Literariness Journal
Vol. 1, Issue 1 (Inaugural Issue)
Theme: Digital and Analog Cultures
The inaugural issue of Literariness Journal seeks contributions that interrogate the complex intersections between digital and analog cultures. We invite scholarship that explores the values, practices, technologies, aesthetic forms, and methodological approaches through which societies engage with digital pasts, presents, and speculative futures, while also addressing the continued significance and resurgence of analog media in the contemporary moment.
This issue aims to foreground diverse critical perspectives on the ways digital and analog modes of perception, knowledge, and creativity shape cultural production, identity formation, social structures, and the collective imagination.
Possible areas of exploration include, but are not limited to:
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Artificial Intelligence and its cultural, ethical, and political implications
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Reconfigurations of labor and creativity in the digital economy
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Big data, algorithms, and predictive technologies
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Critiques of technological determinism and linear models of progress
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Digital humanities: methodologies, tools, and practices
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Data visualization, archives, and knowledge production
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Gaming cultures, virtual worlds, and ludic studies
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Digital and analog geographies: borders, networks, flows
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Internet subcultures, meme ecologies, and viral aesthetics
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The politics of piracy, access, and intellectual property
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Surveillance capitalism, security, privacy, and resistance
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Analog pasts, presents, and futures: nostalgia, revival, and retro cultures
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Soundscapes: vinyl, cassette, and the return of analog listening
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Photography and cinema across analog and digital divides
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Tactile, sensory, and embodied experiences of analog media
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Interfaces and hybrid spaces between analog and digital forms
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Ethnographies of online communities and offline practices
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Literature in the age of screens: e-books, hypertexts, fanfiction
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Digital storytelling, transmedia narratives, and virtual identities
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Environmental costs of digital and analog technologies
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Posthumanism, cyborg identities, and techno-bodies
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Queer, feminist, and decolonial perspectives on digital/analog cultures
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Digital religion and spirituality in virtual and analog spaces
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Archives, memory, and obsolescence in cultural technologies
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Materialities of media: infrastructure, hardware, waste, repair
We welcome contributions from scholars, researchers, educators, artists, practitioners, and activists. Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit proposals.
Submission Guidelines:
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Individual paper proposals should include:
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An abstract of 250–300 words
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A brief biographical note (100 words or less)
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Abstract submission deadline: September 30, 2025
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Notifications of acceptance will be sent shortly thereafter.
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Full paper deadline: October 31, 2025
About the Journal
Literariness Journal is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to literature and cultural studies. Published quarterly online, it provides a space for original scholarship that interrogates literary texts, critical theories, and interdisciplinary approaches to culture. Selected papers from this call will appear in the ISSN-allotted inaugural issue.
Submissions should be sent to: Editor@LiterarinessJournal.org
For more details: https://literarinessjournal.org/
