Media, Culture and Social Change. Between cohesion and collision: An introduction

PDF
Published: Mar 4, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/scad.44783
Keywords:
Media, Culture Social Change
Ioanna Vovou
Panteion University
Abstract

The current special issue of Social Cohesion and Development aims at exploring the ongoing process of adaptation and reinvention of social relations and identities through media and contemporary cultural practices. The main hypothesis of this issue under the title “Media, Culture and Social Change” is the following: society and social bonds are not only based on cohesion but also on conflicts and tensions, often profound.

Article Details
  • Section
  • Articles
Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g. post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (preferably in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
Author Biography
Ioanna Vovou, Panteion University

Ioanna Vovou is an Assοciate Professor at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
(Athens, Greece), in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture, director of the
«Research Laboratory on Media and Journalism» (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) and associate member of the Centre d’Analyse et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Médias (CARISM, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas). Her research interests focus on the relation between the media and the society, on media analysis and on Television studies. She is participating in international research projects and is the author of essays dealing with the history of television, the political talk shows on Greek television, social representations in reality TV and TV fiction, media and populism, gendered representations in the media, fan studies and intermediality. E-mail: [email protected]

References
Cousineau, L.S., Oakes, H., Johnson, C.W. (2019). Appnography: Modifying Ethnography for App-Based Culture. In: Parry, D.C., Johnson, C.W., Fullagar, S. (eds) Digital Dilemmas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95300-7_5
Dwyer, T. (2010), Media Convergence, Maidenhead : Open University Press.
Freedman, P. (2021). Why food matters. Yale University Press.
Hay, J. & Couldry, N. (2011) Rethinking Convergence/Culture, Cultural Studies, 25:4-5, 473-
, DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2011.600527
Holliman, R. (2010). Media convergence. In: Priest, Susanna ed. Encyclopaedia of Science and
Technology Communication. Newbury Park, CA, USA: Sage.
Jenkins, H. (2006) Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, New York: New
York University Press.
Kozinets, R.V. (2010). Netnography: Doing ethnographic research online. Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage.
Kozinets, R. V. (2015). Netnography Redefined. L.A, London: Sage.
Peil, C. & Sparviero, S. (2017). Media Convergence Meets Deconvergence. In: Sparviero, S.,Peil, C., Balbi, G. (eds) Media Convergence and Deconvergence. Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series. Palgrave Macmillan,
Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51289-1_1
Recanati, F. (2000). Oratio recta, oratio obliqua. An Essay on Metarepresentation. Cambridge: MIT Press