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New special issue of Digital Culture & Society has now been published (fully open access) with independent publisher Transcript: <span
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</span>🔥 <b>Towards Popular Techno-Futures. A Global Culture Perspective</b> 🔥<span>
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</span>by the Transcript journal Digitial Culture & Society.<span>
</span>Editors<span class="white-space-pre"> </span><span><span style="">Anya Heise-von der Lippe</span></span>,<span
class="white-space-pre"> </span><span><span style="">Felix Spremberg</span></span>,<span
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Authors 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?<span
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</span>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....
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</span><span class="white-space-pre"> </span>🧚♂️ Where is this globe 🌎 heading to? 🧚♂️<span></span></span></span>
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<p><b>Table of Contents:</b></p>
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<p><a
href="https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_Intro.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">Outdated Enchantments of
Progress?</a><br>
Towards Global Techno Futures<br>
<em>Jascha Bareis, Anya Heise-von der Lippe and Felix
Spremberg</em></p>
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<p>I Techno-futures in National Strategies and
Counter-Discourses</p>
<p><a
href="https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_1_Song.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">Techno-futures with Chinese
Characteristics?</a><br>
Negotiating Techno-Orientalism in Chinese Digitalized
Lifestyle and Aesthetics<br>
<em>Chenyang Song</em></p>
<p><a
href="https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCA_11_2_2_Spremberg_Nishiyama_Bareis.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">Constructing an “AI-driven
Society”</a><br>
Idealization and Anxiety in Japan’s National AI
Strategy<br>
<em>Felix Spremberg, Takahiro Nishiyama and Jascha
Bareis</em></p>
<p><a
href="https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_3_Bhatia.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">Platform Futures Framework</a><br>
A Methodological Framework to Assess Digital Platform
Viability and Sustainability for Marginalized Users in
the Global South<br>
<em>Aditi Bhatia-Kalluri</em></p>
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<p>II Techno-futuristic Communication, Empowerment and
Community-Building Strategies</p>
<p><a
href="https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_4_Kalashnikova.pdf"
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Analysis of Media Habits of the Future<br>
<em>Alina Kalashnikova</em></p>
<p><a
href="https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_5_Butt_Marwell_Feamster.pdf"
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How Communities are Connecting Themselves<br>
<em>Henna Zamurd Butt, Nicole P. Marwell, Nick
Feamster</em></p>
<p><a
href="https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_6_Ward_Burgess.pdf"
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Co-Developing a Music Technology for Beatbox Looping
in a Special Education Needs Setting<br>
<em>Asha Ward and Jon Burgess</em></p>
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<p>III Techno-futuristic Media: Conflicts and
Counter-Narratives</p>
<p><a
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Conflict</a><br>
Analyzing Malian conflict and violence through Social
Media and Mixed-Methods Approach<br>
<em>Jelena Prokic, Luca Bruls, Mirjam de Bruijn</em></p>
<p><a
href="https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_8_Burkhardt.pdf"
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Representations and Narrative Motifs of AI in Latin
American Film<br>
<em>Anne Burkhardt</em></p>
<p><a
href="https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_9_Nana_Heise-vdL.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">Afrofuturist Techno-Futures
Reimagined</a><br>
Magic, Dreams and Boundary-Crossings<br>
<em>Louis Nana and Anya Heise-von der Lippe</em></p>
<p><a
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<p>Best,</p>
<p>the special issue editors</p>
Jascha Bareis, Anya Heise-von der Lippe and Felix
Spremberg</div>
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