[ecrea] Journal of Greek Media & Culture 3.1

Intellect is thrilled to announce that the new issue of Journal of Greek 
Media & Culture (3.1)is now available.


For more information about this issue, please click here 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3284/> or email 
(katy /at/ intellectbooks.com) <mailto:(katy /at/ intellectbooks.com)>.


Articles within this issue include (partial list):


<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23620/>

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts: Metaphors as viruses in discourses on 
the Greek crisis 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23620/>

Authors: Matthew Gumpert

Page Start: 31


During negotiations in February 2015 over the Greek debt crisis, a 
German official was widely quoted referring to the latest Greek offer as 
a ‘Trojan horse’ designed to sabotage the latest bailout package. The 
recent economic debacle and the threat of a ‘Grexit’ from the eurozone 
produced a veritable outbreak of tropes in the classical style: Greece 
is Europe’s ‘Achilles heel’, its collapse a ‘modern Greek tragedy’, its 
prospects for recovery ‘Sisyphean’, etc. What are the effects of these 
classicizing clichés – all of which function, in effect, as Trojan 
horses – on the debate over European unity and identity, past, present 
and future? A closer examination of these hellenotropes suggests that 
they constitute important weapons or antidotes for conceptualizing and, 
by the same token, quarantining Greece as a form of economic, political 
and cultural ruin metastasizing within the European body politic. But 
the effort to ward off the virus of the Greek ruin only helps transmit 
it. What finally underlies Europe’s resentment of Greece is the anxiety 
produced by the metaphorical itself: the fear that Greece is either not 
enough or too much like Europe.


Roman-alphabeted Greek and transliteration in the digital language 
practices of Greek secondary school pupils on Facebook 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23621/>

Authors: Christopher Lees, Periklis Politis and Dimitris Koutsogiannis

Page Start: 53


This article highlights the uses of Roman-alphabeted Greek as observed 
in the language practices of fifteen Greek secondary school pupils on 
their Facebook profiles. We argue that far from the use of Latin 
alphabet posing a threat to the Greek language, as it is often 
described, Roman-alphabeted Greek merely forms part of teenagers’ 
digital communication exchanges. Furthermore, our data point to a clear 
preference for using the Greek script as opposed to the Latin. In many 
instances where the Latin alphabet is used, pupils, albeit with 
gender-related differences, use orthographic transliteration, so as to 
adhere to standard Greek spelling. At the same time, we draw attention 
to an emerging trend in alphabet choice, where other languages are 
transcribed using the Greek script.


Foreign correspondents in Cyprus: Universal roles and contextualized 
practices <https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23622/>

Authors: Vaia Doudaki

Page Start: 73


This study on foreign correspondence in Cyprus explores the profiles and 
professional values of the correspondents working on the island, taking 
into consideration the interplay of forces operative at the level of the 
foreign correspondents’ professional culture, the international media 
environment and the specific context of the country the correspondents 
report from and for. The study shows that the foreign correspondents 
working in Cyprus largely align with their colleagues in other 
countries, as it concerns the self-perception of their main professional 
roles, values and selection criteria. At the same time, these roles, 
values and tasks take on certain special traits, accommodated both in 
the specificities of the foreign correspondent’s job and the Cypriot 
environment. This contextualized examination points to the complexity 
not only of studying but also of defining foreign correspondence in 
ever-changing environments and sheds some light on the ways in which 
news is built as a product of its time and its professional, cultural 
and social milieu.


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