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Милонас Янис

Факультет креативных индустрий

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Должности

  • Доцент — Факультет креативных индустрий, Институт медиа

Био

  • · Начал работать в НИУ ВШЭ в 2014 году.
  • · Научно-педагогический стаж: 11 лет.

Образование

  • 2009 · PhD: Копенгагенский университет, тема диссертации: ‘Discursive struggles on the “war on terror”; politics, crisis and Representation’
  • 2002 · Магистратура: Университет Бата, специальность «Прикладная социальная психология», квалификация «Магистр наук»
  • 2001 · Бакалавриат: Университет Янины, специальность «философия»

Опыт работы

  • · Associate Professor at the Media, Communications and Design Department, National, Research University, Higher School of Economics, in Moscow, Russia
  • · Post-doctoral researcher at the Media and Communications Department, Lund University in Sweden (2010-2012)
  • · Lecturer at the Film, Media, Cognition and Communication Department and at the Cultural Studies Department, Copenhagen University in Denmark (2007-2014)

Награды и поощрения

  • · Лучший преподаватель — 2024–2025

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Публикации (50)

Social Media as Propaganda Tools: The Greek Conservative Party and National Elections

2017 · CHAPTER · en

The economic crisis and its political management by all Greek governments after the beginning of the crisis in 2009 and the so-called Troika (the EU, ECB and IMF), have brought significant challenges to the media environment of Greece, with independent journalism, in particular, to be facing important economic as well as sociopolitical pressures. The loss of printed press sales during the crisis’ times has resulted in the closing of established newspapers (like ‘Eleytherotypia’) and the opening of new ones as well. The crisis’ emergency regimes also brought the autocratic shut down of the public broadcaster (ERT) in June 2013 by the time’s coalition government of conservatives and social democrats.

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Extreme-right Responses to the European Economic Crisis in Denmark and Sweden: The Discursive Construction of Scapegoats and Lodestars

2015 · ARTICLE · en

This article examines extreme-right online media as a site of discursive struggle over definitions of the causes, consequences and remedies of the European economic crisis. The authors focus on two Scandinavian countries, Denmark and Sweden, which have seen a rise in extreme-right activities across different arenas and in different media in the turbulent years since the collapse of global financial markets in 2008. Drawing on a discourse theoretical framework that builds on the work of Laclau and Mouffe (1985), the authors examine how the currently most active and visible extreme-right groups in these two countries understand and respond to the crisis as an opportunity to fuel anti-immigration discourses and prey on sentiments of instability and insecurity in the broader population, using online media to “involve members and supporters in the discursive construction of racism” (Atton 2006, 573). The analysis demonstrates how these groups look to Greece, as the “crisis epicentre”, for culturalist explanations for the Eurozone crisis and to the rise there of Golden Dawn as an inspiration for future mobilisations in Nordic and pan-European coalitions.

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Austerity discourses in “der spiegel” journal, 2009-2014

2015 · ARTICLE · en

This article looks at the ways mainstream media discuss austerity and its failure to reach its proclaimed goals, to reduce public debt and to boost productivity in the heavily indebted countries of the Eurozone’s periphery. This study analyzed Der Spiegel’s articles presenting the crisis and austerity in Europe, focusing on the Greek case, from 2009 until 2014. A thematic analysis was developed in the study a broad corpus of articles, focusing on the main ideas they unfold. Deploying critical political economy literature, critical cultural theory and critical media studies literature, the article criticizes the neoliberal hegemony of the EU’s crisis politics and foregrounds the role of mainstream media, including progressivist or objectivist ones such as Spiegel, in the reproduction of neoliberal ideas that expand far beyond the crisis, to produce the institutions, social relations, beliefs and subjectivities for a post-crisis configuration of capitalism. The article concludes that Spiegel, like other mainstream media, produce a biopolitical policing of the crisis’ exceptionalized subjects (the citizens of indebted countries) and the implementation of crisis-politics by creating a public “structure of feeling” related to the hegemonic crisis’ rationales. These rationales are further connected to the development of the new neoliberal subjectivity, which is an objective of the crisis-reforms, such as austerity regimes. In effect, main- stream media discourses reproduce the hegemonic frames of the crisis and austerity, while negating the possibility of new narratives to emerge in the crisis context. © 2015 Unified Theory of Information Research Group. All rights reserved.

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The rise of neo-Nazism and the web: social media as platforms for racist discourses in the context of Greek economic crisis

2015 · CHAPTER · en

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance. It shows how collective action and state power are related and conflict as two dialectical sides of social media power, and how power and counter-power are distributed in this dialectic. Theoretically focused and empirically rigorous research considers the two-sided contradictory nature of power in relation to social media and politics. Chapters cover social media in the context of phenomena such as contemporary revolutions in Egypt and other countries, populism 2.0, anti-austerity protests, the fascist movement in Greece's crisis, Anonymous and police surveillance.

A comparative case study on the perceptions and usages of Poles and Greeks on digital file-sharing

2014 · CHAPTER · en

This paper studies “informal” new media uses, from a critical and empirical perspective, by employing relevant literature on the promises of new media and everyday life culture, and by interviewing various people engaged with different in-formal new media/ICT activities. By new media and ICTs, I refer to portable, mass-produced and consumed digital devices (for example, tablets, smartphones, or laptops among other), and a variety of software programs and applications that enable individuals to do things on their own or with others. I am also including digital portals, platforms, the so-called social media, communica-tional networks, as well as peer-to-peer structures and open-source/free software systems and licenses enabled by digital technologies. These elements bring im-portant changes to social life; they alter the ways in which we perceive the world, the ways we work, the ways we inform ourselves and learn new skills, and the ways that politics are performed by authorities and by citizens.

Crisis, austerity and opposition in mainstream media discourses of Greece

2014 · ARTICLE · en

This article analyzes neoliberal articulations of the economic crisis in Greece, as they appear at theEkathimerini daily. Neoliberalism is primarily understood as the ideology organizing the political strategies of late capitalist production. The analysis focuses on the ways the capitalist crisis is presented in the context of Greece, as well as the ways that socio-political opposition to neoliberal reforms are addressed.Ekathimerini reproduces the hegemonic explanations of the crisis that view the crisis as a national and moral problem rather than a global and systemic one. The analysis draws concepts from both discourse theory and critical theory. Discourse theory analyzes the neoliberal discourse organizing the political interventions for the reproduction of capitalism in the crisis-context, while political economy critiques the materiality of the capitalist process, which itself is based on discourses and political interventions. The article concludes that Ekathimerini's crisis-coverage contributes to the form of social engineering organized by neoliberal policies in Greece, in order to produce the political and social norms for a post-crisis configuration of capitalism.

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A critical study of informal new media uses in Sweden

2014 · ARTICLE · en

This study looks at a variety of “informal” uses of new media and ICTs. The term informal describes popular uses of digital technologies that often exist outside the norms, laws, and codes that dictate how digital technologies and networks are to be used. Such activities include what is commonly described as “piracy,” but also embrace different peer-to-peer practices. Informal activities develop due to the affordances of digital technologies, which allow space for creativity and personalization of use, but are also due to broader sociocultural variables and contextual issues. In general terms, informal activities are those that concern the amateur activities of people using digital programs, tools, and networks. Media scholars see great potential in new media/ICT affordances, as related to the proliferation of grassroots participation, communication, and creativity. Nevertheless, a growing critical literature forces us to examine the actualization of such potential. This paper discusses the aforementioned issues by looking at new media/ICT uses in Sweden; it departs from critical perspectives that take into consideration the political economy of new media, and the cultural-political critiques of late-modern consumer societies.

The emergence of political subjectivity in ‘a-political’ terrains: conscientious objection to the military service in pre-crisis Greece

2013 · ARTICLE · en

The purpose of this study is threefold: (a) to present an analysis of a moment of what scholars framed as ‘particularist political struggles’, developed in the socio-political context of a given liberal–democratic country. The particularist political struggle examined concerns the negation of the compulsory – to all male citizens-military service of Greece; (b) to highlight local political struggles in their complexity, which are largely unknown and buried by hegemonic, transnational, ‘culturalist’ narratives that caricaturized the particular country and its people; (c) to discuss the possibilities and the difficulties for the emergence of political subjectivities in societies where apolitical, individualistic social identities prevail. The focus on the particular instance of socio-political struggle emphasizes the importance of spatio-temporal context. The analysis deploys the concept of bio-politics, in both Foucault's and Ranciere's terms: in the form of punitive and disciplinary strategies imposed by institutional apparatuses, and in the form of the emergence of an emancipatory subjectivity. The article concludes that fidelity to values and to subjective contexts, counter-hegemonic articulation and solidarity networks are key for the creation of political events, political struggles and counter-hegemonic subjectivities today, as ever.

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Culturalist explanations of the crisis in the Greek public sphere

2013 · CHAPTER · el

*uring the ongoing economic crisis in Greece a large number of liberal intellectuals, policy makers and public personas forwarded an interpretative framework with the notionof ‘national identity’ at its very core !his framework emphasi%es some characteristics of the Greeks, presented as essential, such as the over$dependence on traditional familialstructures, the emotional and outbursting character, the dogmatic treatment of history, ta(evasion, fren%y consumerism and an often irrational way of thinking and decision$making !he latter traits are not only thought to be in radical discordance with the valuesof a modern #estern state and its civil society, but are also portrayed as the main reasons behind the economic downfall !he crisis is here presented as an opportunity for Greeksto rediscover themselves while austerity is reali%ed, as the ‘bad citi%ens’ have theopportunity to redeem themselves through introspec

Piracy Culture in Greece: Local Realities and Civic Potentials

2012 · ARTICLE · en

Departing from a critical perspective on intellectual property rights, this article investigates the popular phenomenon of free online file-sharing beyond its hegemonic framing as piracy. The article focuses on the civic potentials entailed in free and participatory culture of new media and ICT. A “civic” focus, in the context of free sharing, aims at assessing the potential of a democratic culture that scholars (Castells, 2009; Dahlgren, 2009) distinguish to be developing through new media and new ICT uses in the everyday life and communication practices of different people worldwide. Empirical research draws on users’ ideas, practices, and experiences of new ICT and file-sharing, contextualized in the local experience of Greece. The local example aims at foregrounding particularistic, sociocultural variants defining cultural practices, while also addressing the controversies of global IP policies. The analysis shows that civic elements may be developed through P2P practices, but they rely on material social experiences, ideological issues, events, and social and communicative relations that are “external” to the realities developing through technologies and digital networks.

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