Dr. Athina Karatzogianni

Contact details

athina karatzogianni

Senior Lecturer in New Media and Political Communication

 

Department of Social Sciences

Room 224, Wilberforce Building

University of Hull

Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX

Tel: +44 (0) 1482 46 6083

Emails: a.karatzogianni@hull.ac.uk / athina.k@gmail.com

 

Profile

Dr Athina Karatzogianni holds a PhD in Politics from Nottingham, an MA in International Conflict Analysis from Kent, and a BA in International Relations with Politics from Lancaster. Athina is one of the earliest UK researchers on digital developments and their impact on media, politics and society and has carved a niche within the areas of new media theory and global politics, for the study of cyber conflict and the use of digital technologies by social movements, protest, and insurgency groups (including the Iraq war protests, Chinese cyber-dissidents, WikiLeaks, and the social media enabled uprisings in the Middle East).

 

External Funding

Principal Investigator for the European FP7 MIG@NET Project ‘Transnational Digital Networks, Migration and Gender’, which commenced 1st March 2010, Study: ‘Internet Conflict in Online Diaspora Networks’ (138K Euro) and is now near completion

Selected Publications

Books

·         (ed.) (2012) Violence and War in the Media: Five Disciplinary Lenses, (Media, War and Security Series) London and New York: Routledge. In Print. 280 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0415665230.


·         (eds) (2012) Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change, co-edited with Adi Kuntsman, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. In Print. 272 pages. ISBN-9780230296589.

·         (2010) Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World co-authored with Andrew Robinson, Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics, Routledge: London and New York. In Print. 324 pages. Contribution 50% ISBN-10: 0415452988.

·         (2009) Cyber Conflict and Global Politics, edited for Routledge Contemporary Security Studies, Routledge: London and New York. In Print. 246 pages. Also released as paperback 2010. ISBN-10: 0415459702.

·         (2006) The Politics of Cyberconflict, Routledge Research on Internet and Society, Routledge: London and New York. In Print. 242 pages. Also released as paperback 2008. ISBN-10: 0415396840.

 

Forthcoming Book

·         The Real, The Virtual, and the Imaginary State: Cyberconflict in Small and Unrecognised States, Media and Cultural Studies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.

 

 

Articles

·         ‘Blame it on the Russians: Tracking the Portrayal of Russians During Cyber Conflict Incidents’, Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media, November 2010, issue 4, pp. 127-150. ISSN 2040-462X

·         ‘The Thorny Triangle: Cyber Conflict, Business and the Sino-American Relationship in the World-System’, e-International Relations, March 10 2010. Online available at: http://www.e-ir.info/?p=3420

·         'Cyberconflict at the Edge of Chaos: Cryptohierarchies and Self-organization in the Open Source Movement' co-authored with G. Michaelides, in P Moore and A. Karatzogianni, (eds) Parallel Visions of P2P production: Governance, Organization and the New Economies, Special issue, Capital and Class, January 2009, Issue 97 pp.143-159. ISSN 03098168.

·         ‘With or Without You: U.S. Foreign Policy, Hegemony, Domination and Rhizomes of Resistance’ co-authored with A. Robinson, International Relations: Student Perspectives, September 2009, pp. 7-25.

·         ‘Broadening the New Security Agenda’, Journal of Cyber Conflict Studies, inaugural issue, 2006 www.cyberconflict.org/pdf/CCSAJournal.pdf

·         ‘The Politics of Cyberconflict’, Journal of Politics, Blackwell, February 2004, vol. 24 (1), pp.46-55. ISSN 0022-3816.

·         ‘The Impact of the Internet during the Iraq war on the peace movement, war coverage and war-related cyberattacks’, Cultural Technology and Policy Journal, inaugural issue, 2004. Also serialized by the author in Greek in for the high-circulation weekly political magazine Politika Themata, Athens, during December 2005, issues 1492-6.

 

Editorial Work in Journal

·         Parallel Visions of P2P production: Governance, Organization and the New Economies, Special issue, co-edited with P. Moore, Capital and Class, Spring 2009, issue 97, pages 186, ISSN 03098168.

 

Chapters in Books

·         (2012) ‘Cyberconflict and the Future of Warfare’, Ashgate Research Companion to War edited by Hall Gardner and Oleg Kobtzeff, ISBN: 978-0-7546-7826-7.

·         (2012) ‘Ancient Athens as a Model of Hegemonic Decline’, Ashgate Research Companion to War edited by Hall Gardner and Oleg Kobtzeff.

·         (2012) ‘WikiLeaks Affects: Ideology, Conflict and the Revolutionary Virtual’ in Karatzogianni, A and Kuntsman, A. (eds.) Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. In Print. pp. 52-73.

·         (2012) ‘Epilogue: The Politics of the Affective Digital’ in Karatzogianni, A and Kuntsman, A. (eds.) Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. In Print. pp. 245-9

·         (2012) ‘Introduction: Violence and War in Culture and the Media through Five Disciplinary Lenses’ in Karatzogianni, A. (ed.) Violence and War in Culture and the Media, London and New York: Routledge. In Print. pp. 1-11.

·         (2012) ‘Blame it on the Russians: Tracking the Portrayal of Russians During Cyber conflict Incidents’ [republished] in Karatzogianni, A. (ed.) Violence and War in Culture and the Media, London and New York: Routledge. In Print. pp. 221-246.

·         (2009) 'Introduction: New media and the Reconfiguration of Power in Global Politics', in Karatzogianni, A: (ed.) Cyber Conflict and Global Politics, Contemporary Security Studies, Routledge: London and New York. In Print. pp. 1-11.

·         (2009) 'How small are small numbers in cyberspace? Small, virtual, wannabe “states”, minorities and their cyber conflicts’ in Karatzogianni, A: (ed.) Cyber Conflict and Global Politics, Contemporary Security Studies, Routledge: London and New York. In Print. pp. 128-146.

·         (2009) ‘Confronting internal and external problems of cross- inter- and multi-disciplinarity: Researching cyber conflict and global politics’ in Karanika, M and Wiesemans, R (eds) Exploring Avenues to Cross-Disciplinary Research, Nottingham University Press. In Print. pp. 179-191.

 

Engagement

  • (3 February 2010) Interview at Andy Comfort’s Breakfast Show, BBC Radio Humberside [advertising the Virt3c conference and talking about the China vs Google situation].
  • (2 August 2007) 'The wars raging in cyberspace' Eleftherotypia [national Greek newspaper] http://www.enet.gr/

Teaching/Supervision

  • Media Movements and Radical Politics
  • Reporting the War and Security post 9/11
  • Media Convergence: Political Economy and Social Networking
  • Cyberculture and its Discontents
  • Media Theory, Analysis and Research Techniques

 

PhD Supervision

Voula Kalogeras: ‘Transmedia Storytelling: Internet Content and Cultural Media Marketing’, completed.

Nik Rahman: ‘E-Health Services and Propinquity in Malaysia’ at viva stage. This PhD is sponsored by the Health Ministry in Malaysia.

Dennis Nguyen: ‘Europe 2.0: Transnational Sphere or Isolated Web Spaces?’ Dennis was awarded one of twenty scholarships offered by the University of Hull. First year.

Elisa Serafinelli: ‘Digital Photography, Memory and Affect’. First Year.

Administration