Digital Media and Politics

Triantafillidou, A., Lappas, G. (2022) Depersonalize and Attack: Facebook campaigns of populist candidates in Greece during the 2019 Greek national elections, Journal of Information Technologiy and Politics (accepted)  

Tsichla, E., Lappas, G., Triantafillidou, A., Kleftodimos, A. (2021) Gender differences in politicians’ Facebook campaigns: Campaign practices, campaign issues and voter engagement, New Media and Society, online, DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211036405 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614448211036405 

Lappas, G., Triantafillidou, A., Kani, A. (2021) Harnessing the power of dialogue: Examining the impact of Facebook content on citizens’ engagement, Local Government Studies, published 5/1/2021, online, DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2020.1870958 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03003930.2020.1870958

Poulakidakos S. (2021) Media events, speech events and propagandistic techniques of legitimation: a multimodal analysis of the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ public addresses on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8:237.

Poulakidakos S., Veneti A., Rovisco M. (2021) “The Online Communication Strategies of a Small-Scale Social Movement: The Case of the Greek ‘Do Not Pay’ Social Movement”. In A. Karatzogianni, M. Schandorf and A. Ferra (eds.) “Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions: The Longue Duree” United Kingdom- North America- Japan- India- Malaysia- China: Emerald Publishing, pp. 227-239.

Veneti and S. Poulakidakos (2021) Video-activism and small-scale resistance: The Visual Rhetoric of Youtube Videos by the Greek Anarchist Group Rouvikonas. In N. Crick (ed.) The Rhetoric of Social Movements. Networks, Power and New Media. Oxon, New York: Routledge, pp. 65-83.

Poulakidakos S. (2020) “The Greek Political Leaders on Instagram: Comparing Instagram Activity during Electoral and Non-electoral Periods”. In Veneti A. and Karatzogianni A. The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece: Journalism and Political Communication in times of Crisis. United Kingdom- North America- Japan- India- Malaysia- China: Emerald Publishing, pp. 351-368.

Poulakidakos S. (2020) “Greek party leaders on Instagram. Pre-electoral and non-electoral “visual flows”: A comparative analysis”. In Ioannidis P. and Tsaousakis E. (eds.) “2019- The first elections after the Memorandum. The analysis of the vote”. Athens: Papazisis, pp. 111-122 (in Greek).

Triantafillidou A., Lappas G. (2020). Facebook Campaigns During the 2019 Greek General Elections. In Proceedings of the 7th Multidisciplinary in International Social Networks Conference and The 3rd International Conference on Economics, Management and Technology (MISNC2020&IEMT2020). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, Article 16, 1–8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3429395.3429411  

Triantafillidou, A., Lappas, G. , Yannas, P., (2020), Personalization or Standardization? The Use of Instagram by the Two Main Political Leaders of Greece, “4th Euro-Mediterranean Conference on “VISIONING MED 2020+ / Mediterranean in Transition: Preserving the Past – Preparing for the Future”, October, 9-10, Athens, Greece.

Triantafillidou, A., Yannas, P., & Kani, A. (2020), Twitter’s agenda building and agenda setting effects: Evidence from Political Leaders in Greece. In Veneti, A., Karatzogianni, A. (eds), The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece: Journalism and Political Communication in Times of Crisis, Emerald Handbooks.

Lappas, G., Triantafillidou, A., Yannas, P. (2019) Members of European Parliament (MEPs) on Social Media: Understanding the Underlying Mechanisms of Social Media Adoption and Popularity, The Review of Socionetwork Strategies, Springer, 13(1): pp. 55-77, DOI 10.1007/s12626-019-00033-5 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12626-019-00033-5

Lappas G., Triantafillidou, A., Kani A. (2019), “The impact of dialogic communication on citizens’ engagement with local governments through Facebook: The case of the municipality of Larissa”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI), 10-12 July, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Poulakidakos S., Giannouli I. (2019) “Greek Political Leaders on Instagram: Between “Soft” and “Hard” Personalization”. In Veneti A., Jackson D., Lilleker D (eds.) Visual Political Communication. London: Palgrave McMillan, pp. 187-206.

Poulakidakos S., Veneti A. (2019) “Political Communication and Twitter in Greece: Jumping on the bandwagon or an enhancement of the political dialogue?” In Information Resources Management Association (IRSA) (Ed.) Censorship, Surveillance, and Privacy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (4 Volumes). USA: IGI Global, pp. 1125-1152.

Lappas, G., Triantafillidou, A., Deligiaouri, A., Kleftodimos, A. (2018) Facebook Content Strategies and Citizens’ Online Engagement: The Case of Greek Local Governments, The Review of Socionetwork Strategies, 12(1): pp. 1-20, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-018-0017-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12626-018-0017-6

Triantafillidou A., Lappas G., Kleftodimos A., Yannas P. (2018) Attack, Interact, and Mobilize: Twitter Communication Strategies of Greek Mayors and their Effects on Users’ Engagement. In: Sobacı M., Hatipoğlu İ. (eds) Sub-National Democracy and Politics Through Social Media. Public Administration and Information Technology, vol 29. Springer, Cham, pp. 65-89 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-73386-9_4

Kleftodimos, G. Lappas, A. Giannakopoulou (2018). “Investigating the Greek political Twittersphere: Greek MPs and their Twitter network”, in Proceedings of the The South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks, and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM 2018), Kastoria 22-24 September.

Lappas, A. Triantafillidou, and P. Yannas (2018) “Social Media Adoption and Popularity of Members of the European Parliament”, in Proceedings of the 5th Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference (MISNC 2018), July 16–18, 2018, Saint-Etienne, France, ACM International Conference Proceedings Series publication, doi{https://doi.org/10.1145/3227696.3227722

Poulakidakos S., Veneti A., Fangonikolopoulos Ch. (2018) “Post-truth, propaganda and the transformation of the spiral of silence”, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 14(3), pp. 367-382.

Poulakidakos S. & Veneti Α. (2017) “The use of Twitter and the quality of political dialogue” (in Greek). In Demertzis Ν. “Information Society. Governance and the Internet”, Athens: National Centre for Social Research, pp. 121-142.

Lappas, A. Triantafillidou,  P. Yannas, ,  & A. Kleftodimos  (2017). An Evaluation Scheme for Local e-Government and Local e-Democracy: The Case of Greek Municipalities, International Journal of Electronic Governance, Vol. 9,No 3/4,  pp 300-342, http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=88223

Lappas, A. Triantafillidou, A. Deligiaouri and A. Kleftodimos (2017) Facebook Communication Strategies and Their Effectiveness: A Case Study of Greek Local Municipal Governments, in Proceedings of The 4th Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference (MISNC 2017), July 17-19, 2017, Bangkok, Thailand, ACM International Conference Proceedings Series publication, Article No. 22, doi:10.1145/3092090.3092114, https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3092090.3092114

Lappas, G., P. Yannas, A. Triantafillidou,  & A. Kleftodimos (2016). Do Greek Municipal Websites Meet Citizens’ Perceptions on Issue Importance?, Jurnal Teknologi, Vol. 78, No 12-3, E-ISSN 2180-3722, pp 39-49 http://www.jurnalteknologi.utm.my/index.php/jurnalteknologi/article/view/10021

Deligiaouri, A. Triantafillidou, P. Yannas, G. Lappas, R. Alvanos, T. Papadopoulou, A. Kleftodimos (2016), Because Political Knowledge Matters: The Impact of Deliberation on Young Citizens’ Opinions, Medijske Studije (Media Studies) Journal, Vol. 7 (2016):14, pp. 86-102 , ISSN 1847-9758,  http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/252588 , http://hrcak.srce.hr/171178

Lappas, A. Triantafillidou, P. Yannas, A. Kavada, A. Kleftodimos, O. Vasileiadou (2016). Social Media Battles: their Impact during the 2014 Greek Municipal Elections, Journal of Universal Computer Science, vol. 22, no. 3 (2016), pp. 375-39, http://www.jucs.org/jucs_22_3/social_media_battles_their/jucs_22_03_0375_0393_lappas.pdf

Triantafillidou, G. Lappas, P. Yannas,  A. Kleftodimos (2016). Drivers of Candidates’ Social Media Popularity in the 2014 European Parliamentary Elections in Greece, in Proceedings of the The South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks, and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM 2016), Kastoria 25-27 September

Triantafillidou, G. Lappas, P. Yannas,  A. Kleftodimos (2015). The Role of Online Deliberation on Citizens’ Attitudes, International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 9, No 8, pp. 2636-2640. http://waset.org/Publication/the-role-of-online-deliberation-on-citizens-attitudes/10001960

Lappas, A. Triantafillidou, P. Yannas, A. Kleftodimos (2015) Local E-Government and E-Democracy: An Evaluation of Greek Municipalities, , in S.K. Katsikas and A.B. Sideridis (eds), , E-Democracy – Citizen Rights in the World of the New Computing Paradigms, Volume 570 of the series Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer.  6th International Conference on e-Democracy Athens, Dec 10-11, 2015,  pp 134-150 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-27164-4_10#page-1 

Triantafillidou, P. Yannas, G.Lappas, A. Kleftodimos (2015) A Comparison of the Effects of Face-to-Face and Online Deliberation on Young Students’ Attitudes about Public Opinion Polls, in S.K. Katsikas and A.B. Sideridis (eds), , E-Democracy – Citizen Rights in the World of the New Computing Paradigms, Volume 570 of the series Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer.  6th International Conference on e-Democracy Athens, Dec 10-11, 2015, pp. 18-32. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-27164-4_2 

Triantafillidou, A.Deligiaouri, P. Yannas, G.Lappas, R. Alvanos, S. Venieris, T. Papadopoulou, A. Kleftodimos (2015). “Because Political Knowledge Matters: The impact of deliberation on citizens’ opinions”, International Conference on “Communication, Democracy and Digital Technology”, Rovinj, Croatia, 2-3 October.

Lappas, A. Triantafillidou, P. Yannas, A. Kleftodimos, O. Vasileiadou (2015). An Integrative Framework for Local E-Government Evaluation, in Imre Ruda (ed), Recent Advances on Computational Science and Applications, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on E-Activities, Seoul, South Korea, Sept. 05-07, pp. 134-143.

Lappas, A. Triantafillidou, P. Yannas, A. Kavada, A. Kleftodimos, O. Vasileiadou (2015). The Role of Facebook in the 2014 Greek Municipal Elections, Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research, Second International Conference, MISNC 2015, Matsuyama, Japan, Sept. 1-3, 2015, Proceedings, Communication in Computer and Information Science 540, SPRINGER Volume 540 of the series Communications in Computer and Information Science pp. 437-447. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-662-48319-0_36

Lappas, A. Triantafillidou, P. Yannas, A. Kleftodimos (2015). Evaluation Framework of Local E-Government and E-Democracy: A Citizens’ Perspective, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on e-Learning, e-Management and e-Services (IC3e), 24-26 Aug, Malacca Malaysia.

Triantafillidou, G. Lappas, P. Yannas,  A. Kleftodimos (2015). The Role of Online Deliberation on Citizens’ Attitudes, ICDGS 2015: International Conference on e-Democracy, e-Government and e-Society, Aug 06-07, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Aug 06-07, 2015, 17 (8) Part I, eISSN 1307-6892, pp. 169-173.

Triantafillidou, G.Lappas P. Yannas, A. Kleftodimos (2015) Facebook Engagement and Greek Local Municipal Governments, Proceedings of the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM 15), 20-22 Mai, Krems, Austria, pp. 39-50. 

Lappas, P. Yannas, A. Triantafillidou,  & A. Kleftodimos. (2014). Online Political Marketing: The Use of Facebook in the 2010 Greek Municipal Elections. In  A. Solo (Ed.), Political Campaigning in the Information Age (pp. 110-127). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-6062-5.ch006  http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-07632-4_38#page-1 

Triantafillidou, P. Yannas, G. Lappas (2013) Young Voters’ Usage of Traditional and Digital Media in the 2012 Greek Parliamentary Elections, paper presented at New Media and Participation Conference, 22-23 November, Istabul. 

Lappas, P. Yannas, A. Triantafillidou (2013) The Impact of Facebook on candidate election in the May 2012 Greek Parliamentary elections, paper presented at Cyberpsychology 2013 International Conference, 22-23 November, Brno. 

Yannas, G. Lappas, A. Triantafyllidou (2013). “Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Online Election Campaign Engagement of Greek Young Voters using Structural Equation Modeling, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference in Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies in the Economic and Administrative Sciences (ICQQMEAS 2013), Athens, Greece 23-24 May.

Lappas, P. Yannas (2012).  “Toward a South-Eastern European Local E-Government Identity: The Greek Case”, Journal of US-China Public Administration, Vol. 9, Number 5, May 2012, pp. 507-515. ISSN 1548-6591.

Lappas, P, Yannas (2012). “An Evaluation Framework for MPs Websites: The Case of Greek Members of Parliament”, in Sobaci (ed.) E-Parliament and ICT-Based Legislation: Concept, Experiences and Lessons, Information Science Reference, pp 144-163, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-329-4.ch009, ISBN13: 9781613503294, ISBN10: 1613503296, EISBN13: 9781613503300

Yannas, A. Kleftodimos, G. Lappas (2011), “Online Political Marketing in 2010 Greek Local Elections: The Shift from Web to Web 2.0 Campaigns”, in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Corporate and Marketing Communications, 27-29 April, Athens, Greece. 

Yannas and G. Lappas (2010). “Evaluating Local E-Government: A Comparative Study of Greek Prefecture Websites”, in  Safeeullah Soomro (Ed.), E-learning experiences and future, INTECH, online:http://sciyo.com/articles/show/title/evaluating-local-e-government-a-comparative-study-of-greek-prefecture-websites

Lappas, A. Kleftodimos, P. Yannas (2010) (Invited Talk), “Greek Parties and Web 2.0”, Elections, Campaigning and Citizens Online Workshop. University of Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute, (ECCO Workshop), Oxford Internet Institute, 15-16 September, Oxford, UK. 

Lappas, P. Yannas. (2010), «Towards a South-Eastern European Local E-Government Identity: The Greek Case», in Asim Balci, Coskun Can Aktan, Ozkan Dalbay (eds), Explorations in eGovernment and eGovernance: Proceedings of the International Conference on E-Government and E-Governance (ICEGEG 2010), Antalya, Turkey, 10-12 March, 2010, Volume 1, pp:159-168. ISBN: 978-605-5741-23-5.

Lappas S. Chatzopoulos, P. Yannas, (2008), “Parliamentary Candidates Running on the Web for the 2004 Greek National Elections”, Journal of Political Marketing, Vol. 7 Iss. 3-4, pp. 256-277. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15377850802008327

Yannas, G. Lappas (2007). “Evaluating Local E-Government: An Analysis of Greek Prefecture Websites”, in Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 07), October 28-31, Lyon, France, pp. 254-259, ISBN 0-7695-2913-5. 

Yannas, G. Lappas. (2006), “Web Candidates in the 2002 Greek Prefecture Elections”, Journal of E-Government , Vol 3, No 1, pp 53-67, ISSN 1542-4049.

Lappas, P.Yannas (2006). “A Framework to Evaluate Political Parties Websites”, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications, Volume II, July 20-23, Orlando, USA, pp 226-231, ISBN 980-6560-80-9.

Yannas, G. Lappas (2005), “Political Candidates on the Internet during the Local Elections of 2002”, Communication Issues, 3, 2005, 115-124 (in Greek), ISSN 1790-0824.

Yannas, G. Lappas (2005), “Web Campaign in the 2002 Greek Municipal Elections”, Journal of Political Marketing, 4(1), 33-50, ISSN 1537-7857. 

Yannas, G. Lappas (2004), “E-Campaign in Greek Elections: 2000-2004”, WSEAS Transactions in Information Science and Applications, 5(1), 1332-1337, ISSN 1798-0832. 

Antonidakis, N. Mastorakis, C. Sorras, G.Lappas. (2004), (editors) Proceedings of the 3rd WSEAS International Conference on E-Activities, 24-26 October 2004, Rethymnon, Greece, ISBN 960-8457-04-1.

Triantafillidou, A., Lappas, G., Yannas, P., Kleftodimos, A., and Karagianni, E. (2017), Communication Strategies in Greek Political Twitter-sphere: A Balancing Effect, Paper Accepted for Presentation in the International Conference of Contemporary Marketing Issues 2017 (ICCMI 2017), Thessaloniki, Greece, 21-23 June.

Mitu B., Poulakidakos S. (eds.) (2016) “Media Events: A Critical Contemporary Approach”. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Georgios Lappas, Prodromos Yannas, Amalia Triantafillidou, Alexandros Kleftodimos, Olga Vasileiadou (2016) Modeling a citizen-centric evaluation framework for local e-government and e-democracy, International journal of Education and Information Technologies, Volume 10, 2016, pp. 120-130, ISSN: 2074-1316. http://www.naun.org/main/NAUN/educationinformation/2016/a322008-171.pdf 

A.Triantafillidou, G. Lappas, P. Yannas,  A. Kleftodimos (2016). “Greek Local E-Government 2.0: Drivers and Outcomes of Social Media Adoption, in Sobaci (ed), “Social Media and Local Governments: Theory and Practice”, Volume 15 of the Series Public Administration and Information Technology, Springer, pp. 153-170. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-17722-9_9 

Poulakidakos S. & Karoulas G. (2016) ‘Greek political elites and political discourse in the era of crisis: between populism and “elitism”’. Electronic Conference Proceedings, ICCONSS, Rethymno, 10-12 June 2016. Available at: http://icconss.soc.uoc.gr/images/ecp/ICCONSS_16_6_4.pdf

Poulakidakos S., Veneti A. (2016) Political Communication and Twitter in Greece: Jumping on the bandwagon or an enhancement of the political dialogue? In Deželan T. and Vobic I. (Eds.) (R)evolutionizing Political Communication through Social Media. USA: IGI Global, pp. 119-146. http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2015/Seoul/ACME/ACME-19.pdf http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/online-political-marketing/109116 

Poulakidakos S. (2014) “Propaganda and Public Discourse. The presentation of the MoU by the Greek Media”. Athens: DaVinci Books.

Amalia Triantafillidou, Prodromos Yannas, Georgios Lappas (2014). “Antecedents and Consequences of Online Campaign Engagement of Greek College Students, in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2014), 22-27 June, Heraklion Crete. Social Computing and Social Media Volume 8531 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 397-407 

Poulakidakos S., Armenakis A. (2014) «Propaganda in Greek Public Discourse. Propaganda Scales in the presentation of the Greek MoU-bailout agreement of 2010». Revue des Sciences Politiques, no. 41, April 2014, pp. 126-140.

Poulakidakos S., Karoulas G. (2013) «Political elites and propaganda: The presentation of the MoU by the Greek parties, through the Greek TV news bulletins».  In Pleios G. «The Crisis and the Media» (in Greek). Athens: Papazisis.

P.Yannas, G. Lappas, (2013). “E-Government and E-Democracy in Local Greek Government”, in Gouliamos, K, Theoharous, A., Newman P. (eds) Political Marketing: Strategic Campaign Culture, Routledge Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 978-0-415-84456-7
http://www.davidpublisher.org/Public/uploads/Contribute/5567db11292b1.pdf

G.Lappas, A. Triantafyllidou, P. Yannas (2012). “Social Media Campaigning by Candidates in the 2010 Greek Municipal Elections”. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI), 13-15 June, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 413-417.

Togkaridou, K., Lappas G. (2010), European Members of Parliaments on the Web: An Analysis of European Parliament Members Websites in the Period 2004-2009, in Proceedings Student Conference Information Technology Applications and Administrative Technologies, 5 November, Thessaloniki, Greece (in Greek) pp 269-282. http://drupals.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/ipol/sites/default/files/ecco/Lappas.pdf , archived at: http://www.webcitation.org/6RkIKRqoK 

Veneti A., Poulakidakos S. (2010) “The Rhetoric of Greek Political Advertisement”, The Romanian Journal of Journalism & Communication, Anul V, nr 1, Serie Noua, ISSN 1842-256X, pp. 27-38.

Ρ. Yannas, and G. Lappas (2005), (editors) Proceedings of the International Conference on Political Marketing (ICPM 2005), 31 March – 2 April, Kastoria, Greece: Dept. of Public Relations & Communication, ISBN: 960-88605-0-4.

P.Yannas, G. Lappas, (2005). “Parliamentary Candidates Running on the Web for the 2004 Greek National Elections”, Proceedings.of 2nd International Conference on Political Marketing (ICPM 2005), 31 March – 2 April, Kastoria, Greece: Dept. of Public Relations & Communication, ISBN: 960-88605-0-4.

P. Yannas, G. Lappas (2004), “E-Campaign in Greek Elections: 2000-2004”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on E-Activities, October 24-26, Rethymnon, Greece, ISBN 968-8457-84-1.