[Commlist] New special issue of Digital Culture & Society published: Towards Popular Techno-Futures. A Global Culture Perspective

New special issue of Digital Culture & Society has now been published 
(fully open access) with independent publisher Transcript:🔥 *Towards 
Popular Techno-Futures. A Global Culture Perspective* 🔥by the 
Transcript journal Digitial Culture & Society.

Editors: Anya Heise-von der Lippe,Felix Spremberg,Jascha BareisAuthors 
from all around the globe discuss: How do communities around the world 
rethink techno-futures through friction, re-appropriation, spirituality 
and, possibly, wholesome change - beyond Western visions of Tech?From 
families in Kharkiv in Ukraine, to platfrom governance frameworks of 
markets in India; from techno-orientalism in China, to Afrofuturist 
dreamscapes; from the weaponization of social Media in Mali to internet 
commons of the Northern Michigan Tribe; from Latin America's sci-fi of 
resistance, low-tech alternative education interventions in class rooms, 
to Japans dreams of a Society 3.0.... 🧚‍♂️ Where is this globe 🌎 
heading to? 🧚‍♂️

You can access the full issue OA here:

https://digicults.org/issues/112-2025-towards-popular-techno-futures-a-global-culture-perspective/

Print and copies can be ordered from the publisher's website:

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7321-0/digital-culture-society-dcs/ 



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*Table of Contents:*

Outdated Enchantments of Progress? 
<https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_Intro.pdf>
Towards Global Techno Futures
/Jascha Bareis, Anya Heise-von der Lippe and Felix Spremberg/

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I Techno-futures in National Strategies and Counter-Discourses

Techno-futures with Chinese Characteristics? 
<https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_1_Song.pdf>
Negotiating Techno-Orientalism in Chinese Digitalized Lifestyle and 
Aesthetics
/Chenyang Song/

Constructing an “AI-driven Society” 
<https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCA_11_2_2_Spremberg_Nishiyama_Bareis.pdf>
Idealization and Anxiety in Japan’s National AI Strategy
/Felix Spremberg, Takahiro Nishiyama and Jascha Bareis/

Platform Futures Framework 
<https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_3_Bhatia.pdf>
A Methodological Framework to Assess Digital Platform Viability and 
Sustainability for Marginalized Users in the Global South
/Aditi Bhatia-Kalluri/

II Techno-futuristic Communication, Empowerment and Community-Building 
Strategies

Mind the Mind 
<https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_4_Kalashnikova.pdf>
Analysis of Media Habits of the Future
/Alina Kalashnikova/

Internet Futuring 
<https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_5_Butt_Marwell_Feamster.pdf>
How Communities are Connecting Themselves
/Henna Zamurd Butt, Nicole P. Marwell, Nick Feamster/

voxUp <https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_6_Ward_Burgess.pdf>
Co-Developing a Music Technology for Beatbox Looping in a Special 
Education Needs Setting
/Asha Ward and Jon Burgess/

III Techno-futuristic Media: Conflicts and Counter-Narratives

Digital Dimensions of Conflict 
<https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_7_Prokic_Bruls_DeBruijn.pdf>
Analyzing Malian conflict and violence through Social Media and 
Mixed-Methods Approach
/Jelena Prokic, Luca Bruls, Mirjam de Bruijn/

Visualizing the Invisible 
<https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_8_Burkhardt.pdf>
Representations and Narrative Motifs of AI in Latin American Film
/Anne Burkhardt/

Afrofuturist Techno-Futures Reimagined 
<https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_9_Nana_Heise-vdL.pdf>
Magic, Dreams and Boundary-Crossings
/Louis Nana and Anya Heise-von der Lippe/

Contributors <https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_Contributors.pdf>


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