Dr. Andreas Veglis is Professor, Head of the Media Informatics Lab at the School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received his BSc in Physics, MSc in Electronics and Communications, and PhD in Computer Science, all from Aristotle University. He successfully completed his doctoral dissertation on computer architecture in 1995. He is the co-editor of “The Handbook of Global Online Journalism” (http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444338552.html). He is also member of the editorial board in nine peer review scientific journals in the area of journalism and mass communications. He is the author or co-author of 30 books, he has published 68 papers on scientific journals and he has presented 107 papers in international and national Conferences. His current research interests include media technology, web 2.0/3.0 tools in media / new media, course support environments, data journalism, open data, social media content verification, Internet censorship, cross media publishing and others. Professor Veglis has been involved in 28 national and international research projects.
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Dr. George Kalliris was born in Nicosia – Cyprus. In 1989 he received his 5-year Diploma in Electrical Engineering with Telecommunications from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) – Greece. In 1995 he received his PhD from the same School. His doctoral research was carried out at the Lab of Electroacoustic and Television Systems. His current position is professor, director of the MA program and director of the Electronic Media Lab at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He has also taught and/or teaching in two Master degree programs, to the Film Studies School and as a visiting professor of the Frederick University Cyprus. He was the chair of the AudioMostly 2015 conference on “Sound, semantics and social interaction,” and co-editor of the associated ACM proceedings (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2814895). He is also co-editor of the recently published JAES special issue(s) (2) on “Intelligent audio processing, Semantics, and interaction,” (Vol. 64, no 7/8, July/August 2016, & Vol. 64, no 9, Sept. 2016). His current research interests and publications include audiovisual technologies for the new media, radio and television studio design, digital audio-video processing–production–broadcasting-webcasting, multimedia content, restoration, management and retrieval. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Charalampos A. Dimoulas holds a diploma degree (1997) and a PhD degree (2006), both received from the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, AUTH. In 2008, he received scholarship on post-doctoral research at the Laboratory of Electronic Media, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, AUTH. Both his doctoral dissertation and his post-doc research deal with advanced audio-visual processing and content management techniques for intelligent analysis of prolonged multi-channel recordings. He was elected Lecturer (November 2009), Assistant Professor (June 2014) and Associate Professor (February 2019) of Electronic Media in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, AUTH, where he is currently serving. He was the program chair of the AudioMostly 2015 conference on “Sound, semantics and social interaction,” and co-editor of the associated ACM proceedings (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2814895). He is also co-editor of the recently published JAES special issue(s) (2) on “Intelligent audio processing, Semantics, and interaction,” (Vol. 64, no 7/8, July/August 2016, & Vol. 64, no 9, Sept. 2016). He leads the “audiovisual team” for the Pandora robotic vehicle (https://pandora.ee.auth.gr/) project, mainly focusing on audio detection – localization and machine vision tasks. His current scientific interests include media technologies, signal processing, machine learning, media authentication, audiovisual content description and management automation, multimedia semantics, and more. Dr. Dimoulas is member of IEEE, EURASIP and AES. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Antonis Gardikiotis is Associate Professor of Social Psychology and the Mass Media. He has studied Psychology (University of Crete), Mass Communication (University of London, LSE), and Social Science Research Methods (Cardiff University). He completed his PhD in Social Psychology and Mass Media (Cardiff U). He has published in a number of scientific journals such as Media Psychology, Psychology of Music, Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, European Journal of Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Social and Personality Psychology Compass. His research interests concern topics such as social influence and persuasion, perception of media effects, health communication etc. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Nikolaos Tsigilis is Assistant Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he teaches at the undergraduate and the postgraduate level. He has published more than 100 articles in international and national scientific journals regarding quantitative and qualitative research methods mainly in the fields of psychology and education. He is highly recognized and cited in prestigious international peer-reviewed journals; and his h-index is 27. He has served as a referee in various journals including British Medical Journal, Hellenic Journal of Psychology, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Learning and Instruction, and Perceptual and Motor Skills. He is a member of several scientific associations and he has taught in several workshops organized by the Northern Greek Psychological Society and the South East European Research Center. His research interests include quantitative research methods, applied statistical techniques, psychometrics instrument development and validation, occupational burnout, job satisfaction, and self-efficacy. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Nikos Panagiotou is an Assistant Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been a Chevening Scholar of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Socrates Scholar at Universidade Fernando Pessoa (Portugal), Scholar of the State of Luxembourg, in University of Luxembourg, and RCAP Scholar from APU University, Japan. His is a peer-reviewer at St. Antony’s International Review Oxford University, Multi-Disciplinary Scientific Journal of International Black Sea University, and Journal of Culture and Society and a member of the advisory board of peer reviewers for Networking Knowledge. He has participated in a series of scientific researches, has published articles in International and Greek journals and in edited volumes. His research interests are upon: Global Journalism, Political Communication, Mass Media Literacy, Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Ioanna Kostarella is Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from which she also graduated in 1998. She holds a PhD in Political Communication from the Institute of Communications Studies of the University of Leeds and an MA in Communications Studies from the same institute. Before joining the University, Ioanna Kostarella has had a long professional experience as a press officer for the local government, as well as over 17 years of teaching experience. She has also worked as a journalist for various local and national media, while she is still a columnist for the daily regional newspaper “Chronos” of Kozani. She has been a scholar of Botsis Foundation, while in 2005 she won the prize for the best article in the regional press. Dr Kostarella teaches both postgraduate and graduate courses, while she has contributed to various research papers in journals, refereed conference proceedings and authored chapters in books. She has participated in several international scientific conferences, meetings, collaborations and research programmes in the field of Communication and Journalism. She is a member of the European Sociological Association (ESA) and also a certified trainer for adult education. Ioanna Kostarella speaks English, German and Italian and her research interests include journalism and new media, the interaction between media and foreign policy, European media, and environmental communication.
Dr. Rigas Kotsakis is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering at the International Hellenic University. He received his diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He continued his academic studies in MSc in Management and Business Administration at the University of Macedonia, MSc in Advanced Computer and Communication Systems at the Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and PhD degree at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. He currently is a Tenured Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. His research interests include pattern recognition and semantic analysis techniques in multimedia content, management of audiovisual content and web-based multimedia applications. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Maria Matsiola was born in Kavala in 1971. She received a diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a PhD degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. She serves as Tenured Senior Teaching Fellow and Instructor in the Electronic Media Laboratory of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications (AUTh). Her scientific interests include New Media technologies, Web Radio and TV, audiovisual content management, distance learning, audiovisual application systems in distance education. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos is a Tenured Senior Teaching Fellow in Media Informatics Lab of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. He holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a PhD in Urban and Spatial Planning, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He works for more than 20 years in European research projects funded by the European Commission. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Lazaros Vrysis received a diploma degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009, completed the interdisciplinary post-graduate program “Advanced Computer and Communication Systems” in 2014, and received his PhD in 2019, all from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Currently, he is a teaching associate at the School of Journalism and Mass Media Studies of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He specialises in deep learning, audiovisual signal and natural language processing, and educational software design. Over the past few years, he has designed various software solutions for relevant research projects and published numerous applications on the App Store and Google Play. Additionally, he has worked as a UX & IT strategist for the municipal television and radio stations of Thessaloniki. Visit Personal Website.
Dr. Nikolaos Vryzas was born in Thessaloniki in 1990. He studied Electrical & Computer Engineering in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). After graduating, he received his master degrees on Information and Communication Audio Video Technologies for Education & Production from the Interdepartmental/Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program on Advanced Computer and Communication Systems of the AUTh. In 2020 he obtained his Ph.D. diploma from the School of Journalism & Mass Media Communication, on audiovisual stream management automations for digital media and mediated communication. His doctorate research was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI). In the past years he has been working as a research assistant in European projects on topics of multimodal (audio/video/text) semantic analysis (PHARM-Preventing Hate Against Refugees and Migrants, SOCIO-BEE – Wearables and droneS fOr CIty Socio-Environmental Observations and BEhavioral ChangE), and as an adjunct professor in the School of Journalism of AUTh.
Dr. Theodora Saridou obtained her PhD from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2022. Her doctorate research focuses on changing conditions in online media due to audience participation in the news production process. She received her BSc in Law and her MSc in Journalism and New Media, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her academic interests include participatory journalism, user-generated content, churnalism and online news production. She has professional experience as a journalist, while part of her research results has been published in leading academic journals and presented in conferences.
Anastasia Katsaounidou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied Political Sciences and received her Master’s degree in Journalism and New Media from School of Journalism & Mass Media Communication, Auth. Her Master Thesis deal with Content authenticity issues: detection of untruthful news stories from human and machines. She is currently a PhD candidate/researcher in School of Journalism & Mass Media Communication researching Interactive and collaborative environments to support digital content authentication supported by the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). Her interests include social media, user generated content, non-linear storytelling, forensics, mediated learning, multimedia, media authentication, semantic web.
Kosmas Panagiotidis was born in Thessaloniki in 1987. He holds an undergraduate degree in Political Sciences and a postgraduate degree in Journalism and New Mass Media both from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During his postgraduate studies has worked as trainee journalist in a nationwide channel (ERT S.A.) and as radio producer in a nationwide radio station (Praktoreio FM 104,9). Nowadays he is Phd candidate at the School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, studying Semantic web technologies in Journalism. His research interests deal with the technological challenges that journalism will face entering the third era of the web (Web 3.0), the journalistic use of Open Linked Data and new practices such as Data Journalism and social semantic journalism.
Ofilia Psomadaki was born and lives in Thessaloniki. In 2009, she received a four-year degree from the Department of Fine Arts and Science of Arts, of the University of Ioannina, specialized in History of Art. In 2013, she received her Postgraduate Diploma on the Graphic Design Department of the University of Central Lancashire (Master of Arts). The issue of the diplomatic thesis is: “Visual Communication and New Technologies in Museums”. In 2018 she received her PhD Diploma from the Department of Journalism and Mass Media Communication, in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and the subject of her doctoral dissertation is related with Technologies of Non Linear Storytelling for the Management of Cultural Heritage in Digital City. During her doctoral research, she was awarded with a three-year scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation, in cooperation with the National Bank of Greece. Moreover, she was graduated from the Annual Training Program for Teachers (E.P.PAI.K.) of Higher School of Pedagogical and Technological Education in Thessaloniki (ASPAITE). She is teaching Cultural Management Communication and Media I-II to the Department of Music Science and Art of University of Macedonia. Her current research interests include audiovisual technologies in new media, art history and culture, management of cultural heritage.
Dimitrios Giomelakis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece on July 30, 1985. He is currently a PhD student in journalism and a researcher of Media Informatics Lab in the School of Journalism & Mass Communications at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a graduate of the School of Journalism & Mass Communications. In 2007, he received his Master in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for audio-visual production and education from the Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2015 he received a doctoral fellowship from Aristotle University for his research on online journalism. Among his research interests are online journalism, media technology, SEO, Web Analytics, Web 2.0 and social media. He has participated in several research projects regarding journalism and news industry. His work has been published in many scientific journals (e.g. Journalism Studies, Online Journalism) and conference proceedings. Visit Personal Webpage.
Mrs. Marina Eirini Stamatiadou was born in Kavala, Greece on April 9 1986. She holds a diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). Her diploma thesis and specialization was on Service-Oriented Architectures for IoT systems. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in School of Journalism & Mass Media Communication in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research focus is on User Generated Content (UGC) and Mobile Journalism (MoJo) content semantic analysis as well as on the development and deployment of media-related tools and automations. Her research interests also include automated storytelling template creation and question answering systems for automated news summarization and capturing. She also has professional experience in process engineering and standardization. She has participated in several research projects as a senior and lead software engineer in the fields of software engineering and IoT-related technologies.
Eleni Siamtanidou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. She completed her studies at the School of Primary Education, Faculty of Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and received her Teacher’s diploma degree in 2018. She completed the interdisciplinary post–graduate program “Advanced Computer and Communication Systems” at the Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received her master’s degree in the direction of Multimedia Technologies for Media Production and Education in 2020. She is currently a PhD candidate/researcher at the School of Journalism & Mass Media Communication researching the technologies of gamification and mediated education in digital literacy. At the same time, she works as a Primary School Teacher. Her interests include informal education, alternative learning methods, media literacy, media authentication, multimedia technologies, user interface, and user experience design (UI & UX Design).
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Dr. George Papanikolaou is professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AUTH, specialized in Electroacoustics and TV systems. He is a founding member of the School of Music Studies, and of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication of AUTh. His research interests are in the fields of Acoustics and Electroacoustics, Sound Systems, High Definition TV /video broadcasting and Digital Cinema (D-Cinema), music and audio technology, studio-recording techniques, and others. He is chairman of the Inter-institutional Interdepartmental Graduate Program entitled “Advanced Computer and Communications Systems”, leading also in the direction “New Technologies of Sound and Video in Education and Production”. Prof. G. Papanikolaou has supervised more than 15 Ph.D. dissertations in the fields of his expertise, and he has participated in many national scientific and technological committees (i.e. Infosociety, Broadband Task Force, Athens Olympic Broadcasting, etc.). Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. John Mourjopoulos is a Professor of Electroacoustics and Digital Audio Technology at the Electrical and Computing Engineering Department of the University of Patras, and head of the Audio and Acoustic Technology group of the Wire Communications Laboratory. He obtained a B.Sc. degree in engineering from Coventry University in 1978, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1980 and 1985, from the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), at Southampton University. He has authored and presented more than 100 papers in international Journals and conferences, has worked in national and European projects, has organized seminars and short courses, has served in the organizing committees and as session chairman in many conferences and has contributed to the development of digital audio devices. His research covers digital processing of audio and acoustic signals, room acoustics equalization, perceptually-motivated models for such applications, speech and audio signal enhancement, all-digital audio chain, direct acoustic transduction of digital audio streams, WLAN audio and amplification. He is a member of the AES, where he was awarded the Fellowship of the AES in 2006, of the IEEE and of the Hellenic Institute of Acoustics. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Andreas L. Symeonidis is an Assistant Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Research Affiliate with the Informatics and Telematics Institute in Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests include Software Engineering (SE) Processes and Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE), data mining and knowledge extraction from Software repositories, Model-driven Engineering, Software quality and Software analytics. Dr. Symeonidis’ work has been published in over 80 papers, book chapters, and conference publications. He is the co-author of the book “Agent Intelligence through Data Mining”, published under the Springer Science and Business Media (ISBN: 0-387-24352-6, August 2005). Dr. Symeonidis is currently Project Coordinator of S-CASE (FP7-ICT-610717), RAPP (FP7-ICT-610947) and Technical Coordinator for the Pandora robotic vehicle (https://pandora.ee.auth.gr/) projects. He is also member of the board of directors for the Association for Trading Agent Research (http://tradingagents.org/) (2011-2014). Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Eugenia Siapera holds a BSc in Social Psychology and an MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute. She has had research and teaching positions at the University of Amsterdam (NL), Anglia Ruskin (UK), University of Leicester (UK) and Aristotle University (Greece). She is currently the Deputy Director of the Institute for Future Media and Journalism and the Chair of the MA Social Media Communications. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Theodora Maniou is a lecturer in Journalism at the Department of Social & Political Sciences, University of Cyprus. She holds a PhD & a BA in Journalism (School of Journalism & Mass Media, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), and an MA in Communication’s Policy Studies (CITY, University of London, UK). Her area of specialization focuses on new models of journalism, television studies and multimedia journalism. She is a member of the Journalistic Union of Macedonia-Thrace (Greece), the European Federation of Journalists and the International Federation of Journalists. Visite Personal Webpage.
Dr. Charalampos Bratsas is a special member of the teaching staff in the Mathematics Department of AUTH and he is the founder of the Greek Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation and the President of its Administration Board. He teaches in the Departments of Mathematics, Journalism, Biology and Geology and on the MSc of Complex Systems in AUTH. He has extensive experience in Semantic Web with a focus on Linked Open Data Internationalization and Ontology engineering. Additionally, he has been involved in ten EU research projects; his research interests include Data Mining algorithms, Semantic Web, Social Semantic Web, Internationalization of Linked Data, he is the coordinator of Greek DBPedia, Application Knowledge, Data Journalism, and Neuroinformatics. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Lia-Paschalia Spyridou is Lecturer in Journalism and Media studies at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. She holds a PhD in Journalism and New Media from the Aristotle University and an MA in Communication from the University of Westminster. In 2012 she received a postdoctoral fellowship from Aristotle University for her research on participatory journalism. She has had research and teaching positions at the University of Macedonia (Greece) and Cyprus University of Technology. She is currently coordinator of the BA in Journalism Studies at the University of Cyprus. She has published among others, in Journalism, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, European Journal of Communication, International Communication Gazette, and has participated in several research projects. Visit Personal Webpage.
Dr. Konstantinos Avdelidis is an Information Technology consultant in the Municipal Organization for Information and Communication of Thessaloniki. He holds a Diploma and a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has participated as a pre- and post-doctoral researcher on several projects in the Electrical and Computer Engineering, Journalism and Mass Media Communication departments as well as the Philology, English schools of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His main research interests lie in the fields of audiovisual signal archiving/distribution and vocal/verbal/language information processing. His past positions include working as part-time lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Mass Media Communication of the Aristotle University and as a vocational training certified tutor.