Guest Editors
Gabriella Punziano
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Email: gabriella.punziano@unina.it
Felice Addeo
University of Salerno, Italy
Email: faddeo@unisa.it
Richard Rogers
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Email: R.A.Rogers@uva.nl
Description
The accelerating diffusion of generative artificial intelligence, algorithmic infrastructures, platformized environments, data ecosystems, and emerging computational architectures is profoundly transforming the ways in which knowledge, institutions, governance, and social life are organized. Contemporary societies increasingly rely on digital infrastructures that do not simply mediate communication or information exchange but actively participate in the production of social reality itself.
Within this context, the relationship between knowledge and society is undergoing a significant transformation. AI systems, algorithmic governance, automated decision-making, predictive infrastructures, and computational forms of mediation challenge established understandings of expertise, participation, citizenship, authority, and collective meaning-making. These transformations require new theoretical and methodological tools capable of examining how social knowledge is increasingly produced through hybrid configurations involving human actors, technological systems, institutions, platforms, and infrastructures.
This Special Issue investigates these processes through the concept of knowledge infrastructures, understood as the socio-technical assemblages through which information, expertise, interpretation, and social meaning are generated, circulated, stabilized, and contested. Rather than focusing exclusively on AI as a technological object, the issue examines how post-digital environments reshape governance, labor, citizenship, participation, identity formation, public communication, and institutional action.
We welcome theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions addressing topics including, but not limited to:
- AI and knowledge production
- Algorithmic governance and public institutions
- Computational social inquiry and methodological innovation
- Data infrastructures and digital citizenship
- Platformization and social transformation
- Digital labor and algorithmic mediation
- Public communication and political participation
- Epistemic authority and expertise in post-digital societies
- Infrastructural power, visibility, and social inequalities
- Human–AI collaboration and decision-making
The Special Issue aims to contribute to debates in sociology, digital sociology, science and technology studies, computational social science, media studies, and political sociology by exploring how post-digital infrastructures transform both the production of knowledge and the organization of 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