Philemon Bantimaroudis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3080658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philemon Bantimaroudis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philemon |
| FAMILY NAME | Bantimaroudis |
| SIGNATURE | BANTIMAROUDIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Aegean |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1152-1392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hybrid salience in the case of the 2020 US election
Mediated identity politics and museum visitors
This study examines the impact of the Prespes Agreement between Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia on visitors to three Macedonian museums located in Greece. Additional evidence derived from social media and online visitors’ reactions is also scrutinized. The evidence indicates that the Prespes Agreement seems to influence the flow of visitors while the museums’ social media activity registers as a significant predictor of visitation. The…
Agenda selfying and agendamelding
This essay examines the notion of personal salience, introducing individual online media users as ‘objects’ in the context of agenda setting theory. The salience of the self has been investigated by scholars in various interdisciplinary explorations. In this project, the notion of personal salience is revisited from an agendamelding perspective. Along with political and civic agendas of individuals that meld in online community environments, indi…
Populist news and the Greek television industry
This article examines significant changes in the television news industry, from 2015 until 2019, a period characterized by a severe financial crisis that swept throughout the country, bringing to the forefront of the Greek public sphere, new political voices of both the right and the left. Using secondary data to examine media ownership patterns, we adopted a political economic approach to highlight the ways in which television news have adopted …
Conspiracism on social media
This study examines students’ social media interactions in relation to their subcultural explorations of a conspiratorial nature. A sample of 476 students from four European universities participated in a survey about conspiracy theories in social media group discussions. In the survey, we examined various social and media factors in relation to students’ beliefs in conspiracy theories. The results of this exploratory study reveal that students t…
Digital gatekeepers and website visitors of the Acropolis Museum
Gatekeeping theory has evolved in recent years to encompass new patterns and influences in a rapidly changing digital environment. The boundary between creating and disseminating digital content is increasingly blurred, as organizations adapt both content and services to the shifting needs of their audiences. In the current case study, viewing museums as content and cultural news providers, we examine digital gatekeeping influences that lead onli…
Long-term evidence of cultural agenda setting
The current study draws evidence from the Smithsonian Institution while examining a classic agenda-setting hypothesis during a period of 30 years in relation to media attention of the Smithsonian and a behavioral index of public salience, – namely its long-term, monthly visits. Second, it explores a larger theoretical concern often expressed by scholars in terms of the agenda-setting function over two different eras, the analog and the digital me…
Hybrid salience
This study examines agenda setting in the context of Greek politics while assessing constructs of salience evolving through new journalism trends and advances in digital media. Through an exploration of the rise of Alexis Tsipras and his party, SYRIZA, the authors investigate emerging indices of salience as predictors of public salience. Along with mainstream media salience and conventional public salience, the authors generate evidence on mediat…
Testing the Uses and Gratifications Approach to Museum Visiting
This article examines the motivations of museum visitors and some of the primary needs they seek to satisfy in their contact with museums. The authors used a survey conducted in three regional museums of the island of Lesvos in Greece to establish a hierarchy of visitor gratifications. The survey included questions about demographic information and asked visitors to rank their motives when visiting the museums. It was filled in by 416 visitors an…
A mediated assessment of Samuel Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’
The current article explores a ‘cultural framing hypothesis’, the notion that the media have attributed significance to Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilization’ theory, while rendering it salient in the public mind. Media framing theory has been utilized to assess Huntington’s visibility both in elite newspapers, as well as in web search engines. Huntington’s theory, despite its diminishing attention, remains salient almost five years after Huntingto…
Museum promotion and cultural salience
This case study examines a process of agenda building in the context of cultural organizations. We chose the Acropolis Museum, as a new, emerging cultural organization in the European periphery which engages in public actions, in the form of symbolic initiatives, in order to set a specific cultural agenda for Greek and international media. We scrutinize seven symbolic initiatives publicized by the museum, as attributes that influence media conten…
Media framing of a cultural disaster
The archaeological site and the museum(s) of Ancient Olympia attract thousands of visitors in southern Greece every year, as this popular destination encompasses not only extraordinary natural scenery, but also a cultural treasure – it is the cradle of the Olympic Games. In summer 2007, forest fires that swept throughout the Peloponnese, with a devastating impact in the whole region, reached the outskirts of Olympia and seriously threatened the a…
Greek Museum Media Visibility and Museum Visitation
This project investigates the classic agenda-setting hypothesis in the context of the Greek cultural market. It is hypothesized that Greek museums with higher visibility in newspaper content are related to higher visitation than museums with lower media visibility. Because of the nature of the Greek cultural market—Greece receives more than 10 million tourists during the summer months—several variables are controlled for, such as the seasonality …
The cultural framing hypothesis
The authors investigated attributes related to a `cultural framing hypothesis', the notion that mass media have promoted Samuel Huntington's `clash of civilizations' theory, establishing its `salience' outside the academic environment. Media salience of cultural attributes can be linked to several public outcomes: (1) an overall attribution of importance — the fact the `clash of civilizations' paradigm is recognizable and important in the public …
The Cultural Framing Hypothesis
The “clash of civilizations” theory states that “culture and cultural identities, which at the broadest level are civilization identities, are shaping the patterns of cohesion, disintegration, and conflict in the post—cold war world.” This notion of cultural conflict promoted initially by political scientist Samuel Huntington stirred a discussion among journalists, academics, and other intellectuals around the world. In the current project, the a…
Frame Shifts and Catastrophic Events
Quantitative content analysis of 1 year of editorials and news coverage of the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian territories in The New York Times examines the hypothesis that following major global events, such as the September 11 attacks, media frames of distinct, yet thematically related coverage shift to rally around the government elite frame. Evidence partially supports frame shifting but indicates that frames also become more diverse r…
Candidate Image Attributes
This study examined the role of attribute salience in the agenda setting process. Two experiments were conducted to investigate how media emphasis on certain political candidate attributes would influence public perceptions of those politicians. Specifically, media portrayals of candidate personality and qualification traits were explored. Findings suggest that people's impressions of candidate personality traits mirror media portrayals of those …
Gatekeepers in International News
Previous research has demonstrated that international gatekeepers used various criteria, including proximity and conflict, to determine the newsworthiness of certain stories. Taking these under consideration, the current study used in-depth interviews with twenty-five editors and journalists representing six elite media in Athens, Greece. Through those interviews, the study attempted to trace intermedia influences, not only by other Greek media, …
Frame Shifts and Catastrophic Events
Quantitative content analysis of 1 year of editorials and news coverage of the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian territories in The New York Times examines the hypothesis that following major global events, such as the September 11 attacks, media frames of distinct, yet thematically related coverage shift to rally around the government elite frame. Evidence partially supports frame shifting but indicates that frames also become more diverse r…
Hybrid salience
This study examines agenda setting in the context of Greek politics while assessing constructs of salience evolving through new journalism trends and advances in digital media. Through an exploration of the rise of Alexis Tsipras and his party, SYRIZA, the authors investigate emerging indices of salience as predictors of public salience. Along with mainstream media salience and conventional public salience, the authors generate evidence on mediat…
The Cultural Framing Hypothesis
The “clash of civilizations” theory states that “culture and cultural identities, which at the broadest level are civilization identities, are shaping the patterns of cohesion, disintegration, and conflict in the post—cold war world.” This notion of cultural conflict promoted initially by political scientist Samuel Huntington stirred a discussion among journalists, academics, and other intellectuals around the world. In the current project, the a…
Gatekeepers in International News
Previous research has demonstrated that international gatekeepers used various criteria, including proximity and conflict, to determine the newsworthiness of certain stories. Taking these under consideration, the current study used in-depth interviews with twenty-five editors and journalists representing six elite media in Athens, Greece. Through those interviews, the study attempted to trace intermedia influences, not only by other Greek media, …
Conspiracism on social media
This study examines students’ social media interactions in relation to their subcultural explorations of a conspiratorial nature. A sample of 476 students from four European universities participated in a survey about conspiracy theories in social media group discussions. In the survey, we examined various social and media factors in relation to students’ beliefs in conspiracy theories. The results of this exploratory study reveal that students t…
Long-term evidence of cultural agenda setting
The current study draws evidence from the Smithsonian Institution while examining a classic agenda-setting hypothesis during a period of 30 years in relation to media attention of the Smithsonian and a behavioral index of public salience, – namely its long-term, monthly visits. Second, it explores a larger theoretical concern often expressed by scholars in terms of the agenda-setting function over two different eras, the analog and the digital me…
A mediated assessment of Samuel Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’
The current article explores a ‘cultural framing hypothesis’, the notion that the media have attributed significance to Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilization’ theory, while rendering it salient in the public mind. Media framing theory has been utilized to assess Huntington’s visibility both in elite newspapers, as well as in web search engines. Huntington’s theory, despite its diminishing attention, remains salient almost five years after Huntingto…
Museum promotion and cultural salience
This case study examines a process of agenda building in the context of cultural organizations. We chose the Acropolis Museum, as a new, emerging cultural organization in the European periphery which engages in public actions, in the form of symbolic initiatives, in order to set a specific cultural agenda for Greek and international media. We scrutinize seven symbolic initiatives publicized by the museum, as attributes that influence media conten…
Media framing of a cultural disaster
The archaeological site and the museum(s) of Ancient Olympia attract thousands of visitors in southern Greece every year, as this popular destination encompasses not only extraordinary natural scenery, but also a cultural treasure – it is the cradle of the Olympic Games. In summer 2007, forest fires that swept throughout the Peloponnese, with a devastating impact in the whole region, reached the outskirts of Olympia and seriously threatened the a…
Gatekeepers in International News
Previous research has demonstrated that international gatekeepers used various criteria, including proximity and conflict, to determine the newsworthiness of certain stories. Taking these under consideration, the current study used in-depth interviews with twenty-five editors and journalists representing six elite media in Athens, Greece. Through those interviews, the study attempted to trace intermedia influences, not only by other Greek media, …
Candidate Image Attributes
This study examined the role of attribute salience in the agenda setting process. Two experiments were conducted to investigate how media emphasis on certain political candidate attributes would influence public perceptions of those politicians. Specifically, media portrayals of candidate personality and qualification traits were explored. Findings suggest that people's impressions of candidate personality traits mirror media portrayals of those …
Frame Shifts and Catastrophic Events
Quantitative content analysis of 1 year of editorials and news coverage of the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian territories in The New York Times examines the hypothesis that following major global events, such as the September 11 attacks, media frames of distinct, yet thematically related coverage shift to rally around the government elite frame. Evidence partially supports frame shifting but indicates that frames also become more diverse r…
The Cultural Framing Hypothesis
The “clash of civilizations” theory states that “culture and cultural identities, which at the broadest level are civilization identities, are shaping the patterns of cohesion, disintegration, and conflict in the post—cold war world.” This notion of cultural conflict promoted initially by political scientist Samuel Huntington stirred a discussion among journalists, academics, and other intellectuals around the world. In the current project, the a…
The cultural framing hypothesis
The authors investigated attributes related to a `cultural framing hypothesis', the notion that mass media have promoted Samuel Huntington's `clash of civilizations' theory, establishing its `salience' outside the academic environment. Media salience of cultural attributes can be linked to several public outcomes: (1) an overall attribution of importance — the fact the `clash of civilizations' paradigm is recognizable and important in the public …
Greek Museum Media Visibility and Museum Visitation
This project investigates the classic agenda-setting hypothesis in the context of the Greek cultural market. It is hypothesized that Greek museums with higher visibility in newspaper content are related to higher visitation than museums with lower media visibility. Because of the nature of the Greek cultural market—Greece receives more than 10 million tourists during the summer months—several variables are controlled for, such as the seasonality …
Media framing of a cultural disaster
The archaeological site and the museum(s) of Ancient Olympia attract thousands of visitors in southern Greece every year, as this popular destination encompasses not only extraordinary natural scenery, but also a cultural treasure – it is the cradle of the Olympic Games. In summer 2007, forest fires that swept throughout the Peloponnese, with a devastating impact in the whole region, reached the outskirts of Olympia and seriously threatened the a…
A mediated assessment of Samuel Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’
The current article explores a ‘cultural framing hypothesis’, the notion that the media have attributed significance to Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilization’ theory, while rendering it salient in the public mind. Media framing theory has been utilized to assess Huntington’s visibility both in elite newspapers, as well as in web search engines. Huntington’s theory, despite its diminishing attention, remains salient almost five years after Huntingto…
Museum promotion and cultural salience
This case study examines a process of agenda building in the context of cultural organizations. We chose the Acropolis Museum, as a new, emerging cultural organization in the European periphery which engages in public actions, in the form of symbolic initiatives, in order to set a specific cultural agenda for Greek and international media. We scrutinize seven symbolic initiatives publicized by the museum, as attributes that influence media conten…
Testing the Uses and Gratifications Approach to Museum Visiting
This article examines the motivations of museum visitors and some of the primary needs they seek to satisfy in their contact with museums. The authors used a survey conducted in three regional museums of the island of Lesvos in Greece to establish a hierarchy of visitor gratifications. The survey included questions about demographic information and asked visitors to rank their motives when visiting the museums. It was filled in by 416 visitors an…
Hybrid salience
This study examines agenda setting in the context of Greek politics while assessing constructs of salience evolving through new journalism trends and advances in digital media. Through an exploration of the rise of Alexis Tsipras and his party, SYRIZA, the authors investigate emerging indices of salience as predictors of public salience. Along with mainstream media salience and conventional public salience, the authors generate evidence on mediat…
Long-term evidence of cultural agenda setting
The current study draws evidence from the Smithsonian Institution while examining a classic agenda-setting hypothesis during a period of 30 years in relation to media attention of the Smithsonian and a behavioral index of public salience, – namely its long-term, monthly visits. Second, it explores a larger theoretical concern often expressed by scholars in terms of the agenda-setting function over two different eras, the analog and the digital me…
Populist news and the Greek television industry
This article examines significant changes in the television news industry, from 2015 until 2019, a period characterized by a severe financial crisis that swept throughout the country, bringing to the forefront of the Greek public sphere, new political voices of both the right and the left. Using secondary data to examine media ownership patterns, we adopted a political economic approach to highlight the ways in which television news have adopted …
Conspiracism on social media
This study examines students’ social media interactions in relation to their subcultural explorations of a conspiratorial nature. A sample of 476 students from four European universities participated in a survey about conspiracy theories in social media group discussions. In the survey, we examined various social and media factors in relation to students’ beliefs in conspiracy theories. The results of this exploratory study reveal that students t…
Digital gatekeepers and website visitors of the Acropolis Museum
Gatekeeping theory has evolved in recent years to encompass new patterns and influences in a rapidly changing digital environment. The boundary between creating and disseminating digital content is increasingly blurred, as organizations adapt both content and services to the shifting needs of their audiences. In the current case study, viewing museums as content and cultural news providers, we examine digital gatekeeping influences that lead onli…
Agenda selfying and agendamelding
This essay examines the notion of personal salience, introducing individual online media users as ‘objects’ in the context of agenda setting theory. The salience of the self has been investigated by scholars in various interdisciplinary explorations. In this project, the notion of personal salience is revisited from an agendamelding perspective. Along with political and civic agendas of individuals that meld in online community environments, indi…
Mediated identity politics and museum visitors
This study examines the impact of the Prespes Agreement between Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia on visitors to three Macedonian museums located in Greece. Additional evidence derived from social media and online visitors’ reactions is also scrutinized. The evidence indicates that the Prespes Agreement seems to influence the flow of visitors while the museums’ social media activity registers as a significant predictor of visitation. The…
Hybrid salience in the case of the 2020 US election
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Media Studies and Communication (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works)