Subject: Image, Communication, Culture
Yannis Skarpelos studied Sociology and holds a PhD in Visual Cultural Studies. He is teaching at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture since 1996. His interests are focusing on the sociological and semiotic visual analysis. The last decade his research is focused on computational analysis of big visual data, videogames and social network analysis.
He has written the books: Terra Virtualis: The Construction of Cyberspace (Nefeli, 1999), Historical Memory and Greekness in Comic Books (Kritiki, 2000), Image and Society: From Documentary Photography to Visual Sociology (Topos, 2012) and The Uncertain Sighns (Topos, 2019). He has also edited the volume Digital Games: Philosophical, social and cultural aspects (Oasis, 2019).
He has also written chapters in edited volumes and papers in journals. During the last five years he has published:
- Skarpelos, Y. (2018) Big Visual Data in Social Sciences, in C. M. Stuetzer, M. Welker & M. Egger (eds.), Computational Social Science in the Age of Big Data: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag.
- Roinioti, E., Pandia, E., Skarpelos, Y. (2017) Sociability by Design in an Alternate Reality Game: The Case of The Trail, in A. Garcia, G. Niemeyer (eds), Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay, Bloomsbury.
- Skarpelos, Y. (2017) Towards a Quantitative Visual Semiotics? in Kr. Bankov (editor in chief), New Semiotics Between Tradition and Innovation, NBU Publishing House & IASS Publications.
His research activities include the creation of Panteion University eclass, the project TRIPMENTOR Interactive Tourist (funded by the “Research-Create-Innovate” program), INTERMEDS: Intercultural Mediators (funded by Erasmus+), and RIPEC: Research for Innovative Practices in Emergency Management of Erasmus Community (funded by Erasmus+).
He is the founder and head of the New Media Lab of the Department since 1999, and has been associate chair and chair of the Department, member of the Panteion Senate, and of the Research Committee.
He is a member of the International Visual Sociology Association, and has acted as a member of its Board during 2002-2005 and 2012-2018. He is also a member of the Hellenic Semiotic Society and an associate member of its board since 2019.
