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In this examination of Greek press, radio and television, authors Zaharopoulos and Paraschos describe media which have been tremendously politicized, partisan, and dominated by foreign programming. As the political and economic face of Greece and Europe changes, the Greek media has been thrown into anarchy. ... Read more

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The main premise of the book is that economic, cultural, political and institutional factors are necessary to fully understand and analyze national media policy developments and impacts, such as deregulation and/or privatization, government and judiciary oversight, media concentration, cultural imperialism, and even profitability. One of its main objectives is to assess the impact of core political and social institutions on regulatory structures and performance in order to derive some generalizations and/or conclusions about the reasons behind some of the developments in European audiovisual policymaking, as well as the performance of regulation in different national settings. Greece is used as a case study to both illustrate how different economic, cultural, political and institutional forces interact and affect each other in reshaping the audiovisual industry, and also address the gap in the literature regarding the development of the TV industry in small European countries. In confronts these developments as an integral part of deregulatory developments all over Europe. ... Read more

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Great in all aspects
Well Karamanis has done a great job. First, I could not find any book or paper that had so much information concerning the development of the TV industry in small European countries, as to be aided with my own research.

Second, although the book is concentrated on the Greek case, it is not difficult to follow Karamanis' example as to draw useful conclusions on a larger scale, especially considering the impact of deregulatory developments all over Europe on TV developments.

The book certainly fills a gap in the international media policy literature, and above all provides an extremely helpful insight in understanding national media policy developments and impacts.

A gap filled, by Demetris Kamaras, City University (London)
'The Role of Culture and Political Institutions in Media Policy' by Theomary Karamanis has added a golden brick on the wall of international media policy literature.

Karamanis argues that economic, cultural, political and institutional factors are necessary to fully understand and analyze national media policy developments and impacts. Greece is used as a case study to illustrate how different economic, cultural, political and institutional forces interact and affect each other in reshaping the audiovisual industry. Although initially the Greek example may sound quite specific for the global audience, the book earns its significance since it fills a long standing gap in the literature. It offers a well documented insight as regards the development of the TV industry in small European countries, confronting these developments as an integral part of deregulatory developments all over Europe.

The book definitely draws new frontiers for the Greek media literature, which in the past has examined media policy primarily through a narrow sectoral prism. Considering the generally limited English-written, in-depth research of the Greek media scene, editions of this sort are valuable pieces of knowledge for those interested in policy matters of the evolving media industry. It critically covers a landmark period of the Greek media industry, which was characterized by the liberalization of television, the growth of the private market and the formation of an unstable regulatory regime that characterized all further developments. The author analyses the broadcasting and regulatory context in Greece and provides a detailed analysis 'of how broadcasting policies were made in the country, by whom, and to whose interests.'

'The role of culture and political institutions in Media Policy' constitutes essential reading for all involved in media education. The book not only acknowledges the increasingly difficulty of media regulation and policy to deal with complex issues in the era of globalization and commercialism, but goes a step further, by stressing the importance of culture as a set of 'informal but broadly accepted norms that constrain the actions of individuals or institutions'. Truly, in the present era, culture should be seen as one of the most important factors that influence media developments not only at local but also at international level.

I surely subscribe to the concluding paragraph of Karamanis, who argues that 'media policy in the future will need more than ever to be informed by imaginative and independent research, in which the old models of analysis are superceded in favor of economic, cultural, political and institutional factors on media developments'. And indeed Karamanis does just that. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2006, held in Athens, Greece in December 2006.

The 17 revised full papers presented together with a invited keynote paper were carefully reviewd and selected from 68 submissions. SAMT 2006 targets to narrow the `Semantic Gap', i.e. the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media. The papers address a wide area of integrative research on new knowledge-based forms of digital media systems, semantics and low-level multimedia processing.

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"Perseus" is a multimedia interactive library that aims to revolutionize the study of ancient Greek civilization. The database of text and images, published on CD-ROM and Videodisc, is designed to provide a solid introduction to Greek antiquity for students as well as advanced tools and resources for specialist researchers. "Perseus" includes an overview of fifth-century BC Greek history, works in Greek and in translation by ten authors from the archaic and classical periods, and a collection of short articles and glossary entries on topics in "Perseus" including geographic regions, architectural terms, and vase shapes. Among its thousands of illustrations are interactive maps of Greece annotated with place names, views - both still shots and motion pictures - of sites and scenes throughout Greece, and a catalogue of several hundred objects of Greek art, illustrated in colour. "Perseus" is distributed in Hypercard 2.1 and runs on Macintosh computers. The minimal configuration is a Mac Classic with a hard disk, 2Mb of RAM, and an Apple-compatible CD-ROM player.The optimal, which allows the use of digital images, is a Macintosh LC or better with a hard disk, at least 4Mb of RAM, a colour monitor and 8-bit graphics board, and an Apple-compatible CD-ROM player. A videodisc player and video monitor can be used with either of these configurations to take advantae of the full-colour still and motion images on the videodisc. ... Read more

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Chapters: Cinema of Greece, Greek Journalists, Greek Magazines, Greek Radio, Media in the Achaea Prefecture, Newspapers Published in Greece, Television in Greece, Constantine P. Cavafy, Chrysi Avyi, Georgios Karatzaferis, Pc Magazine, Rosita Sokou, Rigas Feraios, List of Newspapers in Greece, List of Greek Submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, George Tsimbidaros-Fteris, Taki Theodoracopulos, Tasos Telloglou, Eleftherotypia, Nikos Dimou, House ... Read more

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Media sport constitutes a significant arena within which discourses about national identities are continually articulated. This monograph analyses the football commentaries of the matches in which the Greece national football team competed during Euro 2004. Its focus is on the discursive means that the sportscasters deployed with a view to constructing a national identity that promoted unification and solidarity amongst the audience. In parallel, it explores how the representatives of this national collectivity, i.e. the footballers, their coach and the fans, were depicted. Adopting a discourse-historical framework (Reisigl and Wodak 2001; Wodak et al. 1999), it becomes evident that the sportscasters show great support for their home team forging points of identification with the audience. In doing so, they confirm the ideological power that media sport has in generating, reinforcing and disseminating national identities. The study will especially benefit students, instructors and researchers in discourse analysis, media studies, and sports sociology. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1869.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1902 edition by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London. ... Read more

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The Best History of Ancient Greece, Complete Through Alexander
This book was used in the early 80s as the textbook for my Hellenistic States I and II classes in college. It is not a textbook in the manner of having Q&A and other study related stuff embedded at the end of every chapter. It reads very well and is provided with maps and illustrations - in black and white. My instructor for this class who was quite exceptional, regarded Bury as the best possible single volume (here is split into two smaller volumes) history that encompasses such a large section of the Greek word. I agree with him.

The book starts from archeological finds from the Bronze Age and the early Minoan period which was based on the island of Crete. This first section is very archeological in detailing pottery and other finds - that's all they have. The Mycenaean period follows and its subsequent destruction by the sea raiders and other invasions of the Greek mainland. The relationships between Greece and the Lydian kingdom in Asia Minor with the Phoenicians and others are well told detailing both trade and political developments.

The growth and expansion of Athens, Sparta and other Greek states are also very well treated. The book is very good at describing the establishment of the democracy and legal system in Athens and a very different system in Sparta complete with its dual kings and the unique Ephors that are elected and have a power that includes being able to remove a Spartan king. The recent book by Donald Kagan on the subject of the Peloponnesian War does not cover these important details and hence a reader can get lost in his narrative, unless of course they have read Bury or have a basic understanding of the how the ancient Greeks lived.

As the prototype of our form of democracy the history of the Greece states remains important today as when the founding fathers of the United States used the lessons they learned from Greece and applied them to the formation of the American democracy.

Major areas covered in the book include the advance and later defeat of the Persians when they attempted to conquer Greece, the rise and fall of the Athenian Empire in the Peloponnesian War, the hegemony of Sparta and then of Thebes and then a very good section on the rise of Macedon under Philip and then the Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire. This covers a great period of history instilling a great amount of information without being a laborious exercise. The writing style is very good and the illustrations are also excellent. ... Read more

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Sian Lewis explores the role of news and information in shaping Greek society from the sixth to the fourth centuries, b.c. Applying ideas from the study of modern media to her analysis of the functions of gossip, travel, messengers, inscriptions, and institutions in the polis, she demonstrates that news was a vital concern for the ancient Greeks. Specifically, the acquisition and exchange of information played a key role in determining status and power.

Proceeding from a discussion of individual citizens involved in the exchange of news to an account of more complex forms of communication organized by the polis, Lewis traces the role of what we call news in a culture that was primarily oral. She contrasts the informal exchanges that occurred among travelers and merchants with the official announcements made by heralds and envoys. She also analyzes the motives behind such official announcements and the ways in which the authorities exerted control over the flow of information. Finally, she reconsiders the role of the political assembly and the origins of the public inscription, which has until now been assumed to have been the primary source of news for Greek citizens.

Not for sale in the British Commonwealth except Canada or in Europe ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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"Perseus" is a multimedia interactive library that aims to revolutionize the study of ancient Greek civilization. The database of text and images, published on CD-ROM and Videodisc, is designed to provide a solid introduction to Greek antiquity for students as well as advanced tools and resources for specialist researchers. "Perseus" includes an overview of fifth-century BC Greek history, works in Greek and in translation by ten authors from the archaic and classical periods, and a collection of short articles and glossary entries on topics in "Perseus" including geographic regions, architectural terms, and vase shapes. Among its thousands of illustrations are interactive maps of Greece annotated with place names, views - both still shots and motion pictures - of sites and scenes throughout Greece, and a catalogue of several hundred objects of Greek art, illustrated in colour. "Perseus" is distributed in Hypercard 2.1 and runs on Macintosh computers. The minimal configuration is a Mac Classic with a hard disk, 2Mb of RAM, and an Apple-compatible CD-ROM player.The optimal, which allows the use of digital images, is a Macintosh LC or better with a hard disk, at least 4Mb of RAM, a colour monitor and 8-bit graphics board, and an Apple-compatible CD-ROM player. A videodisc player and video monitor can be used with either of these configurations to take advantae of the full-colour still and motion images on the videodisc. ... Read more

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A brief, illustrated, overview of the geography, history, customs, beliefs, monuments, day-to-day life, and social structure of ancient Greece, a civilization that flourished for almost 2,000 years. ... Read more

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Ideal for any school or community library collection
What did the inside of an early Greek warship look like? How did Greeks educate their communities, and how did they live? An ideal addition to any school or community library collection, Cath Senker's Everyday Life In Ancient Greece is an informative survey of everyday life and is exceptionally colorful with durable plastic overlays adding color to re-created scenes. ... Read more