SHORT BIO
George Pleios Ph.D, was born in Athens Greece. He studied Sociology (BA and MA) in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, at the University of Sofia “Kliment Ohridski”. At the same University, he completed in 1987 his doctoral studies in Sociology of Culture and Mass Media. His doctoral thesis “Cinema as Artistic Communication” was on Sociology of Cinema.
After his military service, he worked as adjunct professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Crete since 1990 – 1993. During 1994 – 1996 he worked as adjunct professor at the Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina and in 1996 he was elected lecturer in the same department (1996 – 2001).
Since 2001 he is Professor at the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since 2003 he is Director of the Laboratory for Social Research in Mass Media.
George Pleios was born and raised in Athens. He studied Sociology and did postgraduate studies (MA and PhD) in Sociology of Culture and Media. He has published 6 monographs, 1 more monograph in collaboration, and has edited/co-edited the publication of 7 books. He has also published 39 chapters in edited books in Greece and internationally, more than 45 articles in Greek and international reviews, while he has presented more than 110 papers at conferences in Greece and several other countries. His works have been published in UK, USA, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and China. He has taught at universities in Hungary, China, Portugal, Turkey, Ukraine, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Malaysia, in joint programs organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Harvard University, as well as at other Greek universities. He has been also participated as Principal Investigator in more than 35 research projects in Greece and overseas and many of them have been presented in scientific reviews and conferences.
Recent publications (2020 – ):
The communication practices of social classes in Greece: social media, streaming platforms and websites (Ιn Greek, in press), From meaning to information. The digital death of art and its social significance (2025), AI and the news. Challenges arisen from the nascent adoption of AIGC in news production (2025), Fascism: concept, contemporary evolution and the contribution of the media (2025), The communicative construction of the refugee crisis (2025), The media coverage of the war in Gaza: Qualitative content analysis of the Greek television stations (2025), From fake news to hate speech and vice versa: The logic of polarization in information society (2025), The communicative practices of social classes in Greece (In English, 2024), Agenda setting and framing during the first wave of coronavirus pandemic: a content analysis of news in Greek media (2024), Fake news and hate speech (2023), Cultural identities (2023), The evolution of technology and fake news (2023), Fake news and the media (2023), Representations of social stereotypes in the media (2023), The 1821 Greek revolution and the origination of the war reporting (2022), From the pandemics COVID -19 to the home-zation of life (2022), New media and the utopia of objectivity (2022), The coverage of the pandemics COVID – 19 by the Greek media (2021), News and ambient journalism (2021), Fake news: the transformation of propaganda in the information society (2021), Agenda setting and Framing in the coronavirus era: A content analysis of the pandemic news in Greek media (2021), From the media to the criminal organization (2021), From politics as a theatre to the politics as a firework (2020), Media ethics and news in Greece during crisis (2020), Representation of women politicians and of gender violence in the Greek media: content analysis of newspapers, portals and TV stations (2020), The virus of truth, the information and the media (2020).
Recent research projects (2020 -):
The coverage of the war in Gaza by the Greek Media (2024), Preventing – RESponding – Supporting – young survivors of GBV: sexual harassment, sexual and cyber-Violence (PRESS), (2024). – PI of the NKUA partner group, The 1821 Greek revolution and the origination of the war reporting (2021), The communication practices of social classes in Greece (2022), Perceptions of Cypriot citizens about COVID-19 (2020 – 2021), Capacity building for women candidates and media stakeholders in public debates in Greece – 831629 — GENDER_PUBLIC DEBATE (2022)– PI of the NKUA partner group, The coverage of the coronavirus health crisis by the Greek media (2020), Trends and differences of fake news during different but consecutive pre-election period: a content analysis of news in television and websites, (2019).
George Pleios is Director of the Laboratory for Social Research in Mass Media of the Department of Communication and Mass Media at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), member of the Coordinating Committee of the Refugee and Migration Studies (RMS) Hub of NKUA, Coordinator of the “Revive” – Jean Monet Erasmus+: The Future of Displaced People under the EU auspices in the n the Post Pandemic Era – Lessons learned and new challenges program and Director of the Coordinating Committee of the English-language Postgraduate Program “Media and refugee/migration flows”. He is a member of Greek and international scientific bodies. From November 2016 to November 2023, he has been member of the Board of the National Radio and Television Council (NRTC) in Greece. During the period 2011 – 2015 he was Vice Chair of Research Network 18 (Sociology of Media) of the European Sociological Association (ESA). During the period 2011 – 2015 and 2017 – 2022 he was Head of the Communication and Media Studies Department at the National University of Athens. He was also a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECMPF) in 2015 – 2017.
He speaks and writes Greek (maternal), English: Very Well, Bulgarian: Very Well, Russian: Fair (mainly read), French: Faire (mainly read)