CURRICULUM VITAE
- Name :
- Nicolas Demertzis
Date/Place of Birth : Citizenship :
1958, Athens Greek
Home Address : Work Address :
3 Ikarias street, Agios Stefanos, 14565, Greece Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, University of Athens 5, Stadiou st. Athens, 105 62 (tel. +30 210 3689414)
National Centre for Social Research 9, Kratinou & Athinas, 105 52, Athens, Greece tel. + 30 210 7491678
email: [email protected], [email protected]
Family status: Url:
Married, father of one.
http://www.media.uoa.gr/people/demertzis
Education
1976-1980 1981-1986
B.A. First Class Honour in Political Science: Panteios Graduate School of Political Sciences, Athens Ph.D. in Sociology : University of Lund, Sweden [Supervisor: R. Eyerman, Examiners: J. Israel, G. Therborn, Thesis Opponent: Z. Bauman]
Professional Experience
1989 - 1992 Lecturer in Political Science, Panteion University, Athens 1992 - 1996 Assistant Professor in Political Sociology and Communication, University of
Athens
1996 – 2002 Associate Professor in Political Sociology and Communication,
University of Athens
2002-present Professor in Political Sociology and Communication, University of Athens
1999-2004 2004-2010 2007-2010 2007-2010
Adjunct Professor in Diplomacy, Foreign Policy and the Media, National School of Public Administration, Athens. Member of the Interim Committee of the Cyprus University of Technology [CUT], Limassol (www.cut.ac.cy). Founder and Interim Chairman of the Department of Communication and Internet Studies at CUT. Interim Dean of the School of Applied Arts and Communication of the Cyprus University of Technology.
2010- present President of the Administrators Board of the Greek State Scholarships
Foundation (www.iky.gr).
Professional Services
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1992 - present 1992-1994 1996
Member of the Editorial Board of the Greek Political Science Review.
Secretary General of the Hellenic Political Science Association.
Co-director of the “Green Politics in the New Europe” workshop, ECPR, Oslo 29 Mar. - 3 Apr. 1996.
1998- present 1999
Member of the Editorial Board of the Review Science and Society. Professor in charge, Four Day Workshop for Journalism Students organized by the European Centre for Common Ground (Izmir).
2002
Professor in charge, Four Day Workshop for Journalism Students and Professional Journalists organized by the European Centre for Common Ground (Istanbul).
2003
Independent Evaluator of the at the EU 7.0 programme (Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based Society).
2004 present 2006
Founding member of the Sociology of Emotions Research Network, European Sociological Association. Independent Evaluator, European Commission Programme NEST-PATHFINDER (Cultural Dynamics Initiative). Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of E-Government (Haworth Political Press).
Co-convenor of the regular session “Emotions, Civil Society and
Identities”. 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, June 26-30.
2006- present 2008
2013 2013
Independent Evaluator, EU FP7 (SSH.2013.4.2-1 Media in conflicts and peace building). Independent Evaluator, Open Research Area Plus (The Netherlands).
Academic Duties 1992-1993
Member of the three-member Advisory Committee of Sociology, Hellenic Inter-University Foreign Degree Recognition Center.
1993 –1995 Member of the three-member Advisory Committee of Communication and
Mass Media. Hellenic Inter-University Foreign Degree Recognition Center.
1997-2003
Academic Head of Library, Department of Communication and Mass Media, University of Athens.
1997
Ph.D. Faculty Opponent, Essex University.
2000-2004
Member of the Central Exam Committee for admission in the National School of Public Administration.
2000-2004 2002-2003 2003
Adjunct Professor of the National School of Public Administration, Department of Press Attachés. Member of the committee of the Postgraduate Program of Studies, Department of Communication and Mass Media, University of Athens. Member of Consulting Committee for the evaluation of proposals submitted in the framework of actions 2.3.1 and 2.3.3 (promotion of initial vocational training) to the Special Managing Service of the Hellenic Operational
Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training.
Panel chairman-commentator on “Popular Culture, Ideology and the Media”
organized by the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics for Greek Phd candidates abroad.
2003
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2005
Planning and Organization of the first seminar of Ph.D. Candidates, Department of Communication and Mass Media (as Director of the section of Social and Political Analysis).
2007- 2010 2007- 2010 2010
President of the Undergraduate Program of Studies, Department of Communication and Mass Media, University of Athens. Member of the Revision Committee of the Postgraduate Program of Studies, Department of Communication and Mass Media, University of Athens. Member of the revision and evaluation committee of the program of studies at the National School of Public Administration and the National School of Local Administration.
Administrative Experience 1997
Director of the Postgraduate Program of Studies, Department of Communication and Mass Media, University of Athens.
2002-2003
Deputy Director of the section of Social and Political Analysis of Communication, Department of Communication and Mass Media, University of Athens.
2004 -2010 Member of the Interim Committee of the Cyprus University of Technology
(the second public university of Cyprus based on Limassol).
2004 - 2009 Director of the section of Social and Political Analysis of Communication,
Department of Communication and Mass Media, University of Athens.
2005-2010
Member in charge of the Administrative Committee of the Cyprus University of Technology for the constitution of a Department of Communication and Internet Studies.
2005-2010
Member of the evaluation and selection committee of senior administrative personnel at the Cyprus University of Technology.
2006-2010
President of the six-member International Advisory Committee for the formation and operation of the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology (four of the members from countries other than Greece and Cyprus: Frank Webster, Ralth Negrine, Paul van Der Lem, Peter Vervey).
2006-2007 2007-2010 2007-2010 2007-2010
Member of the evaluation and selection committee of senior administrative personnel at the Cyprus University of Technology. Interim Chairman of the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology. Interim Dean of the School of Applied Arts and Communication, Cyprus University of Technology. President of the seven-member International Advisory Committee for the founding of a Department of Public Communication at the Cyprus University of Technology.
2010-2013 2010-2013 2010-2013
President of the Board of Administrators, Greek State Scholarships Foundation (also acting General Director). President of the Unit of Internal Evaluation of the Department of Communication and Mass Media, University of Athens. Member of the Quality Assurance Unit, University of Athens.
2013-present Director and President of the Board of Directors of the National Centre for
Social Research (EKKE).
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Honors and Awards
1977 - 1980 1982 - 1985 1985 - 1986 1989 - 1990
Merit award from the State Scholarships Foundation (Athens) State Scholarships Foundation for Ph.D. studies (Athens) Utbildningsbidrag, University of Lund Research Grant, Educational Institute of the Greek Agricultural Bank (research project: The Greek Provincial Press)
- DAAD, University of Frankfurt
- 1994 (June)
- 2000 (July)
- Research Grant, British Council, University of Kent, GB.
Academic Invitations 1991 1995 1996 2003 2003
Institute de Science Politique, Universite de Laussane :"The Influence of the Byzantine Empire on the Balkan Political Culture. The Greek Case" Department of Sociology, University of Lund, Sweden: “On the concept of Political Culture” and “Nationalism”. Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex. Guest Lecturer, University of Lund, Department of Sociology (The
Construction of Digital Political Identities: The Grammar of the Internet).
Keynote speaker, Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics
(New Challenges for the Study of Greek Political Sociology and Political Communication)
2006
Guest Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Leiden, Honors Class Program 2006 Media, Politics, and Public Administration (“Political
Marketing Online: An analysis of political websites”)
2008 2011
Invitation to the Civil War Trauma Workshop, Center of Cultural Sociology, Yale University (Director Jeffrey Alexander) Guest Lecturer to the Department of Information Technology- Human Computer Interaction, Uppsala University (“Emotions in Organizations from a sociological perspective”).
2011
Guest speaker to the International Hellenic University («The Economic Crisis and the Mass Media»).
Supervision
Successful principal supervision of four (4) Ph.D. students over the last twelve years.
December 2000:
Nicos Boubaris, Youth Cultures and Communication in Late
Modernity. (Nicos Babaris is assistant professor at the Aegean University, Greece). January 2009:
Costas Perezous, A History of Crisis. From ancient medicine to
modern political discourse. (Costas Perezous is adjunct assistant professor at the Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Greece).
March 2009: Katerina Diamandaki, Virtual Community. An analysis of community experience in late modernity.
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2012 Pavlos Vassilopoulos, Political Sophistication in Greece. Explaining the paradox of
a politically knowledgeable electorate. (Pavlos Vassilopoulos is visiting fellow at SciencePo, Paris)
Current supervisory duties: Five Ph.D. students.
1996-1997: Ph.D. Co-Supervisor, University of Lund, Sweden (uncompleted)
Successful assistant supervision:
December 2005:
Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Social Applications of the Internet. The issue of accessibility and the ‘seniors.gr’ experiment.
January 2006: Karolos Kavoulakos, Urban Politics and Urban Social Movement. Comparing Germany and the USA, 1960-1990.
September 2006:
Andreas Mitsou, Everyday Life and its Linguistic-Communicative
Transcendence. The Case of Cariotakis.
December 2008: October 2009:
Elias Athanasiades, Aspects of the private in the reek mass media Marianna Polychroniadou, The political paradox. The spectacle dimension in the expression of contemporary political persons
Successful supervision of twenty nine (29) M.A. students over the last fifteen years.
Reviewer
Ελληνική Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής Επιστήμης ( Greek Political Science Review)
Political Communication New Media and Society Southern European Politics
Ζητήματα Επικοινωνίας (Communication Issues)
Press/Politics Political Psychology Journal of Political Power British Journal of Sociology European Journal of Communication
Professional Association Memberships
Hellenic Political Science Association European Sociological Association European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) International Political Science Association
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University Courses Taught: 1989-2012 (Panteion University and University of Athens ) Undergraduate
Introduction to Sociology (compulsory) Introduction to Political Science (compulsory) Theories of Political Culture (elective) Contemporary Political and Party Systems (compulsory) Public relations (elective) Social Theory (compulsory) Political Culture, Public Opinion and Communication (elective) Local Publicity and the Press (elective) Contemporary Society and the Media (compulsory) Political Discourse and Ideology (elective) Introduction to Political Communication (elective)
Graduate
Ideology and Mass Media (elective) Society, Politics and the Media (compulsory) Political Behaviour and the Media (compulsory) Public Opinion and Democracy (compulsory) Theories of Public Opinion: classic and modern approaches (compulsory) Communication and Politics in the Information Society (compulsory)
Courses taught at the National School of Public Administration
2000-2001 2000-2004
Political Communication Media, Politics, and Diplomacy
Modules taught at Lifelong Learning Programmes and Study Cycles
2006 Coordinator and instructor: ‘Introduction to Communication. Media and Modern Society’. Cultural Centre- Corydalos Municipality (10 sessions). 2007 Instructor: ‘The Subject in Late Modernity’ (with Nicos Mouzelis). Hellenic American Union (4 sessions). 2009 Instructor and co-coordinator: ‘Modernity, Postmodernity, Globalization’ (with Nicos Mouzelis). The Free University of Book Gallery. 2011 Instructor and co-coordinator: ‘Modernity, Postmodernity, Globalization’ (with Nicos Mouzelis and Thanos Veremis). The Study Cycle of Gutenberg Publications, Athens.
Research Projects
1988-1989 1989-1990
1993
Member of the Evaluation Group of the 1983-84 R&D National Project,
General Secretary of Research and Technology, Athens.. Project leader: “Local Publicity, Peasant Society and Provincial Press in Greece”. Educational Institute of the Agricultural Bank of Greece. Research Group Member, “Nation and National Interest in Greek daily press”. Funded by the University of Athens/Research Committee.
61995 1997
Project leader. “Political Cynicism, political alienation and mass communication in Greece”. Funded by the University of Athens/Research Committe. Project leader :“Political disaffection and Mass Media. The case of university students in Athens area”. Funded by the University of Athens/Research Committee.
1997-2001
1998
Project leader: “Production of Tutoring and Training Material for the Consumer Education in Higher Schools”. Funded by the European Union.
Project leader: “The Parliament in the Press and Television”. Funded by the Greek Parliament and the University of Athens/Research Committee.
1998 - 1999 Research Group Member: “Diaspora Media and the Hellenes’ abroad cultural identity”. Funded by the Greek Ministry of Press and the Media.
1999-2000
1999-2003 2001-2002
Project leader: “Political Communication in the internet”. Funded by the University of Athens/Research Committee and Smart Media Co., Athens. Project leader: “Media and the Development of Political Identity in Adolescents”. Funded by the General Secretary of Youth. Project leader: “The Parliament in Greek television news bulletins” Funded by the Greek Parliament and the University of Athens/Research Committee.
2002 -2003 Project leader: “The depiction of Greece in international press during the presidency of the European Union”. Funded by the Ministry of Press and the Media.
2003 - 2004 Project leader: “The depiction of Greece in international press during the preparation and the carrying out of the Olympics”. Funded by the Ministry of Press and the Media.
2004 - 2005 Project leader “Panhellenic Research on Youth in Contemporary Greece”.
Funded by the European Union/Youth Programme.
2008 -2013 Project Leader: “World Internet Project” (Cyprus). Funded by the Cyprus
University of Technology/ Research Committee.
2011-
Project Leader: «Trust Scale Construction and Test in Adult Population».
Funded by the University of Athens/ Research Committee.
Papers Presented at Scholarly Meetings
1. 1981 (Mar) “Perspectives on the Contradictions and Continuities of the Classics
of Marxism’s Work”. Philosophy and Social Science Course. Inter- University Centre Dubrovnik.
2. 1982 (Mar) “Gramsci’s Hegemony and Poulantzas’ Socialism”. Philosophy and
Social Science Course. Inter- University Centre Dubrovnik.
3. 1983 (Feb) “Marxism:A Critical Theory or a Theory in Crisis?”. Annual Meeting of
the Swedish Sociological Association.
4. 1983 (Mar) “Legitimation of Power. The Cases of Plato, Weber, Gramsci and
Habermas”. Philosophy and Social Science Course. Inter- University Centre Dubrovnik.
5. 1983 (Sep) “Elements for a Culture of Youth Contestation in Schools”. Conference
of the Modern Education Review (in Greek).
6. 1984 (Feb) “Culture and Ideology”. Annual Meeting of the Swedish Sociological
Association.
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7. 1984 (Mar) “Political Culture. Older and Newer Dimensions”. Philosophy and
Social Science Course. Inter- University Centre Dubrovnik.
8. 1989 (Jan)
Conference of the National Centre of Social Research (in Greek).
9. 1990 (Jan) “Greek Political Culture in the 1980s”. Fourth Conference of the
Hellenic Political Science Association (in Greek).
“Cultural Studies and Political Culture. The Greek Case”.
10. 1991 (Mar) “The Green Movement and the Green Party in Greece”. Annual
Meeting of the Εuropean Consortium for Political Research.
11. 1991 (May) “Ecology and Green Parties in Western Europe”. Meeting of the
Hellenic Political Science Association (in Greek).
12. 1992 (Apr) “Politics and Citizenship in Greece: Cultural and Structural Facets”.
Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association (with D. Charalampis).
13. 1994 (May) “Cultural Effects of Mass Media”. Academic Meeting of the
Pedagogical Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (in Greek).
14. 1994 (Sep)
“The Political Culture of Post-Industrial Society”. International
Conference of the National Centre of Public Administration (in Greek).
15. 1994 (Nov) “Political Publicity, Persons and Television: The Public-Private
Relationship in the era of the society of the spectacle”. Fifth Congress of Sakis
Karageorgas Foundation (in Greek).
16. 1994 (Nov) “Media Effects: the end or reconstitution of Mass Culture?”.
Symposium of Moraitis School (in Greek).
17. 1994 (Dec) “Political Cynicism and Political Alienation in the Third Greek
Republic”. Fifth Conference of the Hellenic Political Science Association (with Panagiotis Kafentzis) (in Greek).
18. 1994 (Dec) “Mass Media and their effects on the public”. Educational Seminar of
the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Greek).
19. 1995 (Jun) “The environment as News-Event”. Panel on “Communication and the
Environment”, Environmental Information Office – EU (in Greek).
20. 1995 (Sep) “The Greek Mass Media”. First International Conference on “Regional
Radio/TV Media in Europe and the role of journalists”, Chania (in Greek).
21. 1995 (Sep) “Nationalism and mass communication in Greece”. Conference on