4. BOYUT – Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
Call for Papers – Issue 27
Digital Culture
Reconstructing Identities, Relationships, and Reality
We are currently living in a reality where digital technologies have begun to penetrate every aspect of life. This transformation has become especially evident in the first quarter of the 21st century. Not only our styles of communication, but also our identity constructions, social relationships, economic activities, and even our perception of reality are being reshaped through digital. Therefore, this is not merely a technical change; rather, we are experiencing a cultural, social, and political restructuring — a transformation. In this context, the 4. BOYUT journal welcomes articles for this issue that examine digital culture not only from a technology-centered perspective, but also in relation to broader themes such as social practices, cultural norms, surveillance relations, forms of labor, and identity politics.
Accordingly, Issue 27 will include, but is not limited to, contributions that focus on the following topics:
- Digital Identity and Representation
Subjectivity on social media, digital performance, avatars, artificial beauty norms
- Participatory Culture and Digital Citizenship
New media activism, user-generated content, digital collectives
- Surveillance, Privacy, and Power
Surveillance society, data policies, algorithmic power, digitized subjectivity
- Digital Labor and Platform Capitalism
Influencer economy, forms of digital labor, transformation of creative industries
- Digitization of Cultural Heritage and Digital Archiving
- Digital Experience of Space and Time
Acceleration of time, the always-online condition, virtual spaces
- Digitization and Gender
Feminism and digital platforms, digital masculinities, gender representations
- Post-Truth Era and Digital Information Ecology
Fake news, disinformation, digital media literacy
We welcome original, critical, and interdisciplinary contributions aimed at understanding the multilayered structure of culture in the digital age of the 21st century.
For writing guidelines and submission details, see:
https://iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/en/journal/4boyut/home
Final submission deadline: July 21, 2025
Istanbul University Faculty of Communication
4. BOYUT Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
Editorial Board