Emerging Media: Technology, Industry, and Society

📢Check our latest Special Issue CFP 🌍 Theme: Emerging Media for Communicating SDGs 🕙 Submission Deadline: April 15, 2026 🔗 Submission Portal: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/emmed 🔓 All articles are published open access with no fees. #EmergingMedia #SDGs

Explore the 2025 archive: journals.sagepub.com/loi/EMM

🎄𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 As 2025 draws to an end, we extend our sincere thanks to our authors, reviewers, and readers for supporting EMM’s global growth. Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a healthy, inspiring New Year!

The conversation will continue at #PCST2027 in Shanghai. 📺Watch the full video: youtube.com/watch?v=grj8vi…

We’re pleased to share a video from the Meet the PCST Scientific Committee series, featuring Yi Mou, Co Editor-in-Chief of @_EmergingMedia. Prof. Mou highlights the importance of mindful collaboration within and beyond the @PCSTNetwork to address challenges posed by emerging tech

Hopke, J. E. (2025). Visualizing Climate Change in an Era of A.I. Slop: How Chatbot Image Generator Models Distort the Climate Crisis in Public Imagination(s). Emerging Media, 3(4). doi.org/10.1177/275235…

🔍New Research Article Alert! 🐻‍❄️What happens when AI image generators are tasked with visualizing climate change? Read the new article in Emerging Media by Jill E. Hopke. #ClimateChange #GenAI

Roy, E., A Laskar, K., & Reyaz, M. (2025). Retroactive Gatekeepers: Fact-Checkers, Electoral Disinformation, and Audience Engagement in India. Emerging Media, 3(4). doi.org/10.1177/275235…

🔍 New Research Article Alert! What role do fact-checkers play in India’s battle against electoral disinformation, and how do they engage audiences? Read the new article in Emerging Media by Enakshi Roy, Kaifia A Laskar & Mohammad Reyaz. #FactChecking #Disinformation

🌐 New Issue Alert! Emerging Media (Vol. 3, Issue 2) is live! Themed "AI, Misinformation, and Fact-Checking," it explores AI’s impact on trust, and fact-checking. Read now: journals.sagepub.com/toc/EMM/current 📷 Follow for updates! #EmergingMedia

🔍Research Note Is Global North news in the Global South more truthful? Mandava, P, & Bhadra reveal a "geo-political veracity gradient" impacting AI fake news detection. Read more: buff.ly/8IU108k

🔍Research Article Do AI-powered digital ID systems widen the digital divide? Siad and Sagar examine World, a project using AI, biometrics, and blockchain, revealing how such initiatives can intensify inequalities in the Global South. Read more: buff.ly/e6IWHpq

Check our latest Special Issue CFP🚨🚨🚨 👏🏻We welcome research articles, research notes, and colloquium papers. 🔒All articles will be published open access with no fees.

🔍Research Article: Lan and Huang investigate how users present themselves when sharing human-AI relationship experiences, revealing how digital platforms influence emotional expression and idealized online identity construction. Read more: buff.ly/4bjD7Av

🔍Research Article Can AI Outsmart Fake News? Gregory Gondwe evaluates the real-time detection of misinformation with AI models, comparing transformer-based architectures like BERT and GPT to traditional machine learning approaches. Read more: buff.ly/sXyrIvd

🔍Research Article How does #IndigenousFilmmaking reclaim narratives? Christina Milligan explores how Māori producers in Aotearoa NZ integrate te ao Māori (the Māori way of being or world view) into filmmaking, countering colonial legacies. Read more: buff.ly/PMG7ygD

🔍Research Article Can #LiDAR preserve heritage? Patricia Davis & team explore Benin’s Porto-Novo, using GIS to document colonial & Afro-Brazilian architecture, challenging postcolonial erasure. Read more: buff.ly/7uoJVLJ

🔍Research Article Can #Podcasting decolonize media? Claudia Sarmento & Plinio Fraga analyze Mano Brown’s Mano a Mano—centering #Brazil’s peripheries, amplifying marginalized voices, & challenging systemic racism. Read more: buff.ly/bGbBk4D

💬Colloquium Can #GameDesign decolonize play? Arrivabene exposes how 4X/Civilization games encode colonial logic in mechanics (expand/exploit), while pre-colonial games like Mancala model resource reciprocity. Read more: buff.ly/gQ4wxNs

🔍Research Article How can #Podcasting #decolonize narratives? Perdomo et al. show feminist listening & audio-coding methods uplift global voices, redefining storytelling beyond Western frames. Read more: buff.ly/wdQVv1y