Παρατηρητήριο για την πολυφωνία των μέσων ενημέρωσης στην ψηφιακή εποχή. Εφαρμογή του παρατηρητηρίου στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, στην Αλβανία, στο Μαυροβούνιο, στη Δημοκρατία της Βόρειας Μακεδονίας, στη Σερβία και στην Τουρκια για το έτος 2021. Εθνική έκθεση : Ελλάδα

This report presents the results of the implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor for the year 2021 (MPM2022) in Greece. The MPM is a holistic tool geared at assessing the risks to media pluralism in EU member states and selected candidate countries (32 European countries in total, including Albania, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey). The MPM takes into account legal, political and economic variables that are relevant to analysing the levels of plurality of media systems in a democratic society. The Media Pluralism Monitor has been implemented, on a regular basis, by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, since 2013/2014.The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom is co-financed by the European Unio

Archaeometric Analysis of Pigments from the Tomb of Nakht-Djehuty (TT189), El-Qurna Necropolis, Upper Egypt

The main objective of the present work is to characterize some pigments from the tomb of Nakht-Djehuty (TT189), time of Ramesses II (c. 1279-1212 BC), El-Assasif district, El-Qurna necropolis, Luxor (ancient Thebes), Upper Egypt. The characterization of the examined wall paintings was carried out by means of optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) equipped with an energy dispersive X-ray detector (EDS), X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and visible reflectance spectroscopy. The results revealed the characterization of the stratigraphic structure of wall decorations of the tomb and their chemical composition. The analysis of the examined samples indicated that the blue pigment was identified as Egyptian blue (Cuprorivaite), the green pigment as Egyptian green, the red pigment as red ochre, the yellow pigment as yellow ochre and the white pigment as a mixture of gypsum and calcite. The obtained results helped in identifying the chromatic palette used in one of the tombs dating back to the Ramesside period in Ancient Egypt.L’objectif principal du présent travail est de caractériser certains pigments de la tombe de Nakht-Djehouty (TT189), le temps de Ramsès II (c. 1279-1212 avant J.-C.), El-Assasif district, El-Qurna nécropole, Louxor (Thèbes), la Haute-Égypte. La caractérisation des peintures murales examinés a été réalisée au moyen de la microscopie optique (MO), microscopie électronique à balayage (SEM) équipé d’un dispersion d’énergie détecteur de rayons X (EDS), analyse par diffraction des rayons X (XRD), transformée de Fourier spectroscopie (FT-IR) et spectroscopie de réflectance visible. Les résultats ont révélé la caractérisation de la structure stratigraphique des décorations murales de la tombe et leur composition chimique. L’analyse des échantillons examinés ont indiqué que le pigment bleu a été identifié comme le bleu égyptien (Cuprorivaite), le pigment vert que vert égyptien, le pigment rouge comme l’ocre rouge, le pigment jaune ocre jaune et le pigment blanc comme un mélange de gypse et calcite. Les résultats obtenus a permis d’identifier la palette chromatique utilisée dans l’une des tombes datant de l’époque ramesside dans l’Égypte ancienne

Crisis as Emotional Labour in the News. Assessing the Trauma Frame During the Economic and the Pandemic Crisis

This study focuses on the way(s) that the economic and the pandemic crisis were covered by media outlets and aims to research whether journalists’ own feelings and experiences of covering both these traumatic events were depicted in their news articles. Drawing on Semetko and Valkenburg’s (2000) set of five generic frames this study focuses on Greece, a country that has been severely hit by both these crises and brings together theories about journalism as emotional labour that defy the prevailing notion of the distant and neutral observers. Moving one step further, this study argues that journalists convey their source’s emotions, but in some cases, they also reveal their own feelings through their news articles. Findings suggest that apart from the already documented frames, (i.e., attribution of responsibility, conflict, human interest, economic consequences, and morality), journalists used the trauma frame, a notion we use to refer to news articles that essentially reflect and reveal journalists’ own emotions. This finding refutes the traditional understanding of quality journalistic discourse as one stripped of emotional expression and opens new pathways for research

Intermedia Agenda Setting and Grassroots Collectives: Assessing Global Media’s Influence on Greek News Outlets

This study focuses on a variety of grassroots collectives that emerged during the Greek economic crisis and aims to record activists’ own perceptions regarding the way that domestic media reacted after these collectives featured on the front pages of global news outlets. Drawing on 10 in depth interviews with activists participating in five grassroots collectives, this study brings together social movement and communications theoretical frameworks. Interviewees were asked about their perceptions regarding the role that global elite media coverage may have played in the salience of their endeavors in domestic media. Subsequently, we tested their personal testimonies by implementing a time series analysis on three Greek newspapers for a period of seven days before and after a front page publication in global elite media. Findings suggest that there is a big discrepancy between the perceived and the actual impact of global elite media on the agenda of domestic newspapers. To this end, further research should be undertaken to specify the exact characteristics that influence which grassroots collective will gain prominence in the public realm

Visual Infotainment in the political news: A cultural approach in the post-truth era

This article introduces the concept of visual infotainment, the aspects of infotainment found in visual artefacts employed in the news. Using a case study, we examine the photographs published in the digital media to report on the negotiations between the Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot communities, which took place in 2016 and 2017. A four-level visual framing analysis is used to identify a consistent set of frames. It aims to identify the political ideologies that appear to be behind the visual infotainment in these pictorial reports, and the specific ways in which hard news can be transformed into soft news. Our research confirms the presence of visual infotainment elements of personalisation, emotion, morbidity and sensationalism. Overall, the study shows that visual infotainment serves to establish visual frames produced by and for contradictory propagandas, one of which favours ethnic nationalism while the other promotes confl ict resolution

ΠΑΡΑΤΗΡΗΤΗΡΙΟ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΠΛΟΥΡΑΛΙΣΜΟ ΤΩΝ ΜΕΣΩΝ ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΣΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΨΗΦΙΑΚΗ ΕΠΟΧΗ. ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΗ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΡΑΤΗΡΗΤΗΡΙΟΥ ΣΤHN ΕΥΡΩΠΑΪΚΗ ΕΝΩΣΗ, ΣΤΗΝ ΑΛΒΑΝΙΑ, ΣΤΟ ΜΑΥΡΟΒΟΥΝΙΟ, ΣΤΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΒΟΡΕΙΑΣ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ, ΣΤΗ ΣΕΡΒΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΕΤΟΣ 2022. Εθνική έκθεση: Ελλάδα

This report presents the results of the implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor for the year 2022 (MPM2023) in Greece. The MPM is a holistic tool geared at assessing the risks to media pluralism in EU member states and selected candidate countries (32 European countries in total, including Albania, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey). The MPM takes into account legal, political and economic variables that are relevant to analysing the levels of plurality of media systems in a democratic society. The Media Pluralism Monitor has been implemented, on a regular basis, by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, since 2013/2014.Η παρούσα έκθεση παρουσιάζει τα αποτελέσματα της εφαρμογής του Παρατηρητηρίου του Πλουραλισμού των Μέσων Ενημέρωσης για το έτος 2022 (MPM2023) στην Ελλάδα. Το MPM είναι ένα ολιστικό εργαλείο που στοχεύει στην αξιολόγηση των κινδύνων για τον πλουραλισμό των μέσων ενημέρωσης στα κράτη μέλη της ΕΕ και σε επιλεγμένες υποψήφιες χώρες (32 ευρωπαϊκές χώρες συνολικά, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της Αλβανίας, του Μαυροβουνίου, της Δημοκρατίας της Βόρειας Μακεδονίας, της Σερβίας και της Τουρκίας). Το MPM λαμβάνει υπόψη του νομικές, πολιτικές και οικονομικές μεταβλητές για την ανάλυση των επιπέδων πλουραλισμού των μιντιακών συστημάτων σε μια δημοκρατική κοινωνία. Το Παρατηρητήριο του Πλουραλισμού των Μέσων Ενημέρωσης εφαρμόζεται, σε τακτική βάση, από το Κέντρο για τον Πλουραλισμό και την Ελευθερία των Μέσων Ενημέρωσης/ Center for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, από το 2013/2014.The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom is co-financed by the European Unio

In vitro assessment of oral and respiratory bioaccesibility of trace elements of environmental concern in Greek fly ashes: assessing health risk via ingestion and inhalation

Fly ash engender significant environmental and human health problems due to enhanced contents of potentially harmful trace elements (TrElems). This study aims to evaluate human exposure to TrElems via a combined ingestion (i.e., oral bioaccessibility) and inhalation (i.e., respiratory bioaccessibility) pathway. Five fly ash samples were collected from power plants operating in the main lignite basins of Greece, while the ingestible (<250 μm) and inhalable (<10 μm) particle size fractions were utilized. The Unified Bioaccessibility Method (UBM) was utilized to assess the oral bioaccessibility, while the respiratory bioaccessible fractions were extracted using the Artificial Lysosomal Fluid (ALF). All studied FAs exhibited significantly higher contents in Ba, Cr, Ni, V and Zn. Cadmium was presented relative enriched in the finer size fraction (<10 μm), while Ba, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni and V were depleted. The UBM-extractable concentrations fluctuated greatly among the studied FAs, while notably lower bioaccessible contents were recorded in the gastrointestinal phase. On the other hand, ALF-extractable concentrations were surprisingly higher than the corresponding UBM-extractable ones in the gastric phase. The oral bioaccessibility of the studied TrElems ranged from 12.5 to 100%, while respiratory bioaccessibility presented high values exceeding 45% on average. A significant effect of fly ash type on human bioaccessibility was revealed. Thus, high-Ca FAs exhibited significantly higher bioaccessibility of the studied TrElems via ingestion, while a relatively higher bioaccessibility via inhalation was observed for high-Si FAs. Regarding non-carcinogenic health risk via ingestion and inhalation, Cr and Co exhibited the highest HQing and HQinh values, however there were significantly lower than safe level (HQ < 1). On the contrary, Cr was the dominant contributor to carcinogenic risk with CR values being well above threshold or even tolerable risk levels.publishe