Education:
PhD, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens;
-MA, Modern and Contemporary Greek History, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens;
-MA in Quality Journalism and New Technologies, Donau-Universität Krems-Danube University Krems (DUK), Vienna, Austria;
-BA, History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Dissertation title:
Invisible Labour and Technology in Digitization Projects in Greece, 2004-2020
Conferences:
– Alexandros Panagopoulos, “Approaches on Technology from a Science and Technology Studies perspective”, 3d Social Media World 2014, Infocom, Athens, 26/6/2014.
– Alexandros Panagopoulos and Aristotle Tympas, “Automated Technology, Invisible Labour: Case Studies from the History of Information and Communication Technologies in Greece”, Third International Conference in Economic and Social History, Labour History: Production, markets, relations, policies (from the late Middle Ages to the early 21st century), 24-27 May 2017, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
– Alexandros Panagopoulos, “Invisible Labor During the Digitization of the Newspaper Archive of the Greek Parliament Library, 2004-2010”, The Production of Information Technologies, Media Markets, and Labour in the Twentieth Century, Museum der Arbeit, Wiesendamm 3, 22305 Hamburg, Germany, 12-14 April 2018.
– Alexandros Panagopoulos, “Invisible Digitization Labor in the Construction of Digital Society”, Science and Technology in Modern and Contemporary Greek History, 1821- 2021, History of Science and Technology Conference, Athens, 9-10 September 2021.
– Alexandros Panagopoulos, “Invisible Labor During the Digitization of the University of Thessaly’s (Volos, Greece) Graduate Theses and Dissertations”, STS Conference Graz 2022, Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies, Technical University of Graz (TU Graz), Graz, 2-4 May 2022.
– Alexandros Panagopoulos, “Invisible Digitization Labor in the Construction of Digital Society”, Scientific meeting, New Research in Labor History and Sociology of Labor in memory of Giorgos Koukoules, 20/5/2022, Athens.
– Alexandros Panagopoulos, “Visible digitalization machines, invisible digitalization labour: cases from recent digitalization projects in Greece”, Historical Materialism, STATE IN/AND CRISIS: Theory and Movement in a Dangerous World, Athens, 20-23 April 2023 Panteion University.
– Alexandros Panagopoulos, “Precarious Labour in the construction of Digital Society: the case of Digitalization Projects’ workers in Greece, 2004-2020”, Fifth European Labour History Network Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2024.
Teaching Experience:
-2023 to the present: General High Schools (Ag. Paraskevi, Kifissia, Piraeus) – Secondary Education (History, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek).
-2023, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, Interdepartmental Program of Graduate in Science, Technology, Society — Science and Technology Studies, Fall Semester (Invisible Digitization Labour).
-2014-2018, European Communication Institute-ECI), Graduate Programs “Quality Journalism and New Technologies” (QJNT) and “Content Management and Communication Strategy” (CMCS), Teaching Fellow, (Science and Technology Studies (STS) and New Media, Introduction to Science and Technology Studies).