Digital Cultures, Media and the Transformation of Society

Digital technologies have fundamentally transformed the ways in which individuals communicate, construct identities, produce knowledge, participate in cultural life and understand their relationship with society. The increasing influence of digital media, social networks, artificial intelligence, virtual environments and algorithmic systems has reshaped established forms of communication, social interaction and cultural production. These developments raise important questions about the changing nature of human relationships, public discourse, cultural memory, political participation and the circulation of knowledge in an increasingly interconnected world.

The proposed volume, *Digital Cultures, Media and the Transformation of Society*, seeks to explore the multifaceted impact of digitalization on contemporary societies from an interdisciplinary humanities perspective. It invites contributions examining how digital technologies influence cultural practices, individual and collective identities, social structures and systems of representation. Particular attention will be given to the ways in which traditional boundaries between public and private spheres, physical and virtual spaces, producers and consumers, and human and machine-generated communication are being challenged and renegotiated.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- Digital cultures and the transformation of everyday life
- Social media, identity construction and self-representation
- Digital communication and changing forms of social interaction
- Artificial intelligence, algorithms and cultural production
- Digital literature, electronic literature and new narrative forms
- Digital storytelling and multimodal narratives
- Virtual identities, online communities and digital belonging
- Digital memory, archives and cultural heritage
- Media representation, power and ideological structures
- Digital surveillance, privacy and data ethics
- Fake news, disinformation and the crisis of public discourse
- Digital activism, political participation and social movements
- Gender, race, class and inequality in digital environments
- Digital humanities and new methodological approaches
- Gaming cultures, virtual reality and immersive experiences
- The relationship between traditional media and emerging digital platforms
- Digitalization, education and the transformation of knowledge

We welcome original contributions from researchers working in literary studies, linguistics, media and communication studies, cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, history, political science, art history and other related disciplines. Both theoretical and empirical approaches are encouraged, as are comparative, interdisciplinary and case-study-based contributions.

Submission Guidelines

Abstract submission deadline:** 4 January 2027

Abstract length:** 300–500 words

Format: Times New Roman, 12 pt, 1.5 line spacing

Submission must include:**

- Title of the proposed contribution
- Abstract (300–500 words)
- Author's name and institutional affiliation
- ORCID number

Publication: Open Access edited volume, planned for publication in 2027

Publisher: Maurer Press, Frankfurt am Main

Book Series: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology

Article Processing Charge (APC): EUR 115 per accepted contribution.

Submit to: habib.tekin@hotmail.com, habib.tekin@marmara.edu.tr, irem.atasoy@istanbul.edu.tr

All submissions will be subject to an editorial evaluation process. Further information concerning full paper submission and publication guidelines will be communicated to authors whose abstracts have been accepted.
Eligibility

Contributors are required to hold a PhD. Alternatively, submissions may be co-authored, provided that at least one co-author holds a PhD. In addition, PhD candidates are welcome to submit contributions within their own field of research, particularly if the proposed chapter is directly related to their doctoral project and falls within the thematic and conceptual parameters of this book

We look forward to receiving original contributions that critically engage with the transformations of contemporary society in the digital age.