[PHILOS-L] Call for submissions – Enrahonar. An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reason
Javier Gil
Call for submissions to a special issue of Enrahonar. An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reason on:
«Virtuality, Malaise, and Connectivity: Hybridizations between Philosophy and Engineering»
Enrahonar, together with the Engineering and Philosophy Group at the MediaLab of the University of Oviedo, invites submissions for a special issue devoted to the philosophical examination of social media and digital environments, understood as technologically mediated spaces of interaction structured by platforms, devices, infrastructures, and networks that reshape how we communicate, relate to one another, and organize collectively. Submissions must be original and unpublished and may address, from a philosophical perspective and in dialogue with fields such as engineering, computer science, and the social sciences, themes including (but not limited to) the following:
● Research in the social epistemology of digital information
● Ethical approaches to social media and digital platforms
● Transformations of agency, subjectivity, and identity in digital environments
● Debates on rationality and decision-making in digitally mediated contexts
● Contributions on technological design, responsibility and platform governance
● Controversies surrounding digital freedom, privacy and online communities
● Philosophical analyses of digital infrastructures, data architectures, and their ethical, political, or ontological implications
● Analyses of the implications of the use of social media and related technologies for the public sphere and the functioning of contemporary democracies.
● The philosophy of malaise, attention, affectivity, and forms of life in digital environments
Submission deadline: September 30, 2026
Social media has become woven into the daily lives of millions of people in contemporary societies. Driven by rapidly evolving technologies, it has transformed how we communicate, interact, and share information. While expanding possibilities for connection, consumption, learning, and collaboration, it also confronts users—and, indirectly, non-users—with significant and often troubling consequences.
From a philosophical standpoint, the widespread adoption of social media technologies raises epistemological, ethical, political, metaphysical, and ontological questions. Social media and other digital platforms constitute a space in which the boundaries between the digital and the material are continually redrawn, and where relationships, identities, and communities are formed across both in-person and digital dimensions of experience. It is also a domain in which information circulates while also being distorted, concealed, or biased; where psychosocial phenomena emerge that challenge traditional conceptions of human rationality; and where new forms of political action seriously affect the functioning of contemporary democracies. These processes unfold at both the level of subjective experience and collective life, transforming modes of sociability and subjectivation and giving rise to distinctly digital forms of malaise.
If it has become almost impossible to understand ourselves apart from the networked environments in which we live, then a critical reflection on the ways in which social media configures our lives at multiple levels becomes indispensable. This, in turn, calls for a careful examination of how they are designed, structured, and developed. In this context, philosophical inquiry can engage in a productive dialogue with engineering and other specialized fields of knowledge in order to develop a more nuanced understanding of digital environments and contribute to clarifying the conceptual, ethical, political, and ontological challenges posed by the contemporary technological ecosystem.
Manuscripts may be submitted in the journal's standard languages: English, Catalan, and Spanish. Submissions must be made through the journal's platform. Author guidelines and submission procedures are available at: https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/about/submissions.
Submission deadline: September 30, 2026
Publication: First half of 2027
For further information, please contact the guest editors, Miguel E. Naredo Rojas and Javier Gil, at UO28...@uniovi.es and javi...@uniovi.es.
Philos-L "The Liverpool List" is run by the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Recent posts can also be read in a Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL/ Follow the list on Twitter @PhilosL. Follow the Department of Philosophy @LiverpoolPhilos To sign off the list send a blank message to philos-l-unsub...@liverpool.ac.uk.