Focus and Scope
DigiSoc operates at the intersection of technological innovation and social critique, examining how AI systems reconfigure power, knowledge, and everyday life across diverse global contexts.
The journal welcomes original research articles, critical reviews, policy analyses, case studies, and interdisciplinary contributions that engage with the ethical, legal, political, and social dimensions of AI. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Algorithmic fairness, bias, and discrimination
- AI governance and regulatory frameworks
- AI ethics and responsible AI
- Data justice, data rights, and data sovereignty
- Privacy, surveillance, and civil liberties
- AI in public policy and administration
- Postcolonial and decolonial critiques of AI
- AI and social inequality
- Gender, race, caste, and AI
- AI in the Global South
- Participatory and community-centered AI governance
- AI auditing and accountability mechanisms
- Environmental impacts of AI and sustainable AI
- Trust, transparency, and explainability in AI systems
- Platform governance and the political economy of AI
- AI and democratic participation
- Critical, feminist, and interdisciplinary approaches to AI
DigiSoc welcomes contributions that explore these themes from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, including but not limited to science and technology studies, philosophy, law, political science, sociology, anthropology, media studies, development studies, and critical data studies. It also encourages submissions that bridge academic theory and policy practice, as well as contributions that center grassroots, indigenous, and marginalized knowledges. The journal aspires to be a space for dialogue between scholars, practitioners, activists, and policymakers committed to building more just, inclusive, and democratically accountable AI futures.
