Angela Delli Paoli
University of Salerno, Italy
Email: adellipaoli@unisa.it
Giuseppe Masullo
University of Salerno, Italy
Email: gmasullo@unisa.it
Nick Couldry
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom
Email: n.couldry@lse.ac.uk
Contemporary algorithmic systems and generative technologies are increasingly implicated in the production of identities, social relations, bodies, and forms of belonging. Far from operating as neutral infrastructures, platforms, artificial intelligence, and data-driven environments actively participate in shaping how individuals understand themselves, relate to others, construct meanings, and imagine possible futures. Within these socio-technical ecologies, gender offers a privileged lens through which to investigate the ongoing transformation of subjectivity in digitally mediated societies.
This Special Issue explores how gendered subjectivities are constructed, negotiated, and contested within algorithmic environments. Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions, it examines the ways in which identities, emotions, bodies, relationships, and everyday practices are increasingly shaped through interactions between human actors and algorithmic systems.
Rather than approaching digital technologies as external tools, contributions are encouraged to conceptualize them as active participants in processes of meaning-making, visibility, recognition, knowledge production, and social belonging. Particular attention will be devoted to the intersections between gender, power, platformization, AI, digital cultures, and post-digital forms of social life.
We welcome contributions addressing topics including:
- Human–AI relations and gendered subjectivities
- Algorithmic bias and gender inequalities
- Synthetic femininities and digital embodiments
- Platform cultures and gendered imaginaries
- Online masculinities and misogynistic communities
- Digital belonging and identity construction
- Gender, emotions, and algorithmic mediation
- AI, care, intimacy, and affective labor
- Digital activism and feminist interventions
- Epistemologies of gender in datafied societies
The Special Issue aims to advance current debates on gender, identity, power, and knowledge production by exploring how human and algorithmic agencies become increasingly entangled in the making of contemporary social life.
Manuscript Template
Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the Society Register template available at:
https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sr/about/submissions
Submission Deadlines
15th July, 2026