Social Movements and Everyday Acts of Resistance: Solidarity in a Changing World

About

Stamatis Poulakidakos is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Digital Media University of Western Macedonia (UOWM). He is specialised in media monitoring propaganda and quantitative content analysis. He has taken part in many research projects and in various Greek and international conferences. He has authored the book Propaganda and Public Discourse. The Presentation of the MoU by the Greek Media and co-edited Media Events: A Critical Contemporary Approach. In addition he has published papers on political communication propaganda refugees/immigrants social media and the public sphere political advertisements social movements and other media-related issues.Anastasia Veneti is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communication Bournemouth University. Her research lays at the intersection of media and politics including (visual) political communication digital political campaigning media framing of protests and social movements and photojournalism. Her work has been published in edited volumes and academic journals. Recent works include the co-edited collections: The Edward Elgar Handbook of Researching Visual Politics (2023) The Handbook of Digital Media in Greece. Political Communication and Journalism in Times of Crisis (2020) and Visual Political Communication (2019). She is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research at Bournemouth University.Maria Rovisco is Associate Professor in Sociology at the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds UK. She was previously a lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. She has research interests in cosmopolitanism new activisms citizenship migrant and refugee arts and visual culture. Among her books are the co-edited volumes: Taking the Square: Mediated Dissent and Occupations of Public Space (2016) Cosmopolitanism Religion and the Public Sphere (Routledge 2014) and The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism (Routledge 2017).