Katharine Sarikakis
Biographic Data
| ID | 168760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharine Sarikakis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharine |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarikakis |
| SIGNATURE | SARIKAKIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9247-8129 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Shots and sequences of the gender equality in the EU’s governance of the film industry across external action
Gender inequality remains a persistent challenge in the European film industry, where women continue to be underrepresented in leadership, technical, and decision-making roles. As a global actor, the EU’s role in bringing about social change through governance frameworks extends beyond its own borders. The area of EU gender parity policies in the cultural sector is severely underdeveloped, as is the place of such focus in international relations …
Children’s legal consciousness
Given children’s increasingly earlier use of social media, this study offers empirical data as to the ways in which children understand and negotiate their human right to privacy online. We draw upon the concept of legal consciousness, in order to document the experiences of children as legitimate stakeholders in policy scenarios. Eighteen focus groups were conducted with 116 children from three age groups, 8-9, 11-12, and 14–16 years, in the Aus…
Giving up on the law? The disconnect of hate speech policy and female journalists’ experiences
My haters and I ”
Journalists are consistent targets of hate speech, which aims at silencing critical voices; yet female journalists encounter forms of hate speech that are unique to their gender. Hate speech against female journalists can have far-reaching implications on journalism practice and society as a whole. This study investigates the macro and micro dimensions of countering hate speech as a matter of policy and as a matter of personal resistance. Its fir…
Shrinking communicative space for media and gender equality civil society organizations
This study explores pressures on civil society organizations (CSOs) that promote gender equality in and through the media. By using cases from five countries- Cyprus, Ethiopia, Hungary, South Africa and Spain, this study maps out the different ways in which media and gender equality CSOs are experiencing shrinking in the communicative space in which they operate at national contexts and leapfrogging to transnational communicative spaces. Through …
Who’s Afraid of the Past
The focus of this paper is on the role of audiovisual archives for PSBs with regards to their function as democratic and inclusive institutions. We discuss the importance of audiovisual archives as integrated parts of PSBs, argue that accessibility of archives is a universal service and as such, a fundamental factor for PSBs to fulfil their democratic functions in the 21st century. We investigate structural, legal and institutional factors that i…
Social media trivialization of the increasing participation of women in politics in Ethiopia
Social media, Facebook in particular, is increasingly serving as an alternative platform for discussing politics in Ethiopia. Unfortunately, it has also become a public sphere in which not only political views are shared but also discourses that ridicule women’s increasing role in Ethiopian politics are constructed and disseminated through. By analysing a sample of Facebook texts which tease the wave of women’s appointment to political power in E…
Beyond the ‘online’
In many undemocratic countries where conservative law and patriarchal ideas are in place, women are considered second-class citizens particularly in domains of public life. After Iran’s Islamic revolution, Iranian women were confronted with a theocratic regime, which imposed laws and norms, which limited women’s activities and violated earned liberties. The activities of women under non-democratic states and patriarchal systems are thwarted by th…
Solidarity rebooted
Citizens’ distrust in political institutions has reached an all-time high in the European Union in recent years. Since the outbreak of the European sovereign debt crisis in 2009, the public’s faith in the community of nations has slumped, and EU institutions have made slow progress in regaining their citizens’ trust. What began as an economic crisis has sparked off mediated debates about European integration and therein about processes of exclusi…
Media and citizens in Greece and beyond
The politics of pleasure in global drama
This article is concerned with the ways in which local/national drama becomes a global success, which strategies are developed to appeal to viewers within different cultural settings and how far this shift is important when re/thinking audience reception studies. The study answers this question by exploring the television (TV) drama series, The Magnificent Century (2011–2014) by conducting in-depth interviews in the Greek capital Athens and the M…
Between two (in)competencies
Social Media Users' Legal Consciousness About Privacy
This article explores the ways in which the concept of privacy is understood in the context of social media and with regard to users' awareness of privacy policies and laws in the 'Post-Snowden' era. In the light of presumably increased public exposure to privacy debates, generated partly due to the European 'Right to be Forgotten' ruling and the Snowden revelations on mass surveillance, this article explores users' meaning-making of privacy as a…
Reluctant activists? The impact of legislative and structural attempts of surveillance on investigative journalism
If we accept that surveillance by the State and ‘sousveillance’ by the media in Western democracies tend towards a relative equilibrium, or ‘equiveillance’ supported by the function of journalism as a watchdog and that the rule of law largely protects fundamental freedoms, this paper argues that the act of ‘mutual watching’ is undesired by the State and comes at a very high cost to journalists. The combination of technological capacity, legislati…
Defining authorship in user-generated content
The notion of authorship is a core element in antipiracy campaigns accompanying an emerging copyright regime, worldwide. These campaigns are built on discourses that aim to ‘problematize’ the issues of ‘legality’ of content downloading practices, ‘protection’ for content creators and the alleged damage caused to creators’ livelihood by piracy. Under these tensions, fandom both subverts such discourses, through sharing and production practices, an…
Intellectual property law change and process
This paper argues that the notion of ‘policy laundering’ can be applied to current attempts for the establishment of a new copyright legal order and takes as example the changes to intellectual property law in Spain. The article discusses the complexity of interactions between international and domestic relations within and beyond formal structures of policy–making in amending the legal framework in Spain: First, European directives set the pace …
Media theory for Mad Max times
Ten years of Media and Cultural Politics
Priorities in global media policy transfer
This article investigates the flow of communication policy principles across the supranational, international and national levels, through the lens of policy transfer. Policy transfer is a new concept for the field of media and communication studies. The article utilizes and expands on the concept to study the case of digital policy flows between leading regional powers, the EU and USA and MERCOSUR. The article argues that EU and US policy priori…
Imposing freedoms
Citizens in ‘an ever-closer union’? The long path to a public sphere in the EU
As Europe is facing a continuous financial and, for many, political and social crisis, long-standing issues of European identity, solidarity and democracy reappear more pronounced than before. In these times, often, the historical developments that have given rise to questioning the European project, its legitimacy and potential future, as well as the treatment of these questions by its political and executive helm are not adequately understood. …
The Governance of Communication and Culture
This chapter explores the role of communication and cultural policy in regularizing changes in the regime of accumulation and in the processes of production and consumption of cultural goods. It explores the emergence of new geographies of power in decision‐making and the people in production and consumption who define the ways in which the circulation and accumulation of cultural goods and profits is developing. Working with definitions of cultu…
Access denied
This article argues that the status of migrant subjects is characterized by a loss of communication rights and locates the instances where this loss is most visible. It investigates the process of silencing and immobilization of migrants and the particular forms it takes for female migrants through the disenablement of communicative acts. In this process the detained migrant loses her status as an interlocutor, irrespectively of the instances and…
Post/feminism and the politics of mediated sex
Arriving at a Crossroads
Women's scholarship and activism seem to find themselves at a crossroads quite often, perhaps with a higher frequency than other areas in the academy. The reasons are to be found in the very “natur
Defending Communicative Spaces
The role of the European Parliament in the formation of media and cultural policies is a largely underresearched area, despite the implications of the institution’s active involvement in supranational decision-making regimes for emancipatory politics in Europe. Through a historical overview, this article argues that the EP has successfully defended existing communicative spaces and promoted the creation of new ones. In its efforts to defend Europ…
Social Media Users' Legal Consciousness About Privacy
This article explores the ways in which the concept of privacy is understood in the context of social media and with regard to users' awareness of privacy policies and laws in the 'Post-Snowden' era. In the light of presumably increased public exposure to privacy debates, generated partly due to the European 'Right to be Forgotten' ruling and the Snowden revelations on mass surveillance, this article explores users' meaning-making of privacy as a…
My haters and I ”
Journalists are consistent targets of hate speech, which aims at silencing critical voices; yet female journalists encounter forms of hate speech that are unique to their gender. Hate speech against female journalists can have far-reaching implications on journalism practice and society as a whole. This study investigates the macro and micro dimensions of countering hate speech as a matter of policy and as a matter of personal resistance. Its fir…
Access denied
This article argues that the status of migrant subjects is characterized by a loss of communication rights and locates the instances where this loss is most visible. It investigates the process of silencing and immobilization of migrants and the particular forms it takes for female migrants through the disenablement of communicative acts. In this process the detained migrant loses her status as an interlocutor, irrespectively of the instances and…
A Global Hypothesis for Women in Journalism and Mass Communications
This article examines the status of women in communications industries and on university faculties. It specifically tests the Ratio of Recurrent and Reinforced Residuum or R 3 hypothesis, as developed by Rush and colleagues in the early 1980s. The R 3 hypothesis predicts that the percentage of women in the communications industries and on university faculties will follow the ratio residing around a 1/4:3/4 or 1/3:2/3 proportion females to males. …
The politics of pleasure in global drama
This article is concerned with the ways in which local/national drama becomes a global success, which strategies are developed to appeal to viewers within different cultural settings and how far this shift is important when re/thinking audience reception studies. The study answers this question by exploring the television (TV) drama series, The Magnificent Century (2011–2014) by conducting in-depth interviews in the Greek capital Athens and the M…
Defining authorship in user-generated content
The notion of authorship is a core element in antipiracy campaigns accompanying an emerging copyright regime, worldwide. These campaigns are built on discourses that aim to ‘problematize’ the issues of ‘legality’ of content downloading practices, ‘protection’ for content creators and the alleged damage caused to creators’ livelihood by piracy. Under these tensions, fandom both subverts such discourses, through sharing and production practices, an…
The Trouble with Gender
This article explores the ways in which gender mainstreaming (GM) approaches have failed to become integrated in the EU media policy framework and seeks to analyse the reasons why. It argues that the degree of implementation of GM in the media policy area depends on the dynamics of structural power determinants, in particular the structure of opportunities of the DG in charge of the policy area and the institutional structures in general, as well…
Beyond the ‘online’
In many undemocratic countries where conservative law and patriarchal ideas are in place, women are considered second-class citizens particularly in domains of public life. After Iran’s Islamic revolution, Iranian women were confronted with a theocratic regime, which imposed laws and norms, which limited women’s activities and violated earned liberties. The activities of women under non-democratic states and patriarchal systems are thwarted by th…
Violence, Militarism, Terrorism
(2002). Violence, Militarism, Terrorism: Faces of a Masculine Order and the Exploitation of Women. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 151-153
Giving up on the law? The disconnect of hate speech policy and female journalists’ experiences
Between two (in)competencies
Priorities in global media policy transfer
This article investigates the flow of communication policy principles across the supranational, international and national levels, through the lens of policy transfer. Policy transfer is a new concept for the field of media and communication studies. The article utilizes and expands on the concept to study the case of digital policy flows between leading regional powers, the EU and USA and MERCOSUR. The article argues that EU and US policy priori…
Citizens in ‘an ever-closer union’? The long path to a public sphere in the EU
As Europe is facing a continuous financial and, for many, political and social crisis, long-standing issues of European identity, solidarity and democracy reappear more pronounced than before. In these times, often, the historical developments that have given rise to questioning the European project, its legitimacy and potential future, as well as the treatment of these questions by its political and executive helm are not adequately understood. …
Post/feminism and the politics of mediated sex
The European Union and culture
Violence, Militarism, Terrorism
(2002). Violence, Militarism, Terrorism: Faces of a Masculine Order and the Exploitation of Women. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 151-153
A Feminist in Brussels (and Glasgow, Berlin, Düsseldorf…)
This article discusses the conditions of research in international and European contexts, in particular European elite politics and politicians, arguing that the researcher is a central agent and research instrument in this process. The article suggests that the researcher finds herself renegotiating parts of her socially assigned identity in relation to European national and international structures and discusses the ways in which the gendered ‘…
Ideology and policy
This paper considers some of the ideologies that are shaping Internet policies. It addresses the priorities of international policy initiatives and identifies their discursive constructions. It takes stock of some of the most characteristic policy directions that seek to define the Internet and its uses within an agenda of predominant privatisation
Why ‘media’, ‘culture’ and ‘politics’ – and why now
MCP’s first edition was being put together for publication in the last week of the American presidential election of 2004, during which (in the world’s ‘greatest democracy’) political sound-bite length had dropped to a reported seven seconds, much of the US electorate was about to base its decision on the ‘fact’ that Iraq had been involved in the destruction of the Twin Towers in 2001, and both US presidential candidates had attracted unparallele…
A Global Hypothesis for Women in Journalism and Mass Communications
This article examines the status of women in communications industries and on university faculties. It specifically tests the Ratio of Recurrent and Reinforced Residuum or R 3 hypothesis, as developed by Rush and colleagues in the early 1980s. The R 3 hypothesis predicts that the percentage of women in the communications industries and on university faculties will follow the ratio residing around a 1/4:3/4 or 1/3:2/3 proportion females to males. …
Defending Communicative Spaces
The role of the European Parliament in the formation of media and cultural policies is a largely underresearched area, despite the implications of the institution’s active involvement in supranational decision-making regimes for emancipatory politics in Europe. Through a historical overview, this article argues that the EP has successfully defended existing communicative spaces and promoted the creation of new ones. In its efforts to defend Europ…
Media Policy and Globalization
This book is an account of issues that are central to the study of the field. It moves beyond the 'specifics' of regulation, by examining policy areas that have proved to be of common concern for societies across different socio-economic realities. It also seeks to address profound gaps in the study of policy by demonstrating the centrality of historical, social and political context in debates that may appear solely technical or economistic. Med…
Green Composites as Panacea? Socio-Economic Aspects of Green Materials
With a view to volume two
Media policy and globalization
This book is an account of issues that are central to the study of the field. It moves beyond the 'specifics' of regulation, by examining policy areas that have proved to be of common concern for societies across different socio-economic realities. It also seeks to address profound gaps in the study of policy by demonstrating the centrality of historical, social and political context in debates that may appear solely technical or economistic. Med…
Media and Cultural Policy in the European Union
The areas of media and cultural policy offer a unique prism through which to understand wider processes of European integration. Questions of European identity, citizenship and community or polity-building clearly resolve themselves as questions of the (non-)emergence of a European ‘communicative space’. At the same time, as a more specific area of policy study, the role which has or may be played by the European institutions themselves in the fo…
The European Union and culture
The Trouble with Gender
This article explores the ways in which gender mainstreaming (GM) approaches have failed to become integrated in the EU media policy framework and seeks to analyse the reasons why. It argues that the degree of implementation of GM in the media policy area depends on the dynamics of structural power determinants, in particular the structure of opportunities of the DG in charge of the policy area and the institutional structures in general, as well…
For Culture and Democracy
The model of Public Service Broadcasting has occupied a special place in the narratives of democracy and citizenship in the Western world. Historically, the PSB system has been seen as a major European institution that embodies all that is considered noble and diachronic of European values, with particular attention to democratic standards of political and civic life and commitment to culture and education as the elements of ‘good life’ and enlig…
Post/feminism and the politics of mediated sex
Arriving at a Crossroads
Women's scholarship and activism seem to find themselves at a crossroads quite often, perhaps with a higher frequency than other areas in the academy. The reasons are to be found in the very “natur
The Governance of Communication and Culture
This chapter explores the role of communication and cultural policy in regularizing changes in the regime of accumulation and in the processes of production and consumption of cultural goods. It explores the emergence of new geographies of power in decision‐making and the people in production and consumption who define the ways in which the circulation and accumulation of cultural goods and profits is developing. Working with definitions of cultu…
Access denied
This article argues that the status of migrant subjects is characterized by a loss of communication rights and locates the instances where this loss is most visible. It investigates the process of silencing and immobilization of migrants and the particular forms it takes for female migrants through the disenablement of communicative acts. In this process the detained migrant loses her status as an interlocutor, irrespectively of the instances and…
Imposing freedoms
Citizens in ‘an ever-closer union’? The long path to a public sphere in the EU
As Europe is facing a continuous financial and, for many, political and social crisis, long-standing issues of European identity, solidarity and democracy reappear more pronounced than before. In these times, often, the historical developments that have given rise to questioning the European project, its legitimacy and potential future, as well as the treatment of these questions by its political and executive helm are not adequately understood. …
Intellectual property law change and process
This paper argues that the notion of ‘policy laundering’ can be applied to current attempts for the establishment of a new copyright legal order and takes as example the changes to intellectual property law in Spain. The article discusses the complexity of interactions between international and domestic relations within and beyond formal structures of policy–making in amending the legal framework in Spain: First, European directives set the pace …
Media theory for Mad Max times
Ten years of Media and Cultural Politics
Priorities in global media policy transfer
This article investigates the flow of communication policy principles across the supranational, international and national levels, through the lens of policy transfer. Policy transfer is a new concept for the field of media and communication studies. The article utilizes and expands on the concept to study the case of digital policy flows between leading regional powers, the EU and USA and MERCOSUR. The article argues that EU and US policy priori…
Defining authorship in user-generated content
The notion of authorship is a core element in antipiracy campaigns accompanying an emerging copyright regime, worldwide. These campaigns are built on discourses that aim to ‘problematize’ the issues of ‘legality’ of content downloading practices, ‘protection’ for content creators and the alleged damage caused to creators’ livelihood by piracy. Under these tensions, fandom both subverts such discourses, through sharing and production practices, an…
Political science (36 works) · Sociology (31 works) · Law (27 works) · Politics (22 works) · Law (18 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Economics (8 works)