Dear community! We’re thrilled to invite you to submit your work to our new special issue, Global Institutional Perspectives on GenAI & Cultural Industries, hosted by the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society. Our full intellectual agenda is detailed in the call for papers below, but in brief, we’re especially interested in how GenAI is reshaping cultural industries through new and old economic partnerships, infrastructural dependencies, and governance arrangements, and how these dynamics differ across regions. We aim to multiply our frames of reference in the field beyond its Anglo-American focus by encouraging work that takes diverse cultural, political, and historical contexts as starting points for theory-building. Contributions are welcome to focus on one or a combination of the following topics and issues: - Economic relations between major AI companies and cultural producers - Local AI intermediaries, funding, or infrastructures facilitating GenAI integration - Economic objectives and incentives for cultural producers to use GenAI tools - Hierarchies of class, caste, gender, and language, shaping the development of or access to GenAI tools - Development of local GenAI alternatives - Boundary resources shaping access to GenAI tools - Embedding of access to GenAI within wider material cultures - Friction between GenAI models and local requirements of cultural production - GenAI models and companies shaping cultural production - GenAI models and region- and industry-specific cultural sensitivities - Regulation of GenAI for cultural production by governments and public institutions - Political and cultural interests involved in GenAI governance in cultural industries The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 19, 2026. For the full CFP: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-forum-on-ai-culture-and-so... We’re here for any questions, thoughts, or sparks of curiosity you want to exchange at - siglobalgenai@gmail.com The editorial team, Thomas Poell, Arturo Arriagada, Lorena Caminhas, Tom Divon, Smith Mehta, David Nieborg, Godwin Simon, and Zhen Ye. -- *Tom Divon* Creators & Platforms R*esearcher* Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, Herzliya Tel: +972-547-532681 [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/TomDivon>[image: Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/divon.tom/>[image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/tom.divon> Website: https://tomdivon.com/ Co-Founder: The Content Creator Scholars Network <https://www.ccsn.site/> *Publications*:
Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231157607> #JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359548581_JewishTikTok> Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 Seconds? <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/2022/03/24/can-you-learn-about-the-holocaust-in-60-seconds-on-tiktok/> Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051241269281> Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/29768624241303109> The unsolicited algorithm: unveiling gendered harms and (non)consent in apple iOS features <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2024.2433683?src=> The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448241251804?icid=int.sj-full-text.citing-articles.1> Youthful Platform Commemoration: TikTok as a Frontier for Holocaust Education and Memory <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383957738_Youthful_Platform_Commemoration_TikTok_as_a_Frontier_for_Holocaust_Education_and_Memory>