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News: 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.

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. 

Deadline for abstract submissions: March 31st, 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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