Focus and Scope
Journal of Cultural Narrative in Digital Society (JCNDS) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes high-quality original research articles, review articles, and conceptual papers examining the intersection of cultural narratives and digital technologies. The journal provides an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly discussions on how digital media, communication technologies, and emerging digital ecosystems shape, transform, preserve, and disseminate cultural narratives, identities, languages, and social practices in contemporary society.
JCNDS aims to advance theoretical, empirical, and methodological research on digital society by integrating perspectives from cultural studies, media studies, communication, linguistics, literature, digital humanities, education, and artificial intelligence. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship that critically examines the cultural implications of digital transformation while fostering innovation in research on digital communication and human interaction.
The journal publishes manuscripts in, but is not limited to, the following subject areas:
Cultural Narratives and Digital Society
- Cultural narratives
- Digital culture
- Digital society
- Cultural identity
- Cultural heritage
- Collective memory
- Community narratives
- Digital storytelling
- Transmedia storytelling
Media, Communication, and Society
- Digital media
- Social media studies
- Media discourse
- Political communication
- Visual communication
- Intercultural communication
- Media convergence
- Platform studies
- Participatory culture
Language, Linguistics, and Discourse
- Digital discourse
- Discourse analysis
- Critical discourse analysis
- Corpus linguistics
- Computational linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Pragmatics
- Multimodal communication
- Language and identity
- Multilingual communication
Literature and Digital Humanities
- Digital literature
- Literary narratives
- Narrative studies
- Comparative literature
- Digital humanities
- Cultural representation
- Literary discourse
- Contemporary literary studies
Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence in society
- Human–AI communication
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- AI-mediated communication
- Natural Language Processing
- AI ethics
- Digital platforms
- Algorithmic culture
Education and Knowledge Society
- Digital literacy
- Media literacy
- AI in education
- Technology-enhanced learning
- Language education
- Digital pedagogy
- Online learning environments
Society, Ethics, and Policy
- Digital citizenship
- Platform governance
- Information society
- Digital inclusion
- Privacy and surveillance
- Misinformation and disinformation
- Technology and social change
- Digital ethics
Research Methods and Digital Analytics
- Digital ethnography
- Corpus-based research
- Multimodal analysis
- Social network analysis
- Computational social science
- Big data analytics
- Text mining
- Mixed-methods research
JCNDS prioritizes manuscripts that demonstrate scientific novelty, methodological rigor, and significant theoretical or practical contributions to understanding cultural narratives in the digital era. The journal particularly encourages interdisciplinary and innovative research employing qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, corpus-based, computational, and artificial intelligence approaches to address emerging issues in digital society.
