[Commlist] Galactica Media 2026, No. 4, published

Rastyam T. Aliev is excited to announce that the new issue of Galactica 
Media 2026, No. 4, is now available at the following DOI link: 
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v8i4 <https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v8i4>

The Galactica Media issue (Vol. 8, No. 4), “The Human in the Media 
Environment: Technologies, Images, Practices,” brings together studies 
examining how contemporary media and technologies are reshaping the ways 
in which people perceive the world, communicate, and produce culture. 
Particular attention is given to artificial intelligence, algorithmic 
mediation, deepfakes, generative media, and the increasing 
technologization of everyday life—a growing influence on human agency, 
conceptions of authenticity, and the boundaries of interaction between 
humans and technological systems.

The issue’s second thematic strand concerns how these transformations 
are reflected in popular and screen culture. The authors examine 
representations of intelligence, the transhuman, and the reptilian 
figure, while also addressing intermedial strategies, the neuromarketing 
of cinema, and the historical continuities of visual technologies. Taken 
together, these studies demonstrate that technological transformations 
are not independent of culture; rather, they redefine established 
images, genres, and modes of meaning-making.

Finally, the issue approaches media as a domain of concrete social and 
professional practices. Studies of the digital divide in gaming culture, 
the development of journalism research, and the adoption of artificial 
intelligence in journalistic routines reveal how technological change 
manifests in patterns of access, professional practice, and everyday 
media consumption. In this way, the issue offers a multifaceted 
perspective on the position of the human within the contemporary media 
environment—as a subject, user, viewer, gamer, and professional.


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