Forskning
My research is defined by critical perspectives on popular culture, with a special focus on television fiction, reality TV, animation, and cultural journalism. My current research interests revolve around television geographies, representations of mobilities, as well as questions of (un)ethical entertainment. I have authored a number of articles and book chapters which have been published in international peer-reviewed journals and edited anthologies, addressing diverse topics, such as labor pedagogies, feminist/queer nostalgia, noir television, the production context of commercial television, and representations of societal crises, among others.
My doctoral dissertation entitled 鈥楾he private life of a nation in crisis: A study on the politics in/of Greek television fiction鈥 offered in-depth studies of the fictional reconstruction and negotiation of moments of heightened societal tension in Greek television fiction since 1989 and highlighted the importance of studying 鈥渋ntrovert鈥 television cultures. It was nominated for the award of best dissertation within Media and Communication Studies by the Swedish Association for Media and Communication Research (FSMK).
I currently serve as a substitute member of the management team of the Centre for Geomedia Studies at 果冻传媒. In the past I have served as Managing Editor for .
Biografi
Originally from Greece, I moved to Sweden in 2013 to start my PhD at the University of Gothenburg. Before that, I completed a MA in Film & Television Studies at the University of Glasgow and an MLitt in Literary & Cultural Studies at the University of Groningen. After I defended my PhD thesis, I worked as a Lecturer at Gothenburg University, 脰rebro University, Stockholm University and J枚nk枚ping University. I got a position as Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at 果冻传媒 in February 2022.
Utvalda publikationer
PhD Thesis
2018听The private life of a nation in crisis: A study on the politics in/of Greek television fiction, Doctoral dissertation, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, ISBN: 978-91-88212-75-7
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Recent peer-reviewed articles
2024 'Becoming a Netflix nation: Extroversion, exportability, and visibility through a case study of Maestro in Blue', NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies,听13 (1), pp. 242鈥265, https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22812
2021 Aitaki, G. & Carlsson, N. 鈥楩armer Wants a (Swedish) Wife: White mobilities in the reality romance show Bonde s枚ker fru 鈥 Jorden runt鈥, VIEW: Journal of European Television History and Culture, 10 (20), pp. 64鈥82,
2020听鈥業n search of the Greek television author: The social dramas of Manousos Manousakis鈥, Screen, 61 (3), pp. 403鈥422,
2020听鈥Making television fiction in a commercial context: Commercialization, ideology and entertainment in a production study of Greek private television鈥, Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 6 (2), pp. 219鈥240,
2019听鈥Laughing with / at the national self: Greek television satire and the politics of self-disparagement鈥, Social Semiotics, 29 (1), pp. 68鈥82 [Online First, 2017], DOI:
2018听鈥楧omesticating pathogenies, evaluating change: The Eurozone crisis as a 鈥榟ot moment鈥 in Greek television fiction鈥, Media, Culture & Society, 40 (7), pp. 957鈥972 [Online First, 2017], DOI:
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Recent book chapters
2023 Chairetis, S. & Aitaki, G., 鈥楻epackaging the Past: Commodification, Nostalgia and Feminist/Queer Pleasures in Netflix Originals GLOW (2017-2019) and Hollywood (2020)鈥, in C. Adamou and S. Petridis (eds.) Television by Stream: Essays on Marketing, Content and Audience Worldwide, Jefferson: McFarland & Company, pp. 175-191.
2023 Aitaki, G., 鈥楾elevision anniversaries: Private television, collective memory and national television history鈥 [original Greek title: 韦畏位蔚慰蟺蟿喂魏苇蟼 蔚蟺苇蟿蔚喂慰喂: 螜未喂蠅蟿喂魏萎 蟿畏位蔚蠈蟻伪蟽畏, 蟽蠀位位慰纬喂魏萎 渭谓萎渭畏 魏伪喂 蔚胃谓喂魏萎 蟿畏位蔚慰蟺蟿喂魏萎 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪], in V. Vamvakas & G. Paschalidis (eds.) The Box: Images of modern Greece in private television [original Greek title: 韦慰 螝慰蠀蟿委: 螘喂魏蠈谓蔚蟼 蟿畏蟼 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓畏蟼 螘位位维未伪蟼 蟽蟿畏谓 喂未喂蠅蟿喂魏萎 蟿畏位蔚蠈蟻伪蟽畏], Athens: Brainfood, pp. 24-38.
2022听 鈥楬ormone Monsters and Animal Antagonists: Animating Teen Horrors and Promoting Eudaimonia in听Big Mouth听(Netflix, 2017-)鈥, in Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler (eds.) Animal Heroes, Villains and Others: The Narrative Functions of Strange and Familiar Creatures in Film and Television, Lanham, MA: Lexington Books
2022听听Aitaki, G. & Chairetis, S., 鈥楪reek Sleuths and Tough Cops: Noir Masculinities in Television Crime Shows (1992-2020)鈥, in Anna Poupou, Nikitas Fessas, and Maria Chalkou (eds.), A Darker Greece: Film Noir and Greek Cinema, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
2021听Aitaki, G., Papadimitriou, L., and Tzioumakis, Y., 鈥楲ocating and Localizing Media Industry Studies: The Case of Greece鈥, in Paul McDonald (ed.), Routledge Companion to Media Industries, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 107-116.
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Recent conference papers
2023 On the importance of becoming a 鈥楴etflix nation鈥. Exportabiilty, extroversion and visibility through a case study of 'Maestro in Blue' (MEGA TV/Netflix, 2022-), Locating Media Industries: Cities, Spaces, Places, London, UK, 19-21 June 2023.
2023听鈥淚 have fire and they have water鈥. Mediating the (love) migrant experience in Scandinavian romance-based reality TV, Media Imaginaries, Lund, 16 March, 2023.
2022 听Everybody Hurts? Race, Class and Mediated Suffering in Reality TV Show Sweatshop: Dead Cheap Fashion (with Vladimir Cotal San Martin). ECREA 鈥 9th European Communication Conference 鈥楻ethink听Impact鈥, Aarhus, October 2022.
2019 Television revivals: On recycling and reusing television fiction in Europe. ECREA Television Studies Section Conference 鈥楾he Youthification of Television in the age of Screen Culture鈥, Groningen, 24-25 October, 2019.
2017 Private television through the eyes of its storytellers: Production logic and ideologies in Greek television fiction. 67th International Communication Association (ICA) conference. San Diego, 20-25 May 2017.