[Commlist] Call for Chapters: Internet Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Call for Chapters
*Internet Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach*
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume to be published by 
Edward Elgar Publishing. This interdisciplinary collection will provide 
a timely synthesis of Internet Studies amid rapid technological and 
societal transformations, with a strong focus on the convergence of 
platforms and artificial intelligence.
  About the Book
In the last decade, the digital landscape has been profoundly reshaped 
by dominant platforms, generative and agentic AI, intensifying 
geopolitical contests over digital sovereignty, widespread datafication, 
and new forms of algorithmic governance. This volume examines how these 
developments are reconfiguring power relations, economic structures, 
social inequalities, cultural practices, and global governance.
The book adopts an explicitly interdisciplinary and pluralistic 
approach, drawing on sociology, science and technology studies (STS), 
political science, law, communication and media studies, political 
economy, anthropology, education, and computational social science. 
Comparative, global, and Global South perspectives are particularly 
welcome. It seeks to bridge classic Internet Studies concerns with the 
urgent realities of the post-2025 AI era, offering new theoretical 
frameworks, methodological innovations, and forward-looking visions.
The volume is structured in five parts:
- Part I: Foundations and Theorizing Internet Studies
- Part II: Platforms, Data, and Economic Transformations
- Part III: Society, Culture, Identities, and Inequalities
- Part IV: Governance, Regulation, Ethics, and Rights
- Part V: Methods and Future Directions
A detailed table of contents with chapter abstracts is available upon 
request.
  We Welcome Contributions On (but not limited to):
- Theorizing the shift from Web 2.0/network societies to agentic AI 
ecologies and sociotechnical systems
- Materiality of internet infrastructures (cloud, cables, data centers) 
and contested global imaginaries
- Platform capitalism, monopoly power, value extraction, and AI expansion
- Datafication, algorithmic governance, and behavioral steering of 
everyday life
- Global platform labor, gig economies, precarity, and emerging solidarities
- Generative and agentic AI: impacts on creativity, attention economies, 
cultural production, authorship, and labor
- Digital inequalities and the emerging AI divide (beyond access to 
capability gaps)
- Intersectionality (race, gender, class, etc.) and identity performance 
in algorithmic environments
- Fractured digital publics: communities, misinformation, polarization, 
and epistemic crises
- Global internet governance, digital sovereignty, and geopolitical 
fragmentation
- Comparative platform and AI regulation (e.g., EU DSA/AI Act, US, 
China, Global South)
- Ethics, privacy, cybersecurity, surveillance, and human rights in the 
AI age
- Hybrid and computational methodologies for studying fast-evolving 
digital phenomena
- Sustainable digital futures: AI literacy, environmental costs, 
human-centered design, and speculative approaches
  Submission Guidelines
Please submit to: Ilan Talmud, University of Haifa, (talmud /at/ soc.haifa.ac.il)
- A chapter abstract of 300–500 words (excluding references)
- A provisional chapter title
- Author name(s), affiliation(s), and a short bio (approx. 100 words per 
author)
- Indication of which part of the book the proposed chapter best fits
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2026
Final chapters should be approximately 8,000–10,000 words (including 
footnotes, references, and any tables/figures) and will undergo peer review.
  Tentative Timeline
- Abstract submission deadline: 30 September 2026
- Notification of acceptance: Late October 2026
- Full chapter submission: May 2027
- Revised chapters due: September 2027
- Manuscript delivery to publisher: Spring 2028



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