Call for Papers

Technotext: Text and Technology in Literature, Linguistics, and Media
Issue 26 (March 2025) of INTERFACE – Journal of European Languages and Literatures
https://interface.org.tw/index.php/if/pages/view/CallforPapers26

Guest Editors:
Charlène Clonts (Kyushu University)
Claudio Sansone (National Central University)

Deadline for submissions: December 30, 2024

The relationship between text and technology is as ancient as human civilization. Perhaps the first step might be the stone tools used to edge cave paintings or/and the formulas of oral literature. Later writing technologies (hieroglyphs, syllabaries, alphabets, etc.) revolutionized the way humans record, disseminate, and preserve knowledge, as their enabling the transformation of text into object they also enabled innovations such as the book, the library, the printing press and, in the process, have not transformed just texts but also the societies that produced and consumed them. More recently, digital technologies altered radically the landscape of text creation, distribution, and interpretation. From word processors to e-books and online platforms, digital tools have democratized access to text while also raising new questions about authorship, authenticity, and intellectual property. Currently, AI represents the latest frontier in the intersection of text and technology. Machine learning algorithms can now generate, analyze, and even interpret text, challenging traditional notions of creativity, authorship, and meaning. This has profound implications for literature, linguistics, and media studies.

INTERFACE –Journal of European Languages and Literatures is inviting scholars from diverse disciplines to examine the multifaceted connections between text and technology, broadly defined, across various historical periods, cultures, and media forms and to submit original, unpublished papers written in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, or Italian for Interface Issue 26, to be published in March 2025.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Literature and Technology:
  • The impact of technological innovations on literary production and reception.
  • The role of technology in shaping narrative forms and genres.
  • Comparative studies of literary technologies across different historical periods.
• Linguistics and Technology:
  • The influence of technology on language development and change.
  • Computational linguistics and the role of AI in language processing.
  • The intersection of linguistics with digital humanities.
• Media Studies:
  • The evolution of media technologies and their impact on text and narrative.
  • The role of social media and digital platforms in shaping public discourse.
  • The implications of multimedia storytelling in a digital age.
• Ancient and Modern Histories of Technology:
  • Historical analyses of the development and impact of writing technologies.
  • The role of technology in the preservation and transmission of historical texts.
  • Comparative studies of ancient and modern technological innovations in communication.

INTERFACE also invites papers not related to the Special Topic which will be published in a dedicated General Topic Section.

Papers should be submitted online at http://interface.org.tw/ no later than December 30, 2024.

All potential authors should consult our website for Author Guidelines (http://interface.org.tw/index.php/if/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions)

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Focus and Scope:

INTERFACE –Journal of European Languages and Literatures is a peer-reviewed journal published three times per year by the European Languages Division, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

INTERFACE is devoted to offering a forum where the seemingly independent scholarly disciplines that focus on particulate European national languages/literatures can communicate and interact with each other. Inter-disciplinary, comparative, and area studies are very welcome; nevertheless, interface is committed to bringing into attention the wider relevance of scholarship that traditional academic organization would assign to a “national department”.

interface aspires to encourage intellectual discussion by publishing both issues on special topics and general issues. The papers accepted can focus on any aspect related to the languages and literatures of any period of Europe. The preferred language of publication is English; however, papers in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Italian will also be accepted for publication in equal terms; furthermore, INTERFACE will endeavour to expand its resources so that in the future it may accept papers in additional European languages.

Open Access Policy:

INTERFACE provides immediate unrestricted access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

For the same reasons, INTERFACE does not charge authors any fees for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials in the journal.