Education:
-PhD, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, National Kapodistrian University of Athens;
-MSc/MA, Political Communication and New Media, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, National Kapodistrian University of Athens;
-BA/BS, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, National Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Dissertation title:
Neoliberalism and the Greek Media System
Publications:
Books
-Minotakis, A., “Building and sustaining alliances as a crucial strategy for platform resistance and unionisation: The cases of eFood and Wolt in Greece,” in P. Blunt, C. Escobar, & V. Missos (Eds.), The political economy of dissent: A research companion (pp. 305–320), Routledge, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032712185-24
-Pleios, G., Tastsoglou, M., & Minotakis, A., “Communication practices of the social classes in contemporary Greece,” in Y. Mylonas & E. Psyllakou (Eds.), Class, culture, and the media in Greece, Volume 2: Neoliberalism(s), the mainstream, counter-cultures (pp. 49–74), Springer International Publishing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55159-8_3
-Avramidis, C., & Minotakis, A., “The case of ERT and the prospect of radical media in the era of austerity,” in S. Farrell, E. Siapera, & G. Souvlis (Eds.), Radical journalism – resurgence, reform, reaction (pp. 84–101), Routledge, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003221784
-Minotakis, A., “News, facts, data,” in S. Angova (Ed.), Fake news & hate speech – representation of vulnerable social groups in the media (pp. 84–93), ERMIScom Project, 2023.
-Pleios, G., Minotakis, A., & Tastsoglou, M., “Fake news and the media,” in S. Angova (Ed.), Fake news & hate speech – representation of vulnerable social groups in the media (pp. 94–101), ERMIScom Project, 2023.
-Pleios, G., Minotakis, A., & Tastsoglou, M., “The evolution of technology and fake news media,” in S. Angova (Ed.), Fake news & hate speech – representation of vulnerable social groups in the media (pp. 102–107), ERMIScom Project, 2023.
-Pleios, G., Tastsoglou, M., & Minotakis, A., “Cultural identities,” in S. Tsolakidou (Ed.), Vulnerable groups and trauma (pp. 28–40), ERMIScom Project, 2023.
-Tastsoglou, M., & Minotakis, A., “Theorising trauma and its cultural dimension,” in S. Tsolakidou (Ed.), Vulnerable groups and trauma (pp. 41–54), ERMIScom Project, 2023.
-Minotakis, A., & Tastsoglou, M., “Mediatisation of traumas,” in S. Tsolakidou (Ed.), Vulnerable groups and trauma (pp. 55–66), ERMIScom Project, 2023.
-Minotakis, A., “Cultural mediation – mediators and carers,” in S. Tsolakidou (Ed.), Vulnerable groups and trauma (pp. 136–147), ERMIScom Project, 2023.
-Veneti, A., Poulakidakos, S., & Minotakis, A., “Gen Zers in Greece claim their own voice,” in C. Gousis, E. Gaitanou, & C. Petridi (Eds.), Gen Z, politics & social media during the pandemic (pp. 15–68), 2023.
-Minotakis, A., “The things we didn’t know about Gen Z,” in C. Gousis, E. Gaitanou, & C. Petridi (Eds.), Gen Z, politics & social media during the pandemic (pp. 120–146), 2022.
-Minotakis, A., & Avramidis, C., “Digital journalism and the hunt for clicks in the age of fake news,” in S. Iordanidou, N. Jebril, & E. Takas (Eds.), Journalism and digital content in emerging media markets (pp. 129–146), Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04552-3_8
-Minotakis, A., Vasilakopoulou, M., & Pleios, G., “Framing a pandemic: A quantitative analysis of news framing of COVID-19 in Greek media,” in G. Pleios & A. Skamnakis (Eds.), The communicative construction of a pandemic (pp. 115–140), Papazisis, 2021.
Articles
-Minotakis, A. (2025). “Regulating AI in the workplace: A critique of the EU AI Act and the Platform Work Directive through a worker-centred lens.” Platforms & Society, 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251396248
-Minotakis, A. (2025). “Concerned, unprepared and burdened by the past: Generative AI in Greek newsrooms.” Journalism Practice, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2025.2553188
-Minotakis, A., & Faras, A. (2024). “Nothing is inevitable but class struggle: A workerist perspective on AI regulation.” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 22(2), 630–645. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i2.1517
-Gousis, C., & Minotakis, A. (2023). “The question of organisation: Examining Lukács’s conceptual roadmap for social change.” Dissonância: Revista de Teoria Crítica, 7, 1–34.
-Minotakis, A. (2023). “What is ‘orthodox Marxism?’: Bend it like Lukács: The unorthodox roadmap to orthodox Marxism.” Dissonância: Revista de Teoria Crítica, 7, 1–23.
-Minotakis, A., & Tastsoglou, M. (2023). “Framing expertise: Greek media representations of experts during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00120_1
-Minotakis, A. (2021). “Capitalism and media: The historical development towards communicative capitalism.” Utopia, 136, 151–172.
-Minotakis, A., & Varvaki, A. (2020). “Narratives of the crisis: Greek TV series as televisual rhapsodes.” Utopia, 132, 175–192.
-Varvaki, A., & Minotakis, A. (2019). “The Marx of communication.” Utopia, 127, 81–96.
-Varvaki, A., & Minotakis, A. (2018). “Towards a Marxist approach to social media.” Marxist Notebooks 7, 75–88.
-Avramidis, C., & Minotakis, A. (2017). “Infantilising refugees as a means of political domination: The case of ERT’s news bulletins in Arabic.” Belgrade Journal of Media and Communications, 12, 51–66.
Conferences:
-Alexandros Minotakis, “Regulating AI in the Workplace: A Critique of the EU AI Act and the Platform Work Directive Through a Workerist Lens,” 8th Conference of the International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-8), Bologna, Italy, 2025.
-Alexandros Minotakis and Elizabeth Farries, “Addressing AI’s Hidden Sustainability Costs: Challenges in the EU AI Act and Ireland’s Digital Policy,” Data for Policy Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 2025.
-Alexandros Minotakis, “AI Regulation in the Workplace: A Critique of EU Policies through a Workerist Lens,” Countervailing Platform Power Conference, Florence, Italy, 2025.
-Alexandros Minotakis, “Control, Consent, Coercion: Rethinking Labour Process Theory in the Age of Platforms and AI,” Historical Materialism Athens, Athens, Greece, 2025.
-Alexandros Minotakis, “Concerned, Unprepared and Burdened by the Past: Generative AI in Greek Newsrooms,” CIDA 2024 – 4th International Symposium on Communication in the Digital Age, Famagusta, Cyprus, 2024.
-Alexandros Minotakis, “Taming the Beast: Mainstream vs Workerist Perspectives in AI Regulation,” 21st Historical Materialism Conference, London, United Kingdom, 2024.
-Alexandros Minotakis, “I Expect Nothing, And I Am Still Let Down — A Marxist Critique of the EU AI Act,” Historical Materialism Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2024.
-Alexandros Minotakis, “AI in the Workplace: Inquiry into Algorithmic Management in Platforms,” International Labour Process Conference, Göttingen, Germany, 2024.
-Alexandros Minotakis and Paris Lavatsis, “Fight Against Platform Capitalism: The Case of e-food and Wolt Workers,” Historical Materialism Athens, Athens, Greece, 2023.
-Alexandros Minotakis and Paris Lavatsis, “Fight Against Platform Capitalism: The Case of e-food Workers,” 5th Conference of the International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-5), Athens, Greece, 2022.
-Alexandros Minotakis and Michalis Tastsoglou, “Media Framing of Expertise during the Pandemic – Content Analysis of Greek Media,” 2020: An Extraordinary Year in Pandemic Times: Academic Experiences and Research Practices from the Balkans, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2021.
-Alexandros Minotakis and Eleni Mavrouli, “‘Objectivity’ and the Crisis of Journalism,” Historical Materialism Athens, Athens, Greece, 2019.
Grants/ Fellowships/ Awards:
-Newman Fellowship for postdoctoral research, 2023-2025, University College Dublin, Centre for Digital Policy.
-Onassis Foundation scholarship for PhD research (2016-2019).