Venetia Papa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3855921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Venetia Papa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Venetia |
| FAMILY NAME | Papa |
| SIGNATURE | PAPA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cyprus |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6742-5172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Visualizing conflict
While much discussion is focused on the relation between generative artificial intelligence and visual culture, its implications for journalism and public perception require a more in-depth critical examination. This study examines 28 AI-generated images created using DALL-E and DeepAI tools by addressing the ways artificial intelligence constructs visual narratives of the 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict. By employing a visual discourse analysis combi…
Visual news values in the age of AI
Generative AI tools can produce images that visually mimic professional photojournalism. Our study examines how these tools simulate journalistic image production by reproducing news values commonly found in visual reporting. Using the Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA) framework, we analyzed a dataset of 84 images-28 real and 56 AI-generated-based on news coverage of the Israel–Hamas conflict. The analysis compares the presence of 10 establi…
Reframing the past? Competing narratives of the Greek Civil War on YouTube
This article focuses on how YouTube might shape collective memory around the Greek Civil War. Drawing on the concept of postmodernism and that of digital ‘connective turn’, the authors argue that YouTube might reframe historical events in ways that weaken broader political understandings. Through the analysis of two YouTube videos (History Matters and The Armchair Historian), the article aims to unpack how the platform content reduces the Greek C…
The victim lived an intense life
International media research has recently emphasized the coverage of “partner homicides” in news media outlets with specific focus on the traits/characteristics and the forms of femicides. This led us to consider the ways in which news media outlets construct, portray, affect audiences and certain groups of individuals through the representations of such crimes. Through thematic content analysis of crime news, the purpose of this study is to dete…
Slantwise disengagement
This theoretical and empirical investigation builds upon the concept of ‘slantwise behavior’ to further complicate notions of the ‘digital disengagement’ of subjects within technological infrastructures such as Facebook. It has been previously suggested that the ubiquity of the data privacy paradox is the most common reason for disengagement practices. Our study contributes to this discussion by examining subjects’ disengagement on Social Network…
Digital Mirrors
This exploratory study examines the socio-technical dynamics of Artificial Intelligence Companions (AICs), focusing on user interactions with AI platforms like Replika 9.35.1. Through qualitative analysis, including user interviews and digital ethnography, we explored the nuanced roles played by these AIs in social interactions. Findings revealed that users often form emotional attachments to their AICs, viewing them as empathetic and supportive,…
Platform Schooling” Through “Platform Tutoring”? Unpacking the Relationship Between FJP Trainings and Journalistic Skills
Big tech companies are increasingly suggesting tools and trainings to journalists, extending their well-documented influence in journalism. The discussion around journalistic skills have persisted for over a century and still today this topic remains vital attracting significant scholarship. Therein, the platformization of journalism is seen as a major challenge within the field, with an impact on the foundations of journalism challenging journal…
Videography as performance’ in the service of social movement visibility and interaction amidst the pandemic
This study aims to contribute to scholarship on online video activism by looking at mobilization videos created by the Support Art Workers (SAW) movement which emerged during the COVID-19 crisis in Greece. Our main observation is that several SAW videos consist of an assemblage of performance art elements and protest visuals which together with expressive uses of video production exemplify a “videography as performance” approach. We examine three…
Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms
This study engages in a sociotechnical analysis of Facebook and Google to understand the material means by which these corporations strive to engage journalists vis-à-vis their business models. Through affordance theory, we argue that interfaces of technological artifacts are manifestations of their implicit politics and ideology, given that affordances entail normative claims about what users should do. Our study draws from Google News Initiativ…
‘What’s up with ur emotions?’ Untangling emotional user experience on Second Life and Facebook
Online social environments continue to be expanded in human’s life and transmuted as representative tools of people’s experiences affecting their online and offline emotional behaviour and attitude. There is, nonetheless, an empirical gap regarding the role of the intrinsic emotional fluctuations in social platforms and their effect on self-disclosure behaviour, reflecting information to self-reports. The current study aims an in-depth understand…
The dissemination of science news in social media platforms during the Covid-19 crisis
This study explores the specific characteristics of science news stories posted on social media platforms during the first phase of the global pandemic crisis (the first semester of 2020). The focus of the study is to enhance our understanding of the selection criteria for science-related news content posted on social media platforms. Our approach takes into consideration the evolving technological environment of these platforms and the new relat…
The 10-year anniversary of intense protest in Greece and the role of Facebook
This study provides a comparative analysis of collective meaning-making processes by unpacking activists’ discourses (within and in relation to their polis) and online (on Facebook) during the financial, post-financial, and COVID-19 crises in Greece (2011–2021). By analyzing 71 semi-structured interviews with activists and 14,475 Facebook posts, we first evaluate actors’ identity progression, then identify the differences and commonalities betwee…
Conspiratorial Narratives on Facebook and Their Historical Contextual Associations
Conspiracy theories and their effects have greatly proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. As in various countries, so in Cyprus, a mobilization of anti-vaxxers organized mainly through Facebook, violently attacked the largest media group of the island, “Sigma”. Taking into consideration local peculiarities and historical contexts, a qualitative research was conducted on comments posted on Sigma Live's Facebook page, spanning between Au…
The oppositional affordances of data activism
This study draws on several data activism projects and applies discursive interface analysis to understand the material means by which activist software strives to empower users vis-à-vis data power. The analysis uncovers four types of oppositional affordances: (i) enabling the use of hidden affordances (ii) imagining new affordances (iii) creating meta-affordances (resignifying perceptible affordances of corporate platforms and reconstructing th…
Journalism education in the post-truth era
Journalism is in a state of flux and so is journalism education. The present study engages in a comparative qualitative analysis focusing on the viewpoints of journalism students in Greece and in Cyprus regarding journalism education in the post–truth era, media literacy, and journalism quality. Drawing upon evidence from four focus groups conducted in the journalism/communication departments of two public universities in Greece and Cyprus, the f…
To activists
The global upsurge in protest, which has accompanied the current international financial crisis, has highlighted the extensive use of online social media in activism, leaving aside the extent to which citizenship is enacted, empowered and potentially transformed by social media use within these movements. Drawing on citizenship and communication theories, this study employs a cross-country analysis of the relationship between citizenship, civic p…
To activists
The global upsurge in protest, which has accompanied the current international financial crisis, has highlighted the extensive use of online social media in activism, leaving aside the extent to which citizenship is enacted, empowered and potentially transformed by social media use within these movements. Drawing on citizenship and communication theories, this study employs a cross-country analysis of the relationship between citizenship, civic p…
Journalism education in the post-truth era
Journalism is in a state of flux and so is journalism education. The present study engages in a comparative qualitative analysis focusing on the viewpoints of journalism students in Greece and in Cyprus regarding journalism education in the post–truth era, media literacy, and journalism quality. Drawing upon evidence from four focus groups conducted in the journalism/communication departments of two public universities in Greece and Cyprus, the f…
Digital Mirrors
This exploratory study examines the socio-technical dynamics of Artificial Intelligence Companions (AICs), focusing on user interactions with AI platforms like Replika 9.35.1. Through qualitative analysis, including user interviews and digital ethnography, we explored the nuanced roles played by these AIs in social interactions. Findings revealed that users often form emotional attachments to their AICs, viewing them as empathetic and supportive,…
The dissemination of science news in social media platforms during the Covid-19 crisis
This study explores the specific characteristics of science news stories posted on social media platforms during the first phase of the global pandemic crisis (the first semester of 2020). The focus of the study is to enhance our understanding of the selection criteria for science-related news content posted on social media platforms. Our approach takes into consideration the evolving technological environment of these platforms and the new relat…
Conspiratorial Narratives on Facebook and Their Historical Contextual Associations
Conspiracy theories and their effects have greatly proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. As in various countries, so in Cyprus, a mobilization of anti-vaxxers organized mainly through Facebook, violently attacked the largest media group of the island, “Sigma”. Taking into consideration local peculiarities and historical contexts, a qualitative research was conducted on comments posted on Sigma Live's Facebook page, spanning between Au…
The oppositional affordances of data activism
This study draws on several data activism projects and applies discursive interface analysis to understand the material means by which activist software strives to empower users vis-à-vis data power. The analysis uncovers four types of oppositional affordances: (i) enabling the use of hidden affordances (ii) imagining new affordances (iii) creating meta-affordances (resignifying perceptible affordances of corporate platforms and reconstructing th…
To activists
The global upsurge in protest, which has accompanied the current international financial crisis, has highlighted the extensive use of online social media in activism, leaving aside the extent to which citizenship is enacted, empowered and potentially transformed by social media use within these movements. Drawing on citizenship and communication theories, this study employs a cross-country analysis of the relationship between citizenship, civic p…
Journalism education in the post-truth era
Journalism is in a state of flux and so is journalism education. The present study engages in a comparative qualitative analysis focusing on the viewpoints of journalism students in Greece and in Cyprus regarding journalism education in the post–truth era, media literacy, and journalism quality. Drawing upon evidence from four focus groups conducted in the journalism/communication departments of two public universities in Greece and Cyprus, the f…
The oppositional affordances of data activism
This study draws on several data activism projects and applies discursive interface analysis to understand the material means by which activist software strives to empower users vis-à-vis data power. The analysis uncovers four types of oppositional affordances: (i) enabling the use of hidden affordances (ii) imagining new affordances (iii) creating meta-affordances (resignifying perceptible affordances of corporate platforms and reconstructing th…
Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms
This study engages in a sociotechnical analysis of Facebook and Google to understand the material means by which these corporations strive to engage journalists vis-à-vis their business models. Through affordance theory, we argue that interfaces of technological artifacts are manifestations of their implicit politics and ideology, given that affordances entail normative claims about what users should do. Our study draws from Google News Initiativ…
‘What’s up with ur emotions?’ Untangling emotional user experience on Second Life and Facebook
Online social environments continue to be expanded in human’s life and transmuted as representative tools of people’s experiences affecting their online and offline emotional behaviour and attitude. There is, nonetheless, an empirical gap regarding the role of the intrinsic emotional fluctuations in social platforms and their effect on self-disclosure behaviour, reflecting information to self-reports. The current study aims an in-depth understand…
The dissemination of science news in social media platforms during the Covid-19 crisis
This study explores the specific characteristics of science news stories posted on social media platforms during the first phase of the global pandemic crisis (the first semester of 2020). The focus of the study is to enhance our understanding of the selection criteria for science-related news content posted on social media platforms. Our approach takes into consideration the evolving technological environment of these platforms and the new relat…
The 10-year anniversary of intense protest in Greece and the role of Facebook
This study provides a comparative analysis of collective meaning-making processes by unpacking activists’ discourses (within and in relation to their polis) and online (on Facebook) during the financial, post-financial, and COVID-19 crises in Greece (2011–2021). By analyzing 71 semi-structured interviews with activists and 14,475 Facebook posts, we first evaluate actors’ identity progression, then identify the differences and commonalities betwee…
Conspiratorial Narratives on Facebook and Their Historical Contextual Associations
Conspiracy theories and their effects have greatly proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. As in various countries, so in Cyprus, a mobilization of anti-vaxxers organized mainly through Facebook, violently attacked the largest media group of the island, “Sigma”. Taking into consideration local peculiarities and historical contexts, a qualitative research was conducted on comments posted on Sigma Live's Facebook page, spanning between Au…
Slantwise disengagement
This theoretical and empirical investigation builds upon the concept of ‘slantwise behavior’ to further complicate notions of the ‘digital disengagement’ of subjects within technological infrastructures such as Facebook. It has been previously suggested that the ubiquity of the data privacy paradox is the most common reason for disengagement practices. Our study contributes to this discussion by examining subjects’ disengagement on Social Network…
Digital Mirrors
This exploratory study examines the socio-technical dynamics of Artificial Intelligence Companions (AICs), focusing on user interactions with AI platforms like Replika 9.35.1. Through qualitative analysis, including user interviews and digital ethnography, we explored the nuanced roles played by these AIs in social interactions. Findings revealed that users often form emotional attachments to their AICs, viewing them as empathetic and supportive,…
Platform Schooling” Through “Platform Tutoring”? Unpacking the Relationship Between FJP Trainings and Journalistic Skills
Big tech companies are increasingly suggesting tools and trainings to journalists, extending their well-documented influence in journalism. The discussion around journalistic skills have persisted for over a century and still today this topic remains vital attracting significant scholarship. Therein, the platformization of journalism is seen as a major challenge within the field, with an impact on the foundations of journalism challenging journal…
Videography as performance’ in the service of social movement visibility and interaction amidst the pandemic
This study aims to contribute to scholarship on online video activism by looking at mobilization videos created by the Support Art Workers (SAW) movement which emerged during the COVID-19 crisis in Greece. Our main observation is that several SAW videos consist of an assemblage of performance art elements and protest visuals which together with expressive uses of video production exemplify a “videography as performance” approach. We examine three…
The victim lived an intense life
International media research has recently emphasized the coverage of “partner homicides” in news media outlets with specific focus on the traits/characteristics and the forms of femicides. This led us to consider the ways in which news media outlets construct, portray, affect audiences and certain groups of individuals through the representations of such crimes. Through thematic content analysis of crime news, the purpose of this study is to dete…
Visualizing conflict
While much discussion is focused on the relation between generative artificial intelligence and visual culture, its implications for journalism and public perception require a more in-depth critical examination. This study examines 28 AI-generated images created using DALL-E and DeepAI tools by addressing the ways artificial intelligence constructs visual narratives of the 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict. By employing a visual discourse analysis combi…
Visual news values in the age of AI
Generative AI tools can produce images that visually mimic professional photojournalism. Our study examines how these tools simulate journalistic image production by reproducing news values commonly found in visual reporting. Using the Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA) framework, we analyzed a dataset of 84 images-28 real and 56 AI-generated-based on news coverage of the Israel–Hamas conflict. The analysis compares the presence of 10 establi…
Reframing the past? Competing narratives of the Greek Civil War on YouTube
This article focuses on how YouTube might shape collective memory around the Greek Civil War. Drawing on the concept of postmodernism and that of digital ‘connective turn’, the authors argue that YouTube might reframe historical events in ways that weaken broader political understandings. Through the analysis of two YouTube videos (History Matters and The Armchair Historian), the article aims to unpack how the platform content reduces the Greek C…
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