Digital Geographies of Hope

Situated Futures in a Data-Driven World

Datos Bibliográficos

ID17823263
AutoresCornelia Brantner (0000-0002-8504-5691, Karlstad University, autor de correspondencia), Kaarina Nikunen (0000-0002-5747-4093, Tampere University), Georgia Aitaki (0000-0002-3872-5096, Karlstad University)
Año2026
Volumen14
Fecha de publicación2026-03-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedia and Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2183-2439 • E-ISSN: 2183-2439
EditorialCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/mac.11973
OpenAlexW7133737188
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas14

This thematic issue advances digital geographies of hope as a lens for examining how possibilities for action, connection, and alternative futures take shape in a deeply datafied and platformized world. While critical scholarship has documented extraction, surveillance, bordering, and algorithmic injustice, the contributions foreground hope as situated, relational, and contested, emerging within crisis rather than outside of it. Drawing on utopian and feminist thought, queer and decolonial critique, and research on affect, care, and solidarity, the thematic issue conceptualizes hope as both affective and infrastructural: enacted through everyday practices, collective struggles, and sociotechnical imaginaries that expand “room to act.” Cases range from feminist and anti-war organizing to rural and regional media ecologies, post-digital work cultures, and AI governance debates. Read across these contexts, hope appears as ambivalent yet generative, enabling refusal, repair, solidarity, and world-making across scales

Ambivalence · Futures contract · Mainstream · Precarity · Queer · Reflexivity · Scholarship · Situated · Sociotechnical system · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism