N°43 (September 2025-February 2026). Policy challenges and opportunities in the face of the disruptive impact of Artificial Intelligence.

2025-01-24

Monograph Coordinators

Nieves Lagares Diez, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Guadalupe Martínez Fuentes, University of Granada, Spain
Inmaculada Melero López, University of Murcia, Spain

Abstract

The development of Artificial Intelligence has impacted the functioning of our societies and poses a significant challenge to politics. Focusing on the political sphere, this volume welcomes proposals for reflection and analysis on issues related to this emerging field of research.

One dilemma is the extent to which generative AI enters politics to create new narratives or merely to access those already in circulation. Another is the influence of AI on harmful political polarization processes and, in the worst-case scenario, its role in processes of autocratization. A third question concerns the potential usefulness of AI in managing political organizations and in mobilizing social and electoral participation. Can political parties, unions, NGOs, and lobbies gain competitive advantages through AI? Additionally, the impact of AI on the sustained communication between political institutions at any level and citizens is another key issue. Finally, we cannot overlook the ethical implications of generative AI in the public domain and the political debates it sparks.

These and many other questions related to the changes, effects, and consequences of AI in the realm of politics will be the focus of analysis in this monograph.

Keywords: AI, Politics, Political Parties, Pressure Groups, Political Communication, Citizenship, Narratives

Article submission deadline: July 30, 2025

N°42. (March 2025-August 2025). Urban sensibilities and experiences: Social production of senses and emotions in contemporary cities.

2024-08-22

Thematic Coordinators

Ph.D. Ana Lucía Cervio, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina.
Ph.D. Carolina Peláez González, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico.

Urban centers today are undergoing transformation processes in response to environmental, energy, technological, political, economic, labor, and migratory changes, to name just a few, which are occurring in both the Global North and the Global South. These transformations entail the deepening of processes of inequality and socio-spatial and racial segregation, embodied in bodies intersected by gender, race/ethnicity, class, generation, and geocultural context, which impose particular ways of living, feeling, and inhabiting cities that must be critically explored by the Social Sciences.

As privileged sites for the production of bodies, interactions, and commodities within the framework of capitalism, cities are also strategic centers for the reproduction and circulation of sensory and affective experiences. Practices of smelling, seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, along with other forms of sensory perception, are related to the everyday environments in which individuals live and coexist. Thus, analyzing the urban from the perspective of sensibilities involves addressing both emotional and sensory experiences as well as the everyday practices and social regulations that compose them at the individual and collective levels, in connection with processes of social structuring and change. Moreover, studying inhabitation in contemporary cities requires observing the configuration of spaces and the emotional and sensory communities that constitute them, in terms of their conflicts, practices, demands, pleasures, and interactions.

This thematic dossier invites academic exchange through the submission of proposals presenting empirical research results, as well as theoretical-methodological reflections that converge in the study of urban senses, experiences, and sensibilities. The objective is to establish dialogues between different theoretical perspectives and analytical approaches that enable a critical examination of the aforementioned social transformations, while also providing a space for reflection and knowledge construction on the challenges that cities impose today.

All proposals should focus on the analytical study of the senses, experiences, and sensibilities produced and reproduced in contemporary cities. Suggested thematic lines include:

• Collective action, urban conflicts, and emotional communities
• Urban space, sensibilities, and inhabitation
• Sensibilities and policies of the body
• Inequalities, sociabilities, and dynamics of social structuring in the city
• Migration, poverty, and processes of socio-spatial and racial segregation in 21st-century cities
• City, emotions, and space
• Digital spaces and urban experiences

Keywords: sensibilities; city; politics of the senses; emotions; space; social structuring.

PREVIOUS CALL FOR PAPERS

2020-12-03

N°42
URBAN SENSIBILITIES AND EXPERIENCES: SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF SENSES AND EMOTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY CITIES.

Ana Lucía Cervio, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina.
Carolina Peláez González, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Xochimilco, Mexico.

Deadline for submission of articles: December 31, 2024.

N°41
NEW CHALLENGES IN THE COMMUNICATION OF FASHION BRANDS. A VIEW FROM JOURNALISM, ADVERTISING AND CONSUMER SOCIOLOGY.

Concha Pérez Curiel, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Marco Pedroni, Universidad de Ferrara, Italy
Ana Velasco Molpeceres, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Deadline for submission of articles:  30 de julio de 2024
CLOSED

N°40

SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION. CURRENT PERSPECTIVES AND ANALYSIS.Dr. Daniel Javier De La Garza-Dr. James Loucky, Western Washington University, EEUU
Dra. Doris Johnson, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile
Dra. Ana María Carrasco, Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile
Dra. Javiera Carmona Jiménez, Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile
Deadline for submission of articles: January 30th, 2024.

N°39
TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: NEW METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO THE MODERNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE

Dr. Daniel Javier De La Garza-Montemayor, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
Dr. José Antonio Peña-Ramos, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Dra. Fátima Recuero-López, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Deadline for submission of articles: July 30th 2023
CLOSED

N°38
TRENDS AND CHALLENGES OF SPORTS JOURNALISM IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL DISRUPTION
Thematic coordinators:
 José Luis Rojas Torrijos, Ph.D. University of Seville (Spain).
Mireya Márquez Ramírez, Ph.D. Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico)
Deadline for submission of articles: January 30th, 2023.
CLOSED

N°37
A PROPOSAL FOR A DIGITAL COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AGENDA IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN IBEROAMERICA

Thematic coordinators:
Dr. Mágda Rodrigues da Cunha. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Dr. Daniel Barredo Ibáñez. Universidad del Rosario (Colombia); Fudan University (China)
Dr. Jorge Alberto Hidalgo Toledo. Universidad Anáhuac (Mexico)
Closing date of the call: June 30th, 2022
CLOSED

N°36
ELECTIONS IN THE U.S.A. AND IBEROAMERICA: CAMPAIGNS, ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR, POLARIZATION AND PROTEST.

Thematic coordinators:
Dr. Berta García Orosa. University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
Dr. Carlos Muniz Muriel. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Mexico).
Dr. Claudio Elórtegui Gómez. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile).

Closing date of the call: January 30th, 2022.
CLOSED

N°35
MISCELLANEOUS ISSUE IN COMMUNICATION, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY
Call closing date: June 30th, 2021
CLOSED

N°34
FAKE NEWS, COMMUNICATION AND POLITICS
Thematic coordinators:
Dr. Andrea Varela. National University of La Plata (Argentina).
Dr. Amparo Marroquín Parducci. Universidad Centroamericana (El Salvador).
Dr. Carlos Del Valle. Universidad de la Frontera (Chile).
Dr. José Antonio Alcoceba Hernando. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
Closing date of the call: January 30th, 2021.
CLOSED