Edited volume (Anthem Press) by Ester Cristaldi
Deadline: June 30, 2026
Chapter proposals are invited for the edited volume Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Meaning: Language, Images and Interpretation in the Digital Age, under contract with Anthem Press.
The volume examines artificial intelligence as a cultural, semiotic, social and media phenomenon. Rather than approaching AI only as a technical system or computational tool, the book investigates how AI participates in the production, circulation and transformation of meaning in contemporary digital culture.
The central premise of the volume is that AI does not simply process information. It increasingly mediates how people write, read, see, classify, imagine, remember and interpret the world. AI systems generate texts and images, organise visibility, shape public attention, classify social subjects, predict behaviour and participate in the construction of cultural narratives.
The book is grounded in semiotics and linguistics, but it also welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural studies, media and communication studies, media sociology, digital sociology, digital humanities, visual culture, platform studies, critical data studies, journalism studies, environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and related fields.
Topics
Possible topics include:
- AI, language and meaning
- Large language models and linguistic authority
- AI and language inequality
- AI-generated images and visual culture
- Synthetic media and visual disinformation
- AI, public trust and the crisis of mediation
- AI, platforms and public attention
- Algorithmic visibility and digital inequality
- AI, datafication and social classification
- AI, creativity and cultural production
- AI, cultural labour and the creative industries
- AI, archives and cultural memory
- AI, embodiment, interfaces and everyday experience
- AI, environment, infrastructure and digital materiality
- AI, interpretation and cultural authority
- AI, media ecologies and affective publics
- AI, memory, archives and the digital humanities
Submission Guidelines
Interested contributors are invited to submit:
- a provisional chapter title;
- an abstract of approximately 250–300 words;
- a short biographical note of approximately 100 words;
- institutional affiliation and contact details.
Full chapters will be expected to be approximately 6,000–8,000 words, including references.
Timeline
- Proposal submission deadline: 30 June 2026
- Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2026
- Full chapter submission: 30 November 2026
- Editorial feedback: January 2027
- Revised chapter submission: 28 February 2027
- Final manuscript preparation: March–April 2027
Submission
Chapter proposals should be sent to:
Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi
Üsküdar University
mariapia.cristaldi @uskudar. edu.tr
Please include “Chapter Proposal – Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Meaning” in the subject line.
Contact Information
Ester Cristaldi, Üsküdar University, mariapia.cristaldi @uskudar.edu.tr
Contact Email: mariapia.cristaldi@uskudar.edu.tr
