Antonis Kalogeropoulos

Antonis Kalogeropoulos is a Communication Sciences researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel with extensive external affiliations including as External Research Associate at DigiPol: Centre for Digital Politics, Media & Democracy (University of Liverpool), External Research Fellow at the Digital Democracy Center (University of Southern Denmark), and Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (University of Oxford).

His research focuses on digital news consumption patterns, media trust dynamics, and social media's impact on journalism. With a PhD in Political Communication from the University of Southern Denmark (2015), his work examines audience alienation from news, cross-national trust patterns, and misinformation spread through messaging platforms.

His publication trends reveal a growing focus on news avoidance behaviors and inequalities in digital news consumption, with recent work analyzing 46 countries' longitudinal data. His research connects media studies with political communication, particularly examining how platform ecosystems reshape news distribution and consumption.

• Early Career Fellow (2022)
• Kaid-Sanders Award (International Communication Association) (2020)

Dr. Kalogeropoulos leads multiple significant research projects including OZR4394: Digital News Use Among Immigrants (2025-2029), IOF3028: SHALGO (2024-2028), and EU664: INEQNEWS (2023-2027), focusing on algorithmic systems, digital news inequalities, and immigrant news consumption. His work has received substantial attention with 126 downloads for his 2025 Journal of Communication article and 24 Scopus citations for his 2024 International Journal of Press/Politics publication.

He actively contributes to the Digital News Report as an expert commentator on Greece's media landscape and regularly presents at international conferences on topics including news avoidance, democratic decay, and social media's impact on news trust.