Publications by the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of Communication
Kapareliotis, I., & Miliopoulou, G.-Z. (2019). Gender bias in academia: An attempt to render the intangible tangible. In A. Georgiadou, M. A. Gonzalez-Perez, & M. R. Olivas-Luján (Eds.), Advanced Series in Management: Vol. 22. Diversity within diversity management: Types of diversity in organizations (pp. 247–271). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1877636120190000022013
Originality/Value
Despite the ample and rising amount of research findings, there is no coherent framework to adequately include all the factors that contribute to gender bias in academia. By integrating and organizing the different, multifaceted causes already pointed out by previous findings, the authors hope to contribute to future research with specific variables to test and correlate, as well as to the formulation of more sophisticated policies.
Kyparissiadis, G. (2019). A changing country: Diversity management in Greece. In A. Georgiadou, M. A. Gonzalez-Perez, & M. R. Olivas-Lujan (Eds.), Advanced Series in Management: Vol. 21. Diversity within diversity management: Country-based perspectives (pp. 217–238). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1877-636120190000021012
Originality
There is little research regarding discrimination and diversity in the Greek workplace, despite its growing relevance and importance for the community. This report aims to inspire further research, as well as the development and implementation of diversity management practices by managers and policy-makers.
Miliopoulou, G.-Z. (2019). Revisiting product classification to examine content marketing practices. Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 13(4), 492–508. https://doi.org/10.1108/JRIM-07-2018-008
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the degree of investment and involvement attributed to specific product categories, affect content marketing plans and practices on the Web and social media.
Design/methodology/approach
This is a conceptual paper based on the classification proposed by Morton and Devine (1985) on the axes of investment and involvement. The author uses secondary research evidence from both academic and industry sources to document content marketing trends in the US and the EU markets and allocates such trends using the semiotic square.
Findings
The findings indicate that products in each quadrant follow similar practices regarding content publishing, campaign planning and community management.
Research limitations/implications
Further research may test this model empirically and assess its merits in different markets. Practical implications Managers can use this model for content planning, considering category-related opportunities and limitations. The model may also serve as a teaching tool to familiarize students with older research and its potential contribution in current settings.
Originality/value
By applying an old model in the current US/EU context, this paper helps document and understand content marketing practices, paving the way toward their optimization.
Nevradakis, M. (2020). Reproducing analogue pathologies in the digital radio landscape: The case of Greece. In J. A. Hendricks (Ed.), Radio’s second century: Past, present, and future perspectives (pp. 231–254). Rutgers University Press.
One of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary,Radio's Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio's past, present, and future. As the radio industry enters its second century of existence, it continues to be a dominant mass medium with almost total listenership saturation despite rapid technological advancements that provide alternatives for consumers. Lasting influences such as on-air personalities, audience behavior, fan relationships, and localism are analyzed as well as contemporary issues including social and digital media. Other essays examine the regulatory concerns that continue to exist for public radio, commercial radio, and community radio, and discuss the hindrances and challenges posed by government regulation with an emphasis on both American and international perspectives. Radio's impact on cultural hegemony through creative programming content in the areas of religion, ethnic inclusivity, and gender parity is also explored. Taken together, this volume compromises a meaningful insight into the broadcast industry's continuing power to inform and entertain listeners around the world via its oldest mass medium-radio.
Department of English and Modern Languages
Jeikner, A. (2019). What a true princess wears: Dress, class, and social responsibility in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess. International Research in Children’s Literature, 12(2), 208–219. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2019.0311
This article argues that while Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess appears to be a conventional ‘from riches to rags to riches’ story, idealising the British class system, a reading of sartorial images exposes a conflicted engagement with British class that is usually overlooked. References to attire not only illustrate social class in this story, they also hint at underlying moral decay within this system that arises out of an unreflective acceptance of social values and structures. Through reference to Anthony Giddens's theory of identity, this article discusses how the protagonist's changing attire mirrors her developing insights into the need to reflectively construct a morally responsible identity.
Logotheti, A. (2019a). Ian McEwan: “Düssel….” In R. Clark (Ed.), The literary encyclopedia: Vol. 1.2.1.09: Postwar and contemporary English writing and culture, 1945-present. The Literary Dictionary Company. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39015
Logotheti, A. (2019b). Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me. In R. Clark (Ed.), The literary encyclopedia: Vol. 1.2.1.09: Postwar and contemporary English writing and culture, 1945-present. The Literary Dictionary Company. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38987
Logotheti, A. (2020a). Graham Swift: Making an Elephant: Writing from within. In R. Clark (Ed.), The literary encyclopedia: Vol. 1.2.1.09: Postwar and contemporary English writing and culture, 1945-present. The Literary Dictionary Company. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26548
Logotheti, A. (2020b). Ian McEwan: The Cockroach. In R. Clark (Ed.), The literary encyclopedia: Vol. 1.2.1.09: Postwar and contemporary English writing and culture, 1945-present. The Literary Dictionary Company. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38984
Logotheti, A. (2020c). Of text and tech: Digital encounters with Shakespeare in the Deree College classroom in Athens, Greece. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 25(1), 38–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2019.1687288
The recent abundance of film adaptations and stage productions of Shakespearean drama as well as of digital platforms offering access to texts and to scholarly resources may impact the teaching of Shakespeare's plays significantly, especially for learners geographically remote from traditional centres of Shakespeare studies and from live performances in English. This brief overview of some of the pedagogical components of a taught course focuses on the employment of digital technologies to facilitate student understanding of the significance of editorial choices in the construction of the texts of the plays and of the relationship between text and performance practices.
Logotheti, A. (2020d). Reticent detecting: The evolution of Swift’s (un)confessing narrators. In T. Dobrogoszcz & M. Goszczyńska (Eds.), Reading Graham Swift (pp. 21-30). Lexington Books.
Department of History, Philosophy and the Ancient World
Gassenschmidt, C. (2020, January). Einai anthrōpino chreos mou na analabō drasē: Germanoi antistasiakoi enantia stous Nazi [It is my human duty to take action: German resistance against the Nazis]. The Athens Review of Books, (113), 22-28.
Lampas, N. (2019). Assessing the impact of Turkish refugee flows on the EU-Turkey Agreement. The Jean Monnet Papers on Political Economy, 21. https://jmonneteuldcs.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/lampas.pdf
This paper explores the impact of the increased refugee flows of Turkish citizens on the EU-Turkey agreement. The EU-Turkey agreement of March 2016 has faced severe criticism regarding the designation of Turkey as a “safe third country.” Existing literature has cited numerous legal and political reasons which argue why this designation is flawed. This paper takes a different approach by focusing on the -largely ignored- issue of the increased refugee flows of Turkish citizens in Europe which were generated as a result of the failed coup attempt of 2016. According to the findings of this paper since 2017 Turkey has become a refugee producing country as evidenced not only by the increase of asylum applications but also from the increased asylum recognition rate of Turkish applicants by European countries. This behaviour on behalf of Turkey, which clearly violates the spirit of the EU-Turkey agreement, can potentially harm the credibility of the European Union and allow Turkey to continue the blackmailing strategy which it has adopted vis a vis the European Union.
Patsioti-Tsacpounidis, I. (2019). Theōria and praxis in corporate governance: An Aristotelian perspective. In D. Sfendoni-Mentzou (Ed.), Proceedings of the world congress “Aristotle 2400 years” May 23-28, 2016 (pp. 322–328). Ziti.
Vlavianos, H. (2020, January). Diotima, ē eponomazomenē kai Aspasia [Diotima, also known as Aspasia]. The Athens Review of Books, (113), 47.
Zatta, C. (2019). Interconnectedness: The living world of the early Greek philosophers (2nd rev. ed.). Academia Verlag.
What did the early Greek philosophers think about animals and their lives? How did they view plants? And, ultimately, what type of relationship did they envisage between all sorts of living beings? On these topics there is evidence of a prolonged investigation by several Presocratics. However, scholarship has paid little attention to these issues and to the surprisingly "modern" development they received in Presocratics' doctrines. This book fills this lacuna through a detailed analysis of the extant evidence. The volume includes also the first extensive collection of the ancient sources pertaining to living beings and life in early Greek philosophy, organized chronologically and thematically.
Zatta, C. (2020). La plasticité du corps et l'intériorité des plantes dans les mythes d'Ovide et au-delà. [Body plasticity and the interiority of plants in Ovid's myths and beyond]. In M.-W. Debono (Ed.), L'intelligence des plantes en quéstion [The question of plant intelligence] (pp. 144-157). Hermann.
Department of Information Technology
Papadias, C. B., Ratnarajah, T., & Slock, D. T. M. (Eds.). (2020). Spectrum sharing: Τhe next frontier in wireless networks. Wiley-IEEE Press.
The book provides a comprehensive treatment of the principles and architectures for spectrum sharing by expert authors from leading academia, industry and regulation authorities. The book starts with the historic form of cognitive radio, goes into current standardized forms of spectrum sharing, reviews all technical ingredients that may arise in spectrum sharing approaches, and finishes with policy and implementation aspects, and an outlook. Being the most recent book on the topic, it contains all the latest standardization trends, such as MulteFire, LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U), LTE WLAN integration with Internet Protocol security tunnel (LWIP) and LTE/Wi-Fi aggregation (LWA) Includes substantial trials and experimental results, as well as system-level performance evaluation results. Contains a dedicated chapter on spectrum policy reinforcement and one on the economics of spectrum sharing by renowned MIT Professor William Lehr.
Department of Psychology
Fotinatos-Ventouratos, R. (2019). The psychological and social implications of the gender wage gap. In A.-S. Antoniou, C. Cooper, & C. Gatrell (Eds.), Women, business and leadership: Gender and organizations (pp. 330–346). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786432711.00028
Over the years, the gender wage gap has received substantial attention by social scientists and generated a plethora of international research. Recently, however, this issue has been brought into the limelight again with new and often provocative findings, confirming that inequalities and discrimination against women still pertain in the workplace. This chapter sheds light on the overall trends noticed both at the European and international levels, whilst taking into consideration gender differences in relation to educational attainment, occupational type, and the manifestation of various work contracts, often to the detriment of female success in the job. It is suggested that these trends should not be occurring today, given the fact that advancements in terms of ensuring equality and modernization are at the top of most organizations’ and governments’ agendas. Furthermore, it is advocated that women’s success in leadership positions may indeed be possible, although it often comes with a price tag in terms of psychosomatic health, poorer job and life satisfaction, as well as hindering the family in well-being and overall sustainability.
Department of Science and Mathematics
Fragkos, M., Barra, V., Egger, T., Bordignon, B., Lemacon, D., Naim, V., & Coquelle, A. (2019). Dicer prevents genome instability in response to replication stress. Oncotarget, 10(43), 4407-4423. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.27034
Dicer, an endoribonuclease best-known for its role in microRNA biogenesis and RNA interference pathway, has been shown to play a role in the DNA damage response and repair of double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) in mammalian cells. However, it remains unknown whether Dicer is also important to preserve genome integrity upon replication stress. To address this question, we focused our study on common fragile sites (CFSs), which are susceptible to breakage after replication stress. We show that inhibition of the Dicer pathway leads to an increase in CFS expression upon induction of replication stress and to an accumulation of 53BP1 nuclear bodies, indicating transmission of replication-associated damage. We also show that in absence of a functional Dicer or Drosha, the assembly into nuclear foci of the Fanconi anemia (FA) protein FANCD2 and of the replication and checkpoint factor TopBP1 in response to replication stress is impaired, and the activation of the S-phase checkpoint is defective. Based on these results, we propose that Dicer pre-vents genomic instability after replication stress, by allowing the proper recruitment to stalled forks of proteins that are necessary to maintain replication fork stability and activate the S-phase checkpoint, thus limiting cells from proceeding into mitosis with under-replicated DNA.
Leu, A. (2019). Oi mythoi peri asphalōn phytopharmakōn [The myths of safe pesticides]. (A. Varotsos, D. Georgas, V. Kanellopoulou, G. Karadima, & A. Balafas, Trans.). Syllogos Biokalliergētōn Agorōn Attikēs [Attiki Association of Organic Farmers Markets].
The chemical-based conventional agriculture industry claims that the synthesized concoctions they sell as pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides are safe when used as directed, but does the scientific evidence truly support their assertions? Organic agriculturist and lecturer André Leu delves into a wealth of respected scientific journals to present the peer-reviewed evidence that proves the claims of chemical companies and pesticide regulators are not all they seem. Leu translates technical jargon into layman terms to break down the five most-repeated myths about pesticide safety, refuting them using scientific data. The pesticide industry argues that agriculture, and the global population itself, cannot survive without its products, but Leu warns that we are at risk unless we break free of their toxic hold and turn to more natural methods of pest and weed regulation.
Department of Sociology
Gangas, S. (2019). The fury of ‘ressentiment’: Binary codes, evil and society. In K. Dihal (Ed.), Perspectives on evil: From banality to genocide (pp. 171–194). Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004409262_010
In this chapter I shall attempt to rethink the problem of evil through Max Scheler’s idea of ressentiment. It seems that ressentiment is pertinent to approaches to evil, primarily because heinous mass murders (genocides, ethnic cleansing, racist and religious pogroms) are rooted in powerful negative feelings which aim at devaluing the ‘other’. I shall focus here on another facet of ressentiment: It concerns agents who conveniently blame institutions, which are held responsible for all sorts of misfortunes. Using Luhmann’s systems theory we can surmise that ressentiment may stem from the rigid binary code which sets a social system’s self-definition in motion. Systemically coded dualisms (‘left-right’, ‘progressives-conservatives’, ‘public-private’) and the ‘absolute’ ‘good-evil’ opposites which they yield give rise to feelings of ressentiment among groups and collectivities and shipwreck important reforms that would mitigate suffering. I shall argue therefore that if the category of evil is sufficiently widened to include the ressentiment problematic, then it can equip social scientists with better moral resources grounded also on significant empirical findings (e.g. Wilkinson and Pickett’s The Spirit Level). These findings bear on how ‘inequality gets under the skin’ leading to pathological re-affirmations of the self through the systematic devaluation of the ‘other’. In the context of Wilkinson and Pickett’s work, I will also draw on examples of ressentiment from contemporary Greece with reference to: a) the unexpected rise of Nazi sympathizers; b) the stringency of the ‘public-private’ rhetoric (coded as an absolute dichotomy by the Greek Left) and its negative impact for several ‘ressentiment’-based polarizations within Greek society.
Gangas, S. (2020). Sociological theory and the capability approach. Routledge.
Sociological Theory and Capability Approach connects normative strands of sociological theory to the fusion of ethics and economics proposed by Amartya Sen's and Martha Nussbaum's capability approach. Spanning classical (Hegel, Marx, Durkheim, Scheler, Weber) and contemporary debates (Parsons, Giddens, Luhmann) it identifies areas that bridge the current gap between sociology and capability approach. It thus builds on explanatory and normative concerns shared by both traditions. Engaging readers from sociology and capability approach, Spiros Gangas suggests that the proposed dialogue should be layered along the main areas of value theory, economy and society, extending this inquiry into the normative meaning attached to being human. To this end, the book reconstructs the notion of agency along the tracks of Nussbaum's central human capabilities, considering also alienation and the sociology of emotions. It concludes by addressing the capability approach through the lens of social institutions before it takes up the challenge of ideological fundamentalism and how it can be effectively confronted by capability approach. This original book provides a fresh perspective on capability approach as it embeds it in the rich pool of sociological theory's accomplishments. As an exercise in theoretical and normative convergence, it will be required reading for academics and students in social theory, cultural theory, philosophy and human development studies