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Papers by Eugenia Siapera

Wiley-Blackwell eBooks, Feb 3, 2010

Social media and society, 2018

This article constitutes a big data study of Twitter during the peak of the so-called refugee cri... more This article constitutes a big data study of Twitter during the peak of the so-called refugee crisis in the period between October 2015 and May 2016. The article analyzed almost 7.5 million tweets collected through hashtags such as #refugee, #refugeecrisis, # flüchtling, and others. Theoretically, the article draws on concepts such as hybrid media, affective publics, networked framing, and voice. In the context of any increasingly hybrid media, we ask what are the frames on refugees that emerge on Twitter, who are the emerging elites, and to what extent do these frames represent alternative voices. Overall, the findings indicate that overall, the dominant frames remain the same, revolving around security and safety on one hand and humanitarianism on the other. The study also identified some explicitly racist hashtags linked to some of the security and safety frames. Elite politicians, media, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) represent the most prominent actors. In general, the refugee issue on Twitter was found to be subsumed and instrumentalized by political interests. Affect and networked frames are captured by and within a specific political position that we found revolving around the personage of Donald Trump and the increasingly strident anti-immigration voices in Europe. In these terms, the results indicate that Twitter's contribution to the refugee debate is profoundly equivocal.

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2007

Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to crimina... more Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

Widok, 2020

Do kuratorek i kuratorów, krytyczek i krytyków, artystek i artystów, teoretyczek i teoretyków wys... more Do kuratorek i kuratorów, krytyczek i krytyków, artystek i artystów, teoretyczek i teoretyków wysłaliśmy zaproszenie do rozmowy o skomplikowanych relacjach między obrazami, wyobrażeniami i "rasą". Poniżej publikujemy ich odpowiedzi. Dziękujemy za Wasze głosy.

This study sought to identify shifts in audience media use and consumption. The study was further... more This study sought to identify shifts in audience media use and consumption. The study was further concerned with identifying the various ways in which thinking about audiences has shifted within policy discourses, and specifically in the EU audiovisual policy directives. The rationale behind this study was informed by the hypothesis that there is a potential disconnect between the policy and the practices of audiences. The project used a mixed methodology combining 164 weekly media diaries and 7 focus group discussions with users mostly in the 20-55 age category. YouTube and Netflix emerged as the two preferred media for video consumption, while the patterns and rhythms of this consumption followed the rhythms of everyday life and its requirements and practical limitations. The findings further identified three new or underexplored motivations for media use: instrumental, educational and aesthetic. Finally, media audiences emerge as oriented towards interpersonal, social and public media use. The main insight for policy is that audiences operate socially and not individually and that media have expanded in almost all domains of life, from work to aesthetic appreciation.

Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών

Το άρθρο επικεντρώνεται στην ελληνική ακροδεξιά εφημερίδα Μακελειό και στοχεύει να καταγράψει και... more Το άρθρο επικεντρώνεται στην ελληνική ακροδεξιά εφημερίδα Μακελειό και στοχεύει να καταγράψει και να αναλύσει τον τρόπο με τον οποίο αυτή παράγει και διαδίδει αρνητικά συναισθήματα όπως το μίσος. Υποστηρίζουμε ότι το Μακελειό, που αποτελεί ένα επιτυχημένο Μέσο, κατάφερε να επιβιώσει και μάλιστα να ευδοκιμήσει στο ελληνικό επικοινωνιακό τοπίο καθρεφτίζοντας, αναπαράγοντας και ενισχύοντας τις μισογυνικές και ομοφοβικές αξίες της συντηρητικής Ελλάδας. Δεν είναι τυχαίο ότι αυτού του είδους η δημοσιογραφία άνθισε κατά τη διάρκεια της κρίσης που έπληξε σοβαρά την Ελλάδα, καθιστώντας την αβεβαιότητα ως τη νέα κανονικότητα σε όλες τις πτυχές της ζωής. Αυτό το πλαίσιο λειτούργησε ως καταλύτης, που οδήγησε σε μια ευρύτερη χρήση των συναισθημάτων στη δημοσιογραφική πρακτική ως μέσο αντιμετώπισης και διαχείρισης της βαθιάς αβεβαιότητας. Ασκώντας αυτού του είδους τη «δημοσιογραφία μίσους», το Μακελειό δημιουργεί μια ιδιαίτερη σχέση με τους αναγνώστες του, οι οποίοι αναγνωρίζουν τη δική τους γλώσ...

Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Aug 25, 2020

Routledge eBooks, Feb 6, 2023

Social Media + Society

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the creation of a new protest movement, positioned against governmen... more The COVID-19 pandemic led to the creation of a new protest movement, positioned against government lockdowns, mandatory vaccines, and related measures. Efforts to control misinformation by digital platforms resulted in take downs of key accounts and posts. This led some of these protest groups to migrate to platforms with less stringent content moderation policies, such as Telegram. Telegram has also been one of the destinations of the far right, whose deplatforming from mainstream platforms began a few years ago. Given the co-existence of these two movements on Telegram, the article examines their connections. Empirically, the article focused on Irish Telegram groups and channels, identifying relevant protest movements and collecting their posts. Using computational social science methods, we examine whether far-right terms and discourses are present and how this varies across different clusters of Telegram Covid-19 protest groups. In addition, we examine which actors are posting f...

Radical Journalism, 2023

This chapter introduces the book by providing a brief historical overview and evolution of radica... more This chapter introduces the book by providing a brief historical overview and evolution of radical journalism, from the working class press of the 19th century to abolitionist and Black liberation journalism of early 20th century, and from the revolutionary press of the 1920s to the civil rights and feminist media of the 1960s and 70s. It further provides a conceptualisation of radical journalism and media as

Media Activist Research Ethics, 2020

The Political Economy of Communication, Mar 13, 2021

International Journal of Communication, 2020

In 2010, as part of the Troika intervention into Ireland, the then government agreed to the impos... more In 2010, as part of the Troika intervention into Ireland, the then government agreed to the imposition of domestic water charges and the creation of a centralized water company. The imposition of charges for domestic water, which was until then universally available, met spontaneous militant action, including mass protests and the blockading of districts to prevent meter installation. The campaigns were quickly dubbed “violent” and accused of being “infiltrated” by “dissidents” and other “sinister” elements, while minor acts of disobedience, such as pickets and sit-down protests, were recast as violent. In response, water activists used social media networks to disseminate opposition and as a critical media literacy tool. This article offers a comparative analysis of legacy print media and activist-driven social media coverage of a politically important court case involving water activists as an example of how the hybrid media system operates in a political conflict.

Constitutionalising Social Media

This paper constitutes an exploration of use of the Internet for political purposes. The theoreti... more This paper constitutes an exploration of use of the Internet for political purposes. The theoretical background is that of a critical approach to the theory of the public sphere and deliberative democracy. The substantive focus is on the political debate on immigration and asylum in the United Kingdom, and the empirical analysis is concerned with 45 activist organisations supporting immigrants and asylum seekers. The paper asks the following questions: Who do these websites primarily address? What type of information do they provide and to whom? Through focusing on the issues of addressees and communicative formats, this paper draws tentative conclusions regarding some of the political uses of the Internet. The findings indicate a variety of online communicative formats, including expressive, strategic and instrumental communications, with notable absence of any deliberation or dialogue. None of these conforms to the requirements for the functioning of the public sphere, but this pa...

Le journalisme à l’épreuve, 2016