Department of Communication
Mission
The Department of Communication is an interdisciplinary centre for education and research in the broader field of media and communication that fosters creativity and critical thinking on an equal basis, ethical practices of inclusivity and sustainable development, and respect for human diversity. We are home to a vibrant community of undergraduate and post/graduate students with various academic and professional interests and a group of scholars that pursues high-quality teaching and research originality and excellence, gradually bearing international recognition and impact on the communication industry, policy and the third sector.
Vision
– advancing understanding of creative and brand communication, as well as consumer behaviour and wellbeing
– interrogating ethical and regulatory frameworks and debates
– exploring the role of media multiliteracies
– enquiring into the effects of technological developments and transformations
– advancing understanding of digital marketing, the role of social media in the influencer industry, and of AI and big data in advertising campaigns
– exploring interplays and differences among corporate, organizational, political as well as non-profit and crisis communication
– interrogating ethical debates on gendered public discourse, citizenship, and minority rights
– critically attending to media influence on public opinion and policy agendas, strategic messaging and audience behaviour
– enquiring into the mediation of global public affairs, civil security, and political violence/terrorism in contemporary democracies
– drawing on film theory and analysis to understand contemporary audiovisual communication
– enquiring into the philosophy of aesthetics of media-cultural representations
– investigating the role of language and visuals in constructing social identities, institutional roles and group dynamics
– advancing understanding and application of cultural, multimodal and critical discourse analysis of audiovisual communication in the digital world
– critically attending to the transformation of journalistic newsrooms and practices
– investigating the place and role of (new) media literacies, journalistic values and ideologies in news production
– exploring the multiple interplays between media and societal change
– understanding the social-cultural shaping of algorithms and their biases
– enquiring into digital populism, and power and injustice in the attention economies of platform capitalism
People
RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Media multiliteracies. Understanding memes in the social sciences and humanities, by Dr Georgia-Zozeta Miliopoulou.
- Populist democracy and media narratives. Ethnic minorities as a threat to democracy and the process of securitization: The case of Roma in Europe, by Dr Emmanuel Skoulas.
- The role of language in shaping group dynamics and student identities during collaborative learning. Discursive negotiation of roles and development of soft skills (e.g., conflict resolution and teamwork), by Dr Stamatina Katsiveli.
- Digital Populism: Fights for, with and by the people-as-victim on social media, by Dr Angelos Kissas.