[Commlist] CFP - Global Institutional Perspectives on GenAI & Cultural Industries

REMINDER: CFP - Global Institutional Perspectives on GenAI & Cultural 
Industries


Friendly reminder that submissions for our special issue - Global 
Institutional Perspectives on GenAI & Cultural Industries - are due in 
two weeks, on January 19, 2026.

Our full intellectual agenda is detailed in the call for papers below 
(hosted by the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society), but in 
brief, we’re especially interested in how GenAI is reshaping cultural 
industries through new and old economic partnerships, infrastructural 
dependencies, and governance arrangements, and how these dynamics differ 
across regions. We aim to multiply our frames of reference in the field 
beyond its Anglo-American focus by encouraging work that takes diverse 
cultural, political, and historical contexts as starting points for 
theory-building. Contributions are welcome to focus on one or a 
combination of the following topics and issues:

- Economic relations between major AI companies and cultural producers
- Local AI intermediaries, funding, or infrastructures facilitating 
GenAI integration
- Economic objectives and incentives for cultural producers to use GenAI 
tools
- Hierarchies of class, caste, gender, and language, shaping the 
development of or access to GenAI tools
- Development of local GenAI alternatives
- Boundary resources shaping access to GenAI tools
- Embedding of access to GenAI within wider material cultures
- Friction between GenAI models and local requirements of cultural 
production
- GenAI models and companies shaping cultural production
- GenAI models and region- and industry-specific cultural sensitivities
- Regulation of GenAI for cultural production by governments and public 
institutions
- Political and cultural interests involved in GenAI governance in 
cultural industries

For the full CFP
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-forum-on-ai-culture-and-society/announcements/call-for-papers/global-institutional-perspectives-on-genai-and-cultural-industries 
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-forum-on-ai-culture-and-society/announcements/call-for-papers/global-institutional-perspectives-on-genai-and-cultural-industries>
(All contributors to this special issue will receive APC waivers 
whenever their institution does not have an agreement with CUP)

We’re here for any questions, thoughts, or sparks of curiosity you want 
to exchange at - (siglobalgenai /at/ gmail.com)

Editorial team:
Thomas Poell, Arturo Arriagada, Lorena Caminhas, Tom Divon, Smith Mehta, 
David Nieborg, Godwin Simon, and Zhen Ye.


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