We are delighted to announce that “Blockchain Scenes,” a special issue of the Journal of Digital Social Research, has just been published in open access. Natalie Casemajor and Will Straw ... *Blockchain Scenes* *Journal of Digital Social Research* Guest editors : Nathalie Casemajor (INRS) and Will Straw (McGill University) https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/issue/view/14 Over the last fifteen years, the development of blockchain technologies has attracted a large volume of professional expertise, capital investment and media attention. This burgeoning sector of technology practices has coalesced around a few major initiatives (Bitcoin, Ethereum), but it is still moving at a fast pace and its configuration is evolving. If this sector is marked by a variety of technological protocols, financial arrangements and organizational forms, it is also a site of social effervescence. Parties, meet-ups, and the sorts of informal socializing which gather around events and networks of all kinds function to endow the blockchain sector with the characteristics of what, in cultural analysis, are often called “scenes”. The aim of this special issue is to examine the interest of the notion of scene for the analysis of blockchain practices. _Table of contents_ Nathalie Casemajor, Will Straw "Blockchain Scenes: A Research Agenda" Victoria Lemieux, Nigel Dodd "‘Life World’ on Ledger: A ‘Scenic’ View" Betty Bozoma Blay Ackah "Ghana’s blockchain scene on WhatsApp : A space for convergence and divergence" Jiaxi Hou "Making Ends Meet by Mining on Blockchain: Subalternity, Materiality, and Yearnings of Chinese Amateur Crypto-miners Julie Frizzo-Barker "Women on the Block: A Technofeminist Discourse Analysis of Blockchain Meetups, Conferences, and Hackathons" Régis Barondeau, Axel Guitton, Shima Masoumi, Pablo Aceiton Campos "A First Glance at the NFT Quebec Gaming Scene" … For more information, get in touch with nathalie.casemajor@inrs.ca or william.straw@mcgill.ca … Independent. Interdisciplinary. Open access. The Journal of Digital Social Research publishes high-quality articles within all areas of digital social research, including sociology, informatics, pedagogy, education science, gender studies, law, economy, social work and geography. We welcome and encourage cross-disciplinary submissions. JDSR is a true open access journal. https://www.jdsr.io/ … Nathalie Casemajor PhD, Professeure _ Institut national de la recherche scientifique Centre Urbanisation Culture Société 385, rue Sherbrooke Est, Montréal (Québec) H2X 1E3, Canada Website <https://inrs.ca/la-recherche/professeurs/nathalie-casemajor/>