[Commlist] Galactica Media Vol 7, No 3 (2025) published

New issue of Galactica Media is available

Vol 7 No 3 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v7i3 <https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v7i3>

*Screen, Avatar, Network: Forms of Presence in the Digital Age*

The third issue of the seventh volume of Galactica Media explores the 
phenomenon of digital presence within the context of networked media 
reality. The thematic focus of the issue is on how subjectivity is 
acquired, shaped, and experienced in the digital environment through 
screen-based, avatarial, and networked forms. The authors examine the 
screen as a device of archiving and utopian imagination, the avatar as a 
pattern of self-presentation, and the network as an infrastructure of 
resonance, surveillance, and political mobilization.

The section “Screen: Utopia, Take, Archive” opens with philosophical 
interpretations of audiovisual language — from an analysis of utopian 
inertia in science fiction (Deniz Kurtyılmaz) to the ontology of the 
long take in the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky (Anastasia V. Kucherova). 
The screen as a chronotope of memory is further examined in an article 
by Armando Rotondi, which investigates documentary practices and 
reenactment in the films of Andrei Ujică.

The section “Avatar: Role, Image, Pattern” is dedicated to avatars as 
mediators of identity and behaviour in digital culture. Topics include 
the identification with gaming avatars and their relation to virtual 
ownership (Yi An, Xin Lv), the trans-cultural popularity of Turkish 
television series in Algeria (Mahmut Fevzi Cengiz, Mokhtar Djellouli), 
and the consolidation of game design patterns (Amir M. Abu Makhadi).

The section “Network: Connection, Resonance, Control” highlights the 
transformations of digital communication. Articles focus on online 
communities and the politics of territorial identity (Olga V. Popova, 
Nikolai V. Grishin), the compensatory functions of messaging 
communication in the digital age (Vladimir I. Gladyshev, Elvira M. 
Valeeva, Liudmila I. Belova), echo chambers and digital political 
mobilization (Dmitry S. Zhukov, Vladimir A. Lovtsov, Sergey K. Lyamin), 
local “memory wars” and mechanisms of “cancel culture” in the context of 
accommodative media culture (Alexander V. Ovchinnikov), as well as 
algorithmic news distribution about artificial intelligence on X 
(Twitter) and other digital platforms (Hüseyin Yaşa).

The “Critics and Reviews” section features the article “‘Pet Sematary’ 
as Cultural Value” (Alexander V. Pavlov). The author reviews Shelley 
McMurdo’s monograph on the first film adaptation of Stephen King’s 
novel, analysing her interpretation of Mary Lambert’s film as an example 
of “Grief Horror” and as a work undermining the Reagan-era American 
dream. In debating the book’s author, Pavlov calls for a reassessment of 
the cultural significance of all Pet Sematary adaptations as parts of a 
single universe.

This issue will be of interest to media scholars, philosophers, 
sociologists, cultural theorists, and all those interested in interfaces 
of subjectivity, digital memory forms, and new political regimes of 
presence in the post-screen era.


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