[Commlist] new issue of Galactica Media, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2026) published

Rastyam T. Aliev is pleased to announce that the new issue of Galactica 
Media, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2026), is now available on the website via DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v8i2 <https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v8i2>

*Platformization of Culture and Knowledge
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Vol. 8, No. 2 (2026) of Galactica Media, “Platformization of Culture and 
Knowledge,” brings together studies devoted to the ways digital 
platforms, interfaces, and media infrastructures are reshaping the 
production of cultural forms, regimes of representation, modes of 
societal self-description, and practices of knowledge work. At the 
center of the issue is a broader shift in which culture, memory, 
identity, education, and expert knowledge are increasingly organized 
through algorithms, digital interfaces, networked channels, and new 
regimes of visibility.

The issue is structured as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry into 
contemporary media environments. The section New Media and Human 
Communication examines YouTube as a space of both democratization and 
standardization in short filmmaking, the virtual museum as an interface 
of cultural identity, and Telegram as a medium for the formation of 
Russia’s autostereotype for foreign audiences. The Cinema Studies 
section turns to early Crimean westerns/osterns, showing how the screen 
participates in commemorative practices and in the reconfiguration of 
historical memory. The section Media Literacy Skills shifts the focus 
toward institutional knowledge: it explores the mission and vision 
statements of Nigerian universities as forms of strategic 
self-representation, as well as the possibilities and limitations of 
neural network tools in the academic work of university teachers. The 
section Miscellanea addresses images of the future in the official and 
scientific-expert discourses of the Caspian region states and media 
assessments of the Japanese colonial model in the U.S. press of 1932. 
The issue concludes with review essays devoted to the media image of 
Confucius between ideology and memory and to contemporary horror studies 
as a field centered on a genre that is both being renewed and becoming 
increasingly politicized.

This issue will be of interest to scholars of media, digital culture, 
visuality, cinema, the philosophy of technology, cultural memory, and 
education, as well as to all those concerned with analyzing how platform 
logics transform not only channels of communication, but also the very 
conditions of cultural experience, knowledge, and the collective 
imagination.


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