Outdated Enchantments of Progress?
Towards Global Techno Futures
Jascha Bareis, Anya Heise-von der Lippe and Felix Spremberg


I Techno-futures in National Strategies and Counter-Discourses

Techno-futures with Chinese Characteristics?
Negotiating Techno-Orientalism in Chinese Digitalized Lifestyle and Aesthetics
Chenyang Song

Constructing an “AI-driven Society”
Idealization and Anxiety in Japan’s National AI Strategy
Felix Spremberg, Takahiro Nishiyama and Jascha Bareis

Platform Futures Framework
A Methodological Framework to Assess Digital Platform Viability and Sustainability for Marginalized Users in the Global South
Aditi Bhatia-Kalluri

 

II Techno-futuristic Communication, Empowerment and Community-Building Strategies

Mind the Mind
Analysis of Media Habits of the Future
Alina Kalashnikova

Internet Futuring
How Communities are Connecting Themselves
Henna Zamurd Butt, Nicole P. Marwell, Nick Feamster

voxUp
Co-Developing a Music Technology for Beatbox Looping in a Special Education Needs Setting
Asha Ward and Jon Burgess

 

III Techno-futuristic Media: Conflicts and Counter-Narratives

Digital Dimensions of Conflict
Analyzing Malian conflict and violence through Social Media and Mixed-Methods Approach
Jelena Prokic, Luca Bruls, Mirjam de Bruijn

Visualizing the Invisible
Representations and Narrative Motifs of AI in Latin American Film
Anne Burkhardt

Afrofuturist Techno-Futures Reimagined
Magic, Dreams and Boundary-Crossings
Louis Nana and Anya Heise-von der Lippe

Contributors


Best,

the special issue editors

Jascha Bareis, Anya Heise-von der Lippe and Felix Spremberg