About the Journal

Subject area and content

Automaton is a scientific journal of digital media and culture which aspires to be a field of critical interdisciplinary approaches to the cultural transformations occurring in the 21st century in Greece and the world. Its main orientation is to investigate the role of bioinformatics and technosocial media in social relations, the construction of the body, work and leisure, politics, and the planetary shifts in environment and governance. The point of reference is digital media, and in particular the impact of the (inter-)mediation of the physical and social world by information systems.

The journal's concern is to theoretically understand the reformation of the social from its mediation and fusion with the technological, in cases such as the concept of the human, the sense of subjectivity, the political, and the articulation of new forms of identity and gender relations. Of similar concern is to understand the new economies in the circulation (and production) of ideas, the claiming of (digital) public spaces and commons, and the emergence of new modes of participation and activism.

The range of interests and topics covered by Automaton includes:

• • Labour, Production and Leisure :: digital labour, creative labour, production of emotions, creation of affective and intellectual commodities, leisure and intangible production, clickwork, crowdsourcing and micro-labour.
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  • Mass Cultures and Consumption :: audiovisual technologies, creative industries, representational media, affective audiences, music communities and techno-cultures, social networks, 'aesthetic' subcultures.
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  • New Bodies, New Capabilities :: smart lives (social and domestic robots, autonomous vehicles, smart devices), prosthetic technologies, synthetic drugs and pharmacopolitics, biomedia and augmented perception, posthumanism.
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  • Multimodality and Governmentality :: biopolitics, data profile/body and health, biometrics and health applications, biotechnologies, connectivity networks and infrastructures, privacy and surveillance.
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  • Environmental Management and Governance :: environmental design and planning, techno-aesthetics, simulatedenvironments and virtual realities, planned obsolescence and E-waste, 'autonomous' nature and 'second' culture, artificial intelligence and new forms of mining.
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  • Politics of the Social, Education of the Subject :: social programming, machine learning, applications of digital educational tools and techniques, bots, algorithmic categorization and machine bias.
  • Experimentation, Reflexivity, Exemplary Theories :: remix, error-tolerant epistemologies, media genealogy, multimedia and multimodal methods of research and representation, cyberfeminism, digital decolonization, bioethics.
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  • Derivative Technosocialities :: alternative platforms and applications, blockchain technology, community and DIY infrastructures and tools, feminist and queer infrastructures, digital relationships and new conditions of inclusion/ exclusion.

Peer Review Process

Automaton's publications are evaluated by the editorial board following strict editorial peer-reviewed criteria, and emphasizing critical theory, high-level fieldwork, ethnographic, archival and bibliographic research, as well as polyphonic, poetic and experimental writing.

Evaluation/decision of submissions for publication is conducted in two stages:

1. A morphological and syntactic check is carried out according to the specifications and the submission form
2. Content is checked according to the coherence, originality, relevance of the topic to the scientific and research field of the journal

The evaluation is done anonymously by two reviewers, who come from the academic field of the scientific and research fields covered by the journal. The time required for an evaluation is approximately one month.

PLAGIARISM PRIOR PUBLISHING

Automaton will judge any case of plagiarism on its limits. If plagiarism is detected by the editorial board member, reviewer, editor etc., in any stage of article process- before or after acceptance then we will alert the same to the author(s) and will ask them to rewrite the content or to cite the references from where the content has been taken. If more than 30% of the paper is plagiarized- the article may be rejected.

Frequency of publication

Automaton Journal is published twice a year in Greek , in the form of a digital book (e-book) with the possibility of on-demand printing by Nisos publications.

Open access policy

Automaton Journal provides immediate open access to its digital contents, based on the principle that freely available research supports the global exchange of knowledge.

Automaton journal does not charge authors any fee for submitting and publishing their manuscripts.