This special issue of the Medien Journal, the peer-reviewed quartely journal of the Austrian Communication Association (OGK), is published on
the occasion of a symposium which is jointly organized by the Euromedia Research Group, the Department of Communication and the ICT&S
Center, both University of Salzburg, and open to the scientific community in the field. This issue of the journal will embrace selected papers from the symposium combined with submissions from a broader community.