Venetia Papa
Venetia Papa (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in Journalism and Digital Media at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, at the Cyprus University of technology. She has previously worked at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. Venetia received her Ph.D. in Communication and Internet Studies from the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, and her MA and BA from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, in France. Her Ph.D. research explored the role of Facebook in shaping civic and collective identities within the Indignados movement in France and Greece, earning her the highest honors (Mention Très Honorable avec Félicitations du Jury).
Venetia’s research interests are situated at the intersection of new media technologies, journalism, and citizenship. Her work delves into topics such as algorithmic curation, and journalism, exploring how algorithms and automation impact news production and the public's engagement with media. Additionally, she investigates the role of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in forming civic identities, as well as the proliferation of fake news and the importance of data media literacy in digital landscapes.
In her most recent research projects, Venetia explores the implications of platforms and AI, on journalism practice.
Venetia has participated in numerous prestigious European research programs, contributing as a senior expert and coordinator. She is actively involved in large-scale European Union-funded projects such as Horizon2020 and Erasmus+, where she collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to address pressing issues in media and communication. Some of her recent project involvements include the ONISILOS project, where she served as the primary supervisor, and the ISMED Clim project on climate change-related health risks. She has published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed and top-tier journals such as European Journal of Communication, Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice, Information, Communication & Society, Convergence: The International Journal of New Media Technologies, Journal of Feminist Media Studies, and Popular Communication. She co-authored the book, “Mobilisations Numériques: Politiques du conflit et technologies médiatiques” (Les Presses des Mines, 2017, in French) where she explores the role of digital technologies in mediating political conflicts. She is also a regular reviewer for high-impact journals and serves as a guest editor for special issues on topics such as AI and media.
Α/Α | Ημερομηνία | Τίτλος | Επιχορήγηση απο | Ρόλος στο Ερευνητικό Πρόγραμμα |
1 | 2020-2023 | “Building the Universities of the Future through Social Innovation Education” (BUFSIE)
| Εrasmus+ | Ιδρυματική Συντονίστρια
Μέλος Ερευνητικής Ομάδας |
2 | 2019-2021 | “Data and Algorithms” (Dat_Act)
| UCY- Start-up grant | Ιδρυματική Συντονίστρια
Μέλος Ερευνητικής Ομάδας |
3 | 2023-2024 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie –Post-doc Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2020), «ONISILOS».
| H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2020 | Supervisor- Μέλος Ερευνητικής Ομάδας |
4 | 2020 | We the Internet | European Comission | Ιδρυματική Συντονίστρια
Μέλος Ερευνητικής Ομάδας |
5 | 2018-2020 | Strengthening European integration through the analysis of conflict discourses: revisiting the past, anticipating the future” (REPAST). | Horizon 2020 | Μέλος Ερευνητικής Ομάδας |
6 | 2016-2017 | European Cohesion Policy” (COHESIFY). | Horizon 2020 | Μέλος Ερευνητικής Ομάδας |
7 | 2015 | “Supporting Participatory Community Media and Citizens Media literacy in Cyprus: The VoCy”.
| Representation of the European Committee in Cyprus | Μέλος Ερευνητικής Ομάδας |
8 | 2014 | “Study on the approaches of European Media to issues related to third country nationals and immigration”.
| Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία και Ευρωπαϊκό Ταμείο για την Ένταξη Υπηκόων Τρίτων Χωρών | Μέλος Ερευνητικής Ομάδας |
9 | 2012-2014 | “Conflict and Violence in Cypriot Television: new journalistic forms and practices for mediating conflict and violence in the Cypriot public sphere”.
| Ίδρυμα Έρευνας και Καινοτομίας της Κύπρου | Μέλος Ερευνητικής Ομάδας |
10 | 2010-2012 | Public Sphere, Democracy and New Media | CUT-Start-up grant | Μέλος Ερευνητικής Ομάδας |
| August 2024- | Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology
Scientific Coordinator DAT-act Lab |
| June 2023 – August 2024 | Department of Social and Political Sciences, Undergraduate Programme of Journalism, University of Cyprus
Scientific Coordinator DAT-act Lab Director of J-Lab |
2017 - 2018 | Department of Social and Political Sciences, Programme of Journalism, University of Cyprus
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2016 - 2018 | Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology
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2010 - 2018 | Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology
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Book
Granjon, F., Papa, V., Tuncel, G. (2017). “Mobilisations numériques : Politiques du Conflit et technologies médiatiques”. Paris, Presses des Mines, Collection Sciences Sociales. (In French).
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
- Constandinides C., Papa V., and Ioannou M. (2024). Videography in the service of Social Movement Visibility and Interaction Amidst the Pandemic: The case of the Support Art Workers’ Initiative in Greece, Journal of Popular Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2024.2393745
- Papa V., Kouros, Th. and Lamb, A. (2024). “‘The victim lived an intense life’: Media (mis)representations of femicide crimes in the Republic of Cyprus”, Journal of Feminist Media Studies (online first), https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2363841
- Papa V., and Kouros, Th. (2024). Slantwise Disengagement: Explaining Facebook Users’ Acts Beyond Resistance/Internalization of Domination Binary. Convergence: The International Journal into New Media Technologies, online first (January). https://doi.org/10.1177/135485652412273.
- Papa V., and Kouros, Th. (2023). Do Facebook and Google care about journalism? Mapping the relationship between affordances of GNI/FJP tools and journalistic norms. Digital Journalism, https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2211626
- Papa, V., and Ioannides, N. (2023). Reviewing the impact of Facebook on civic participation: The mediating role of algorithmic curation and platform affordances. Journal of Communication Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2023.2186680
- Papa V., and Ioannou, M. (2023). The 10-year anniversary of intense protest in Greece and the role of Facebook. Journal of Information, Technology & Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2168818
- Maniou Th., and Papa, V. (2023). The dissemination of science news in social media platforms during the COVID-19 crisis: Characteristics and selection criteria. Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.15581/003.36.1.35-46
- Kouros Th., Papa V., Ioannou M., and Kapnisis, V. (2022). Conspiratorial narratives on Facebook and their historical contextual associations: A case study from Cyprus, Journal of Communication Inquiry.https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221117235
- Milioni D., and Papa V. (2022). The oppositional affordances of data activism, Media International Australia, 183 (1), 1-16 https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X221074795
- Photiadis Th., and Papa V. (2022). ‘What’s up with ur emotions?’ Untangling emotional user experience on Second Life and Facebook, Behaviour & Information Technology (online first), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2021.2013537
- Papa V., and Photiadis Th. (2021). Algorithmic Curation and Users’ Civic Attitudes: A Study on Facebook News Feed Results, Information, 12(522), 1-13.https://doi.org/10.3390/info12120522
- Theodosiadou S., Spyridou P-L., Panayiotou N., Milioni D. and Papa, V. (2021). Journalism education in the post-truth era: An exploration of the voices of journalism students in Greece and Cyprus, Media Practice and Education, 22(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1919833
- Papa V., and Maniou, Th. (2020). Recurrent narratives around the COVID-19 crisis in social networks: A case study analysis on Facebook, Tripodos, 27(2), 11-28. https://doi.org/10.51698/tripodos.2020.47p11-28
- Maniou Th., Papa, V., and Bantimaroudis, Ph. (2020). Salience of Fakeness: Experimental Evidence on Readers’ Distinction between Mainstream Media Content and Altered News Stories, Journal of Communication: Media Watch, 11 (3), 386-400. https://doi/pdf/10.15655/mw_2020_v11i3_202927
- Papa V. (2017). “To all activists: please post and share your story”: Renewing understandings on civic participation and the role of Facebook in the Indignados movement, European Journal of Communication, 32(6), 583-597. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323117737953
- Papa V., and Milioni, D. (2016). “I don’t wear blinkers, all right?” The multiple meanings of civic identity in the Indignados and the role of social media, Javnost/ThePublic, 23(3), 209-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2016.1210464
- Triga V., and Papa, V. (2015). “The poor’s have been raped”: An analysis of collective identity in Cyprus Financial Crisis on Facebook groups”, Journal of Cyprus Review, 27(2), 187-216.
- Milioni D., Doudaki V., Tsiligiannis P., Papa, V., and Vadratsikas, K. (2015). “Conflict as news and News as conflict: a multidimensional content analysis of TV news in Cyprus”, International Journal of Communication, 9, 752-772. https://doi.org/1932–8036/20150005
- Papa V., and Milioni, D. (2013). “Active Citizenship or Activist Citizenship? A Framework for Studying Citizenship in New Social Movements and the Role of ICTs”, Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN, 6(3) (Issue: Protest and the New Media Ecology), 21-37. https://doi.org/10.31165/nk.2013.63.303
- Milioni D., Vadratsikas K., and Papa, V. (2012). ‘Their two cents worth’: Exploring user agency in readers’ comments in online news media, Observatorio, 6(3), 21-47. https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS632012591
Chapters in edited books (peer-reviewed)
- Papa, V. (2023). “Τα Μέσα Κοινωνικής Δικτύωσης στον παλμό της εκλογικής επικοινωνίας: πολυμεσικότητα και podcasts”. (Social media in the heart of election campaign: the role of audiovisual material and podcasts”), in Theofanous A., & Katsourides Y., 2023, Τα αποτελέσματα των Προεδρικών Εκλογών 2023, οι προεκτάσεις και η επόμενη μέρα, In-depth, 20 (1), University of Nicosia, ISSN (online): 2421-8111, p. 17-21.
- Papa V., and Dahlgren P. (2017). “The Cypriot ‘Occupy the Buffer Zone’ movement: Online discursive frames and civic engagement”. In V. Doudaki and N. Carpentier, Conflict and Media. The enduring conflict in Cyprus and its imaginings. Berghan Books.
- Papa V. (2014). “ICTs, Social Movements and Citizenship: A Study of Civic and Political identities in Online Social and Political Activism” (Extended abstract). In L. Kramp, N. Carpentier, A. Hepp, I. Trivundza, H. Nieminen, R. Kunelius, T. Olsson, E. Sandin, R. Kilborn. Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe. Edition Lumiere, Bremen.
CIS 324 Data Journalism
CIS 383 Media Ethics and Regulation
Academic Title | Year | Institution | Title |
Ph.D., Communication and Internet Studies | 2011-2015 | Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus and Center of Media, Technologies and Internationalisation (CEMTI), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, Paris, France (Joint Ph.D.) | Social Media, Citizenship and New Social Movements: The Role of Facebook Use in the Construction of Civic and Collective identities by the Indignados movement in France and in Greece” (written in English) |
Master Degree (MSc2) in International and European Regulations (Political Science and Political Communication) | 2007-2008 | Université de Droit, des Sciences Politiques et Economiques, Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France.
| “Media News as a symbolic metaphor of the political game: Uncovering the dynamics between journalists and political power through the study of the local newspaper Nice Matin” (written in French) |
Master Degree (MSc1)International and European Regulations (Political Science and Political Communication) | 2006-2007 | Université de Droit, des Sciences Politiques et Economiques, Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France.
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University Degree (BA MCC) | 2003-2006 | Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France.
| Information and Communication Studies |
