Chrysi Dagoula
Assistant Professor of International Media and Communications Studies, Faculty of Arts
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Biography
Department of Culture, Media and Visual Studies (CMVS)
- Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research (PGR)
- Course Convener for MA in International Media & Communications
- Deputy Convener of Knowledge Exchange & Impact Cluster on 'Creating Critical Public Cultures'
School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies (CLAS)
Dr Chrysi Dagoula joined the Department in 2023 as Assistant Professor of International Media and Communications Studies. Prior to joining the University of Nottingham she worked as an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands (2018-2022). Chrysi has a PhD from the University of Sheffield, School of Journalism, Media and Communication (2017). Her thesis entitled 'The Ongoing Structural Transformations of the Digital Public Sphere(s): The Role of Journalism' was awarded with honorable mention for best dissertation in 'Information, Technology and Politics" in 2018 by the American Political Science Association (APSA).
Expertise Summary
Chrysi's broader academic research interests concern the developments in digital, social and political communication and in journalism.
More specially her research focuses on two principal strands:
- technologies and platforms as cause for social and/or political change; and the effects of digital and social media on journalists and media actors
- political communication and messaging in explicitly non-political cultural settings
Teaching Summary
Chrysi teaches modules on media, journalism, technology and political communication at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is currently course convener for the MA in International Media… read more
Research Summary
Chrysi's latest book News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation (2023, Routledge) uses a sociological approach and the theory of punctuated equilibrium to understand how… read more
Chrysi teaches modules on media, journalism, technology and political communication at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is currently course convener for the MA in International Media and Communication Studies. Chrysi is also Deputy Director of the Innovative Pedagogies Centre where she leads the working group on curriculum design.
Supervision (PhD, PGT, UG)
Chrysi is interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas:
- Media and journalism
- Political communication
- Digital media, social media and communication technologies
More information about our Media and Communication PhD as well as about the application process can be found here
Currently, Chrysi is supervising the following students:
- Delilah Kealy-Roberts, Femicide in the UK (2013-2023): An Intersectional Analysis of Thematic and Episodic Media Framing (AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD Studentship)
She is also supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students for the modules:
- CULT3024, Dissertation (UG)
- CULT4061, Cultural, Media and Visual Studies Dissertation (PGT)
Teaching (PGT, UG)
This academic year (2024/25 ) Chrysi is teaching and convening the following modules:
- CULT2023, New Media and Digital Culture (Autumn 2024)
- CULT4045, Issues and Challenges in Contemporary Media (Autumn 2024)
- CULT1015 / CULT1021, Communication and Technology (Spring 2025)
Past modules:
- CULT1009 / CULT1018, Media and Society (Autumn 2023)
- CULT2023, New Media and Digital Culture (Autumn 2023)
- CULT1015 / CULT1021, Communication and Technology (Spring 2024)
- CULT4019, Cultural Policy (Spring 2023)
- CULT2023, New Media and Digital Culture (Spring 2023)
Current Research
Chrysi's latest book News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation (2023, Routledge) uses a sociological approach and the theory of punctuated equilibrium to understand how social change in communication technologies occurs, how it affects journalism (at an institutional and individual level), and how journalism responds. On a theoretical level, the book draws on a large pool of interdisciplinary work in media, journalism, politics and sociology. On an empirical level, it relies on a mixed methods approach that combines research interviews and an evolutionary account that analyses how journalists' use of Twitter has changed over the 2009-2021 period.
Past Research
Chrysi is the co-editor of the volume '6+1 Proposals for Journalism: Safeguarding the Field in the Digital Era' (2022, Intellect Books), an edited collection that discusses and recommends solutions to challenges facing journalism in the digital age. It draws attention to seven key factors that not only highlight the present crisis in journalism, but also indicate the steps we need to take to safeguard and enhance trustworthy journalism for the future.
She has also contributed to the 'Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship' - chapter entitled: "Should I stay (on X) or should I go?" Three causes of journalistic self-censorship on X' (2023), and to the edited volume 'Journalism and Digital Content in Emerging Media Markets' with a chapter on 'The influence of social media on Greek news journalism: A case study of the use of Twitter by Greek News Journalists' (2022).
Other peer-reviewed work includes an explanatory step-by-step guide on how to conduct research on Twitter ('Researching Twitter: A large-scale mixed methods project to study how journalists use Twitter during elections') published at SAGE Research Methods Case Studies: Doing Research Online, and a co-authored large-scale report on complaints handling and editorial policies, in collaboration with The Centre for the Freedom of the Media (CFOM) at the University of Sheffield.
Chrysi is also the author of the book 'Mapping the Greek Journalistic Twitter: a theoretical and practical approach' (2019, Metamesonykties, in Greek).
Future Research
Chrysi's ongoing research project is called 'Taking a Political Stance' and aims to understand when and why the U.S. Vogue editorials turned to politics (1892-2022), and what the social and political significance of this is. She has recently published a discussion piece on 'Vogue's stylish relationship to politics' which examines Vogue as a specific type of didactic and cultural icon.