Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou
Biographic Data
| ID | 246677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitra |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimitrakopoulou |
| SIGNATURE | DIMITRAKOPOULOU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8920-164X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Generative Dialogue Framework and the Pursuit of Better Listening by Journalists: A Design-Centered Approach for More Constructive Conversations with Audiences
This article introduces the Generative Dialogue Framework (GDF) and explores its potential as a pedagogical intervention, one that could help reimagine the future of engaged journalism by bringing design-thinking practices, creativity, and deep-listening modalities into play. The framework is developed through design thinking and builds around principles from the field of design. It uses virtual meeting technologies to organize small-group conver…
Affective Facilitation: A Framework for Surfacing Lived Experiences and Harnessing Creativity in Focus Group Research
In this article, we introduce the framework of Affective Facilitation to the practice of focus group research. In this context, Affective Facilitation is defined as a framework that helps researchers (1) surface and deeply understand participants' lived experiences, bearing in mind their individual differences, (2) make space for exploring common ground across their diverse backgrounds, and (3) connect with participants through empathy and compas…
Social Media Help Me Distinguish between Truth and Lies: News Consumption in the Polarised and Low-trust Media Landscape of Greece
How do citizens in countries with weak institutions and highly disrupted media landscapes navigate news? We examine a typical South European case, Greece, via cross-national data sets. Combining data from a pool of different surveys, we show that in Greece – unlike the other five countries of the sample – social media are more trusted than news media to help individuals navigate their news environment. A thematic analysis of open-ended survey ans…
Designing Generative Dialogue Spaces to Enhance Focus Group Research: A Case Study in the Context of Covid-19 Vaccination
Focus groups are a core method in qualitative research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been criticized for not enabling researchers to gain a deep understanding of the participants' lived experiences or generating in-depth personal narratives that build on those experiences. In this article, the author builds on the shared epistemologies of qualitative research and journalism to introduce the Generativ…
Absurdity and the "Blame Game" Within the Schengen Area: Analyzing Greek (Social) Media Discourses on the Refugee Crisis
Drawing on the European threats regarding Greece's expulsion from the Schengen zone, we analyze Greek political and (social) media discourses on the refugee crisis. The main aim of this study is to explore whether and how the Greek media and social media discourses on the refugee crisis and the political decisions regarding it contribute to the discursive reconstruction of the Greek nation-state and its imaginaries. We assume that the refugee cri…
Wodak, Ruth (2015). The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean
Exploring democracy and violence in Burundi: A multi-methodical analysis of hegemonic discourses on Twitter
Burundi has garnered international headlines since April 2015 insofar as the country entered a serious political crisis and fell into conflict. The utilization of social media by the leadership amid the chaos and the lack of studies regarding the top-down uses of social media prompted the authors to explore the Twitter usage by the Burundian presidency and the presidency’s spokesperson. The authors’ research is developed through three main resear…
The politics of fear vs. the politics of hope: Analysing the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns
This paper deals with the discursive construction of in-groups and out-groups through a politics of fear and a politics of hope. It draws on the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns of the two main political parties – the radical left Syriza and the conservative New Democracy – and emphasises how they legitimised their political decisions via these two forms of politics. The Greek bailout referendum took place on 5 July 2015 in a climate …
If you don’t act, you are not going to get anything”: Professional identity and gender equality in Greek and Cypriot media organisations
The research here focuses on the relationship between women and media organisations in Greece and Cyprus. Our aim is to study the professional identity of women in the context of media organisations as well as the progress toward gender equality in Greek and Cypriot media organisations compared to the rest of Europe. Greece and, to a greater extent, Cyprus are societies in which the preservation and reproduction of the structure of the family con…
The politics of fear vs. the politics of hope: Analysing the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns
This paper deals with the discursive construction of in-groups and out-groups through a politics of fear and a politics of hope. It draws on the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns of the two main political parties – the radical left Syriza and the conservative New Democracy – and emphasises how they legitimised their political decisions via these two forms of politics. The Greek bailout referendum took place on 5 July 2015 in a climate …
Absurdity and the "Blame Game" Within the Schengen Area: Analyzing Greek (Social) Media Discourses on the Refugee Crisis
Drawing on the European threats regarding Greece's expulsion from the Schengen zone, we analyze Greek political and (social) media discourses on the refugee crisis. The main aim of this study is to explore whether and how the Greek media and social media discourses on the refugee crisis and the political decisions regarding it contribute to the discursive reconstruction of the Greek nation-state and its imaginaries. We assume that the refugee cri…
Social Media Help Me Distinguish between Truth and Lies: News Consumption in the Polarised and Low-trust Media Landscape of Greece
How do citizens in countries with weak institutions and highly disrupted media landscapes navigate news? We examine a typical South European case, Greece, via cross-national data sets. Combining data from a pool of different surveys, we show that in Greece – unlike the other five countries of the sample – social media are more trusted than news media to help individuals navigate their news environment. A thematic analysis of open-ended survey ans…
Exploring democracy and violence in Burundi: A multi-methodical analysis of hegemonic discourses on Twitter
Burundi has garnered international headlines since April 2015 insofar as the country entered a serious political crisis and fell into conflict. The utilization of social media by the leadership amid the chaos and the lack of studies regarding the top-down uses of social media prompted the authors to explore the Twitter usage by the Burundian presidency and the presidency’s spokesperson. The authors’ research is developed through three main resear…
Designing Generative Dialogue Spaces to Enhance Focus Group Research: A Case Study in the Context of Covid-19 Vaccination
Focus groups are a core method in qualitative research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been criticized for not enabling researchers to gain a deep understanding of the participants' lived experiences or generating in-depth personal narratives that build on those experiences. In this article, the author builds on the shared epistemologies of qualitative research and journalism to introduce the Generativ…
If you don’t act, you are not going to get anything”: Professional identity and gender equality in Greek and Cypriot media organisations
The research here focuses on the relationship between women and media organisations in Greece and Cyprus. Our aim is to study the professional identity of women in the context of media organisations as well as the progress toward gender equality in Greek and Cypriot media organisations compared to the rest of Europe. Greece and, to a greater extent, Cyprus are societies in which the preservation and reproduction of the structure of the family con…
The politics of fear vs. the politics of hope: Analysing the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns
This paper deals with the discursive construction of in-groups and out-groups through a politics of fear and a politics of hope. It draws on the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns of the two main political parties – the radical left Syriza and the conservative New Democracy – and emphasises how they legitimised their political decisions via these two forms of politics. The Greek bailout referendum took place on 5 July 2015 in a climate …
If you don’t act, you are not going to get anything”: Professional identity and gender equality in Greek and Cypriot media organisations
The research here focuses on the relationship between women and media organisations in Greece and Cyprus. Our aim is to study the professional identity of women in the context of media organisations as well as the progress toward gender equality in Greek and Cypriot media organisations compared to the rest of Europe. Greece and, to a greater extent, Cyprus are societies in which the preservation and reproduction of the structure of the family con…
Wodak, Ruth (2015). The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean
Exploring democracy and violence in Burundi: A multi-methodical analysis of hegemonic discourses on Twitter
Burundi has garnered international headlines since April 2015 insofar as the country entered a serious political crisis and fell into conflict. The utilization of social media by the leadership amid the chaos and the lack of studies regarding the top-down uses of social media prompted the authors to explore the Twitter usage by the Burundian presidency and the presidency’s spokesperson. The authors’ research is developed through three main resear…
Absurdity and the "Blame Game" Within the Schengen Area: Analyzing Greek (Social) Media Discourses on the Refugee Crisis
Drawing on the European threats regarding Greece's expulsion from the Schengen zone, we analyze Greek political and (social) media discourses on the refugee crisis. The main aim of this study is to explore whether and how the Greek media and social media discourses on the refugee crisis and the political decisions regarding it contribute to the discursive reconstruction of the Greek nation-state and its imaginaries. We assume that the refugee cri…
Social Media Help Me Distinguish between Truth and Lies: News Consumption in the Polarised and Low-trust Media Landscape of Greece
How do citizens in countries with weak institutions and highly disrupted media landscapes navigate news? We examine a typical South European case, Greece, via cross-national data sets. Combining data from a pool of different surveys, we show that in Greece – unlike the other five countries of the sample – social media are more trusted than news media to help individuals navigate their news environment. A thematic analysis of open-ended survey ans…
Designing Generative Dialogue Spaces to Enhance Focus Group Research: A Case Study in the Context of Covid-19 Vaccination
Focus groups are a core method in qualitative research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been criticized for not enabling researchers to gain a deep understanding of the participants' lived experiences or generating in-depth personal narratives that build on those experiences. In this article, the author builds on the shared epistemologies of qualitative research and journalism to introduce the Generativ…
Affective Facilitation: A Framework for Surfacing Lived Experiences and Harnessing Creativity in Focus Group Research
In this article, we introduce the framework of Affective Facilitation to the practice of focus group research. In this context, Affective Facilitation is defined as a framework that helps researchers (1) surface and deeply understand participants' lived experiences, bearing in mind their individual differences, (2) make space for exploring common ground across their diverse backgrounds, and (3) connect with participants through empathy and compas…
The Generative Dialogue Framework and the Pursuit of Better Listening by Journalists: A Design-Centered Approach for More Constructive Conversations with Audiences
This article introduces the Generative Dialogue Framework (GDF) and explores its potential as a pedagogical intervention, one that could help reimagine the future of engaged journalism by bringing design-thinking practices, creativity, and deep-listening modalities into play. The framework is developed through design thinking and builds around principles from the field of design. It uses virtual meeting technologies to organize small-group conver…
Sociology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (3 works) · Social science (3 works)