Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece, Volume 1

Yiannis Mylonas is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design at HSE University, Mosow. His book The "Greek Crisis" in Europe: Race, Class and Politics was published in 2019, and his articles have appeared in Nordicom Review, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. He co-edited the collection The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies (Springer, 2020) with Ilya Kiriya and Panos Kompatsiaris.

Elena Psyllakou holds a PhD in Discourse Studies (Department of Political Sciences, University of Athens), working on critical approaches to discourse analysis, media and communication. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the project "Media in the limelight. A dialogic approach", implemented in collaboration with the Greek National Center for Social Research (EKKE), studying the intersections of news media, politics, journalistic identities and alternatives in the Greek mediascape. Currently she works as a Communications Officer at The Green Tank, an environmental think tank based in Athens, diving into the public discourse and research areas of climate change. She has been an active member of DiscourseNet.

Chapter 1. Introduction: probing perpetual crisis (Yiannis Mylonas).- Chapter 2. Misrecognizing class in the age of Covid-19: the Aspropyrgos case and the media (Giorgos Bithymitris).- Chapter 3. Housing precarisation and the reshuffling of worthiness, blame and vulnerability during the Covid-19 pandemic (Theodoros Karyotis).- Chapter 4. Invaders vs Investors: The Importance of Class in the Framing of Migration in the Greek Press (Christos Kostopoulos).- Chapter 5. Media framing of the Roma population in Greece. Racism and class politics against the indigenous "Other": The cases of Nikos Sampanis and 8-year-old Olga (Stamatis Poulakidakos).- Chapter 6. Endoxa, regimes of truth and hatred rhetoric: Examining Golden Dawn's online media discourses (Dimitris Serafis).- Chapter 7. Private television and the reproduction of conspiracy theories: the Greek case (Thomas Lazaridis).- Chapter 8. Religious extremism, far-right and conspiracies: A study of COVID-19 anti-vaxxers in Greece's social media sphere (Nikos Smyrnaios).- Chapter 9. Somewhere Between Paris and Tehran: Exploring Greece's Media-mediated Sociopolitics of Religion and their Implicit Class Connotations (Sotiris Mitralexis).- Chapter 10. Digitally mediated collective memory of the Greek Civil War: A post-memory analysis of YouTube comments (Leandros Savvides).- Chapter 11. Rebetiko: Class, migration and affective structures in the cinematographic narration of a musical genre (Maria Athanasiou).- Chapter 12. Women crossing borders in white vans: an autoethnographic account of the performance and embodiment of class in post-socialist migration (Tsvetelia Hristova).