[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Workshop: April 24, 2017

[Dimitri H. Gondicas]

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies



Workshop


The Legacy Media Crisis in Greece:
Tradition, Transformation,
Critical Adjustments, and Politics





Nikos Bakounakis

Panteion University, Athens





The talk will focus on a series of themes relevant to the "Greek century of the newspapers" (1873-1989/97):  Dictatorships and the development of the Greek mass media; The defeats of Greek journalistic culture and the crisis of credibility; Sources of news and the digital news consumption; The new players; Trust in journalism and legacy media organizations in Greece, the lowest among 26 countries surveyed by the Reuters Institute (2016).

Nikos Bakounakis is Professor of Practice of Journalism and Storytelling Techniques, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University, Athens.  Parallel to his academic work, he is a literary editor and a long-standing contributor, Cultural and Book Editor-in-Chief in To Vima newspaper, Athens.  He earned his Ph.D. in History and Civilizations at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. His work includes several books on Greek history, primarily concerning the development of the bourgeoisie, its mentality and its cultural behavior, and the reception of artistic phenomena, ideas and journalism. He has published widely in Greece and abroad on cultural, journalism and press topics.  His most recent book is Journalist or Reporter: The Human Interest Story in the Greek Newspapers, 19th-20th century (in Greek: 2014, National Book Award, Athens Academy Ouranis Prize). He is currently at work on a book on the American author and journalist Stephen Crane in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, a war considered to be the first "war-media event."


Monday, April 24, 2017

5:00 p.m.

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103



Supported by The Paul Sarbanes '54 Fund for Hellenism and Public Service

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