Abstract
Media remain the arena where societies make sense of crisis, contest authority, and mobilize collective response. From pandemic confusion to geopolitical rupture, media systems shape what publics know, believe, and demand.
Today a deeper shift compounds this centrality: artificial intelligence is becoming media. It authors content, filters information streams, and structures human exchange at a scale no newsroom or broadcast network ever achieved. When AI functions as communicative infrastructure, its investigation belongs not to computer science departments alone, but to the core of media and communication scholarship.
Technology carries values. Every algorithm encodes assumptions; every platform architects behavior; every data pipeline elevates certain voices while silencing others. The comfortable fiction that innovation floats free of power, culture, or consequence deserves retirement. Building technologies that serve social good requires more than computational ingenuity. The ambitions of Tech for Good and AI for Good depend equally on the interpretive depth of humanities and the explanatory precision of social sciences.
Research confirms that algorithmic systems reproduce and deepen existing hierarchies when developed without critical interrogation. AI is already reshaping how people relate to one another, how organizations reach weighty decisions, and how communities renegotiate shared norms. Grasping these shifts is the proper work of communication scholarship and social inquiry.
Yet one dimension remains largely neglected across media and technology paradigms alike: governance. Not governance reduced to state regulation, but the fuller architecture of forces through which institutions, corporations, civil society, and publics determine how technologies are designed, deployed, and contested. Governance settles who benefits, who absorbs risk, and whose voice registers. Without rigorous attention to these structures of accountability, our comprehension of technological life stays dangerously thin.
Media, Technology & Governance launches to occupy this space: an interdisciplinary forum for critical inquiry into the regulatory, ethical, and societal dimensions of emerging technologies. We seek scholarship that redraws theoretical boundaries, pioneers methodological pathways, sharpens policy thinking, or reveals cultural textures across diverse geopolitical landscapes.
We invite projects that do more than describe the present. We seek scholarship that generates knowledge communities can wield when confronting uncertainty. The challenges are substantial; so must be our collective intellectual response.
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