Yorgos Zotos

Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

yorgos.zotos@cut.ac.cy

2500 2170, 2500 2642

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Yorgos Zotos, is currently Professor at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, an MBA from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA and a Ph.D. from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

He has taught at Aristotle University and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, Rhode Island University and University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School, USA, and University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Yorgos Zotos has published articles in refereed and indexed international journals and participated in international conferences of marketing and communication. His research work has been cited in international refereed journals. He is reviewer in various international journals. He is presently serving as a member of the Editiorial Board to International Journal of Advertising. Yorgos Zotos has also published a text-book, research monographs and articles in reading books. He was research coordinator and principal researcher in various research programs funded by the Greek Ministry of Education and European Union.

He served for two terms as Head School of Economics, for ten years as Head Department of Business Administration and seven years as Director of Graduate Studies, School of Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He also served as Associate-Head of Institute of Communication, Athens, Greece.

Yorgos Zotos is a member of the Greek, European and American Academies of Marketing and member of International Society of Marketing and Development.

Research

Research Program, PENED, for PH.D Research, General Secretariat for Research and Development, Greece, 2005-2008.

Project “Entrepreneurship and Innovation”, Development of a new course for 14 departments at Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki. EPEAEK Program 2005-2007.

Project “Entrepreneurship and Innovation”, Development of a new course for 7 departments at Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki. EPEAEK Program 2003-2005.

Research Program “Pythagoras”, for Post-Doc Research, General Secretariat for Research and Development, Greece, 2004-2007.

Research Program “Plouton”, Planning and Evaluation of the Communication Plan-EKETA, General Secretariat for Research and Development, Greece, 2003-2005.

International Research Program EQUAL. Funded by European Union 75% and Greek Government 25%. Participating Countries: Holland, Italy, Greece and United Kingdom, 2002-2004.

Research Grant for preparing the Business Plan of the Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, EPEAEK  Program, 2003.

Research grant from the Research Committee, Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, project: “Alcohol Advertisments in Magazines: A Comparative Study between Greece and U.S.A. “, 1998-1999.

Research grant from European Union, Program:  Youth Start, project: "Organic Products in Greece" (Level of Awareness, Attitudes, Intention to buy, Channels of Distribution), 1996-1997.

Research grant from the Research Committee, Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki, project: "Women Stereotypes in Magazine Advertisements: A comparative study between Greece and USA", 1996-1997.

Research grant from General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece, project: "Market Research in Bulgaria - Consumer Attitudes on the Greek Products (shoes and clothes)", 1994-1995.

Research grant from Ministry of National Economy, Greece, program: "Mentor", Project: "Consumer Satisfaction level from Hotel Services in the Metropolitan Area of Thessaloniki, Greece", 1993.

Research grant from European Community, program: "Intereg", project: "Small and medium size companies in Northern Greece - An evaluation of its potentials", 1992.

Research grant from the Ministry of Coordination, project: "The incidence and consumer perceptions of Quantity Surcharge in Greece", 1982.

Research grant from College of Business Administration, University of Rhode Island, project: "Marketing Research in Europe", 1981.

Publications

Publications of the last five years

Refereed Journal Articles

Margariti K., Boutsouki C., Hatzithomas L. and Zotos Y. (2019), Visual Metaphors in Food Advertising: A cross-cultural study, Food Research International, 115, 338-351

“Corporate Facebook Posts in U.K. and Greece” (with K.Riskos, L.Hatzithomas and Ch Boutsouki), International    Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising,2017,11:3,233-251

“Gender Portrayals Revisited: Searching for Explicit and Implicit Stereotypes in Cypriot Magazine Advertisements” (with Ei. Tsichla), International Journal of Advertising, 2016, 35:6, 983-1007

“Humor Generation and Attitude Towards Humorous TV Commercials”, (with L.Hatzithomas, and Ch.Boutsouki ), Humor, International Journal of Humor Research, 2016, 29 (4): 483-505, 2016

“Gender Stereotypes in Advertising” (with S. Landreth-Grau), International Journal of Advertising, 35:5, 759-760, 2016

“Gender Stereotypes in Advertising: A Review of Current Research” (with S. Landreth-Grau), International Journal of Advertising, 2016,35:5. 761-770

 “Female Portrayals in Advertising: Past Research, New Directions” (with Ei. Tsichla), International Journal on Strategic Innovative Marketing, 2014 1:1, 21-30

“Social Media Advertising Platforms: A Cross-cultural Study”, (with N. Chatzithomas, C. Boutsouki and L. Hatzithomas), International Journal on Strategic Innovative Marketing, 2014 1:2, 101-123

“Gaining Satisfaction and Trust in a Brand Website” (with P. Palla), Journalism and Mass Communication Journal, 2014, 4:12, 766-771

 “Snapshots of Men and Women in Interaction: An Investigation of Stereotypes in Print Advertisement Relationship Portrayals”,(with Ei. Tcihla), Journal of Euromarketing,2014, 23:35 - 58

Collected Volume Editorships

Γ.Χ. Ζώτος, Α. Γ. Ζώτου, Α. Κυρούση, Χ. Μπουτσούκη, Τ. Πάλλα και Λ. Χατζηθωμάς (2018), ΔΙΑΦΗΜΙΣΗ: Σχεδιασμός, Ανάπτυξη, Αποτελεσματικότητα, 6η έκδοση, Θεσσαλονίκη: University Studio Press

Y. Zotos,S. Grau, and C. Taylor,eds (2018), Current Research on Gender Issues in Advertising, London-New York,N.Y: Rutledge, 1-146

Articles - Chapters in Readings Book

“A Typology of Minimalism in Advertising” (with K.Margariti, Ch.Boutsouki and L.Hatzithomas), in E.A.A. Advances in Advertising Research,Vol.VIII,2017, pp115, Springer, Gabler, Germany,(chapter)

 “Gaining Attention Online: Do the Levels of Product Involvement and Website Interactivity Matter? An Eye-Tracking Approach”, (with P.J. Palla) in E.A.A. Advances in Advertising Research, Vol. VII, 2017, Springer, Gabler, Germany (chapter)

“Effective Interactive Websites: Examining the Moderating Roles of Involvement” (with P.J.Palla and R. Tsiotsou) in E.A.A. Advances in Advertising Research, Vol VI, 2016, pp 338-342, Springer, Gabler, Germany (chapter)

“PEER: Looking into Consumer Engagement in e-WOM through Social Media”, (with L. Hatzithomas, C. Boutsouki and V. Pigadas), in EAA Advances in Advertising Research Vol. VI, 2015 European Advertising Academy Springer Gabler, Germany.

“Is website interactivity always beneficial? An Elaboration Likelihood Model Approach”, (with P.Palla and R. Tsiotsou), In S. Rosengren, M. Dahlén, and S. Okazaki (Eds.), Advances in Advertising Research Vol. IV the Changing Roles of Advertising (pp. 131-145), 2013. European Advertising Academy, Springer Gabler.

Refereed Proceedings

Margariti K., Boutsouki C., Zotos, Y.  and Hatzithomas L. (2018), Cross Cultural Advertising: Is a Metaphorical, Visual Language Always The Answer?, 17th International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA), Valentia, Spain.

“How funny is it? Gelotophilia, katagelasticism and disparaging humor”, (with M. Voutsa, L. Hatzithomas and C. Boutsouki),  15th International Conference on Research in Advertising (I.C.O.R.I.A.), June 30 – July 2, 2016,  Ljubljana, Slovenia.

“A typology of minimalism in advertising”, (with K. Margariti, C. Boutsouki and L. Hatzithomas), 15th International Conference on Research in Advertising (I.C.O.R.I.A), June 30 – July 2, 2016,   Ljubljana, Slovenia.

“Guilt Appeals in social Ads: Experimenting with Google Adwords”, (with L. Hatzithomas, R. Evagorou and C. Boutsouki), 44th European Marketing Academy Conference (EMAC), May 26-29, 2015, Leuven, Belgium.

“Truly Interactive Websites: An Eye Tracking Approach”, (with P. J. Palla and R. Tsiotsou), 13th International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA), Amsterdam, 27-29 June 2014.

“Gaining Satisfaction and Trust in a Brand Website”, (with P. J. Palla and R. Tsiotsou), American Marketing Association Servicing, Thessaloniki,  Greece, 13-15 June 2014.

“The Role of Economic Conditions on the Effectiveness of Greek Humorous

T.V. Advertising”, (with L. Hatzithomas and C. Boutsouki), 13th International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA), Amsterdam, 27-29 June 2014.

“A Model of Consumer Engagement in eWOM via Social Media” (with L.Hatzithomas, C. Boutsouki,

 V. Pigadas), 13th International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA) Amsterdam, 27-29 June 2014.

“Product Packaging: Research Trends and Opportunities”, (with Al. Triantos), 2014, 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI), Athens, Greece, 18-20 June 2014.

“Female Stereotypes in Print Advertising”, (with E. Tsichla). 2nd International Conference on Strategic Innovative Marketing, 13-17 September 2013, Prague, Czech Republic.

“Effective Interactive Websites: Examining the moderating role of involvement”, (with P. Palla and R. Tsiotsou). 2013 World Marketing Congress, 17-20 July, Melbourne, Australia.

“Female and Male Stereotypes in Print Cypriot Advertisements: Measuring, comparing and exploring the association of gender with visual and verbal presentation styles”, (with E. Tsichla). 42nd European Marketing Academy Conference (EMAC), 4-7 June 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.

“Gender Stereotypes in Cypriot Print Advertisements: a Comparison of Single and Relationship Portrayals”, (with E. Tsichla). 18th International Conference on Corporate and Marketing Communication, 11-12 April 2013, Salerno, Italy.

Teaching

CIS 315 Marketing and Communication

CIS 332 Principles of Advertising

Posts

Eleni Kyza

Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

eleni.kyza@cut.ac.cy

2500 2577

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Βιογραφικό

Research

Research and Development

Development of technology-enhanced learning environments

·      STOCHASMOS web-based learning and teaching platform for supporting reflective inquiry (www.stochasmos.org), (E. Kyza, C.P. Constantinou)

·      The TraceReaders (Y. Georgiou, E. Kyza) –an augmented reality application to support environmental science learning.

Grants (selection)

·      Promoting Attainment of Responsible Research and Innovation in Science Education [Project PARRISE, Total project budget:2, 498,125 €]

Funded by: European Commission, Science-in-Society program

                  Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

Role: Principal Investigator at CUT, Researcher

Coordinator: Dr. Marie-Christine Knippels, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Partners: Austria, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Hungary, Israel, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, U.K.

·      Professional Reflection-Oriented Focus on Inquiry-based Learning and Education through Science

[Project PROFILES, Total project budget:  3,447,945 €]

Funded by: European Commission, Science-in-Society program

                  Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

Role: Principal Investigator at CUT, Researcher

Coordinator: Dr. Claus Bolte, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany

Partners: Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, U.K.

Πληροφορίες: www.cut.ac.cy/profiles, www.profiles-project.eu

·      Digital support for Inquiry, Collaboration, and Reflection on Socio-Scientific Debates [Project CoReflect, Total project budget: 916,260.00 €]

Funded by: European Commission, Science-in-Society program

                  Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

Role: Coordinator, Principal Investigator at CUT

Coordinator: Dr. Eleni A. Kyza, Cyprus University of Technology

Partners: Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Israel, Netherlands, Sweden, U.K.

Πληροφορίες: www.coreflect.org

·      Early Career research grant: Reflective Inquiry Tools

Budget: 85,000 €

Funded by: Cyprus University of Technology

Role: Principal Investigator

·      Web-based collaborative inquiry learning environments                                         

Young Researchers award (PENEK)

Project SYNERGASIA, (Total budget: 160,000 €)

Funded by: The Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation

Role: Researcher

Coordinator: C. P. Constantinou, Learning in Science Group, University of Cyprus

For more information: www.stochasmos.org

·      Scaffolding students’ reflective inquiry of web-based complex scientific data

Project STOCHASMOS, http://www.stochasmos.org (Total Budget: 208,000 €)

Funded by: The Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, European Commission, Marie Curie Fellowship (IRG Grants)

Role: Fellow, principal researcher

Coordinators: C. P. Constantinou, Z. Zacharia, Learning in Science Group, University of Cyprus

For more information: www.stochasmos.org

Bio

Dr. Eleni A. Kyza is a Professor in Information Society at the Cyprus University of Technology.  Dr. Kyza holds a Ph.D. degree from the Learning Sciences program at Northwestern University, with a specialization in Cognitive Science, a master's degree in Technology in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a B.Sc. in Education, summa cum laude, with a concentration in Educational Media and Technology from Boston University, and a Teacher's Diploma, from the Pedagogical Academy of Cyprus. Her undergraduate and graduate studies were funded through CASP/Fulbright scholarships. Her post-doctoral studies with the Learning in Science Group, at the University of Cyprus, were funded through a European Commission IRG Marie Curie Fellowship and from the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation.

Her research interests focus on the investigation of new technologies in learning and teaching and the design of technology-enhanced learning environments. Since 2004 she has been developing the web-based learning and teaching platform STOCHASMOS (www.stochasmos.org), with the goal of researching the contribution of technology-supported scaffolding to support middle school students’ scientific literacy practices and inquiry-based learning in science.

Her research has been supported by national and European funds, such as project STOCHASMOS and SYNERGASIA, which were funded by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation and the 7th Framework-Programme of the European Commission.  Between the years of 2008-2011 she served as the coordinator of the FP7 program “Digital support for Inquiry, Collaboration, and Reflection on Socio-Scientific Debates” (CoReflect), which was the first FP7 program to be awarded to the Cyprus University of Technology. CoReflect focused on the design, empirical validation, and research of web- and inquiry-based socio-scientific learning environments to support students’ learning in science.

Currently, Dr. Kyza is the principal investigator and partner of two FP7 Science-in Society projects: project PROFILES (www.cut.ac.cy/profiles,www.profiles-project.eu) which is coordinated by  Professor Claus Bolte at the Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany and project PARRISE which is coordinated by Dr. Marie-Christine Knippels at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.  Both projects focus their actions on teachers, professional development and inquiry-based learning.

Dr. Kyza has founded and is the program director of the master’s program New Technologies for Communication and learning at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies. Since 2012, she is serving as an Associate Editor of the journal Instructional Science (http://rd.springer.com/journal/11251).  She is a member of several professional associations, notably the International Society of the Learning Sciences –ISLS- (www.isls.org), the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction –EARLI- (www.earli.org),  the European Science Education Research Association –ESERA- (www.esera.org) and the European Association of Technology-Enhanced Learning –EATEL- (ea-tel.eu).  She has recently been named President-Elect of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), with her term officially beginning in June 2014.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

 Peer-reviewed journal articles

Herodotou, C., Kyza, E. A., Nicolaidou, I., Hadjichambis, A., Kafouris, D., & Terzian, F. (2011). The Development and Validation of the GMOAS, an Instrument Measuring Secondary School Students' Attitudes Towards Genetically Modified Organisms. International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 1-17. doi: 10.1080/09500693.2011.637580

Nicolaidou, I., Kyza, E. A., Terzian, F., Hadjichambis, A., & Kafouris, D. (2011). A framework for scaffolding students' assessment of the credibility of evidence. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 48(7), 711-744. doi: 10.1002/tea.20420

Kyza, E. A., Constantinou, C. P., & Spanoudis, G. (2011).  Sixth graders’ conceptual understanding of biotic and abiotic factors during a disturbance in an ecosystem. International Journal of Science Education.  doi: 10.1080/09500693.2010.550951, 1-37.

Kyza, E. A. (2009). Middle-School Students' Reasoning About Alternative Hypotheses in a Scaffolded, Software-Based Inquiry Investigation.Cognition and Instruction, 27(4), 277-311. doi: 10.1080/07370000903221718.

Kyza, E., & Edelson, D. C. (2005).  Scaffolding middle-school students’ coordination of theory and evidence. Educational Research and Evaluation, 11 (6), 545-560.

Quintana, C., Reiser, B. J., Davis, E. A., Krajcik, J., Fretz, E., Golan, R., Kyza, E., Edelson, D., Soloway, E.  (2004). A Scaffolding Design Framework for Designing Educational Software. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(4), 337-386.

Peer-reviewed book chapters

Kyza, E. A., Herodotou, C., Nicolaidou, I., Redfors, A., Hansson, L., Schanze, S., Saballus, U., Papadouris, N.  & Michael, G. (In Press).  Adapting web-based inquiry learning environments from one country to another: The CoReflect experience.  In C. Bruguiere, P. Clement, and A. Tiberghien, 9^th ESERA Conference Selected Contributions. Topics and trends in current science education. Springer.

Redfors, A., Hansson, L., Kyza, E. A., Nicolaidou, I., Asher, I., Tabak, I., Papadouris, N. & Avraam, C. (In Press).  CoReflect –web-based inquiry learning environments on socio-scientific issues.  In C. Bruguiere, P. Clement, and A. Tiberghien, 9^th ESERA Conference Selected Contributions. Topics and trends in current science education. Springer.

Kyza, E. A. (2013).  Use of networked technologies to foster student collaboration and reflection.  In C. Mouza & N. C. Lavigne (Eds.)Emerging Technologies for the Classroom: A Learning Sciences Perspective. Springer.

Kyza, E. A. (2013). The role of new technologies in teaching and learning science. [In Greek.] In L. Avraamidou & M. Evagorou (Eds.) Current Trends in Science Teaching in K-6.

Kyza, E. A., Erduran, S., & Tiberghien, A. (2009). Technology Enhanced Science Learning. In N. Balacheff, S. Ludvigsen, T. de Jong, A. Lazonder, S. Barnes, L. Montandon (Eds.). Technology Enhanced Learning: Contributions of Kaleidoscope Network. (pp. 121-134).  Dordrecht: Springer.

Spanoudis, G. & Kyza, E.A. (2009). Integrating knowledge of cognitive system and e-learning applications. In C., Mourlas, N., Tsianos, & P. Germanakos (Eds.), Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Web-based Education: Integrating Human Factors and Personalization, Advances in Web-Based Learning Book Series.  (pp.72-85).  Hershey, PA: IGI Global Publishing.  

Kyza, E. A. & Constantinou, C. P. (2008).  A design-based approach to professional development: the need to see teachers as learners to achieve excellence in inquiry-based science education.  In Zumbach, J.; Schwartz, N.; Seufert, T.; Kester, L. (Eds.) “Beyond Knowledge: the Legacy of Competence Meaningful Computer-based Learning Environments”. (pp.173-181).   Springer.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

Pavlou, A. & Kyza, E. A. (2013). An investigation of two methods for the technological mediation of collaborative peer feedback in higher education.  In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag. [Proceedings of EC-TEL2013 Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact. September 17-21, 2013, Paphos, Cyprus. ]

Kyza, E. A., Georgiou, Y., Hadjichambi, D. & Hadjichambis, A. (2013). Teacher Framing, Classroom Collaboration Scripts, and Help-Seeking and Help-Giving Behaviors.  In N. Rummel, M. Kapur, M. Nathan, S. Puntambekar (Eds.) To see the world and a grain of sand: Learning across levels of space, time and scale.  Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning.   Madison, WI: International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), 2013.

Kyza, E. A., Michael, G., & Constantinou, C. P. (2011). The design and investigation of a web based synchronous and asynchronous peer feedback mechanism.  Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, (July 4-8, 2011). [Short paper.]

Milioni, D. L. & Kyza, E.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”, May 6-9, Athens, Greece.

Kyza, E. A. (2008).  Promises, Challenges, and Realities of a Design-based Approach to e-Portfolios.  Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on E-Learning (ECEL 2008), Grecian Bay Hotel, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 6-7 November 2008.

Kyza, E. A., Michael, G., & Constantinou, C. P. (2007). The rationale, design, and implementation of a web-based inquiry learning environment.  In Zacharia, Z. C. & Constantinou, C. P., (Eds.) Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Computer-based learning in Science. Crete, Greece.

Ioannou, A. S., Constantinou, C. P., Papadouris, N., & Kyza, E. A. (2007).  Development and assessment of web based curriculum materials for decision-making about socio-scientific issues: the example of trace chemicals in drinking water.   In Zacharia, Z. C. & Constantinou, C. P., (Eds.) Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Computer-based learning in Science. Crete, Greece.

Kyza, E. A. & Constantinou, C. P. (2006).  Investigating the mechanisms scaffolding 6th grade students’ evidence-based explanations in the context of an ecology problem.  Proceedings of the Fifth Panhellenic conference of information and communication technologies in education.  October 5-8, Thessaloniki, Greece.[In Greek.]

Kyza, E. (2005.) Supporting data-rich inquiries on the Web.  In Zacharia, Z. C. & Constantinou, C. P., (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7^thInternational Conference on Computer-based learning in Science. Zilina, Slovakia.

Teaching

Graduate Courses

MA in New Technologies for Communication and Learning

·      CIS 501 Theories of Learning and Communication

·      CIS 524 Emergent Technologies

·      CIS 560 Master’s Thesis Research Design

·      CIS 580 Master’s Thesis

Undergraduate Courses, B.A. Communication and Internet Studies

·      CIS 221 Introduction to the Information Society

·      CIS 431 Digital Media Literacy

·      CIS 132 Communication Technology Environment (2007-2011)

·      CIS 231 Introduction to Qualitative Research Methodologies (2008-2010)

Posts

Stelios Stylianou

Associate Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

stelios.stylianou@cut.ac.cy

2500 2298

Stelios Stylianou (PhD in Sociology, University of Washington-Seattle, 2000; MA in Sociology, University of Washington-Seattle, 1996; BA with Highest Honors in Sociology, Hofstra University, 1993; Diploma in Education, Pedagogical Academy of Cyprus, 1989) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Internet Studies at the Cyprus University of Technology. He has taught various undergraduate and graduate subjects in sociology, criminology and social research methodology as a graduate lecturer at the University of Washington (1996-2000), part-time lecturer at the University of Cyprus (2000-2003) and as full time research and teaching faculty at Intercollege (2000-2007), the University of Nicosia (2007-2010) and the Cyprus University of Technology (2010- ). His research has a strong methodological component and it is predominantly located in the substantive areas of social deviance, crime and social control. His recent research projects include the study of juvenile delinquency, the epidemiology of drug use, rave parties and the use of synthetic substances and the use of political symbols by young people in the public sphere. He has published articles in international journals and a book on juvenile delinquency in Cyprus (University of Nicosia Press, 2007).

Research Interests

ü  The moral structure of social control

ü  Etiology of crime and deviant behavior

ü  Juvenile delinquency

ü  Drugs

ü  Football Fans' Communication

ü  Social research methodology

Research

His research activity is predominantly located in the field of deviance and social control.  His research interests include juvenile delinquency, drug use and control, fandom and communication, television violence, and internet use.

Research Projects

Publications

Studies

Teaching

Graduate Level:

CIS 541 Social Science Research Methods

CIS 501 Research Methods in Communication

CIS 811 Quantitative Data Analysis

Undergraduate Level:

CIS 109 Introduction to Social Research Methodology

CIS 230 Research Methods in Communication I—Quantitative Analysis

CIS 382 Social Problems

CIS 489 Public Opinion

CIS 482 Social Deviance

Employment

Awards

Lambros Lambrinos

Associate Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

lambros.lambrinos@cut.ac.cy

2500 2570, 2500 2631

Bio

Lampros Lamprinos is a Αssistant Professor in New Communication Technologies and the Internet. He received a PhD in Computer Science from University College London and also holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Manchester. His past teaching experience includes visiting lectureships at UK universities and the University of Cyprus. He has participated in several large-scale research projects funded by the European Commission in the area of real-time multimedia communication over the Internet and served on scientific conference committees. Research work generally falls in the area of computer networks.

Dr. Lambrinos is the Principal Investigator of the research program "e-park" (www.e-park.eu).

For more detailed information on current research activities please visit the Ubiquitous Computing and Smart Living lab web page.

Research Interests

Delay tolerant networking

Internet of Things and Smart Cities

Real-time multimedia conferencing over the Internet

Scaleable audio-video streaming architectures

Voice-over-IP over wireless networks

Telematics

Utilisation of various communication technologies in telemedicine

IPv6 deployment issues

Publications

L.Lambrinos, A.Dosis and V.Trigka, “Applying mobile and Internet of Things technologies in managing parking spaces for people with disabilities”, in ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), Zurich, Switzerland, September 2013

L.Lambrinos and K.Bechara, “Integrating modern mobile devices in emergency event reporting and notification” in Sociable Smart City Workshop, Athens, Greece, July 2013

L.Lambrinos, P.Kolios and C.Djouvas, “Dimensioning VoIP capacity in maritime networks” in IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013

E.Polycarpou, L.Lambrinos and E.Protopapadakis, “Smart parking solutions for urban areas”, in WoWMoM workshop on Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Computing Applications (SCUCA), Madrid, Spain, June 2013

L.Lambrinos, C.Djouvas and C.Chrysostomou, “Applying delay tolerant networking routing algorithms in maritime communications” in WoWMoM workshop on Autonimic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC), Madrid, Spain, June 2013

N.Doulamis, E.Protopapadakis and L.Lambrinos, "Improving Service Quality for Parking Lot Users using Intelligent Parking Reservation Policies", in proc. of Pervasive Internet of Things and Smart Cities workshop (PITSAC), AINA Conference, Barcelona, March 2013

P.Kolios and L.Lambrinos, "Optimising file delivery in a maritime environment through inter-vessel connectivity predictions", in proc. Special Topics in Wireless and Mobile Computing (STWiMob), Barcelona, Spain, Oct 2012

C. Chrysostomou, C. Djiouvas and L.Lambrinos, "Dynamically adjusting the min-max contetion window for providing quality of service in vehicular networks", 11th Mediterranean Ad-hoc Networking Workshop (MedHocNet), Cyprus, June 2012

F. Vannieuwenborg, Z.Kirtava, L.Lambrinos, J.V.Ooteghem and S.Verbrugge, “Implications of mHealth Service Deployments: A Comparison between Dissimilar European Countries” , Telecommunication Economics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7216, pp. 56-66, Springer, 2012

Lambros Lambrinos, “On the Provision of Advanced Telecommunication Services in Rural Areas”, Telecommunication Economics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7216, pp. 209-215, Springer, 2012

L. Lambrinos and C. Djouvas, “Creating a Maritime Wireless Mesh Infrastructure for Real-Time Applications”, IEEE Globecom Workshop on Mobile Computing and Emerging Communication Networks, Houston, USA, Dec. 2011

C.Djouvas L.Lambrinos and C.Chrysostomou, “A delay tolerant platform for voice message delivery" 14th Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symposium (WPMC), Brest France, Oct 2011

D.Karakasilis, F.Georgatos, L.Lambrinos and T.Alexopoulos, “Application of Live Video Streaming over GRID and Cloud Infrastructures”, 11th IEEE Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Paphos, Cyprus, August 2011

L.Lambrinos and C.Djouvas, "Improving Quality of Experience in wireless VoIP through novel call scheduling", Special Issue on "Mobile Computing and Networking Technologies", Telecommunication Systems Journal, pp. 1-12, Springer, 2011

C.Chrysostomou, L.Lambrinos and C.Djouvas, "The Need for a System Design Methodology to Address Challenges in Wireless Access in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICUMT 2010), Moscow, Russia, October 18-20, 2010

L.Lambrinos and C.Djouvas, "Using Location Information for Sophisticated Emergency Call Management", in International ICST Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, Mobihealth 2010, Ayia Napa Cyprus, October 18-20 2010

L.Lambrinos and E.Demetriou, "An adaptive live media streaming architecture", 2nd International IEEE Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2010), Athens, Greece, June 2010

Naveen Chilamkurti, Lambros Lambrinos, Aftab Ahmad, Guest Editorial of the Special Issue on Human Centric Communications, International Journal on Semantic Computing (IJSC), September 2009

L.Lambrinos and C.Djouvas. "Applying scheduling policies to improve quality of experience in Voice over IP", in IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, AZ, 2009

J.Scholl, L.Lambrinos and A.Lindgren, "Rural Telemedicine Networks using Store-and-forward VoIP and DTN", in Medical Informatics Europe (MIE2009), Sarajevo, Serbia, August 2009

L.Lambrinos and N.Tsapatsoulis, "The impact of new technologies on Media Creation and Distribution", in International Conference on New Media and Information, Athens, Greece, May 2009

Lambrinos, L., Georgatos, F. (2008) ‘A case for multimedia streaming over the Grid Infrastructure’, Proceedings of International Week on Management of Networks and Services (MANWEEK 2008), Samos, Greece, September

Lambrinos, L. (2008) ‘Deploying Open-Source IP telephony in Rural Environments’,Proceedings of the 2nd International IEEE Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2008), Cardiff, UK, September 2008

L.Lambrinos and P.Kirstein, "Integrating Voice over IP Services in IPv4 and IPv6 Networks", in International IEEE Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI'07), Gouadeloupe, March 2007.

Teaching

CIS 132 Introduction to Internet Studies

CIS 135 Introduction to Computer Applications

CIS 300 Object oriented programming

CIS 303 Programming Internet applications

Posts

2011-Present, Assistant Professor, New Communication Media and the Internet, Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology.

2007–2011, Lecturer, New Communication Media and the Internet, Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology.

2004–2006, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus

Dimitra L. Milioni

Associate Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

dimitra.milioni@cut.ac.cy

2500 2447, 2500 2647

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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

Research

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

Publications

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.

Studies

Teaching

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)

Employment

Awards

Evangelos Karapanos

Associate professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

evangelos.karapanos@cut.ac.cy

00357 2500 2315

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Dr. Evangelos Karapanos is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, the Director of the Persuasive Technologies Lab and the Coordinator of the Doctoral Program of the Department of Communication and Internet Studies of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). Dr. Karapanos holds a PhD (cum laude) in Human-Computer Interaction from Eindhoven University of Technology, a MSc in Human-Computer Interaction from University College London, and a BSc in Physics with a specialization in microelectronics from the University of Patras. His expertise is in experience-centred design of interaction with technology. His work is regularly published at top-tier conferences and journals in Human-Computer Interaction and has received more than 2300 citations in the literature (h-index=23, i10-index=41, source: Google Scholar) and a number of awards, including a best paper and a best poster award at Persuasive Technology 2017, an honorable mention for best paper at Ubicomp 2015, the tech challenge for atrocity prevention 2013 Award, and the cum laude distinction for his PhD thesis (given to the top 5% of PhD theses defended annually at the Eindhoven University of Technology).

Research

His research interests lie in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, with an emphasis on methods of design and evaluation of interactive systems and behavior change technologies in particular.

Research Projects

Publications

Monographs and edited books

1.  Oinas-Kukkonen, H., Win, K. T., Karapanos, E., Karppinen, P., & Kyza, E. (Eds.). (2019). Persuasive Technology: Development of Persuasive and Behavior Change Support Systems: 14th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2019, Limassol, Cyprus, April 9-11, 2019, Proceedings (Vol. 11433). Springer.

2.  Kyza, E. A., Karppinen, P., Karapanos, E., Win, K. T., & Oinas-Kukkonen, H. (2019). Persuasive Technology: 14th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2019 Limassol, Cyprus, April 9–11, 2019 Adjunct Proceedings.

3.  Ham, J., Karapanos, E., Morita, P. P., & Burns, C. M. (Eds.). (2018). Persuasive Technology: 13th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2018, Waterloo, ON, Canada, April 18-19, 2018, Proceedings (Vol. 10809). Springer.

4.  Karapanos, E. (2013) Modeling Users’ Experiences with Interactive Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence 436, Springer, Vol 436, isbn 978-3-642-30999-1, pp. 1-164.


IN JOURNALS

1.  Karapanos, E. (2019). Technology-assisted reconstruction: a new alternative to the experience sampling method. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1-19.

2.  Dillahunt, T., Lyra, O., Barreto, M., & Karapanos, E. (2017). Reducing children’s psychological distance from climate change via eco-feedback technologies. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 13, 19-28.

3.  Karapanos, E., Gouveia, R., Hassenzahl, M., & Forlizzi, J. (2016). Wellbeing in the Making: Peoples’ Experiences with Wearable Activity Trackers. Psychology of Well-Being, 6(1), 1-17.

4.  Karapanos, E., Teixeira, P., & Gouveia, R. (2016). Need fulfillment and experiences on social media: A case on Facebook and WhatsApp. Computers in Human Behavior, 55, 888-897.

5.  Karapanos, E. (2015) Sustaining user engagement with behavior-change tools. interactions 22, 4 (June 2015), 48-52.

6.  Goncalves, J., Hosio, S., Rogstadius, J., Karapanos, E., & Kostakos, V. (2015). Motivating participation and improving quality of contribution in ubiquitous crowdsourcing. Computer Networks.

7.  Niforatos, E., & Karapanos, E. (2015). EmoSnaps: a mobile application for emotion recall from facial expressions. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(2), 425-444.

8.     Liu, Y., Venkatanathan, J., Goncalves, J., Karapanos, E., and Kostakos, V. (2014). Modeling What Friendship Patterns on Facebook Reveal About Personality and Social Capital. ACM Transactions Computer-Human Interaction 21 (3), 20 pages. DOI=10.1145/2617572 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2617572

9.  Barreto, M. L., Szóstek, A., Karapanos, E., Nunes, N. J., Pereira, L., & Quintal, F. (2014). Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors. Computers in Human Behavior, 40, 6-15.

10.  Lucero, A., Karapanos, E., Arrasvuori, J., & Korhonen, H. (2014). Playful or Gameful?: creating delightful user experiences. interactions, 21(3), 34-39.

11.  Venkatanathan1, J., Kostakos, V., Karapanos, E., and Goncalves, J. (2013) Online Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information with Strangers: Effects of Public and Private Sharing, Interacting with Computers, First published online: November 12, 2013, doi: 10.1093/iwc/iwt058.

12.  Gonçalves, J., Kostakos, V., Karapanos, E., Barreto, M., Camacho, T., Tomasic, A., & Zimmerman, J. (2013). Citizen Motivation on the Go: The Role of Psychological Empowerment. Interacting with Computers, First published online: July 3, 2013. doi: 10.1093/iwc/iwt035

13.  Rogstadius, J., Vukovic, M., Teixeira, C. A., Kostakos, V., Karapanos, E., & Laredo, J. A. (2013). CrisisTracker: Crowdsourced social media curation for disaster awareness. IBM Journal of Research and Development, 57(5), pp1-13.

14.  Karapanos, E., Martens J.-B. and Hassenzahl, M. (2012) Reconstructing experiences with iScale, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 70 (11), pp. 849-865.

15.  Karapanos, E., Barreto, M., Nisi, V., & Niforatos, E. (2012). Does locality make a difference? Assessing the effectiveness of location-aware narratives. Interacting with Computers, 24(4), pp. 273-279.

16.  Doerflinger, J., Gross, T.,; Lyra, O., Karapanos, E., Kostakos, V., Cuadrado-Cordero, I., Soria-Morillo, L.M., Gonzalez-Abril, L., Ortega-Ramirez, J.A., Pau de la Cruz, I., Valero Duboy, M.A., Kanjo, E. (2012) ICTD Work, Plus mFeel, Pervasive Computing, IEEE 11 (3), pp.43-45.

17.  Niforatos, E., Karapanos, E., & Sioutas, S. (2012). PLBSD: a platform for proactive location-based service discovery. Journal of Location Based Services, 6(4), pp. 234-249.

18.  Kujala, S., Roto, V., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Karapanos, E., & Sinnelä, A. (2011). UX Curve: A method for evaluating long-term user experience. Interacting with Computers, 23(5), pp. 473-483.

19.  Karapanos, E., Zimmerman, J., Forlizzi, J., & Martens, J. B. (2010). Measuring the dynamics of remembered experience over time. Interacting with Computers, 22(5), pp 328-335.

20.  Tomico, O., Karapanos, E., Lévy, P., Mizutani, N., & Yamanaka, T. (2009). The repertory grid technique as a method for the study of cultural differences. International Journal of Design, 3(3), 55-63.

21.  Funk, M., Rozinat, A., Karapanos, E., Alves de Medeiros, A. K., & Koca, A. (2010). In situ evaluation of recommender systems: Framework and instrumentation. International journal of human-computer studies, 68(8), pp. 525-547.

22.  Koca, A., Funk, M., Karapanos, E., Rozinat, A., Aalst, W.M.P. van der, Corporaal, H., Martens, J.B.O.S., Putten, P.H.A. van der, Weijters, A.J.M.M., Brombacher, A.C. (2009). Soft reliability: an interdisciplinary approach with a user-system focus. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 25(1), pp. 3-20.


IN Conference proceedings

1.  Konstantinou, L., Caraban, A., & Karapanos, E. (2019). Combating Misinformation Through Nudging. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 630-634). Springer, Cham.

2.  Piccolo, L. S., Joshi, S., Karapanos, E., & Farrell, T. (2019). Challenging Misinformation: Exploring Limits and Approaches. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 713-718). Springer, Cham.

3.  Caraban, A., Karapanos, E., & Goncalves, D., Campos, P. (2019). 23 Ways to Nudge: A Review of Technology-Mediated Nudging in Human-Computer Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM.

4.  Duro, L., Campos, P. F., Romão, T., & Karapanos, E. (2019). Visual Quotes: Does Aesthetic Appeal Influence How Perceived Motivating Text Messages Impact Short-Term Exercise Motivation?. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. LBW0139). ACM.

5.  Gouveia, R., Karapanos, E., & Hassenzahl, M. (2018). Activity Tracking in vivo. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. 362). ACM.

6.  Konstanti, C., & Karapanos, E. (2018). An Inquiry into Goal-Setting Practices with Physical Activity Trackers. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p.). ACM.

7.  Caraban, A., Karapanos, E., Campos, P., & Gonçalves, D. (2018). Exploring the Feasibility of Subliminal Priming on Web platforms. In Proceedings of the 36th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (p. 8). ACM.

8.  Gonçalves, F., Caraban, A., Karapanos, E., & Campos, P. (2017). What Shall I Write Next?: Subliminal and Supraliminal Priming as Triggers for Creative Writing. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2017 (pp. 77-84). ACM.

9.  Caraban, A., Karapanos, E., Teixeira, V., Munson, S. A., & Campos, P. (2017). On the Design of Subly: Instilling Behavior Change During Web Surfing Through Subliminal Priming. In International Conference on Persuasive Technology (pp. 163-174). Springer, Cham. Best paper award

10.  Duro, L., Karapanos, E.,Romão, T., Campos, P. (2017) Does Beauty Matter in Behavior Change?, In adjunct proceedings of the International Conference on Persuasive Technology. Best poster award

11.  Gouveia, R., Pereira, F., Karapanos, E., Munson, S., & Hassenzahl, M. (2016). Exploring the design space of glanceable feedback for physical activity trackers. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 144-155.

12.  Mőttus, M., Karapanos, E., Lamas, D., & Cockton, G. (2016). Understanding aesthetics of interaction: A repertory grid study. In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (p. 120). ACM.

13.  Muñoz, J. E., Pereira, F., & Karapanos, E. (2016). Workload management through glanceable feedback: The role of heart rate variability. In e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

14.  Visuri, A., Sarsenbayeva, Z., Goncalves, J., Karapanos, E., & Jones, S. (2016). Impact of mood changes on application selection. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct (pp. 535-540). ACM.

15.  Gouveia, R., Karapanos, E., Hassenzahl, M. (2015) How do we engage with activity trackers?: a longitudinal study of Habito. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1305-1316. Honorable mention award

16.  Gouveia, R., Pereira, F., Caraban, A., Munson, S., Karapanos, E. (2015) You have 5 seconds: Designing Glanceable Feedback for Physical Activity Trackers. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

17.  Ornelas, T., Caraban, A., Gouveia, R., Karapanos, E. (2015) CrowdWalk: Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd to Inspire Walking Activities. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

18.  Caraban, A., Ferreira, M. J., Gouveia, R., Karapanos, E.(2015) Social Toothbrush: Fostering Family Nudging around Tooth Brushing Habits. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

19.  Ferreira, M.J., Caraban, A., Lyra, O., Belim, V., Karapanos, E. (2015) Why Alone? Sensing Children’s Social Interactions in the Playground. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

20.  Boberg, M., Karapanos, E., Holopainen, E., Lucero, A. (2015) PLEXQ: Towards a Playful Experiences Questionnaire, In Proceedings of CHI Play 2015.

21.  Wurhofer,  D., Krischkowsky, A., Obrist, M., Karapanos, E., Niforatos, E., and Tscheligi, M. (2015) Everyday commuting: prediction, actual experience and recall of anger and frustration in the car. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '15).  ACM, New York, NY, USA, 233-240.

22.  Niforatos, E., Karapanos, E., Langheinrich, M., Wurhofer, D., Krischkowsky, A., Obrist, M., and Tscheligi, M., (2015) eMotion: retrospective in-car user experience evaluation. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '15).  ACM, New York, NY, USA, 118-123.

23.  Law, E.L.C., Hassenzahl, M., Karapanos, E., Obrist, M., and Roto, V. (2014) Tracing links between UX frameworks and design practices: dual carriageway. In Proceedings of HCI Korea (HCIK '15). Hanbit Media, Inc., South Korea, 188-195.

24.  Belim, V., Lyra, O., Teixeira, P., Caraban, A., Ferreira, M.J., Gouveia, R., Lucero, L., Karapanos, E. (2014) Beyond Gamification: Sociometric Technologies that Encourage Reflection before Behavior Change, In Proceedings of the 11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, November 11-14 2014, Funchal, Portugal.

25.  Ferreira, M. J., Caraban, A. K., & Karapanos, E. (2014) Breakout: predicting and breaking sedentary behaviour at work In CHI'14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2407-2412). ACM.

26.  Ana Caraban, Maria José Ferreira, Vítor Belim, Olga Lyra, and Evangelos Karapanos (2014) SmartHolder: sensing and raising families' awareness of tooth brushing habits In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children (IDC '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 341-344.

27.  Lucero, A., Holopainen, J., Ollila, E., Suomela, R., & Karapanos, E. (2013). The playful experiences (PLEX) framework as a guide for expert evaluation. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (pp. 221-230).  ACM.

28.  Barreto, M., Scott, M., Oakley, I., Karapanos, E., Nunes, N. J., Gomes, S., & Gomes, J. (2013). Playing for the planet: designing toys that foster sustainable values. In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (p. 16). ACM.

29.  Venkatanathan, J., Karapanos, E., Kostakos, V., & Gonçalves, J. (2013). A network science approach to modelling and predicting empathy. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (pp. 1395-1400).  ACM.

30.  Barreto, M., Karapanos, E., & Nunes, N. (2013). Why don't families get along with eco-feedback technologies?: a longitudinal inquiry. In Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI (p. 16).  ACM.

31.  Barreto, M., Szóstek, A., & Karapanos, E. (2013). An initial model for designing Socially Translucent systems for Behavior Change. In Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI (p. 8).  ACM.

32.  Ferreira, D., Koehler, C., Karapanos, E., & Kostakos, V. (2013). Ubiquitous mobile instrumentation. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (pp. 1409-1412).  ACM.

33.  Lyra, O., Karapanos, E., Gouveia, R., Barreto, M., Nisi, V., Nunes, N. J., Zimmerman, J. & Forlizzi, J. (2013). Towards persuasive sociometric technologies for inclusive educational settings. In Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI (p. 10).  ACM.

34.  Goncalves, J., Kostakos, V., Hosio, S., Karapanos, E., & Lyra, O. (2013). IncluCity: using contextual cues to raise awareness on environmental accessibility. In Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (p. 17).  ACM.

35.  Gouveia, R., and Karapanos, E. (2013) Footprint tracker: supporting diary studies with lifelogging, In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2921-2930.

36.  Rennert, K. and Karapanos, E. (2013) FaceIt: Supporting Reflection upon Social Anxiety Events with Lifelogging, In CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '13), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 457-462.

37.  Gouveia, E, Azevedo, F., Ferreira, L., Caldeira, P., Almeida, V., Gouveia, R., Karapanos, E.  (2013) Look what i found!: augmenting phone calls with memories of the past, In CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '13), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 589-594.

38.  Niforatos, E., Karapanos, E., Alves, R., Correia Martins, M.C., Chen, M., Nunes, N. (2013) Enwildering the Lab: Merging Field Evaluation with In-Lab Experience Sampling, In CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '13), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 313-318.

39.  Obrist, M., Wurhofer, D., Krischkowsky, A., Karapanos, E., Wilfinger, D., Perterer, N., Tscheligi, M. (2013) Experiential Perspectives on Road Congestions, In CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '13), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 535-540.

40.  Rogstadius, J., Teixeira, C., Karapanos, E., Kostakos, V. (2013).  An Introduction for System Developers to Volunteer Roles in Crisis Management. In Proceedings of the 10th International ISCRAM Conference, pp. 874-883.

41.  Lyra, O., Karapanos, E., Gouveia, R., Nisi, V., Nunes, N. (2013) Engaging Children in Longitudinal Behavioral Studies through Playful Technologies. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 396-399.

42.  Karapanos, E., Jain, J., & Hassenzahl, M. (2012). Theories, methods and case studies of longitudinal HCI research. In CHI'12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2727-2730).  ACM.

43.  Venkatanathan, J., Karapanos, E., Kostakos, V., & Gonçalves, J. (2012). Network, personality and social capital. In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference (pp. 326-329).  ACM.

44.  Gouveia, R., Niforatos, E., Karapanos, E. (2012) Footprint Tracker: reviewing lifelogs and reconstructing daily experiences, In adjunct proceedings of ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS’12.

45.  Rodrigues, J., Gouveia, R., Lyra, O., Karapanos, E. (2012) Sense me: Supporting awareness in parent-child relationships through mobile sensing, In adjunct proceedings of ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS’12.

46.  Alves, R., Lim, V., Niforatos, E., Chen, M., Karapanos, E., Nunes, NJ (2012) Augmenting Customer Journey Maps with quantitative empirical data: a case on EEG and eye tracking, In adjunct proceedings of ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS’12.

47.  Barreto, M., Karapanos, E., & Nunes, N. (2011). Social translucence as a theoretical framework for sustainable HCI. In Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2011 (pp. 195-203). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

48.  Lyra, O., Karapanos, E., & Kostakos, V. (2011). Intelligent Playgrounds: Measuring and affecting social inclusion in schools. In Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2011 (pp. 560-563). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

49.  Venkatanathan, J., Ferreira, D., Benisch, M., Lin, J., Karapanos, E., Kostakos, V., ... & Toch, E. (2011). Improving users’ consistency when recalling location sharing preferences. In Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2011 (pp. 380-387). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

50.  Szostek, A., & Karapanos, E. (2011). Introducing VERO: visual experiential requirements organizer. In CHI'11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2101-2106). ACM.

51.  Karapanos, E., Martens, J., & Hassenzahl, M. (2010). On the retrospective assessment of users' experiences over time. In Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '10 (p. 4075). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/1753846.1754105.

52.  Karapanos, E., Martens J.-B., Hassenzahl M. Accounting for Diversity in Subjective Judgments, In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI ‘09. ACM.

53.  Karapanos, E., Zimmerman J., Forlizzi J., Martens J.-B. User Experience Over Time: An Initial Framework, In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI ‘09. ACM.

54.  Koca, A., Karapanos, E., and Brombacher, A. 2009. Broken Expectations' from a global business perspective. In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI EA '09.

55.  Matysiak Szostek, A., Karapanos, E., Holenderski, M., Eggen, B., Understanding the Implications of Social Translucence for Systems Supporting Communication at Work, Computer Supported Cooperative Work - CSCW 2008, ACM Press, San Diego, 2008.

56.  Koca, A., Funk, M., Karapanos, E., Rozinat, A., & van der Gaarden, N. (2008). Grasping product pragmatics: a case with internet on TV. In Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Designing interactive user experiences for TV and video (pp. 193-202). ACM.

57.  Karapanos, E., Hassenzahl, M., & Martens, J. B. (2008). User experience over time. In CHI'08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3561-3566). ACM.

58.  Karapanos, E., Wensveen, S., Friederichs, B., & Martens, J. B. (2008). Do knobs have character?: exploring diversity in users' inferences. In CHI'08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2907-2912). ACM.

59.  Karapanos, E., & Martens, J. B. (2007). Characterizing the diversity in users’ perceptions. In Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2007 (pp. 515-518). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

60.  Karapanos, E., & Martens, J. B. (2007). On the discrepancies between designers’ and users’ perceptions as antecedents of failures in motivating use. In International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, IADIS (pp. 206-210).


In workshop proceedings and technical report

1.     Konstanti, C., Karapanos, E., & Markopoulos, P. (2019, April). BCD Cards: A Tool for Designing Theory-based Behavior Change Technologies. In BCSS@ PERSUASIVE.

2.  Karapanos, E. (2016). Designing for Different Stages in Behavior Change. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Personalization in Persuasive Technology, co-located with the 11th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PT 2016), p57-59.

3.  Karapanos, E. (2012) Beyond Experience Sampling: Evaluating Personal Informatics with Technology-Assisted Reconstruction, In adjunct proceedings of the conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2012), Workshop on Personal Informatics in Practice: Improving Quality of Life Through Data, Austin, Texas.

4.  Venkatanathan, J., Lin, J., Benisch, M., Ferreira, D., Karapanos, E., Kostakos, V., Sadeh, N., Toch, E. (2011). Who, When Where: Obfuscation Preferences in Location-sharing Applications. ISR TECHNICAL REPORTS 2011, CMU-ISR-11-110, Carnegie Mellon University.

5.     Karapanos, E. & Martens, J.-B. (2008) The quantitative side of the Repertory Grid Technique: some concerns. in the proceedings of the workshop Now Let’s Do It in Practice: User Experience Evaluation Methods in Product Development, Human factors in computing systems CHI '08. Florence.

Studies

Teaching

CIS 240 – Human-centered design

CIS 340 – Human-Computer Interaction

CIS 382 – Data visualization

CIS 474 – Persuasive Technologies

Employment

wards

Dionysis Panos

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

dionysis.panos@cut.ac.cy

25002310, 25002638

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Dr. Dionysis Panos has been an Assistant Professor of New Media Sociology and Political Communication at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies since 2009. He holds a Bachelor's degree from the Law School of the University of Thrace and a Bachelor's degree, MA, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Media and Communication of the University of Athens. Between 2015 and 2018, he served as the Coordinator of the Master's Program "Digital Media and Journalism" at the Cyprus University of Technology. His recent research interests primarily focus on the broader field of Social Media and Misinformation, Algorithmic Memory, Digital Archives, and Digital Oral History. In the recent past, his research focused on the relationship between Media and Terrorism, specifically the role of New Communication Technologies in the overall communication strategies of terrorist organizations.

Dionysis Panos also has extensive professional experience in the field of Political Communication. As the Head of the Communication Department of one of Greece's largest and most reputable Research and Political Communication companies, he was responsible for a significant number of Political Communication research projects. Later, as an Independent Political Communication Consultant, he had the opportunity to collaborate with various personalities in the Greek central political scene from 1998 to 2008. In the period 2010-2011, he was a Member of the Board of Directors (acting Vice President) of the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO), and during the period 2015-2016, he was a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Centre for Security Studies (KEMEA).

Research

Research outcomes

WORKSHOPS – RESEARCH MEETINGS - CONFERENCES

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Chapters in edited books (peer-reviewed)

Forthcoming Work

Academic presentations (peer-reviewed conference papers)

Invited speaker

Member of Conference Scientific & Organizing Committees

Guest Host on Scientific Conferences

Teaching

Introduction to Social Science

Media Ethics

Introduction to Social Science Research Methods

Internet Research

Cyberspace Culture/ Digital Communication Culture

Social Relationships on Cyberspace

Internet and Society

Political Communication Strategy

Internship Program

Experience

Academic professional experience

Iolie Nicolaidou

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

iolie.nicolaidou@cut.ac.cy

2500 2105

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Dr. Iolie Nicolaidou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies at the Cyprus University of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Educational Technology from Concordia University in Canada. She has a Master’s degree in Educational Media and Technology from Boston University (2002), where she studied as a Fulbright scholar, and a BA in Primary Education from the University of Cyprus (2000) with a specialization in Natural Sciences.

As a researcher in Educational Technology, her work focused on the design, implementation, and evaluation of emerging technologies for learning in naturalistic contexts to solve specific problems. Over the past four years (2020-2024), she established an independent research program focused on Emerging Technologies for Learning and Health. Her current research lies at the intersection of educational technology, digital health, and serious games. Her work focuses on designing and evaluating interventions supported by emerging technologies, such as serious games, gamified applications, and Internet of Things (IoT), to enhance learning, improve mental health, and promote behavioral change. Her research addresses real-life societal problems and adopts an interdisciplinary, problem-focused, participatory design approach. Her key contribution is the development of evidence-informed interventions for learning using emerging technologies as well as the extraction of theory-informed design guidelines for developers of learning applications.

She has been involved as a Principal Investigator (PI), local coordinator, or senior researcher in 5 projects in the past four years (2000-2024) funded by the European Union (Horizon2020, EU4Health, Erasmus+) and Cyprus national grants (Cyprus University of Technology) (total of approximately 5 Million euros in research funds).

She has published more than 100 papers in international, highly-cited, peer-reviewed journals and in proceedings of international scientific conferences. She published her work in four of the top-8 journals of the Educational Technology field (based on Google Scholar, as of Jan 16th 2025), Computers & Education (1st), Education and Information Technologies (2nd), Interactive Learning Environments (4th) and International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)(8th), with the last three journal papers published between 2021 and 2025. She also published her work in journals such as Social Science Computer Review, Information Communication and Society, Digital Health, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research, which is the top journal of medical informatics.

Research

Research interests

Design and evaluation of emerging technologies for learning

Design and evaluation of technology-supported learning environments

Technology integration into the curriculum (K-12 and higher education)

Serious games and gamified applications as prevention interventions for health

Iolie Nicolaidou has been involved as a Principal Investigator (PI), local coordinator, or senior researcher in 5 projects in the past four years (2000-2024) funded by the European Union (Horizon2020, EU4Health, Erasmus+) and Cyprus national grants (Cyprus University of Technology) (total of approximately 5 Million euros in research funds).

Research Projects

Publications

Dr Iolie Nicolaidou has published more than 100 papers in international, highly-cited, peer-reviewed journals and in proceedings of international scientific conferences.  She published her work in four of the top-8 journals of the Educational Technology field (based on Google Scholar, as of Jan 16th 2025),

Computers & Education (1st),

Education and Information Technologies (2nd),

Interactive Learning Environments (4th) and

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)(8th),

with the last three journal papers published between 2021 and 2025. She also published her work in journals such as  Social Science Computer Review, Information Communication and Society, Digital Health, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research, which is the top journal of medical informatics.

Google scholar citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=el&user=tJ6HFJ4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Peer-reviewed scientific journal publications

Theodosi, S. & Nicolaidou, I. (2025). How can we help children adopt healthy sun protection habits? A quasi-experiment using Internet of Things (IoT), gamification, and a social mission. Education and Information Technologies (Impact Factor: 4.8) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-024-13240-7

Nicolaidou, I., & Kampf, R. (2024). Serious Games, Knowledge Acquisition, and Conflict Resolution: The Case of PeaceMaker as a Peace Education Tool. Social Science Computer Review (Impact Factor: 4.1), DOI: 10.1177/08944393241249724 https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393241249724

Kampf, R., & Nicolaidou, I. (2024). Using social impact games to overcome intractable conflicts: the case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker. Information, Communication & Society (Impact Factor: 4.2), 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2331770 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2331770

Theodosi, S., & Nicolaidou, I. (2023). Validation of the Sun Exposure and Protection Index (SEPI) in Greek: An Instrument for Measuring Children’s Sun Protection Propensity. Sustainability, 15(3), 1870. (Impact Factor: 3.9). https://doi.org/10.3390/su15031870

Nicolaidou, I., Egenfeldt-Nielsen, S., Zupancic, R., Hajslund, S & Milioni, D. (2023). Developing Fact Finders: a mobile game for overcoming intractable conflicts. Social Science Computer Review, 41(4), 1166-1186. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393211073586 (Impact Factor: 4.57).

Nicolaidou, I., Aristeidis, L., & Lambrinos, L. (2022). A gamified app for supporting undergraduate students’ mental health: A feasibility and usability study. Digital Health, 8, https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221109059 (Impact Factor: 4.68).

Nicolaidou, I., Zupancic, R., Fiedler, A., Andresen, K., Hoxha, A., Ntaltagianni, C., ... & Milioni, D. (2022). Virtual Tours as Emerging Technologies to Engage Children and Youth with their Country’s Historical Conflicts. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning 17 (21), 164–183. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v17i21.32853  (Scimago Impact Factor: 2.75)

Roumba, E., & Nicolaidou, I. (2022). Augmented Reality Books: Motivation, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Young Readers. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, 16(16), pp. 59–73. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v16i16.31741 (Scimago Impact Factor: 2.46)

Nicolaidou, I., Tozzi, F., & Antoniades, A. (2022). A gamified app on emotion recognition and anger management for pre-school children. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 100449. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100449 (Scimago Impact Factor: 3.87)

Theodosi, S., & Nicolaidou, I. (2021). Affecting Young Children’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors for Ultraviolet Radiation Protection through the Internet of Things: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Special Issue The Internet of Things – Current Trends, Applications and Future Challenges, Journal Computers, 10(11), 137. (Impact Factor: 2.8) https://doi.org/10.3390/computers10110137

Nicolaidou, I., Stavrou, E., & Leonidou, G. (2021). Building Primary-School Children’s Resilience through a Web-Based Interactive Learning Environment: Quasi-Experimental Pre-Post Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research (Impact Factor: 5.43) JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, 4(2), e27958. doi:10.2196/27958

Nicolaidou, I., Pissas, P., & Boglou, D. (2021). Comparing immersive Virtual Reality to mobile applications in foreign language learning in higher education: a quasi-experiment. Interactive Learning Environments, 1-15. (Impact Factor: 3.92) https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2020.1870504

Nicolaidou, I., & Venizelou, A. (2020). Improving Children’s E-Safety Skills through an Interactive Learning Environment: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 4(2), 10. (Impact Factor: 2.4) https://doi.org/10.3390/mti4020010

Kallinikou, E., & Nicolaidou, I. (2019). Digital Storytelling to Enhance Adults’ Speaking Skills in Learning Foreign Languages: A Case Study. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 3(3), 59. (Impact Factor: 2.4).  https://doi.org/10.3390/mti3030059

Nicolaidou, I., Tozzi, F., Kindynis, P., Panayiotou, M., & Antoniades, A. (2019). Development and usability of a gamified app to help children manage stress: an evaluation study. Italian Journal of Educational Technology (Impact Factor: 0.44), 27(2), 105-120, https://doi.org/10.17471/2499-4324/1050

Tozzi, F., Nicolaidou, I., Galani, A., Antoniades, A. (2018). eHealth Interventions for Anxiety Management Targeting Young Children and Adolescents: Exploratory Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research (Impact Factor: 4.67), Journal of Pediatrics and Parenting 1(1):e5. DOI: 10.2196/pediatrics.7248 http://pediatrics.jmir.org/2018/1/e5

Kyza, E. & Nicolaidou, I. (2016): Co-designing reform-based online inquiry learning environments as a situated approach to teachers’ professional development, CoDesign (Impact Factor: 2.41), DOI: 10.1080/15710882.2016.1209528, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2016.1209528

Kyriacou, E. Nicolaidou, I., Hadjichristofi G., Kyrpianou, S. Christou,S. & Constantinou, R. (2016). Health and Rescue Services Management System During a Crisis Event.  Healthcare Technology Letters (Impact Factor: 1.79), 3(3), 205-211.  https://doi.org/10.1049/htl.2016.0040

Nicolaidou, I., Antoniades, A., Constantinou, R., Marangos, Ch., Kyriacou, E., Bamidis, P., Dafli, E.  & Pattichis, C. (2015). The potential of a virtual emergency telemedicine serious game in medical training: a quantitative, professional feedback informed evaluation study. Journal of Medical Internet Research (Impact Factor: 4.67) 17(6):e150, PMID: 26084866 doi:10.2196/jmir.3667

Antoniades, A., Nicolaidou, I., Spachos, D., Mylläri ,J., Giordano, D., Dafli, E., Mitsopoulou, E., Schizas, CN, Pattichis, C., Nikolaidou, M., & Bamidis, P. (2015). Medical Content Searching, Retrieving, and Sharing Over the Internet: Lessons Learned From the mEducator Through a Scenario-Based Evaluation. Journal of Medical Internet Research (Impact Factor: 4.67). 17(10):e229 DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3650, PMID: 26453250  doi:10.2196/jmir.3650

Nicolaidou, I. (2013). E-portfolios supporting primary students’ writing performance and peer feedback, Computers & Education (Impact Factor: 4.53), 68, p.404-415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2013.06.004

Nicolaidou, I. (2012). Can Process Portfolios Affect Students' Writing Self-efficacy?

International Journal of Educational Research (IJER) (Impact Factor: 1.4)., 56, p.10–22.

Nicolaidou, I., Kyza, E.A., Terzian, F., Hadjichambis, A. & Kafouris, D. (2011). A framework for scaffolding students’ assessment of the credibility of evidence. Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST) (Impact Factor 3.21), 48 (7), p.711-744. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tea.20420/abstract

Herodotou, C., Kyza, E. A., Nicolaidou, I., Hadjihambis, A., Kafouris, D., & Terzian, F. (2011). The development and validation of the GMOAS: an instrument measuring secondary students’ attitudes towards Genetically Modified Organisms. International Journal of Science Education (Impact Factor 1.48), 2 (2), p.131-147. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.20420

Nicolaou, C.T., Nicolaidou,I.A.,  Zacharia, Z. C. & Constantinou, C. P (2007). Enhancing Fourth Graders' Ability to Interpret Graphical Representations Through the Use of Microcomputer-Based Labs Implemented Within an Inquiry-Based Activity Sequence. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Education (Impact Factor 1.58), 26 (1) p. 75-99.

Abrami, P.C., Bernard, R.M., Wade, A., Schmid, R.F., Borokhovski, E., Tamim, R., Surkes, M., Lowerison, G., Zhang, D., Nicolaidou, I., Newman, S., Wozney, L., & Peretiatkowicz, A. (2006). A Review of E-learning in Canada: A rough sketch of the evidence, gaps and promising directions. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 32(3). https://doi.org/10.21432/T2QS3K

Nicolaou, C. T., Nicolaidou, I. A., & Constantinou, C. P. (2005). The e-learning movement as a process of quality improvement in higher education. Educational research and Evaluation, 11(6), 605-622. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803610500264856

Publications in proceedings of peer-reviewed international scientific conferences (in the last five years)

Nicolaidou, I. (2024). Can smartwatches with stress detection lower students’ anxiety? an exploratory pilot study using wearables. 18th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2018), 4-6 March 2024, Valencia, Spain DOI: 10.21125/inted.2024.0828 https://library.iated.org/view/NICOLAIDOU2024CAN

Nicolaidou, Ι., Vasquez, M., Tourapi, C. & Aristeidis, L. (2023). Are game-based mobile applications effective for young children’s informal learning in a science museum? 16th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2023). Seville (Spain). 13th - 15th of November, 2023. DOI: 10.21125/iceri.2023.0506 https://library.iated.org/view/NICOLAIDOU2023ARE

Nicolaidou, D. & Nicolaidou, I. (2023). Enhancing resilience to change: a mobile-learning intervention facilitating the transition from primary to secondary education. 16th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2023). Seville (Spain). 13th - 15th of November, 2023. DOI: 10.21125/iceri.2023.1481 https://library.iated.org/view/NICOLAIDOU2023ENH

Nicolaidou, I. (2023). The Impact of an App on Students’ Anxiety, Well-Being, and Resilience: A Pilot Efficacy Study. In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 739. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37963-5_58

Theodosi, S. & Nicolaidou, I. (2023). Promoting active learning and engagement in science with the use of gamified interactive e-learning platforms. In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning (pp. 140-145). Vienna, Austria: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved September 29, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/222494/.

Nicolaidou, I. (2023). Can mobile games protect students against misinformation? A replication study using GoViral!. In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning (pp. 784-789). Vienna, Austria: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved September 29, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/222577/

Nicolaidou, D. & Nicolaidou, I. (2023, July). Evaluating the effectiveness of stress management applications: questionnaires or wearables? A methodological study. EdMedia. In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning (pp. 181-188). Vienna, Austria: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved September 29, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/222500.

Theodosi, S. & Nicolaidou, I. (2022, July). An E-Learning Environment For Influencing Children’s attitudes towards ultraviolet protection. In Proceedings of 16th International Conference on e-Learning 2022 (Lisbon, 18-22 July), Editors: Baptista Nunes, M & Isais, P. (p.178-181), ISBN: 978-989-8704-39-9

Nicolaidou, I., & Aristeidis, L. (2022). The Design of a Gamified App for Supporting Undergraduates' Resilience. Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Games Based Learning Vol. 16 No. 1 (2022), p.648-650. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34190/ecgbl.16.1.708

Nicolaidou, I. (2022, October). Empowering students to engage in the design of COVID-19 related gamified applications. In European Conference on e-Learning (Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 480-483).

Nicolaidou, D., & Nicolaidou, I. (2022, November). Learning Analytics: A case study of Adaptive Video Activities. In European Conference on e-Learning (Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 484-488).

Theodosi, S., & Nicolaidou, I. (2022). An e-learning Environment for Influencing Children’s Attitudes Toward Ultraviolet Protection. International Conference e-Learning, 2022, 19-22 July, Lisbon, Portugal, p.178-181, Editors: Miguel Baptista Nunes and Pedro Isaias, ISBN: 978-989-8704-39-9

Nicolaidou,I., Chrysanthou, G., Georgiou, M., Savvides, Ch., & Toulekki S (2021). Relationship between spatial skills and digital puzzle games. 15th European Conference on Games Based Learning, 23 - 24 September 2021, Brighton, UK

Nicolaidou, I., Aristeidis, L., Christodoulou, C., & Lambrinos, L. (2021). Co-creating a gamified app for enhancing students' emotional resilience in times of crisis (COVID-19), INTED2021 Proceedings, pp. 4169-4175. doi: 10.21125/inted.2021.0850

Andreou, R., & Nicolaidou, I. (2019, November). Digital Literacy in Social Media: A Case Study. In ECEL 2019 18th European Conference on e-Learning (p. 40). Academic Conferences and publishing limited.

Nicolaidou, I. (2018, October). Turn your classroom into a gameshow with a game-based student response system. In European Conference on Games Based Learning (pp. 487-XXII). Academic Conferences International Limited.

Tozzi, F., Nicolaidou, I. Kindynis, Ph. Panagiotou, M., Vogazianos, P. Nicolaou, E., Kamilari, E., Christodoulou, A. & Antoniades, A. (2018). How do parents select educational apps for young children? Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences ICLS2018

Agorou, A., Kallinikou, E., Kyriacou, E., Miltiadou, K. & Nicolaidou, I. (2018). The potential of augmented reality books to influence reading attitudes of 8-9 year-old children: An exploration study. 10th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies EDULEARN18 Proceedings, pp. 1978-1984. ISBN: 978-84-09-02709-5 doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2018.0560

Nicolaidou, I. & Hadjiphoti, G. (2018). “Tell me, I will forget! Involve me with constructing multimedia, and I will understand!”. 10th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies EDULEARN18 Proceedings. pp. 1949-1954. ISBN: 978-84-09-02709-5 doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2018.0555

Nicolaidou, I., Tozzi, F., Kindynis, P., Panagiotou, M., & Antoniades, A. (2017, October). An Interactive Storytelling Game for Mobile Devices for Children’s Stress Management. In European Conference on Games Based Learning (pp. 967-971). Academic Conferences International Limited.

Nicolaidou, I. & Christou, G. (2017). Get undergraduates off Facebook and into learning with game-based student response systems. 17th Biennial conference for research on learning and instruction (EARLI), Tampere, Finland.

Nicolaidou, I., Spyrou, K. & Nicolaou, Ch. (2017).“I am a scientist in a virtual lab”: a computer-supported inquiry learning environment. 17th Biennial conference for research on learning and instruction (EARLI), Tampere, Finland.

Nicolaidou, I. & Venizelou, A. (2016). “Be smart when online!": Kids learn how to protect personal data, stop cyber bullying and avoid hackers, ICERI2016  Proceedings, pp. 3374-3383. ISBN: 978-84-617-5895-1 ISSN: 2340-1095 doi: 10.21125/iceri.2016.1789

Yiangou, Z. & Nicolaidou, I. (2016). Empowering learners through co-design: validating a web-based learning environment created “for the children-by the children”, ICERI2016 Proceedings, pp. 1330-1337. ISBN: 978-84-617-5895-1, doi: 10.21125/iceri.2016.0130

Kyriacou, E., Nicolaidou, I., Theodorou, N., Nicolaou, M., Tsimaris, M., Nikolaou, C., ... & Constantinou, R. (2016). The Evaluation of an Electronic Management System for Rescue Teams by Nursing Personnel. In XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016 (pp. 844-847). Springer International Publishing. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-32703-7_165

Kyriacou, E., Nicolaidou, I., Christou, S., Nikolaou, C., Mavrocheilos, R., Spyrou, G., ... & Constantinou, R. (2016). Users’ Feedback About the Use of a Telemedicine System During Emergencies. In XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016 (pp. 841-843). Springer International Publishing. Cham: Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_164

Chatzipetrou, N. & Nicolaidou, I. (2015). E-safety skills in a “one student: one tablet” school: Do primary students actually know how to protect themselves? ICERI2015 Proceedings, pp. 6462-6471, ISBN: 978-84-608-2657-6, ISSN: 2340-1095, Seville, Spain.

Kyza, E. & Nicolaidou, I. (2015, August). Boundary crossing and empowerment during teacher-researcher collaboration: A case study. Symposium Design collaborations: Contexts for researcher and teacher learning. 16th Biennial conference for research on learning and instruction (EARLI), Limassol, Cyprus.

Kyrillou, Ch. & Nicolaidou, I. (2015, August). Using tablets in a 1:1 program to develop 6th grade students’ skills in producing multimodal texts. 16th Biennial conference for research on learning and instruction (EARLI), Limassol, Cyprus.

Lamprou, I. & Nicolaidou, I. (2015, August). Web-based learning environments for the development of decision making skills in higher education. 16th Biennial conference for research on learning and instruction (EARLI), Limassol, Cyprus.

Nicolaidou, I., Antoniades, A., Constantinou, R., Marangos, C., Kyriacou, E., Bamidis, P. & Pattichis, C. (2015). The Potential of Educational Games in Telemedicine: What do Usability Evaluation Results Say?. In Proceedings of Global Learn 2015 (pp. 492-501). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Berlin, Germany.

Kyza, E., Tabak,I., Asher, I., Herodotou, C., Nasser S. & Nicolaidou, I. (2015, April). Affordances and Constraints of a Minimalist Approach to Teacher Curricular Adaptations. In symposium: Prospects and Challenges in Teacher Curricular Adaptation Across Disciplines. AERA 2015, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Studies

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

CIS 103: Introduction in new media

CIS 109: Introduction to Social Science Research Methods (lab component)

CIS 207: Research Methods in Communication I: Quantitative Analysis (lab component)

CIS208: Research Methods in Communication II: Qualitative Analysis (lab component)

CIS 341: Digital Games and Communication

CIS385: Internet and Society

Graduate courses

CIS513: Design of interactive learning environments

CIS522: New technologies and Educational Reform

CIS525: New media and children

Autonomous Supervision of Students' Theses

I have supervised more than 35 MA and BA theses in the Department from 2012-present, 18 of which have been published in journals (6 publications) or in international conferences with proceedings (12 publications). I supervise two PhD students who joined the PhD program in January 2021 and 2022

Employment

Costas Djouvas

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

costas.tziouvas@cut.ac.cy

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Constantinos Tziouvas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies of the Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the City University of New York, an M.Sc. degree from the University of Cyprus and a B.Sc. degree from the University of Crete. His doctoral research concentrated on Network Testing and it was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). During his Ph.D. studies, he collaborated with leading institutions in the USA, including the Naval Research Lab (NRL) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His current research focuses on the use of Big Data for gaining new insights into socio-cultural phenomena.

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1215-7294

Research

His current research work focuses on proposing and developing innovative computational techniques for the collection, processing, and analyzing vast amounts of heterogeneous data, in order to gain new insights into socio-cultural phenomena. His research also focuses on data visualization, aiming at a simple and clear representation of newly acquired knowledge.

Research Projects

Publications

International Journals

V. Manavopoulos, F. Mendez, C. Djouvas, “Mapping Voters’ Engagement with Political Information Sites: The Case of Voting Advice Applications”, European Consortium for Political Research, 2020

N. Tsapatsoulis, and C. Djouvas, “Opinion mining from social media short texts: Does collective intelligence beat deep learning?”, Frontiers Robotics AI, vol. 6, article 138, 2019

V. Triga, F. Mendez, and C. Djouvas, “Post-crisis Political Normalisation? The 2018 Presidential Elections in the Republic of Cyprus”, South European Society and Politics, 24:1, 103 – 127, DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1511347

C. Djouvas, F. Mendez, and N. Tsapatsoulis, “Mining online political opinion surveys for suspect entries: An interdisciplinary comparison,” Journal of Innovation in Digital Ecosystems, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 172-182,  2016.

N. Tsapatsoulis, M. Agathokleous, C. Djouvas, and F. Mendez, “On the design of Social Voting Recommendation Applications”, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol. 24, no. 03, pp. 1550009, 2015.

Katakis, N. Tsapatsoulis, F. Mendez, V. Triga, and C. Djouvas, “Social voting advice applications-definitions, challenges, datasets and evaluation,” IEEE transactions on cybernetics, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 1039-1052, 2013.

L. Lambrinos and C. Djouvas, “Improving quality of experience in wireless voip through novel call scheduling,” Telecommunication Systems, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 1905-1916, 2013.

C. Djouvas, N. D. Griffeth, and N. A. Lynch, “Testing self-similar networks,” Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 164, no. 4, pp. 67-82, 2006.

Book Chapters

C. Djouvas, and K. Gemenis, "Pattern-based rogue identification," in Voting Advice Applications in Modern Political Campaigns and Elections (Under Review).

M. Agathokleous, and C. Djouvas, "Design and employment issues of Social Voting Recommendation," in Voting Advice Applications in Modern Political Campaigns and Elections (Under Review).

C. Chrysostomou, C. Djouvas, and L. Lambrinos, “Fuzzy logic-based adaptive decision support in autonomous vehicular networks,” in Computational Intelligence for Decision Support in Cyber-Physical Systems, pp. 215-236, Springer, 2014.

L. Lambrinos and C. Djouvas, “Using location information for sophisticated emergency call management,” in Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, pp. 227-232, Springer, 2011.

Conference Proceedings

K. Gemenis, and C. Djouvas, “SmartCoding: An Online Platform for Estimating Political Parties' Policy Positions”, 4th International Workshop On Semantic And Social Media Adaptation And Personalization (SMAP 2019), Larnaca, Cyprus, Juny 2019

D. Milioni, L. Kollyri, and C. Djouvas, "Algorithmic profiling and news personalization", Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC 2018), Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2018.

C. Djouvas, A. Antoniou, and N. Tsapatsoulis, "Improving Social Vote Recommendation in VAAs: The effects of political profile augmentation and classification method", Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2018), pp. 1-6, Zaragoza, Spain, September 2018.

Founta, C. Djouvas, D. Chatzakou, I. Leontiadis, J. Blackburn, G. Stringhini, A. Vakali, M. Sirivianos and N. Kourtellis, “Large Scale Crowdsourcing and Characterization of Twitter Abusive Behavior”. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018.

Djouvas, "Different Technologies, same Assumptions? Comparing the Response Behaviour (and Political Stance) of Mobile versus Desktop VAA users", in the Proceedings of the 11th European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR 2017), Olso, Norway, September 2017.

M. Agathokleous, N Tsapatsoulis, and C. Djouvas, “Estimating Party-user Similarity in Voting Advice Applications using Hidden Markov Models.” in the Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems co-located with ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016), Boston, MA, USA, September 16, 2016.

C. Djouvas, and K Gemenis, “SmartCoding: A web-based system for estimating parties policy positions” in WEBDATANET Conference, Salamanca, Spain, 2015.

F. Mendez, K. Gemenis, and C. Djouvas, “Pattern-based rogue identification,” in WEBDATANET Conference, Salamanca, Spain, 2015.

C. Djouvas, and N. Tsapatsoulis, “A view behind the scene: Data structures and software architecture of a vaa,” in Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), 2014 9th International Workshop on, pp. 136-141, IEEE, 2014.

F. Mendez, K. Gemenis, and C. Djouvas, “Methodological challenges in the analysis of voting advice application generated data,” in Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), 2014 9th International Workshop on, pp. 142-148, IEEE, 2014.

C. Djouvas, K. Gemenis, and F. Mendez, “Weeding out the rogues: How to identify them and why it matters for vaa-generated datasets,” in European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, 2014.

C. Chrysostomou, C. Djouvas, and L. Lambrinos, “Contention window adaptation for broadcast beaconing in vehicular ad hoc networks,” in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2014 International, pp. 1039-1044, IEEE, 2014.

L. Lambrinos, C. Djouvas, and C. Chrysostomou, “Applying delay tolerant networking routing algorithms in maritime communications,” in World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium and Workshops on a, pp. 1-6, IEEE, 2013.

L. Lambrinos, P. Kolios, and C. Djouvas, “Dimensioning voip capacity in maritime networks,” in Communications (ICC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 2486-2490, IEEE, 2013.

C. Chrysostomou, C. Djouvas, and L. Lambrinos, “Dynamically adjusting the min-max contention window for providing quality of service in vehicular networks,” in Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net), 2012 The 11th Annual Mediterranean, pp. 16-23, IEEE, 2012.

Katakis, N. Tsapatsoulis, V. Triga, C. Tziouvas, and F. Mendez, “Clustering online poll data: Towards a voting assistance system,” in Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), 2012 Seventh International Workshop on, pp. 54-59, IEEE, 2012.

C. Chrysostomou, C. Djouvas, and L. Lambrinos, “Applying adaptive qos-aware medium access control in priority-based vehicular ad hoc networks,” in Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2011 IEEE Symposium on, pp. 741-747, IEEE, 2011.

L. Lambrinos and C. Djouvas, “Creating a maritime wireless mesh infrastructure for real-time applications,” in GLOBECOM Workshops, 2011 IEEE, pp. 529-532, IEEE, 2011.

C. Tziouvas, L. Lambrinos, and C. Chrysostomou, “A delay tolerant platform for voice message delivery,” in Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2011 14th International Symposium on, pp. 1-5, IEEE, 2011.

C. Chrysostomou, L. Lambrinos, and C. Djouvas, “The need for a system design methodology to address challenges in wireless access in vehicular ad hoc networks,” in Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT), 2010 International Congress on, pp. 1226-1231, IEEE, 2010.

L. Lambrinos and C. Djouvas, “Applying scheduling policies to improve qos in wireless voice-over-ip,” in Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2009 IEEE 28th International, pp. 366-370, IEEE, 2009.

N. Griffeth, Y. Cantor, and C. Djouvas, “Testing a network by inferring representative state machines from network traces,” in Software Engineering Advances, International Conference on, pp. 31-31, IEEE, 2006.

C. Djouvas and N. Griffeth, “Experimental method for testing networks,” Proceedings of SERP05-The 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, 2005.

G. Hadjipollas, C. Chrysostomou, C. Djouvas, and A. Pitsillides, “Integrated Dynamic Congestion Control with Resource Management in a Differentiated Services Environment,” ACMSAC, 2004.

Technical Reports

C. Djouvas, N. Griffeth, and N. Lynch, “Using self-similarity for efficient network testing,” Technical report, Lehman College, 2005.

Software

Constantinos Djouvas, & Fernando Mendez. (2018, October 16). Balancing algorithm (Version 0.1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1464104

Studies

Teaching

CIS108E: Software and Problem Solving

CIS 202: Content Management

CIS 350: Web Design & Development

CIS 354: Interactive Websites

CIS 416: Big Data and Algorithms: Social Implications and Research Methods

CIS 491-2-3-4: Bachelor’s Thesis

Posts

Kostas Gemenis

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

k.gemenis@cut.ac.cy

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Kostas Gemenis is an Assistant Professor of Politics and the Internet in the Department of Communication and Internet Studies. From 2018 to 2021 he was a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and, previously, an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente. From 2014 to 2021 he taught as an instructor at the ECPR Summer and Winter Schools of Methods and Techniques. His research interests include the study of elections and political parties, as well as the study of the design and impact of voting advice applications, and the proliferation of conspiracy theories in social media. In the context of his research, his proposal for a module to study conspiracy theories related to the COVID-19 pandemic was included in the 10th Round of the European Social Survey (ESS).

Research

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Germann, M., Mendez, F., & Gemenis, K. (2023) Do Voting Advice Applications affect party preferences? Evidence from field experiments in five European countries. Political Communication, 40(5), 596-614.

Gemenis, K. (2022) COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccination intentions among social media users. Statistics, Politics and Policy, 13(3), 279-296.

Hanson, T., Helbling, M., Maxwell, R., Traunmüller, R., Gemenis, K., & Littvay, L. (2021) Developing a COVID-19 module for the European Social Survey. Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 3(1), 1-6.

Gemenis, K. (2021) Explaining conspiracy beliefs and scepticism around the COVID-19 pandemic. Swiss Political Science Review, 27: 229–242.

Gemenis, K. (2020) Ποιοί πιστεύουν στις θεωρίες συνωμοσίας για τον νέο κορωνοϊό; [Who believes the novel coronavirus conspiracy theories?] Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών [Greek Review of Social Research] 154: 97–108, doi: 10.12681/grsr.23523

Bruinsma, B. & Gemenis, K. (2019) Validating Wordscores: The promises and pitfalls of computational text scaling. Communication Methods and Measures, 13: 212–227.

Germann, M. & Gemenis, K. (2019) Getting out the vote with Voting Advice Applications. Political Communication, 36: 149–170.

Gemenis, K., Mendez, F. & Wheatley, J. (2019) Helping citizens to locate political parties
in the policy space: A dataset for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, doi: 10.1163/24523666-00401002

Gemenis, K. (2018) The impact of voting advice applications on electoral turnout: Evidence from Greece. Statistics, Politics and Policy, 9: 161–179.

Gemenis, K. (2015) An iterative expert survey approach for estimating parties’ policy positions. Quality & Quantity 49: 2291–2306.

Gemenis, K. & Nezi, R. (2015) Government-opposition dynamics during the economic crisis in Greece. Journal of Legislative Studies 21: 14–34.

Gemenis, K., Konstantinidis, I. & Triga, V. (2015) Οι ηλεκτρονικοί σύμβουλοι ψήφου στην Ελλάδα [Voting advice applications in Greece]. Επιστήμη και Κοινωνία [Science and Society] 33: 177–210, doi: 10.12681/sas.102

Gemenis, K. & Rosema, M. (2014) Voting advice applications and electoral turnout. Electoral Studies 36: 281–289.

Gemenis, K. (2013) What to do (and not to do) with the Comparative Manifestos Project data. Political Studies 61(S1): 3–23.

Gemenis, K. (2013) Estimating parties’ policy positions through voting advice applications: Some methodological considerations. Acta Politica 48: 268–295.

Dinas, E. & Gemenis, K. (2013) The role of process incentives as a determinant of university students’ protest. European Political Science Review 5: 225–253.

Gemenis, K. (2012) Proxy documents as a source of measurement error in the Comparative Manifestos Project. Electoral Studies 31: 594–604.

Gemenis, K. (2012) The 2010 regional elections in Greece: Voting for regional governance or protesting the IMF? Regional & Federal Studies 22: 107–115.

Dinas, E. & Gemenis, K. (2010) Measuring parties’ ideological positions with manifesto data: A critical evaluation of the competing methods. Party Politics 16: 427–450.

Gemenis, K. & Dinas, E. (2010) Confrontation still? Examining parties’ policy positions in Greece. Comparative European Politics 8: 179–201.

Gemenis, K. (2010) Winning votes and weathering storms: The 2009 European and parliamentary elections in Greece. Representation 46: 353–362.

Gemenis, K. (2009) A green comeback in Greece? The Ecologist Greens in the 2007 parliamentary election. Environmental Politics 18: 128–134.

Gemenis, K. (2008) The 2007 parliamentary election in Greece. Mediterranean Politics 13: 95–101.
  

Chapters in edited volumes and conference proceedings

Gemenis, K. (2023) Using Facebook targeted advertisements to recruit survey respondents. In: 18th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/SMAP59435.2023.10255213

Djouvas, C. & Gemenis, K. (2019) SmartCoding: An online platform for estimating political parties’ policy positions. In: 14th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/SMAP.2019.8864906

Mendez, F., Gemenis, K. & Djouvas, C. (2014) Methodological challenges in the analysis of Voting Advice Application generated data. In: 9th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), pp. 142–148, doi: 10.1109/SMAP.2014.32

Gemenis, K. & Van Ham, C. (2014) Comparing methods for estimating parties’ positions in Voting Advice Applications. In S. Marschall and D. Garzia, D. (eds.), Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates. Colchester: ECPR Press, pp. 33–47.

Gemenis, K. & Lefkofridi, Z. (2013) Greece: A critical assessment of Europeanization. In M. Mannin and C. Bretherton, eds. The Europeanization of European politics. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 95–107.

Teaching

CIS210 Introduction to Political Science

CIS407 Research Design

CIS418 Political Parties and Elections

CIS486 Thematic Seminar Cluster Ι.Α. - Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis

CIS164 Statistics for Social Sciences (2022-2023 academic year)

Studies

Employment

Christiana Panayiotou

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

c.panayiotou@cut.ac.cy

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Paschalia Spyridou

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

l.spyridou@cut.ac.cy

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Paschalia (Lia) Spyridou is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Marketing at Cyprus University of Technology. She holds a BA in Journalism and Mass Media from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an MA in Communication from the University of Westminster, and received her PhD in Journalism and New Media from the Aristotle University. In 2012 she received a postdoctoral scholarship from the Research Committee of the Aristotle University for her work on participatory journalism. She was a Lecturer at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus and has taught at the University of Macedonia, the Aristotle University and the Masters programme in Journalism Studies of the Hellenic Open University. Her research interests lie in the field of digital journalism studies with an emphasis on how new technologies impact news production and shape politics and democracy. Her work has appeared in Journalism, Journalism Studies, Digital Journalism, European Journal of Communication, International Communication Gazette, and Journal of European Public Policy among others. Dr. Spyridou is a member of the Editorial Board of Digital Journalism (2020 – today) and contributed in the Greek edition of UNESCO’s Handbook on “Journalism, Fake News and Disinformation” (2021). She was the local scientific coordinator of two Erasmus+ projects (ΜΑΤΕ and MediaLab) and worked as a researcher in H2020 RePAST project. She is currently coordinating the H2020 DEMOTEC project, which focuses on participatory budgeting, including the role of journalism in mediating democratic innovations.

Research

Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Spyridou, P., Triga, V. & Milioni, D.L. (forthcoming). Were Online Media Biased? An Assessment of Statement and Actor Bias during the 2015 Referendum in Greece, International Journal of Communication.

Spyridou, P., Vatikiotis, P. & Maniou, T. (forthcoming). Newswork in Crisis: Sourcing Patterns during Covid-19 through a ‘Lived Experience’ Perspective, Special Issue, Journalism in a Globalized Risk Arena: Between Networks, Interdependencies and Power Relations. International Communication Gazette.

Spyridou, P. & Avraamidou, M. (2023). Exploring Discursive Strategies of Dark Participation: User Comments on Migration in NYT and Τhe Guardian. Journalism Practice, https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2023.2254269

Vatikiotis, P., Maniou, T. & Spyridou, P. (2023). Towards the Individuated Journalistic Worker in Pandemic Times: Reflections from Greece and Cyprus. Journalism, https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231207670

Spyridou, P., Djouvas, C. & Milioni, D.L. (2022). Modeling and Validating a News Recommender Algorithm in a Mainstream Medium-Sized News Organization: An Experimental Approach, Future Internet, 14(10), 284, https://doi.org/10.3390/fi14100284

Spyridou, P. & Danezis (2022). News Consumption Patterns during the Coronavirus Pandemic across Time and Devices: The Cyprus Case, World of Media, 2, 124-146, DOI: 10.30547/ worldofmedia.2.2022.8

Theodosiadou, S., Spyridou, L-P., Panayiotou, N., Milioni, D. & Papa, V. (2021). “Journalism education in the post-truth era. An exploration of the voices of journalism students in Greece and Cyprus”, Journal of Media Practice,  https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2021.1919833

Spyridou, L.-P. (2019). “Analyzing the active audience: Reluctant, reactive, fearful, or lazy? Forms and motives of participation in mainstream journalism», Journalism, 20(6), 827–847, https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884918784733

Milioni, D., Spyridou, L-P. and Triga, V. (2018). “Cadrages Médiatiques de la Consultation Grecque sur le Plan d'aide Européen: Le Référendum Cause ou Solution de la Crise?”.  (translated from English by Xavier Blandin, original title: “Framing the Greek Bailout Referendum: A Crisis-Inducing or a Crisis-Resolving Mechanism?”), Participations, 1(20), 111-142, DOI: 10.3917/parti.020.0111  

Maier, J., Faas, T. & Rittberger, Spyridou, L-P., et al. (2018). “An event that could have made a difference: Effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens’ and its consequence for EU democracy – Evidence from a quasi-experiment in 24 countries”, Journal of European Public Policy, 25(4), 606-629,  https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2016.1268643

Saridou, Τ., Spyridou, L.-P. and Veglis, A. (2017). “Churnalism on the Rise? Assessing Convergence Effects on Editorial Practices”, Digital Journalism, 5, 1006-1024, https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2017.1342209

Doudaki, V., Boubouka, A., Spyridou, L.-P. and Tzalavras, C. (2016). “Dependency, (non)liability and austerity news frames of bailout Greece”, European Journal of Communication, 31(4), 426-445, https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323116655510

Spyridou, L.-P. (2015). “Producing Protest News: Representations of Contentious Collective Actions in Mainstream Media”, Cyprus Review - Special Issue on Participation, media representation and the financial and political crises in Cyprus, 27(1), 71-105

Doudaki, V. and Spyridou, L.-P. (2015). “News Content Online: Patterns and Norms under Convergence Dynamics”, Journalism, 16(2), 257-277, https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884913517657

Milioni, D., Spyridou, L.-P. and Vadratsikas, K. (2015). “Framing Immigration in Online Media and Television News in Crisis-stricken Cyprus”, Cyprus Review - Special Issue on Participation, media representation and the financial and political crises in Cyprus, 27(1), 155-185

Spyridou, L.-P., Matsiola, M., Veglis, A., Kalliris, G. and Dimoulas, C. (2013). “Journalism in a State of Flux: Journalists as Agents of Technology Innovation and Emerging News Practices”, International Communication Gazette, 75(1), 76-98, https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048512461763

Doudaki, V. and Spyridou, L.-P. (2013). “Print and Online News: Remediation Practices in Content and Forms”, Journalism Studies, 14(6), 907-925, https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2012.746860

Spyridou, L.-P. and Veglis, A. (2011). “Political Parties and Web 2.0 tools: A Shift in Power or a New Digital Bandwagon?”, International Journal of Electronic Governance, 4(1/2), 136-155, DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2011.041712

Spyridou, L.-P. & Veglis, A. (2010). Online Media and the Web 2.0 paradigm”, Communication Issues [Ζητήματα Επικοινωνίας], 10, 96-114 (in Greek)

Spyridou, L.-P. and Veglis, A. (2008). “Exploring Structural Interactivity in Online Newspapers: A Look at the Greek Web Landscape”, First Monday, May 2008, 13(5): DOI: https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v13i5.2164

Spyridou, L.-P. and Veglis, A. (2008). “The Contribution of Online News Consumption to Critical-Reflective Journalism Professionals”, Journalism, 9(1), 52-75, https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884907084340

Chapters in Edited Books

Spyridou, L.P. (2020). “Citizens as actors in the field of journalism: Exploring users’ agency and perceptions of participatory affordances”. In A. Veneti and A. Karatzogianni (eds). The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece, Emerald Publishing Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-400-520201021

Spyridou, L-P. and Milioni, D. (2019). “Interactive Journalism”. In T. Vos and F. Hanusch (eds). The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies, Wiley, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118841570.iejs0133

Milioni, D., Spyridou, L.-P. and Koumis, M. (2018). “Cyprus: Behind Closed (journalistic) Doors”. In S. Fengler, T. Eberwein and M. Karmasin (eds). European Handbook of Media Accountability, Routledge, pp. 39-46

Spyridou, L.-P. and Milioni D. (2017). “Financial Crisis, Austerity and Public Service Media in Cyprus. Reforming or Downsizing? An Analysis of Discourses and Critiques”. In V. Doudaki and N. Carpentier (eds). Cyprus and its conflicts. Representations, materialities and cultures, Berghahn Books, pp. 99-120

Spyridou, L.-P. and Koktsidis, P. (2017). “Manufacturing Consent or Informing the Public? A Review of recent Research on how International Mainstream Media Covered the Greek crisis”. In H. Hannapi and S. Katsikides (eds). Evolutionary Political Economy in Action. A Cyprus Symposium, Routledge, pp. 189-207.

Spyridou, L.-P. and Veglis, A. (2016). “Convergence and the Changing Labor of Journalism: Towards the ‘Super Journalist’ Paradigm”. In A.Lugmayr and C. Dal Zotto (eds). Media Convergence Handbook – Volume I, Journalism, broadcasting and social media aspects of convergence, Springer-Verlag, pp. 99-116.

Spyridou, L.-P. (2016). “Stuart Hall: The return of ideology in Communication Studies”. In E. Pazarzi and S. Katsikides (eds). From Social Thought to Sociology Theory, Athens: Nomiki Vivliothiki, pp. 291-308 (in Greek).

Spyridou, L.-P. and Veglis, A. (2015). “Sustainable Online News Projects: Redefining Production Norms and Practices”. In Z. Vukanovic, A. Powers, G. Tsourvakas and P. Faustino (eds). Redefining Multiplatform Digital Scenario and Added Value Networks in Media Business and Policy, Media XXI Publishing, pp. 63-83.

Siapera, E. and Spyridou, L.-P. (2012). “The Field of Online Journalism: A Bourdieusian Analysis”. In E. Siapera & A. Veglis (eds). The Willey-Blackwell Handbook of Online Journalism, London: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 77-97.

Spyridou, L.-P. (2005). “The impact of interactivity in Journalism”. In Fragonikolopoulos, C. (ed). Mass Media, Society and Politics, Athens: Sideris, pp. 711-732 (in Greek).

studies

Teaching

CIS 102 Theory of Communication

CIS 220 Introduction to Journalism Studies

CIS 320 Reporting and Writing Techniques

CIS 329 Online Journalism

CIS 407 Research Design

CIS 426 Investigative Journalism

Employment

Awards

2012: Postdoctoral Scholarship, Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Venetia Papa

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication and Internet Studies

venetia.papa@cut.ac.cy

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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.

Research programs