Despina Chronaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 908666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Despina Chronaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Despina |
| FAMILY NAME | Chronaki |
| SIGNATURE | CHRONAKI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8060-4159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Debating pornography and the notion of harm in public discourse: The case of Billie Eilish’s experiences with sexual content online
Young people’s experiences with sexual content online are a regularly featured popular topic in news media, feeding heated ongoing policy and academic debates. Concerns and calls for further regulation and youth’s self-regulation are exacerbated when celebrities and popular public figures share statements and confessions about their own sexual lives at a young age. In this article, we study the discursive conditions of media coverage and the cele…
Young people’s perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content
Harm—and the ways in which it is interpreted, negotiated, discussed, and unpacked by adolescents themselves—is a key term in almost all debates about young people’s experiences with online pornography. This essay situates the topic of this special issue—adolescents’ perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content—within a broader context of the discourses and practices that inform research in this field. We show how discourses of harm an…
Black girlhood and emerging sexual identities: Sexual citizenship and teenage girls of African descent in Athens
This paper discusses data from interviews with young girls (13-23) of African descent and is part of our larger research programme, entitled ‘AfroGreek Cultures in Athens’. In it we wish to offer an exploratory mapping of African women’s and girls’ lived experiences in Greece. Given that women of colour usually have to wrestle with derogatory assumptions and stereotypes about their character and identity, in order to preserve their true selves an…
Domesticity and the construction of intimacy: Producing the erotic body and self within 'the love nest
Following recent academic attention on the neoliebral self, in this article, we situate the construction of the sexual self and body as part of an ongoing, neoliberal 'aesthetic entrepreneurship' and argue that people draw on various material and cultural resources in order to put these entrepreneurial selves together. Drawing on 40 open-ended interviews with young Greek adults aged between 20 and 33, conducted between 2018 and 2019, we explore t…
Coping with Europe: How Greek journalists deal with disconnections between the EU and national levels
In this article, we explore Greek journalists’ perceptions of European Union (EU) journalism, the ways in which they talk about EU affairs, European integration and the EU establishment. There is a lack of research on how journalists from member states of the EU periphery deal with EU affairs. Greece being one of those member states is in our opinion an interesting case study, given circumstances like the financial or refugee crisis. We look at t…
“Why Internet Doesn't Necessarily Matter”: Constructing Sexual Citizenship through Pornographic Literacies
Despina Chronaki, “Why Internet Doesn't Necessarily Matter”: Constructing Sexual Citizenship through Pornographic Literacies, DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, Sexuality, politics and digital media infrastructures: Challenges for diversity (2019), pp. 61-74
‘The Deal Should Be Fairer!’ Stakeholder Discourses on Intrusive Media Platforms and Interfaces
Producing the porn self: An introspection of the mainstream Greek porn industry
In this article, we offer an insight into Greek mainstream porn production after contextualizing it historically, socially and culturally. Through interviews and discourse analysis, we examine how porn workers talk about themselves as professionals, as romantic persons and as self-regulated individuals, and we present the industry from the point of view of a producer. We argue that the domestic porn industry works like a closely knit community of…
Rethinking the pornography debate in Greece: A country-specific reading of an ‘old’ argument
Given the widely circulated anxieties about the consumption of pornography and its presumed effects on adults and youngsters, as well as the intensification of moral, social and feminist campaigns to counter its spread, especially through online technologies, this article wishes to offer a country-specific contextualization of the pornography debate in Greece. Taking into account the pro-effects reading of the culture of pornography that permeate…
Young adults’ stories with sexual content during childhood and teenage life: An alternative approach to an ever-going debate
Rethinking the pornography debate in Greece: A country-specific reading of an ‘old’ argument
Given the widely circulated anxieties about the consumption of pornography and its presumed effects on adults and youngsters, as well as the intensification of moral, social and feminist campaigns to counter its spread, especially through online technologies, this article wishes to offer a country-specific contextualization of the pornography debate in Greece. Taking into account the pro-effects reading of the culture of pornography that permeate…
Young people’s perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content
Harm—and the ways in which it is interpreted, negotiated, discussed, and unpacked by adolescents themselves—is a key term in almost all debates about young people’s experiences with online pornography. This essay situates the topic of this special issue—adolescents’ perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content—within a broader context of the discourses and practices that inform research in this field. We show how discourses of harm an…
Young adults’ stories with sexual content during childhood and teenage life: An alternative approach to an ever-going debate
Rethinking the pornography debate in Greece: A country-specific reading of an ‘old’ argument
Given the widely circulated anxieties about the consumption of pornography and its presumed effects on adults and youngsters, as well as the intensification of moral, social and feminist campaigns to counter its spread, especially through online technologies, this article wishes to offer a country-specific contextualization of the pornography debate in Greece. Taking into account the pro-effects reading of the culture of pornography that permeate…
Producing the porn self: An introspection of the mainstream Greek porn industry
In this article, we offer an insight into Greek mainstream porn production after contextualizing it historically, socially and culturally. Through interviews and discourse analysis, we examine how porn workers talk about themselves as professionals, as romantic persons and as self-regulated individuals, and we present the industry from the point of view of a producer. We argue that the domestic porn industry works like a closely knit community of…
‘The Deal Should Be Fairer!’ Stakeholder Discourses on Intrusive Media Platforms and Interfaces
“Why Internet Doesn't Necessarily Matter”: Constructing Sexual Citizenship through Pornographic Literacies
Despina Chronaki, “Why Internet Doesn't Necessarily Matter”: Constructing Sexual Citizenship through Pornographic Literacies, DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, Sexuality, politics and digital media infrastructures: Challenges for diversity (2019), pp. 61-74
Coping with Europe: How Greek journalists deal with disconnections between the EU and national levels
In this article, we explore Greek journalists’ perceptions of European Union (EU) journalism, the ways in which they talk about EU affairs, European integration and the EU establishment. There is a lack of research on how journalists from member states of the EU periphery deal with EU affairs. Greece being one of those member states is in our opinion an interesting case study, given circumstances like the financial or refugee crisis. We look at t…
Black girlhood and emerging sexual identities: Sexual citizenship and teenage girls of African descent in Athens
This paper discusses data from interviews with young girls (13-23) of African descent and is part of our larger research programme, entitled ‘AfroGreek Cultures in Athens’. In it we wish to offer an exploratory mapping of African women’s and girls’ lived experiences in Greece. Given that women of colour usually have to wrestle with derogatory assumptions and stereotypes about their character and identity, in order to preserve their true selves an…
Domesticity and the construction of intimacy: Producing the erotic body and self within 'the love nest
Following recent academic attention on the neoliebral self, in this article, we situate the construction of the sexual self and body as part of an ongoing, neoliberal 'aesthetic entrepreneurship' and argue that people draw on various material and cultural resources in order to put these entrepreneurial selves together. Drawing on 40 open-ended interviews with young Greek adults aged between 20 and 33, conducted between 2018 and 2019, we explore t…
Debating pornography and the notion of harm in public discourse: The case of Billie Eilish’s experiences with sexual content online
Young people’s experiences with sexual content online are a regularly featured popular topic in news media, feeding heated ongoing policy and academic debates. Concerns and calls for further regulation and youth’s self-regulation are exacerbated when celebrities and popular public figures share statements and confessions about their own sexual lives at a young age. In this article, we study the discursive conditions of media coverage and the cele…
Young people’s perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content
Harm—and the ways in which it is interpreted, negotiated, discussed, and unpacked by adolescents themselves—is a key term in almost all debates about young people’s experiences with online pornography. This essay situates the topic of this special issue—adolescents’ perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content—within a broader context of the discourses and practices that inform research in this field. We show how discourses of harm an…
Sociology (10 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)