Project Coordinator and Principal Researcher: Dr Yani Kartalis
Duration: March 2024 - February 2024
Overview
The study aims to investigate the paradox of media (un)freedom in Greece. Greece is characterized by low ranking in global media freedom indexes despite having a seemingly diverse media landscape. The study will explore the disparity between the large number of registered digital media platforms and the actual diversity of content and editorial independence, questioning whether the fragmented media system translates into a qualitative plurality of viewpoints.
The project plans to map the content of digital (and print) news media across Greece, assessing the extent of content diversity and how it reflects on media ownership patterns. It will employ advanced data collection methods, including digitizing print articles, website scraping, and manual collection, alongside novel measures of content plurality using state-of-the-art text as data approaches including recent advancements in machine learning and large language models.
Research Team
Project Coordinator and Principal Researcher: Dr Yani Kartalis, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen; Research Fellow at Lisbon University Institute, CEI-ISCTE.