Foreword: Class Cultures and the Media in Greece

The last decades have seen a rising interest in questions relating to class and class society within media studies. Empirical and theoretical work mainly stems from the US and the UK. While both capitalism (and hence class society) and the media are global phenomena, they play out differently in different parts of the world. Social systems and media systems have different trajectories and are organized in different ways. There are hence good reasons to empirically study the relation between class and the media in different locations, and not least in the “peripheries” of the global media economy. The present volume does exactly this, as it turns to the relationship between the media and social class in Greece. For anyone concerned with life chances, voice, power, and participation, the notion of social class remains a key concept. And this volume is an important contribution to our understanding of this concept and its relation to media and culture.