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Books by Philemon Bantimaroudis

Museum Management and Curatorship, 2019

Gatekeeping theory has evolved in recent years to encompass new patterns and influences in a rapid... more Gatekeeping theory has evolved in recent years to encompass new patterns and influences in a rapidly changing digital environment. The boundary between creating and disseminating digital content is increasingly blurred, as organizations adapt both content and services to the shifting needs of their audiences. In the current case study, viewing museums as content and cultural news providers, we examine digital gatekeeping influences that lead online visitors to museum websites. Recognizing vast changes in gatekeeping patterns, we revisit Shoemaker and Reese’s hierarchical gatekeeping model, but in a cultural news context where consumers have evolved as gatekeepers and gate checkers. As we survey a multitude of data in this descriptive endeavor, we trace various gatekeeping nodes that lead users toward museum content.

This book draws on agenda setting theory to examine how cultural organizations relate to media in... more This book draws on agenda setting theory to examine how cultural organizations relate to media in order to increase their visibility, valence, and eventually build their public image. Most organizations have a keen interest in their symbolic presence, as their media visibility influences public knowledge, perceptions and even behaviors. Diminished public funding, in combination with the global proliferation of cultural entities, creates a competitive environment, leading to a transformation of cultural industries. In the book, several questions are under scrutiny: How do cultural organizations acquire symbolic significance? How do they become prominent in media content? Which mechanisms and processes should be examined by cultural managers as they set out to achieve salience? Is there a relationship between media and public salience? In other words, if an organization becomes symbolically prominent, in what ways is the public influenced, both in terms of perceptions as well as behaviors?

Στην εισαγωγική αυτή μελέτη εξετάζεται η επικοινωνιακή σχέση των οργανισμών του πολιτισμού με τις... more Στην εισαγωγική αυτή μελέτη εξετάζεται η επικοινωνιακή σχέση των οργανισμών του πολιτισμού με τις ποικίλες κατηγορίες κοινού. Βασικός στόχος είναι να σκιαγραφηθούν κάποιες από τις παραπάνω σχέσεις, οριοθετώντας έναν γνωστικό χώρο για επιμέρους μελέτες περίπτωσης αλλά και για τη συνολική ερευνητική αποτύπωση της εκάστοτε βιομηχανίας. Το βιβλίο απευθύνεται τόσο στο σπουδαστή της επικοινωνίας και του πολιτισμού όσο και στον επαγγελματία που αναζητά μια συνεκτική παρουσίαση της σχέσης του πολιτιστικού οργανισμού με το κοινό του.

Papers by Philemon Bantimaroudis

Media Watch

This article draws evidence from a national survey conducted in the Republic of Cyprus. Examining... more This article draws evidence from a national survey conducted in the Republic of Cyprus. Examining the influencer phenomenon, personal salience is scrutinised as the primary objective of ordinary social media users seeking to draw attention toward themselves. Respondents provided evidence about the types of content they desire in connection with influencers they follow on social media. Furthermore, they provided perceptional evidence about Instagram’s capacity to render individuals salient in social media communities. Finally, the study shows that demographic characteristics and certain types of personal content are associated with influencers’ personal salience.

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021

The Agenda Setting Journal, 2021

This essay examines the notion of personal salience, introducing individual online media users as... more This essay examines the notion of personal salience, introducing individual online media users as ‘objects’ in the context of agenda setting theory. The salience of the self has been investigated by scholars in various interdisciplinary explorations. In this project, the notion of personal salience is revisited from an agendamelding perspective. Along with political and civic agendas of individuals that meld in online community environments, individuals promote themselves as agendas that deserve public attention. Examining personal agendas raises new questions about perceptional and behavioral influences as ordinary individuals strive to establish their mediated presence.

Museum Management and Curatorship

Communications

This paper draws evidence from a national survey conducted in the Republic of Cyprus. Respondents... more This paper draws evidence from a national survey conducted in the Republic of Cyprus. Respondents provided evidence about their own self-promotion on social media while assessing other users’ personal salience online. Furthermore, they provided evidence about their own reactions toward other people’s personal salience. The study shows that respondents display affective, perceptional, as well as behavioral reactions toward other people’s online visibility. Demographic characteristics along with certain types of control variables are associated with individuals’ personal salience. Although transferring personal salience constitutes a segmented social media influence, this survey shows that it is recognized as a widespread objective and priority by ordinary individuals.

International Journal of Communication, 2017

Museum Management and Curatorship

Media Watch

This experiment was designed to explore people's critical, differentiating capacity between actua... more 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 condition included a real news story derived from a mainstream medium, the other three conditions tested three attributes of fakeness, namely an exaggerated, satirical, and popularised frame of disinformation. Although readers differentiated between satire and the actual news story, no significant differences were observed between exaggerated and simplified versions of news and the actual news story. Additional intervening variables were scrutinized, showing a connection between the salience of a story and its perceptions of fakeness.

Fifty years of agenda-setting research, 2019

The current study draws evidence from the Smithsonian Institution while examining a classic agend... more The current study draws evidence from the Smithsonian Institution while examining a classic agenda-setting hypothesis during a period of 30 years in relation to media attention of the Smithsonian and a behavioral index of public salience, – namely its long-term, monthly visits. Second, it explores a larger theoretical concern often expressed by scholars in terms of the agenda-setting function over two different eras, the analog and the digital media periods.

are circulated for discussion purposes only. Their contents should be considered preliminary and ... more are circulated for discussion purposes only. Their contents should be considered preliminary and are not to be quoted without the authors ’ permission. Cambridge Judge Business School author contact details are as follows:

Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 2020

This article examines significant changes in the television news industry, from 2015 until 2019, ... more This article examines significant changes in the television news industry, from 2015 until 2019, a period characterized by a severe financial crisis that swept throughout the country, bringing to the forefront of the Greek public sphere, new political voices of both the right and the left. Using secondary data to examine media ownership patterns, we adopted a political economic approach to highlight the ways in which television news have adopted a populist outlook that has its origins in similar practices in the 1980s political and media contexts, while reviewing and assessing long-term interactions between media (television) industries and the political system.

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 2020

This study examines students’ social media interactions in relation to their subcultural explorat... more This study examines students’ social media interactions in relation to their subcultural explorations of a conspiratorial nature. A sample of 476 students from four European universities participated in a survey about conspiracy theories in social media group discussions. In the survey, we examined various social and media factors in relation to students’ beliefs in conspiracy theories. The results of this exploratory study reveal that students treat social media as news sources; furthermore, they trust social media more than traditional mass media. The study reveals demographic, personal and technological factors that encourage a mediated conspiratorial discourse.

Studies in Media and Communication, 2020

This theoretical paper introduces the notion of personal salience, expanding the traditional para... more This theoretical paper introduces the notion of personal salience, expanding the traditional paradigm of agenda setting theory to encompass digital, online activities for the establishment of personal agendas. Self-agendas have been examined from many diverging points of view and competing perspectives. In this paper, we aim to place them within the precise categorization of the agenda setting paradigm. In its fifty-year history, scholars have examined the specific mechanisms and processes that render “issues” and “objects” salient. The current paper aims to classify personal agendas and personal salience as distinct typologies of mediated significance.

Museum Management and Curatorship, 2019

Gatekeeping theory has evolved in recent years to encompass new patterns and influences in a rapid... more Gatekeeping theory has evolved in recent years to encompass new patterns and influences in a rapidly changing digital environment. The boundary between creating and disseminating digital content is increasingly blurred, as organizations adapt both content and services to the shifting needs of their audiences. In the current case study, viewing museums as content and cultural news providers, we examine digital gatekeeping influences that lead online visitors to museum websites. Recognizing vast changes in gatekeeping patterns, we revisit Shoemaker and Reese’s hierarchical gatekeeping model, but in a cultural news context where consumers have evolved as gatekeepers and gate checkers. As we survey a multitude of data in this descriptive endeavor, we trace various gatekeeping nodes that lead users toward museum content.

This book draws on agenda setting theory to examine how cultural organizations relate to media in... more This book draws on agenda setting theory to examine how cultural organizations relate to media in order to increase their visibility, valence, and eventually build their public image. Most organizations have a keen interest in their symbolic presence, as their media visibility influences public knowledge, perceptions and even behaviors. Diminished public funding, in combination with the global proliferation of cultural entities, creates a competitive environment, leading to a transformation of cultural industries. In the book, several questions are under scrutiny: How do cultural organizations acquire symbolic significance? How do they become prominent in media content? Which mechanisms and processes should be examined by cultural managers as they set out to achieve salience? Is there a relationship between media and public salience? In other words, if an organization becomes symbolically prominent, in what ways is the public influenced, both in terms of perceptions as well as behaviors?

Στην εισαγωγική αυτή μελέτη εξετάζεται η επικοινωνιακή σχέση των οργανισμών του πολιτισμού με τις... more Στην εισαγωγική αυτή μελέτη εξετάζεται η επικοινωνιακή σχέση των οργανισμών του πολιτισμού με τις ποικίλες κατηγορίες κοινού. Βασικός στόχος είναι να σκιαγραφηθούν κάποιες από τις παραπάνω σχέσεις, οριοθετώντας έναν γνωστικό χώρο για επιμέρους μελέτες περίπτωσης αλλά και για τη συνολική ερευνητική αποτύπωση της εκάστοτε βιομηχανίας. Το βιβλίο απευθύνεται τόσο στο σπουδαστή της επικοινωνίας και του πολιτισμού όσο και στον επαγγελματία που αναζητά μια συνεκτική παρουσίαση της σχέσης του πολιτιστικού οργανισμού με το κοινό του.

Media Watch

This article draws evidence from a national survey conducted in the Republic of Cyprus. Examining... more This article draws evidence from a national survey conducted in the Republic of Cyprus. Examining the influencer phenomenon, personal salience is scrutinised as the primary objective of ordinary social media users seeking to draw attention toward themselves. Respondents provided evidence about the types of content they desire in connection with influencers they follow on social media. Furthermore, they provided perceptional evidence about Instagram’s capacity to render individuals salient in social media communities. Finally, the study shows that demographic characteristics and certain types of personal content are associated with influencers’ personal salience.

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021

The Agenda Setting Journal, 2021

This essay examines the notion of personal salience, introducing individual online media users as... more This essay examines the notion of personal salience, introducing individual online media users as ‘objects’ in the context of agenda setting theory. The salience of the self has been investigated by scholars in various interdisciplinary explorations. In this project, the notion of personal salience is revisited from an agendamelding perspective. Along with political and civic agendas of individuals that meld in online community environments, individuals promote themselves as agendas that deserve public attention. Examining personal agendas raises new questions about perceptional and behavioral influences as ordinary individuals strive to establish their mediated presence.

Museum Management and Curatorship

Communications

This paper draws evidence from a national survey conducted in the Republic of Cyprus. Respondents... more This paper draws evidence from a national survey conducted in the Republic of Cyprus. Respondents provided evidence about their own self-promotion on social media while assessing other users’ personal salience online. Furthermore, they provided evidence about their own reactions toward other people’s personal salience. The study shows that respondents display affective, perceptional, as well as behavioral reactions toward other people’s online visibility. Demographic characteristics along with certain types of control variables are associated with individuals’ personal salience. Although transferring personal salience constitutes a segmented social media influence, this survey shows that it is recognized as a widespread objective and priority by ordinary individuals.

International Journal of Communication, 2017

Museum Management and Curatorship

Media Watch

This experiment was designed to explore people's critical, differentiating capacity between actua... more 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 condition included a real news story derived from a mainstream medium, the other three conditions tested three attributes of fakeness, namely an exaggerated, satirical, and popularised frame of disinformation. Although readers differentiated between satire and the actual news story, no significant differences were observed between exaggerated and simplified versions of news and the actual news story. Additional intervening variables were scrutinized, showing a connection between the salience of a story and its perceptions of fakeness.

Fifty years of agenda-setting research, 2019

The current study draws evidence from the Smithsonian Institution while examining a classic agend... more The current study draws evidence from the Smithsonian Institution while examining a classic agenda-setting hypothesis during a period of 30 years in relation to media attention of the Smithsonian and a behavioral index of public salience, – namely its long-term, monthly visits. Second, it explores a larger theoretical concern often expressed by scholars in terms of the agenda-setting function over two different eras, the analog and the digital media periods.

are circulated for discussion purposes only. Their contents should be considered preliminary and ... more are circulated for discussion purposes only. Their contents should be considered preliminary and are not to be quoted without the authors ’ permission. Cambridge Judge Business School author contact details are as follows:

Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 2020

This article examines significant changes in the television news industry, from 2015 until 2019, ... more This article examines significant changes in the television news industry, from 2015 until 2019, a period characterized by a severe financial crisis that swept throughout the country, bringing to the forefront of the Greek public sphere, new political voices of both the right and the left. Using secondary data to examine media ownership patterns, we adopted a political economic approach to highlight the ways in which television news have adopted a populist outlook that has its origins in similar practices in the 1980s political and media contexts, while reviewing and assessing long-term interactions between media (television) industries and the political system.

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 2020

This study examines students’ social media interactions in relation to their subcultural explorat... more This study examines students’ social media interactions in relation to their subcultural explorations of a conspiratorial nature. A sample of 476 students from four European universities participated in a survey about conspiracy theories in social media group discussions. In the survey, we examined various social and media factors in relation to students’ beliefs in conspiracy theories. The results of this exploratory study reveal that students treat social media as news sources; furthermore, they trust social media more than traditional mass media. The study reveals demographic, personal and technological factors that encourage a mediated conspiratorial discourse.

Studies in Media and Communication, 2020

This theoretical paper introduces the notion of personal salience, expanding the traditional para... more This theoretical paper introduces the notion of personal salience, expanding the traditional paradigm of agenda setting theory to encompass digital, online activities for the establishment of personal agendas. Self-agendas have been examined from many diverging points of view and competing perspectives. In this paper, we aim to place them within the precise categorization of the agenda setting paradigm. In its fifty-year history, scholars have examined the specific mechanisms and processes that render “issues” and “objects” salient. The current paper aims to classify personal agendas and personal salience as distinct typologies of mediated significance.

Journalism, 2018

This study examines agenda setting in the context of Greek politics while assessing constructs of... more This study examines agenda setting in the context of Greek politics while assessing constructs of salience evolving through new journalism trends and advances in digital media. Through an exploration of the rise of Alexis Tsipras and his party, SYRIZA, the authors investigate emerging indices of salience as predictors of public salience. Along with mainstream media salience and conventional public salience, the authors generate evidence on mediated trends and word-of-mouth salience. Although there is evidence of the evolving nature of salience derived from all indices under scrutiny, word-of-mouth salience registered as the most significant predictor of Tsipras’ public approval.

Museum Management and Curatorship, 2019

ABSTRACT Gatekeeping theory has evolved in recent years to encompass new patterns and influences ... more ABSTRACT Gatekeeping theory has evolved in recent years to encompass new patterns and influences in a rapidly changing digital environment. The boundary between creating and disseminating digital content is increasingly blurred, as organizations adapt both content and services to the shifting needs of their audiences. In the current case study, viewing museums as content and cultural news providers, we examine digital gatekeeping influences that lead online visitors to museum websites. Recognizing vast changes in gatekeeping patterns, we revisit Shoemaker and Reese's hierarchical gatekeeping model, but in a cultural news context where consumers have evolved as gatekeepers and gate checkers. As we survey a multitude of data in this descriptive endeavor, we trace various gatekeeping nodes that lead users toward museum content.

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 2015

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Corporate Reputation Review, 2014

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The Open Communication Journal, 2009

Communication Research, 2014

In this study we investigate and expand agenda setting theory in the context of the market for ar... more In this study we investigate and expand agenda setting theory in the context of the market for art-house films. First, we test first and second-level agenda setting hypotheses, according to which higher media visibility and favorable media valence of a particular film are expected to have positive effects on public salience. Second, we expand agenda setting theory by adding critical valence as an important influence of public salience within cultural contexts. Our findings suggest that while higher media visibility, favorable media valence, and critical valence have positive effects on public salience, they are also independent of one another in carrying salience over to the public.