News: Algorithmic Folklore as Transcultural Storytelling –Final Call for Papers for Electronic Book Review Special Gathering

The Electronic Book Review, in international collaboration with the DFG-funded project StoryMachine (DIMAS, University of Regensburg) and the Trond Mohn Research Foundation-supported project ALGOFOLK (CDN, University of Bergen), invites submissions on algorithmic folklore in the context of transcultural storytelling. The deadline for submitting your abstracts has been extended once to April 14th, 2026.

20 November 2025, by DIMAS

We welcome/are calling for:

• Scholarly essays on algorithmic folklore, digital myth-making, and folklore in virtual networked environments (of 6.000-8.000 words).

• Short contributions and philosophical provocations on the aesthetics, ethics, politics, economics and/or epistemologies of algorithmic storytelling (max. 3.000 words).

• Experimental, multimodal and meta-cognitive creative works including images, remixes, code-poems, and experimental media including scholarly commentary (max. 3.000 words). Selected works will be considered for publication in issue 06 of the digital review.

• Short project reports documenting new collections, tools and/or methodologies or pedagogical innovations (3.000-5.000 words).

Please send your abstracts to Sabine.Slowik(at)ur.de (opens your email program) and find the Author Guidelines here (external link, opens in a new window). For creative works and images, include a brief abstract describing the work, a link to the work itself, and any other supporting materials as one PDF file.

Extended deadline for abstract submissions: April 14^th, 2026

For further information, please refer to the attached PDF document (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible).

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