Researchers
Kostas Gemenis
Associate Professor
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Assistant Professor of Politics and the Internet in the Department of Communication and Internet Studies. PhD. degree in Politics and International Relations from Keele University, UK. Published in various journals such as Political Communication, Communication Methods and Measures, Electoral Studies. Co-designed a module to study conspiracy theories related to the COVID-19 pandemic for the 10th Round of the European Social Survey (ESS).
Research interests:
Voting Advice Applications, Political Communication, Quantitative Text Analysis, Social Media and Conspiracy Beliefs
Nikandros Ioannides
PhD Student
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PhD student at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona under the supervision of Professor Toni Rodon. He holds a master’s degree in Democracy and Comparative Politics from University College London (UCL) and a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Internet Studies from the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)
Research interests:
Contemporary Democracies, Party Politics, Political Participation, Voter-Party Congruence, Public Opinion
PhD student at at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, at the Cyprus University of Technology under the supervision of Assistan Professor Constantinos Tziouvas. His research focuses on developing new techniques and systems for analyzing online discourse.
Research interests:
PhD student at at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, at the Cyprus University of Technology under the supervision of Assistan Professor Constantinos Tziouvas. His research focuses on developing new techniques and systems for analyzing online discourse.
Nelly Sergidou
PhD Student
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PhD student at the Cyprus University of Technology under the supervision of associate professor Vasiliki Triga. Her research focuses on news media and social media agenda in the context of referendum campaigns. She has been involved in European projects and Horizon projects, gaining experience in the investigation of how European societies deal with their troubled pasts nowadays through the analysis of conflict discourses rooted in those pasts, with a view on the impact of those discourses on European integration.
Research interests:
News Media and Social Media, Referendum campaigns and Electoral campaigns