Anastasia Veneti

Dr Anastasia Veneti

  • Associate Professor
  • Weymouth House W423, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

Dr Anastasia Veneti is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communication, at Bournemouth University. Her background is in Political Science and Communication Studies. She holds a BA (Hons) in Politics with Economics (Goldsmiths College, University of London), an MA in Communication Policy Studies (City University), a Higher Diploma in Public Relations (London PR), and a PhD in Political Advertising (University of Athens). She is the winner of the Best Paper prize and the Best Paper in the Critical Marketing Track by the Academy of Marketing for her co-authored research on the use of visual branding techniques by the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. Her research focuses in the area of politics and media. Before joining Bournemouth University, she has worked as academic staff at other educational institutions in the UK (University of Leicester) and in Greece. Her working experience includes work as a market research analyst for renowned Greek market research companies (Kappa Research, MRB S.A., QED Hellas, aboutpeople), as a communication consultant in various political campaigns, NGOs, and the Hellenic Parliament...

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Research

Anastasia’s research lays at the intersection of media and politics. She has conducted research on political communication including political advertising, political campaigns, the use of SNS and digital applications (Twitter and selfies) by politicians and political parties. Her research also includes projects on protests and social movements. Her most recent work in this area involves the examination of the media framing of protests and social movements from the Indignados to the Hong Kong Umbrella movement, as well as the exploration of the broader relationship between protesters and activists and the different forms of art that are used as outlets for political expression. Anastasia’s research has a strong focus on the visual aspects of political communication. Her most recent work examines the production, publication and circulation of protest imagery drawing on empirical data from in depth interviews with photojournalists. Anastasia is the co-editor of ‘The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece: Journalism and Political Communication in Times of Crisis’ (Emerald, 2020), the ‘Visual Political Communication’ (Palgrave, 2019), and author of the ‘Political Advertisement and Behaviour: Information or manipulation of the citizen’ (Nisos, 2009). She has published in various edited volumes and academic journals such as Journalism; Social Media & Society; Visual Communication.

Anastasias welcomes applications from PhD students interested in the following areas:

• Social movements, political activism and media technologies • Social movements, activists and the use of art • Media framing of political issues and protests • Photojournalism and protest • Political communication and digital media • Other topics in Political communication.

Journal Articles

Books

Chapters

  • Veneti, A., Nakou, P., 2024. The role of the government spokesperson in Greece. In: Theofilou, A., Topic, M., eds. Histories of Political Public Relations. From Propaganda to Public Health. London: Routledge.
  • Veneti, A., 2024. Depictions of emotions in news media’s visual framing of small-scale protests in Greece. In: Souvlis, G., Karatzogianni, A., eds. Duty to Revolt: Transnational and Commemorative Aspects of Revolution. Bingley: Emerald, 203-215.
  • Poulakidakos, S., Veneti, A., 2024. Communication practices, new media technologies, and anarchist movements The website of the Greek anarchist group Rouvikonas as a “one stop shop”. In: Poulakidakos, S., Veneti, A., Rovisco, M., eds. Social Movements and Everyday Acts of Resistance: Solidarity in a Changing World. UK: Routledge, 125-139.
  • Poulakidakos, S., Veneti, A., Rovisco, M., 2024. Introduction: Social movements and everyday acts of resistance: Solidarity in a changing world. In: Poulakidakos, S., Veneti, A., Rovisco, M., eds. Social Movements and Everyday Acts of Resistance: Solidarity in a Changing World. Routledge, 1-10.
  • Veneti, A., Poulakidakos, S., 2023. The Political Symbolism of Flags in Revolutionary Movements: The case of the 1821 Greek War of Independence. In: Lilleker, D., Veneti, A., eds. Research Handbook on Visual Politics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 359-370.
  • Lilleker, D., Veneti, A., 2023. Introduction to the research handbook on visual politics. xvii-xxix.
  • Veneti, A., Rovisco, M., 2023. Introduction to Visual Politics in the Global South. Political Campaigning and Communication. 1-26.
  • Alvares, C., Poulakidakos, S., Veneti, A., Coutinho, A., Giannouli, I., Armenakis, A., 2022. Campaigning for Europe ‘After’ the Economic ‘Crisis’: The Cases of Greece and Portugal. In: Novelli, E., Johansson, B., Wring, D., eds. The 2019 European Electoral Campaign In the Time of Populism and Social Media. London: Palgrave, 303-320.
  • Veneti, A., Russmann, U., 2022. Image-as-data and visual methods. In: Ceron, A., eds. Elgar Encyclopaedia of Technology & Politics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 90-94.
  • Veneti, A., Lilleker, D., 2022. Proposing a Three-Dimensional Normative Model for Political Communication. In: Palau-Sampio, D., López García, G., Iannelli, L., eds. Contemporary Politics, Communication, and the Impact on Democracy. IGI GLOBAL, 1-18.
  • Veneti, A., Lilleker, D., 2022. Proposing a Three-Dimensional Normative Model for Political Communication. In: Palau-Sampio, D., López García, G., Iannelli, L., eds. Contemporary Politics, Communication, and the Impact on Democracy. IGI GLOBAL, 1-18.
  • Lilleker, D.G., Jackson, D., Veneti, A., 2021. The UK: The Post-Brexit, Ghost Election. Political Campaigning and Communication. 233-248.
  • Veneti, A., Reilly, P., Lilleker, D.G., 2021. THE IMPORTANCE OF SPACE IN PHOTOJOURNALISTS’ ACCOUNTS OF THE ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTS IN GREECE. Routledge Companion to Political Journalism. 394-403.
  • Veneti, A., Ioannidis, P., 2020. Visual Self-Presentation Strategies of Greek Political Leaders through their YouTube Political Advertisements for the 2019 EU Elections. In: Veneti, A., Karatzogianni, A., eds. The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece: Journalism and Political Communication in Times of Crisis. Bingley: Emerald.
  • Veneti, A., Poulakidakos, S., 2020. Video-activism and small-scale resistance: The Visual Rhetoric of YouTube Videos by the Greek Anarchist Group Rouvikonas. In: Crick, N., eds. The Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media. London: Routledge.
  • Veneti, A., Poulakidakos, S., Rovisco, M., 2020. The online communication strategies of a small-scale social movement: The case of the Greek ‘Do Not Pay’ social movement. In: Karatzogianni, A., Schandorf, M., Ferra, I., eds. Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions: The Longue Durée. Bingley: Emerald.
  • Veneti, A., 2020. A semiotic analysis of the image of the Greek political leaders through the TV political spots during the 2019 General Elections. In: Ioannidis, P., Tsaoussakis, E., eds. The first elections after the Memorandum. Athens, Greece: Papazisis, 103-110.
  • Veneti, A., 2020. Μια Σύντομη Σημειολογική Προσέγγιση της Σύνθεσης της Εικόνας των Πολιτικών Αρχηγών Μέσα από τις Πολιτικές Διαφημίσεις των Εθνικών Εκλογών 2019. In: Ιωαννίδης, Π., Τσαουσάκης, Η., eds. 2019 Οι πρώτες εκλογές μετά το μνημόνιο. Η ακτινογραφία της ψήφου. Αθήνα: Παπαζήσης, 103-110.
  • Lilleker, D., Veneti, A., Jackson, D., 2019. Introduction: Visual Political Communication. In: Veneti, A., Jackson, D., Lilleker, D., eds. Visual Political Communication. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lilleker, D., 2019. The power of visual political communication: pictorial politics through the lens of communication psychology. In: Veneti, A., Jackson, D., Lilleker, D., eds. Visual Political Communication. Palgrave.
  • Rovisco, M., Veneti, A., Poulakidakos, S., 2018. Anti-austerity Protest and Democratic Vision: The struggle for a new politics – the case of the Greek ‘Do Not Pay’ social movement. In: Axford, B., Buhari-Gulmez, D., Baris Gulmez, S., eds. Bridging Divides: Rethinking Ideology in the Age of Global Discontent. London: Routledge.
  • Veneti, A., Novelli, E., Rafter, K., Poulakidakos, S., Verissimo, I., Alvares, C., Sammut, C., 2017. Representations of the economic crisis and austerity politics. In: Holtz-Bacha, C., Novelli, E., Rafter, K., eds. Political Advertising in the 2014 European Parliament Election. Palgrave McMillan.
  • Poulakidakos, S., Veneti, A., 2016. Political Communication and Twitter in Greece: Jumps on the bandwagon or an enhancement of the political dialogue? In: Deželan, T., Vobic, I., eds. (R)evolutionizing Political Communication through Social Media. USA: IGI Global, 119-146.
  • Veneti, A., Karadimitriou, A., 2016. Political Selfies: Image Events in the New Media Field. In: Karatzogianni, A., Nguyen, D., Serra, A., eds. The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere: Conflict, Migration, Crisis, and Culture in Digital Networks. Palgrave McMillan.
  • Veneti, A., Karadimitriou, A., Poulakidakos, S., 2014. A Postmodernist Reading of Greek Reality TV. In: Marinescu, V., Branea, S., Mitu, B., eds. Contemporary Television Series: Narrative Structures and Audience Perception. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 143-159.
  • Veneti, A., 2014. Virtual Campaigns. In: Harvey, K., eds. Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics. London: Sage, 214-218.
  • Veneti, A., 2014. Berkman Center (Harvard). Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics. London: Sage, 110-112.
  • Veneti, A., 2011. Elections, media and the minorities: A case study of the Greek pre-electoral television coverage of muslim minority candidates for the 2006 Prefectural elections and the 2007 Greek general elections. In: Milios, G., Theologou, K., eds. Human & Social Sciences at the National Technical University. Fruitful Ramifications. Athens: NTUA Press, 277-323.
  • Veneti, A., 2004. The Political Culture of Modern Greece. In: Kodogiorgis, G., Lavdas, K., Mendrinou, M., Chrisohoou, D., eds. 30 Years of Democracy. The Political System of the Third Greek Democracy, 1974-2004. Athens: Kritiki 2004, 119-132.

Conferences

  • Veneti, A., Voutyras, S., Poulakidakos, S., 2025. Performing Populism on TikTok: A Cross-National Analysis of Radical Right Visual Strategies. In: PSA Populism Group :Visualising populist identities: populist performances on screen(s) 02/12/2025 online.
  • Veneti, A., Poulakidakos, S., 2022. Flags as revolutionary symbolism: The case of the 1821 Greek War of Independence. In: International Communication Association 25/05/2022 Paris.
  • Jackson, D., Farkas, X., Bene, M., Russmann, U., Veneti, A., 2021. Strikingly similar: Comparing visual political communication of populist and non-populist parties on Facebook across 28 countries. In: Media and the Illiberal Turn Conference 28/04/2021 Loughborough.
  • Veneti, A., 2021. Keynote: The power of symbols in revolutions. In: Duty to Revolt: Transnational and Commemorative Aspects of Revolution 25/03/2021 Leicester University.
  • Farkas, X., Jackson, D., Bene, M., Veneti, A., 2020. Visuals of the 2019 European Parliamentary Campaign on Party Facebook Pages. In: APSA Annual Conference 08/09/2020 Seattle.
  • Jackson, D., Veneti, A., Lilleker, D., 2020. Between Analogue and Digital: A critical exploration of strategic social media use in Greek election campaigns. In: ECREA Political Communication Section Interim Conference 26/03/2020 Bucharest.
  • Hassler, J., Magin, M., Russmann, U., Jackson, D., Fenoll, V., Larsson, A., Lilleker, D., Veneti, A., Balaban, D., 2020. Really a European Populist Zeitgeist? How populists used Facebook posts and ads for campaigning across 11 countries in the European Election Campaign 2019. In: Workshop on European Elections 2019 30/01/2020 Amsterdam.
  • Jackson, D., Veneti, A., Lilleker, D., 2019. Greek political communication and social media: Stories of order and anarchy”. In: PSA Media and Politics Group Annual Conference 12/12/2019 Leeds.
  • Veneti, A., Poulakidakos, S., Karadimitriou, A., 2014. Operationalising Sen’s Ideas on the Visual Representation of Social Movements by the Media. In: Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) Annual Conference 02/09/2014 Athens.
  • Veneti, A., Poulakidakos, S., Karadimitriou, A., Mitu, B., 2014. Representations of Protest on News Websites: The Paradigm of Greece, Romania, Italy and UK in Comparative Overview. In: Journalism in Transition: Crisis or Opportunity?, European Communication Research and Education Association 28/03/2014 Thessalonica.
  • Poulakidakos, S., Veneti, A., 2012. Propaganda and the presentation of the Memorandum of Understanding in Greek electronic media. In: European Sociological Association’s Research Network 18 18/10/2012 Bilbao.
  • Veneti, A., Poulakidakos, S., 2012. Political discourse and the politics of fear: Do crises increase the fear factor in political discourse? In: 22nd World Congress of Political Science, IPSA 08/07/2012 Madrid.
  • Veneti, A., Theologou, K., 2012. Public Sphere and Media: TV news staged narration and citizens perceptions. In: Public Sphere and Media: TV news staged narration and citizens perceptions 27/04/2012 Prague.
  • Veneti, A., Poulakidakos, S., Theologou, K., 2011. Social Protests through the TV screen: The case of Greek indignados. In: Dubrovnik Media Days 18/11/2011 Dubrovnik.

Reports

Internet Publications

Scholarly Editions

Artefacts

  • Russmann, U., Magin, M., Hassler, J., Baranowski, P., Bene, M., Ceron, A., Farkas, X., Venoll, V., Jackson, D., Kruschinski, S., Larson, A.O., Lilleker, D., Maurer, P., Schlosser, K., Veneti, A., Wurst, A.K., 2021. “Populists” communication on Facebook during the 2019 EP Elections. Brussels.

Others

  • Richards, B., 2017. The psychology of protest. Sheffield, UK: Information School, University of Sheffield. Published online.

PhD Students

  • Hua Li. Democracy in the News: A Comparative Analysis of Newspapers Reporting in Hong Kong and mainland China from 2014 to 2018, (In progress)
  • Sameera Alotaibi. Mega Events and the Construction of Saudi Arabia's Image: Institutional and Media Discourse, (In progress)
  • Omowonuola Wosilat Okunnu, 2024. A Comparative Study of the Interconnectedness of Religion and Politics in Northern and Southern Nigeria: The Role of Literacy Level, (Completed)
  • Michael Sunderland. Exploring the key forces controlling media coverage of humanitarian crises in West and Central Africa, (Completed)
  • Amy Tatum. Female political leadership, (Completed)
  • Thomas Stoeckle, 2024. Motivation, metaphor and manipulation: the framing of public debates and the shaping of public responses through leaders’ speeches during the evolving COVID-19 pandemic

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Social Theory & Political Communication
  • Methods of Inquiry into Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Final Project (Dissertation)

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Digital Politics
  • New Political Communication
  • Applied PR Campaigns
  • Researching Politics
  • Persuasion and Influence
  • Global Capitalism and Its Discontents

Grants

  • Political Communication and the use of social media in Greece (FMC QR, 13 Jul 2018). In Progress

External Responsibilities

Conference Presentations

  • Visual Politics: Political Communication, Visual Culture, and Digital Media, Invited talk on the role of Tik Tok in political comunication and visual populism, 19 Sep 2025, University Roma 3
  • Annual Conference of Media and Politics Group PSA, Comparing visual political communication across European political leaders’ Tik Tok accounts, 08 Jan 2025, University of Birmingham
  • 30th International Conference of Europeanists, Communication practices, new media technologies, and anarchist movements The website of the Greek anarchist group Rouvikonas as a “one stop shop”, 03 Jul 2024, Lyon France
  • ECREA’s Political Communication Section Interim Conference, EU elections 2014 and 2019 in Greece and Italy: From crisis to prosperity and from Euroscepticism to Pro-Europeanism?, 12 Sep 2019, Poznan, Poland
  • Future of Journalism Conference, Alternative voices: The organizational structure of alternative and activist media in Turkey and Greece, 12 Sep 2019, Cardiff
  • IAMCR Conference, Anarchism, Activism and Dissent: An examination of the discourse and visual rhetoric of the Greek anarchist group Rouvikonas, 07 Jul 2019, Madrid-Spain
  • 52nd Academy of Marketing Conference, Tear gas, visual brands and opposition: an exploratory study on the use of visual branding techniques by the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, 02 Jul 2019, Regent's University London
  • ECREA, The symbolic and physical(strategic) importance of space in photojournalism during the photographing of protests in Greece, 31 Oct 2018, Lugano
  • ICA, From autographs to fan-celebrity selfies: A new media genre in the evolving participatory media culture, 24 May 2018, Prague
  • European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Annual Conference, Photographing the ‘Battlefield’: A study of the relationships between photojournalists, police and protesters during the anti-austerity demonstrations in Greece, 06 Sep 2017, Oslo-Norway
  • European Sociological Association (ESA) Annual conference, The struggle for a new politics in a post-ideological world. The case of the ‘We Do Not Pay’social movement in Greece, 29 Aug 2017, Athens-Greece
  • International Communication Association (ICA), Protest Aesthetics: The role of the photojournalist in protest imagery, 24 May 2017, San Diego, California
  • International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference, The selective portrayal of small-scale protests in Greece by mainstream newspapers, 09 Jun 2016, Fukuoka, Japan
  • ICA Annual Conference, The selective portrayal of small-scale protests in Greece by mainstream newspapers, 09 Jun 2016, Fukuoka, Japan
  • MECSSA Anual Conference, Political Communication in Greece: Reflections of the crisis in the elctoral campaigns of the 2014 European elections, 06 Jan 2016, Canterbury
  • MECCSA Annual Conference, Political Communication in Greece: Reflections of the crisis in the elctoral campaigns of the 2014 European elections, 06 Jan 2016, Canterbury,UK
  • Democracy Rising, Protest Phantasmagoria:Greek mainstream media’s selective practices regarding protest imagery, 16 Jul 2015, Law School, Athens, Greece
  • World Conference, Global Center for Advanced Studies ‘Democracy Rising, Protest Phantasmagoria:Greek mainstream media’s selective practices regarding protest imagery, 16 Jul 2015, Athens- Greece
  • International Conference on Protest participation in variable communication ecologies. Meanings, modalities and implications, Medıa Ecology and the Politics of Dissent: Representations of Hong Kong protests in the Guardian and China Daily, 24 Jun 2015, Sardinia
  • PSA 65th Annual International Conference, Social Media in Political Communication: How do Greek political parties use Twitter during the pre-electoral period?, 30 Mar 2015, Sheffield
  • 65th Annual PSA Conference, Social Media in Political Communication: How do Greek political parties use Twitter during the pre-electoral period?, 30 Mar 2015, Sheffield

Qualifications

  • PGCE in Education (Bournemouth University, 2016)
  • PhD in Political Advertising (University of Athens, 2009)
  • Diploma in Public Relations (London School of Public Relations, 2001)
  • MA in Communication Policy Studies (City University, 2001)
  • BA (Hons) in Politics with Economics (Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2000)

Memberships

  • HEA, Fellow (2016-),
  • Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), Member (2014-), https://www.cipr.co.uk/
  • International Association for Media and Communication Research, Member (2014-),
  • Hellenic Political Science Association, Member (2003-),
  • Greek Politics Specialist Group, Member,
  • European Communication Research and Education Association, Member,

Networks

  • Member of the Greek team on the research project EuCamp2019. PI: Prof. Edoardo Novelli (Universita Roma Tre) and Prof. Bengt Johansson (University of Goetheburg, Sweden). The research is conducted by 28 teams of EU member states, analyzing pre-electoral material (TV spots and posters) of the 2019 EU elections. Funded by the European Parliament. https://www.electionsmonitoringcenter.eu/
  • DigiWorld is a scientific collaboration network that builts upon the work of DigiDeMo and CamforS and aims at international comparisons of election campaign strategies in digital communication channels. The long-term goals of DigiWorld include building a continuous research network dealing with digital campaigning, user engagement, and factors influencing it. Building upon the experiences of CamforS, the project further develops innovative tools for analyzing digital campaigns. https://digidemo.
  • Campaigning for Strasbourg (CamforS) is a project conducting a cross-national comparison of campaign mobilization in social media. Building upon a broad expertise in political communication research, CamforS focuses on how traditional and new political actors use social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) to inform, interact with, and mobilize voters, as well as which target audiences they address during the European Election Campaign 2019. https://digidemo.ifkw.lmu.de/camfors/
  • International History of Public Relations

Social Media Links

External Media and Press

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