmates who managed to
take control of the way their identity is constructed, but also
for the society as a whole which is given the chance to defy the
mainstream media’s social constructions and see for themselves
what is really happening “Behind the prison’s walls.”
Creativity, however, cannot be examined without also taking the destruction that the worldwide media ecosystem has faced, due to the impact of technological, economic, regulatory, and political developments, into serious consideration.
In Greece, nine years after the onset of the economic crisis, there is no record of the ways in which media organizations are trying to respond and adapt to challenges. The current research aims to study and record the Greek media landscape and the new initiatives that have emerged. The findings suggest that, even in times of turmoil and destruction, creative initiatives can still emerge and effectively address the challenges that managing change involves.
crisis and technological revolution. However, some of these efforts are doomed to fail because media
tend to concentrate on adapting particular elements of their business models, instead of changing the
entire business model logic. This work proposes an innovative business model typology and is based
on the hypothesis that if a company could re-arrange its structural elements around this typology, it
could have much better chances in its fight to overcome the challenges posed by the ever changing
and competitive digital ecosystem. To test this typology the authors used case study methodology
and drew from evidence collected from in-depth interviews with journalistsfrom two Greek websites.
Ultimately, the article providesthe basisfor generating new theories about business models and finds
that even in times of crisis and transformational change, media companies can survive aslong asthey
perceive crisis -and any other kind of challenge for that matter- as an opportunity for creative change.
austerity and its impact on society. A regression analysis of symptoms indicates trauma journalism as an emerging field of research into the economic crisis.