Dr. Chrysi Dagoula​

Chrysi is an assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She earned her PhD, entitled ‘The Ongoing Structural Transformations of the Digital Public Sphere(s): The Role of Journalism’, in 2017 from the University of Sheffield. Her PhD thesis won an honorable mention for best dissertation in ‘Information, Technology and Politics” in 2018 by APSA (American Political Science Association’s Section on Information Technology and Politics). Her research reflects her broader academic interests on the developments in digital political communication and in digital journalism, and more specifically, on the (conceptual) discussions on the diachronic relationships between journalism and democracy within the public sphere theory. Her educational background includes a BA with distinction in Mass Communication and Media Arts (Journalism) from Queen Margaret University of Edinburgh, a BA in History and Archaeology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and an MA in Journalism and New Media from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.