Vaia Doudaki is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, in Cyprus University of Technology, and director of the MA in European Journalism, offered by the same department. She holds a PhD from the Department of Communication, Media and Culture, of Panteion University (Athens, Greece), specializing in the sociology of news production (2004) and a first degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the same department (1996).
Dr. Doudaki has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Panteion University (2007-2009). She has taught at Panteion University (2005-2009) and at the National Centre of Public Administration and Local Government (Athens, Greece, 2007–2008). She has also worked for several years as a journalist for print and internet media (Athens, Greece, 2004-2009).
Her research and publications focus on the study of media, conflict and crisis, on production of meaning in fictional and news content, on organization of news production in “mature” and “new” media, and on journalistic identities and journalistic practices in the internet era. Broadly speaking, her research interests and production lie at the intersection of journalism studies and cultural studies, and in particular in newsmaking and representations.
Dr. Doudaki is presently coordinating, together with Dr. Milioni, the research project “Conflict and Violence in Cyprus Television”, funded by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation. She is also a research partner in the project “Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS)”, which attempts a comparative study of the state of journalism at the international level, and the principal researcher in “Foreign Correspondence in Cyprus”, a project that is part of a pan-European study on foreign correspondents.
Vaia Doudaki
Bio
Posts
2010- today | Lecturer, Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology (Limassol, Cyprus)
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2007-2009 | Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University (Athens, Greece) |
2007-2008 | Temporary lecturer, National Centre of Public Administration and Local Government (Athens, Greece) |
2005-2009 | Adjunct lecturer, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University (Athens, Greece) |
2006-2007 | Researcher, Department of Communication Media and Culture, Panteion University (Athens, Greece) |
1998-1999 2004-2005 | Teaching assistant, Department of Communication Media and Culture, Panteion University (Athens, Greece) |
Teaching
Undergraduate courses:
• CIS 316 Journalism on the Internet
• CIS 319 Writing for Print and Broadcast Media
• CIS 110 Local and International Communication Systems
• CIS 450 Research Design
• CIS 331 Internet and Society
Postgraduate courses:
• MEJ 521News writing (Master’s level)
• MEJ 522 News Research and News Selection (Master’s level)
Publications
Articles in academic journals with an international referee system
• Doudaki, Vaia, & Spyridou, Lia-Paschalia (2012) Print and Online News: Remediation Practices in Content and Form. Journalism Studies, iFirst. DOI:10.1080/1461670X.2012.746860 [IF2011: 0.536].
• Doudaki, Vaia (2012) Sex and the City: In the ambivalent playground of postmodern identity. Journal of International Communication 18(1): 5-17.
• Carpentier, Nico, & Doudaki, Vaia (2012) Community Media for Reconciliation. A Cypriot case study. Communication, Culture and Critique [accepted for publication].
• Milioni, Dimitra L., Doudaki, Vaia, & Demertzis, Nicolas (2012) Youth, ethnicity and a ‘reverse digital divide’: a study of internet use in a divided country. Convergence [accepted for publication].
• Doudaki, Vaia, Spyridou, Lia-Paschalia (2013) “News content online: patterns and norms under convergence dynamics” Submitted to Journalism [under review].
Chapters in edited books (peer-reviewed)
• Doudaki, Vaia (2012) Sex and the City: In the ecliptic of postmodern identity. In Angeliki Gazi (Ed.), Sex and the City: Identity and Quest for Meaning in Post Modern Narrative (pp. 327-360). Athens: Metamesonykties Ekdoseis [in Greek].
• Doudaki, Vaia (2011) Representations of Disease and Threat: The Case of Swine Flu in Greece and in Cyprus. In Lee Baxter and Paula Brăescu (Eds.), Fear within Melting Boundaries. Inter-Disciplinary Press [eBook].
• Doudaki, Vaia (2010) Spurious journalistic culture and hybrid journalistic identities in television. In Ioanna Vovou (Ed.), The world of television: theory, program analysis and Greek reality (pp. 199-227). Athens: Herodotus Publications [in Greek]
• Leandros, Nikos, & Doudaki, Vaia (2009) General interest and specialized newspapers’ business models and their impact on print and online content. In Alan Albarran, Paulo Faustino, & Rogerio Santos (Eds.), The Media as a Driver of the Information Society, (pp. 641-661). Lisbon: Media XXI/Formalpress.
Research chapters in international conference proceedings books (peer-reviewed)
• Leandros, Nikos, Doudaki, Vaia (2007) New and old journalistic practices in the Internet era: opportunities & constraints. In Michalis Meimaris, & Dimitris Gouscos (Eds.), Challenges and Uses of Information and Communication Technologies. Media and information diffusion: towards and open society, Vol. 2, (pp. 58-66). Athens: Gutenberg.
• Doudaki, Vaia (2007) Online versus ‘traditional’ news media: two (or more) different journalisms?. In Nikos Leandros (Ed.), The impact of Internet on the Mass Media in Europe (pp. 363-375). London: Arima.
International conference proceedings (peer-reviewed)
• Doudaki, Vaia (2010) “Digital divides across demographics: The case of Cyprus and the need to broaden the research scope”, proceedings of the Indonesia International Conference on Communication, Jakarta, 22-23 November 2010 (CD-ROM).
• Doudaki, Vaia, Leandros, Nikos, Michailidou, Martha (2009) “Changing value propositions in the online and print editions of Greek national newspapers”, proceedings of the International Conference New Media and Information: Convergences and Divergences, Athens, Greece, 6-9 May (CD-ROM).
International conference papers (peer-reviewed)
• Doudaki, Vaia, & Carpentier, Nico (2011) “Community Media for Peace-building, Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation: A roadmap to develop a bi-community radio station in Cyprus”, paper presented at the 1st Annual conference Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE) (Nicosia, Cyprus, 17-19 November) [unpublished].
Other scientific publications
• Demertzis, Nicolas, Gialamas, Vassilis, Doudaki, Vaia, Kyriakides, Christopher, Lambrinos, Lambros, Milioni, Dimitra L., Panos, Dionysis, Patelis, Korinna, Stylianou, Stelios, & Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas (2010) The Internet in Cyprus 2010: Final Report. Limassol: Cyprus University of Technology. http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/handle/10488/4758
• Doudaki, Vaia, Milioni, Dimitra L., Papa, Venia, Vadratsikas, Konstantinos (2012) Conflict and violence in the news: A literature review. Limassol: Cyprus University of Technology [Deliverable for the research project “Conflict and Violence in Cypriot Television”].
Research
Project Title: Conflict and Violence in Cypriot Television: new journalistic forms and practices for mediating conflict and violence in the Cypriot public sphere
Funding Agency: Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation
Total Grant: € 119,412.50
Grant Period: 2012-2014
Project Leader: Vaia Doudaki
CUT Principal Investigator: Vaia Doudaki & Dimitra Milioni
CUT Co-Investigators: Venia Papa, Constantinos Vadratsikas, Lia-Paschalia Spyridou
Description
The project is funded by the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus and implemented by the Cyprus University of Technology. The project aims at (a) studying the ways and conventions by which conflict and violence is portrayed in Cypriot television news, (b) familiarizing journalists and citizens with an ‘open society’ approach towards conflict and violence and (c) developing new skills and attitudes among journalists regarding the use of the internet for creating participatory forms of journalism and actively engaging the public in public expression and discussion through the media.
Project Title: Media, News and Journalists on the Internet
Funding Agency: Cyprus University of Technology, Start-up grant
Total Grant: € 85,000
Grant Period: 2011-2013
Project Leader: Vaia Doudaki
CUT Principal Investigator: Vaia Doudaki
CUT Co-Investigators: Lia-Paschalia Spyridou, Christos Tzalavras, Angeliki Boubouka
CUT Grant: € 85,000
Description
This research project has a triple focus: on news organizations, on journalists, and on the product of their work, news. Within this research endeavor, the challenges the news organizations are facing and the drastic modifications they are undergoing in the light of convergence dynamics, are studied. At the same time, it is investigated how the tasks, roles, self-perception and professional cultures of journalists are (re)appropriated in the internet era. Thirdly, it is studied how the practices related to this new reality are reflected into the news product. The study, currently performed in Greece, is about to expand to include Cyprus, and involves content analysis and in-depth interviews. Focus groups with news professionals and participant observation within news organizations are also planned for the future.
Project Title: Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS) - Cyprus
Funding Agency: Department of Communication and Internet Studies, CUT
Grant Period: 2012
Project Leader: Thomas Hanitzsch
Website: http://www.worldsofjournalism.org
CUT Principal Investigator: Dimitra Milioni
CUT Co-Investigators: Vaia Doudaki
CUT Grant: € 2,000
Description
WJS (http://www.worldsofjournalism.org) is an international research network founded to study comparatively journalism cultures on a global scale (Director: Prof. Thomas Hanitzsch, University of Munich) and is a joint effort of researchers from more than 80 countries. The project’s main objective is to develop the conceptual and methodological tools to study journalism cultures across countries. The CIS department has joined the network and is currently designing the national study of Cypriot journalists.
Project Title: Foreign Correspondence in Cyprus
Funding Agency: Department of Communication and Internet Studies, CUT
Grant Period: 2012
Project Leader: Vaia Doudaki
CUT Principal Investigator: Vaia Doudaki
CUT Co-Investigators: Dimitra Milioni
CUT Grant: € 3,500
Description
The research project on the foreign correspondents in Cyprus is part of a pan-European study that involves researchers and academics from 35 countries. Being the first of its kind it aims at the mapping of foreign correspondents and their reporting in Europe in terms of human geography, of working conditions, as well as of the factors and forces that affect the news coverage in Europe and for Europe, in a period of rapid and radical changes in the field of journalism.
Project Title: World Internet Project-Cyprus
Funding Agency: Cyprus University of Technology
Grant Period: 2008-2012
Project Leader: Milioni Dimitra
Website: http://worldinternetproject.net/#about
CUT Principal Investigator: Milioni Dimitra
CUT Co-Investigators: Demertzis, Nicolas, Gialamas, Vassilis, Doudaki, Vaia, Kyriakides, Christopher, Lambrinos, Lambros, Milioni, Dimitra L., Panos, Dionysis, Patelis, Korinna, Stylianou, Stelios, & Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas
CUT Grant: € 70,000
Description
WIP-Cyprus is a research project, co-funded by Cyprus University of Technology, part of the World Internet Project. Founded by the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future in the United States in 1999, the WIP (http://worldinternetproject.net/#about), which currently involves 37 countries around the world, explores the impact of the internet on society, on comparative and cross-cultural ground. The Representative WIP in Cyprus is Professor N. Demertzis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
