Education:
Ph.D., Political Economy of Online Platform Governance, LERASS, Université de Toulouse 3 France, 2023;
M.A., New Media & Digital Culture, Faculty of Humanities, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 2018;
B.A., Communication, Media & Culture, Faculty of International Studies, Communication, and Culture, Panteion University, Greece, 02/2017.
Publications:
-Papaevangelou, C. & van Drunen, M. (under review). Institutionalising platform dependence: The paradox of the European Media Freedom Act.
-Papaevangelou, C., Kutscher, S., Helberger, N., van Dijck, J., & Poell, T. (ahead of print). Shared responsibility, unequal powers: Mapping the limitations of multi-stakeholderism in EU’s digital governance. Journal of Digital Media & Policy.
-Papaevangelou, C., & Siapera, E. (in press). The Politics of Data Colonialism: Amazon and Microsoft’s Entanglement in Greece.
-Papaevangelou, C. (2026). The politics of data colonialism: Amazon and Microsoft’s entanglement in Greece 2.0. In P. Napoli, R. Caplan, & K. Rogerson (Eds.), Handbook of technology, media, & democracy. De Gruyter Brill.
-Papaevangelou, C., & Siapera, E. (2025). State, platform capitalism and infrastructural power: Microsoft’s data centres in Greece 2.0. Platforms & Society, 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251323325.
-Smyrnaios, N., Papaevangelou, C., Tsimpoukis, P. (2024). Anti-vaccination and COVID-19 Scepticism on Greek-speaking Social Media: A Form of Far-right Propaganda. In: Mylonas, Y., Psyllakou, E. (eds.) Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece. Palgrave.
-Papaevangelou, C. & Votta, F. (2025). Trading nuance for scale? Platform observability and content governance under the DSA. Internet Policy Review.
-Helberger, Ν., de Vreese, C., Bouche, G., Braun, A.F. van Drunen, M., Mattis, N., Morosoli, S., Naudts, L., Papaevangelou, C., Seipp, T., Votta, F., Weikmann, T., & Kruschinski, S. (2025). Generative AI and Democracy: Risks and Opportunities. AI, media and democracy.
-Papaevangelou, C. (2024). What can we learn from the agreements between platforms and news publishers in France? Novel Directions in Media Innovation and Funding.
-Smyrnaios, N., Tsimpoukis, P., & Papaevangelou, C. (2024). A cure worse than the disease? The controversy on Twitter around a fake COVID-19 treatment from France. The Greek Review of Social Research, 163, 11–36. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.38490|
-van Drunen, M. Z., Papaevangelou, C., Buijs, D., & Fathaigh, R. Ó. (2023). What can a media privilege look like? Unpacking three versions in the EMFA. Journal of Media Law, 15(2), 152–167. https://doi.org/10.1080/17577632.2023.2299097.
-Papaevangelou, C. (2023). The role of citizens in platform governance: A case study on public consultations regarding online content regulation in the European Union. Global Media and China, 8(1), 39-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364221150142.
-Papaevangelou, C., & Smyrnaios, N. (2023). Regulating dependency: The political stakes of online platforms’ deals with French publishers. Anàlisi, 68, 117–134. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/analisi.3546.
-Papaevangelou, C. (2023). Funding Intermediaries: Google and Facebook’s Strategy to Capture Journalism. Digital Journalism, 12(2), 234–255. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2155206.
-Papaevangelou, C. (2023). ‘The non-interference principle’: Debating online platforms’ treatment of editorial content in the European Union’s Digital Services Act. European Journal of Communication, 38(5), 466-483.
-de-Lima-Santos, M., Munoriyarwa, A., Elega, A., & Papaevangelou, C. (2023). Google News Initiative’s Influence on Technological Media Innovation in Africa and the Middle East. Media and Communication, 11(2), 330-343.
-Papaevangelou, C., Smyrnaios, N. (2022). The Case of a Facebook Content Moderation Debacle in Greece. In: Iordanidou, S., Jebril, N., Takas, E. (eds) Journalism and Digital Content in Emerging Media Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
-Papaevangelou C. The existential stakes of platform governance: a critical literature review [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]. Open Res Europe 2021, 1:31.
Conferences:
-Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene, Oxford, 18/03/2026.
-Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR2025), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15/10/2025 – 18/10/2025.
-ECREA “Communication Law and Policy” Conference 2025, 18/09/2025 – 19/09/2025.
-ACM Fairness, Transparency and Accountability, Athens, 23/06/2025 – 27/06/2025.
-AlgoSoc International Conference 2025, Amsterdam, 10/04/2025 – 11/04/2025.
-Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR2024), Sheffield, 30/10/2024 – 02/11/2024.
-International Journalism Conference 2024, Perugia, 20/04/2024.
-European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA2024), Ljubljana, 30/11/2023.
-Digital Services Act Conference, Amsterdam, 30/11/2023.
-Summer School in European Platform Regulation, Amsterdam, 03/07/2023 – 07/07/2023.
-International Communication Association (ICA2023), Toronto, 30/11/2022.
-Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR2022), Dublin, 30/11/2021.
-International Communication Association (ICA2022), Paris, 30/11/2021.
-Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR2021), 30/11/2020.
Teaching Experience:
-Digital Methods in MSc Cyberpsychology, National University of Athens, 30/09/2025 – 31/10/2025.
-Advanced LLM Technology Governance (UvA), 2024 – Present.
Co-coordinator for the course: Critical Perspectives on AI Governance.
-Platforms and the News Industry, Law faculty at Sciences Po, Paris, 2023 – 2024.
-Digital Methods for Communication and Media Studies, 2022 – 2023.
Gave lectures on the topic of digital methods to:
• MSc Cyberpsychology Students of the NUA
• LERASS researchers (Toulouse)
• Sophomore Students of French-Greek High-School “Eugène Delacroix” on Social Media & Politics
-Political Economy of Streaming, Media Studies at Panteion University, 2021.