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Dimitra L. Milioni

Dimitra L. Milioni
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Associate Professor
Faculty of Communication and Media Studies
Department of Communication and Internet Studies

Dr. Dimitra L. Milioni graduated from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), Greece in 1998 and received her Ph.D in 2006 from the same university. Since 2013 she is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology.

Her current research interests lie in the fields of new and alternative media, internet politics, online communities, and social movements.

Dr. Milioni is a member of the European Communication Research and Education Organization (ECREA), the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and the Hellenic Political Science Association. She is the coordinator of the H2020 project RePAST and has directed the research project “World Internet Project Cyprus” (2009-2012), which investigates the impact of the internet and new media on multiple aspects of the social and political life in Cyprus. Since 2010, she represents Cyprus in the international research network “Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS)”, which focuses on the international comparative study of journalism cultures. Since 2011, she is a researcher in the study “ Violence and Delinquency in the Cypriot Television and the Role of the Cyprus Radio Television Authority”, currently implemented in the Department of Communication and Internet Studies. She was the principal investigator in the Research Project “Media & the Public Sphere: Alternative and New Media for improving Education of Future Journalists” (2008-2009), funded by the Research Committee of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Also, she participated in the research project “Comparative European New Media and Elections Project” (CENMEP), which focused on the relationship between political parties and new media in election campaigns (Project Coordinator: M. Vergeer, Department of Communication, Radboud University, The Netherlands). Full research profile: http://cut.academia.edu/DimitraMilioni


Research Interests
  • The impact of new and alternative media in democracy and the public sphere
  • Comparative analysis of mainstream and alternative news media
  • The transformation of community and sociality in the age of the internet
  • Citizen journalism, citizens media, participatory journalism and user-generated content
  • The internet and deliberative democracy
  • New media, protest and social movements
  • Critical approaches to algorithmic media and big data
Email
dimitra.milioni@cut.ac.cy
Telephone
2500 2447, 2500 2647

Her research focuses on communication and media theory, the relationship between media and power, and the impact of new and emerging communication technologies on democracy.

Research Projects
Α/ΑDateTitleFunded byProject Role
12018-2021
Strengthening European integration through the analysis of conflict discourses: revisiting the past, anticipating the future (RePAST)		H2020Coordinator
2January - September 2015Supporting Participatory Community Media And Citizens’ Media Literacy In CyprusRepresentation of the European Committee in CyprusCoordinator
3January -June 2014Study on the approaches of European Media to issues related to third country nationals and immigrationRepublic of Cyprus and the European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country NationalsCoordinator
42013-todayWorld Internet Project-CyprusCyprus University of TechnologyResearch Team Me
52012-2014
Conflict and Violence in Cypriot Television: new journalistic forms and practices for mediating conflict and violence in the Cypriot public sphere		Research Promotion Foundation of CyprusResearch Team Member, Co-Coordinator
62011-2013Violence and Delinquency in the Cypriot Television and the Role of the Cyprus Radio-Television AuthorityCyprus Radio-Television AuthorityResearch Team
72010-todayWorlds of Journalism Study (WJS)Cyprus University of TechnologyResearch Team Member, Representative
82009-2010Comparative European New Media and Elections Project (CENMEP)European Commission (COST Action)Research Team
92008-2012World Internet Project-CyprusCyprus University of TechnologyCoordinator
102008-2009Media & the Public Sphere: Alternative and New Media for improving Education of Future Journalists” (FUJURE)Aristotle University of ThessalonikiPrincipal Investigato

Publications in peer-reviewed journals
  • Vatikiotis, P., Milioni D.L. (2020). The Unbearable Lightness of Being Alternative: Idealism-Realism and Purism-Pragmatism in Greek Alternative Media. Journal of Alternative and Community Media, 5(1), 103-122..
  • Vatikiotis, P., Milioni D.L. (2019). From Inside the Rhizome: An Analysis of the Greek Alternative Mediascape. International Journal of Communication, 13, 4219-4239.
  • Milioni, D.L., Triga, V., Spyridou, L.-P. (2018). Cadrages Médiatiques de la Consultation Grecque sur le Plan d'aide Européen: Le Référendum Cause ou Solution de la Crise? Participations, 1(2018), 111-140 (translated from English by Xavier Blandin, original title: “Framing the Greek Bailout Referendum: A Crisis-Inducing or a Crisis-Resolving Mechanism?”)
  • Milioni, D.L., Vadratsikas, K. (2016). The (Golden) Dawn of Audiences? Assessing the Audience Empowerment Thesis Through a Framing Analysis of Immigration in the Greek Media. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, 7(1), 59–83.
  • Papa, V., Milioni, D.L. (2016). “I Don’t Wear Blinkers, All Right?” The Multiple Meanings of Civic Identity in the Indignados and the Role of Social Media. Javnost/The Public, 23(3), 290–306.
  • Milioni, D.L., Spyridou, L-P., Vadratsikas, K. (2015). Framing Immigration in Online Media and Television News in Crisis-stricken Cyprus. The Cyprus Review, 27(1), 155–185.
  • Milioni, D.L., Doudaki V., Tsiligiannis P., Papa V., 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.
  • Milioni, D.L., Doudaki, V., Demertzis, N. (2014). Youth, Ethnicity and a ‘Reverse Digital Divide’: A Study of Internet Use in a Divided Country. Convergence 20(3), 316–336.
  • Demertzis, Ν,, Milioni, D.L., Gialamas, V. (2013). Internet Use and Political Efficacy: The Case of Cyprus. International Journal of Electronic Governance, 6(3), 187–208.
  • Milioni, D.L., Vadratsikas, K., Papa, V. (2012). ‘Their Two Cents Worth’: Exploring User Agency in Readers’ Comments in Online News Media. Observatorio 6(3), 21–47.
  • Milioni, D.L. (2012). Between “Identity Politics” and “Politics of Influence”: The Role of Alternative Media in the Greek Protests in 2008. Estudos em Comunicação/Communication Studies 11, 1–28.
  • Milioni, D.L., Panos, D. (2011). New Media and Radical Protest: Reflections from the ‘Greek riots’ 2008. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 7(2), 233–240.

  • Milioni, D.L. (2009). Probing the Online Counterpublic Sphere: The Case of Indymedia Athens. Media, Culture and Society, 31(3), 409–431.
     

    Publications in edited books
  • Milioni, D.L. (2019). Algorithmic Media and Democracy: Power and Resistance Under Datafication. In J.C.F. Correia, A. Gradim & R. Morais, Pathologies and Dysfunctions of Democracy in Media Context (1st volume) (pp. 11-37). Labcom Communication & Arts.
  • Spyridou, L-P., Milioni, D.L. (2019). Encyclopedia Entry: Interactive Journalism. In T.P. Vos & F. Hanusch (Eds), The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Milioni, D.L., Spyridou, L-P., Koumis, M. (2018). Cyprus: Behind Closed (journalistic) Doors. In T. Eberwein, S. Fengler, & M. Karmasin (Eds), The European Handbook of Media Accountability (pp. 39–46). London, Routledge.
  • Stylianou, S., Milioni, D.L. (2017). Social Capital and the Internet: How Generalized Trust Affects Bonding, Bridging, and Linking Online Social Capital. In N. Demertzis (Ed.), Information Society: Governance and the Internet (pp. 91–120). Athens, National Centre for Social Research [In Greek].
  • Novelli, E., Rafter, K., Alvares, C., Verissimo, I., Poulakidakos, S., Veneti, A., Triga, V., Milioni, D.L., Sammut, C. (2017). Representations of the Economic Crisis and Austerity Politics. In Ch. Holtz-Bacha, E. Novelli & K. Rafter (Eds), Political Advertising in the 2014 European Parliament Elections (pp. 57–80). London, Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Spyridou, L-P., Milioni, D.L. (2017). Financial Crisis, Austerity and Public Service Media in Cyprus. Reforming or Downsizing? An Analysis of Discourses and Critiques. In V. Doudaki & N. Carpentier (Eds), Cyprus and its Conflicts: Representations, Materialities, and Cultures (pp. 99–119). Oxford, Berghahn.
  • Milioni, D.L., Avraamidou, M. (2017). ‘It Is Not the Time for Intifada’: A Framing and Semiotic Analysis of Televised Representations of the 2013 Cypriot Protests. In T. Papaioannou & S. Gupta (eds), Media Representations of Anti-austerity Protests in the EU: Grievances, Identities and Agency (pp. 70–91). London, Routledge.
  • Doudaki, V., Milioni, D.L. (2015). Foreign Correspondents in Cyprus: Tacking between Tradition and Change. In G. Terzis (Ed.) Mapping Foreign Correspondence in Europe (pp. 44–56). London, Routledge.
  • Triga, V., Milioni, D.L. (2014). E-Strategy and Legislatures: A Longitudinal Analysis of Southern Europe’s Parliaments. In L.G. Anthopoulos & C. G. Reddick (Eds), Government e-Strategic Planning and Management: Practices, Patterns and Roadmaps (pp. 157–184). New York, Springer.
  • Milioni, D.L. (2014). New Media, New challenges: the Need for Radicalizing Deliberative Democracy and the Role of the Internet. In S.I. Seferiadis (Ed.), Democracy at a Crossroads: Threats and Challenges at the Dawn of the 21st Century (pp. 205–227). Athens, Nissos [in Greek].

  • Milioni, D.L. (2009). Neither ‘Community’ Nor ‘Media’? The Transformation of Community Media on the Internet. In J. Gordon (Ed.), Notions of Community: A Collection of Community Media Debates and Dilemmas (pp. 271–294). Oxford, Peter Lang.
     

    Proceedings of International Conferences
  • Demertzis, Nicolas, Milioni, Dimitra, Gialamas, Vassilis (2011). Internet use, political efficacy and freedom of speech on the web: A World Internet Project-based analysis. roceedings (CD-ROM) of the European Sociological Association (ESA) International Conference “Europe and the Media: New Developments in Social Theory and Research”, October 29-30, 2010, Athens.

  • Milioni, Dimitra L., Kyza, Eleni A. (2009). How do we study the blogosphere? Research and methods of assessing the impact of blogging on the public sphere. Proceedings of the International Conference “New Media and Information: Convergences and Divergences”, 6-9 May, Athens, Greece. 


    Other scientific publications
  • Cyprus University of Technology (2017). The Internet in Cyprus 2016. Final Research Report. Stelios Stylianou and Dimitra L. Milioni, Principal Investigators. Limassol, Cyprus.
  • Milioni, Dimitra L. (2017). Journalists in Cyprus - Worlds of Journalism Study report. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15292.23688.
  • Milioni, Dimitra L. (2015). Opening the ‘Black Box’ of User Agency: A Critical Cultural Studies Approach to Web 2.0. Extended abstract, 5th ICTs and Society-Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and Critical Theory, 3-7 June, Vienna, Austria. DOI: 10.3390/isis-summit-vienna-2015-S3018.
  • Cyprus University of Technology (2015). The Internet in Cyprus 2014: Final Research Report. Stelios Stylianou and Dimitra L. Milioni, Principal Investigators. Limassol, Cyprus.
  • Spyridou, Lia-Paschalia, Milioni, Dimitra L. (2014). The Present and Future of PSM Under Austerity: The Case of CYBC. TEXTE-Public Value Report 2013/14, 22–26, http://zukunft.orf.at/modules/orfpublicvalue/upload/13r0003.pdf.
  • Cyprus University of Technology. 2013. The Internet in Cyprus 2012. Unpublished Report. D.L. Milioni & S. Stylianou, Principal Investigators. Limassol, Cyprus.
  • Doudaki, Vaia, Milioni, Dimitra L., Papa, Venetia, Vadratsikas, Konstantinos (2012). Conflict and Violence in the News: A Literature Review. Limassol: Cyprus University of Technology [Deliverable for the project “Conflict and Violence in Cypriot Television: new journalistic forms and practices for mediating conflict and violence in the Cypriot public sphere”].
  • Demertzis, Nicos, Gialamas, Vassilis, Doudaki, Vaia, Kyriakides, Chris, Lambrinos, Lambros, Milioni, Dimitra L., Panos, Dionysis, Patelis, Korinna, Stylianou, Stelios, Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas (2010). The Internet in Cyprus 2010: Final Report. Limassol: Cyprus University of Technology, http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/handle/10488/4758.
  • Demertzis, Nicos, Milioni, Dimitra L. (2009). News and Briefs: the Internet in Cyprus: Findings from the World Internet Project 2008 survey. International Journal of Electronic Governance 2(2-3), 288–289.
  • Demertzis, Nicos, Gialamas, Vassilis, Kyriakides, Chris, Kyza, Eleni, Lambrinos, Lambros, Milioni, Dimitra L., Panos, Dionysis, Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas (2009). The Internet in Cyprus 2009: Final Report. Limassol: Cyprus University of Technology, http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/handle/10488/4759.
  • Milioni, Dimitra L. (2009) Book review (M. Pajnik & J. Downing, 2008, Eds, Alternative Media and the Politics of Resistance: Perspectives and Challenges. Peace Institute, Ljubljana), Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition 4(2), 30–32.

QualificationYearAwarding InstitutionDepartmentThesis title
PhD2006Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th), GreeceJournalism & Mass CommunicationMass Communication and Democracy: Towards a New Model of Democracy in the age of global interaction (in Greek)
BA1998
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th), Greece		Journalism & Mass Communication 

  • CIS 102 Communication Theory
  • CIS 206 Critical Media Theory
  • CIS 374 Alternative Media
  • CIS 416 Big Data and Algorithms: Social implications and research methods
  • CIS 814 Internet Studies (PhD Program)

Period of employment
Employer
Location
Position
FromTo
2020Today
Cyprus University of Technology
Limassol, Cyprus
Associate Professor
20132020
Cyprus University of Technology
Limassol, Cyprus
Assistant Professor
20082012Cyprus University of TechnologyLimassol, Cyprus
Lecturer
20072008Technological Educational Institution of Western Macedonia, Greece
Kastoria, Greece
Research Associate

A/ADateTitleAwarded by:
126-27 Oct. 2017Keynote speaker: “Algorithmic media and democracy: power and resistance under datafication”International Conference “Pathologies and dysfunctions of democracy in the media context, Covilhã, Portugal
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