[ecrea] CFP | Digital Transformation of Social Theory

Call for papers to a special issue of Technological Forecasting and 
Social Change on “Digital Transformation of Social Theory”. Weblink: 
https://wp.me/pvO07-17R

/Guest editors/

Steffen Roth, La Rochelle Business School and Yerevan State University
Harry F. Dahms, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Frank Welz, University of Innsbruck
Sandro Cattacin, University of Geneva

There once was a time when leaders could both appreciate books and 
govern empires without knowing how to read and write (Dutton, 2016; 
Pascal, 1970). Today’s thought leaders are in a very similar situation. 
Though hardly ever /away from keyboard/, we scholars in general and 
social theorists in particular relate to the dominant media of the 21st 
century as if we still lived in the Gutenberg Galaxy (McLuhan, 1962), as 
exemplified in the prevailing use of computers and Internet mainly to 
write books and articles to store and search for in online libraries. 
The situation is even more remarkable in that we not only continue to 
treat the new media like traditional media, but also produce more and 
more traditional media on the new media. Today, there are publications 
on the digital transformation of almost everything. Human identity (Nagy 
& Koles, 2014) is being transformed digitally, along with more mundane 
aspects of social life such as work (Stone, 2004), production (Potstada 
et al., 2016), or healthcare (Agarwal et al., 2010); and then again time 
and space (Berthon et al., 2000), and thus even the globe (Heylighen & 
Lenartowicz, 2016) and all of our everyday life (Wajcman, 2008); 
apparently, not even the traditional media (Coyle, 2006; Roth et al., 
2017) can escape the digital transformation.

In such a context of inescapable digital transformation, our 
professional insistence on oral and written language remains consistent 
as long as we … /read more at /https://wp.me/pvO07-17R.


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