Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece, Volume 2

Yiannis Mylonas is Associate Professor at the Media Institute of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, in Moscow. He received a PhD in Media and Communications from Copenhagen University, and has worked at Lund University as postdoctoral researcher. He is the author of the monograph The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics (2019), and co-editor (with Panos Kompatsiaris and Ilya Kirya) of The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies (Springer, 2020). He has previously published in journals such as Stasis, Critical Discourse Studies, tripleC, The Journal of Language and Politics, Continuum, Subjectivity, Race and Class, The Journal of Political Ideologies, Javnost/the Public, Nordicom Review, and Journalism, among others.

Elena Psyllakou holds a PhD in Discourse Studies (Department of Political Sciences, University of Athens), building on critical approaches to discourse analysis, media and communication. In her postdoctoral research for the project “Media in the limelight. A dialogic approach”, implemented in collaboration with the Greek National Center for Social Research (EKKE), she focused on the intersections of news media, politics, and journalistic identities in the Greek mediascape. She has been an active member of DiscourseNet. Currently she works as a Communications Expert and Research Associate in the NGOs/CSOs sector in Greece. In collaboration with the ENA Institute for Alternative Policies she contributes to projects and initiatives to enhance transparency and trust in media and journalism.