CICANT researcher Dr. Daniel Cardoso, together with Dr. Sara De Vuyst (Maastricht University) and Dr. Inês Amaral (University of Coimbra), are guest editors of a new Special Issue titled Contemporary Digitalized Gender Politics: Sociological Thinking on Gender and Sexualities in Communication.
The Special Issue for Societies, an open-access journal by MDPI, invites contributions that examine how intimacies, bodies, and desires are shaped, commodified, and disciplined by technological systems and the global political economy. Submissions may explore how individualized agency interacts with these disciplinary systems and consider the role of homo oeconomicus as both a cause and consequence of contemporary sociopolitical and technical changes.
We particularly welcome work that critically interrogates how affect, embodiment, and relationality are reconfigured in an age of platforms, biometrics, and digital capital, and that uses intersectional frameworks to consider how gender, race, social class, sexuality, and (dis)ability shape — and are shaped by — digital infrastructures.
Submission deadline: 30 September 2026
This Special Issue offers an opportunity to contribute to critical debates at the intersection of digital media, gender studies, and communication research. To know more about it, access here.