Crisis' Representations

Christiana Constantopoulou is Professor of Sociology at Panteion University Athens. She is President of the International Sociological Association (ISA) research committee RC14 on Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture, editor of several international journals, Knight of the Academic Palms (by the French Ministry of Education), Head of EURCECOM, responsible for many international conferences, and was an elected member of the executive board of the International Association of French Speaking Sociologists (AISLF) for 4 mandates (1996-2004 and 2008-2016). She has published many articles and books on the communicational structures of contemporary societies.

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1 Frontiers and Identities in Contemporary Media Storytelling
Christiana Constantopoulou

2 The Value Image of Europe through Images
Albertina Pretto and Debora Marcucci

3 Social Media and the Institutionalization of Hate Speech in Greek Politics
Vasilis Vamvakas

4 Transnational Soap Operas and Cultural Identity in Times of Change
Dimitra-Laurence Larochelle

5 Narrative Structures and the Export of Meaning: the Case of South Korean Popular Culture’s Reception in Central and Eastern Europe
Valentina Marinescu

6 What Can Be Seen by Breaking “Bad”?
Amalia Frangiskou

7 The Representation of the Current Crisis in the Greek Cinema: Investigating Mnemonic Itineraries and Flashes-Back
Maria Thanopoulou

8 Film Narratives on the Current Economic Crisis: the Case of the French Film “the Law of the Markets”
Joanna Tsiganou

9 Representations of the Crisis within Five Greek Films
Eleni Zyga

10 Developing Educational Discourse on Refugees: from the “Others” to Cinema Meta-language on Refugee Citizens
Evangelia Kalerante and Calliopi Tsantali

Index