Philemon Bantimaroudis is a Professor in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean, Greece. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A. (1999). He was a Visiting Professor at Northern Michigan University, U.S.A. (1999-2000), the University of Cyprus (2012-2013) and an Academic Visitor at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, U.K. (2008). His research interests include media and culture, political and international communication.