Technotext: Text and Technology in Literature, Linguistics, and Media

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and technology, broadly defined, across various historical periods, cultures, and media forms and to submit original, unpublished papers written in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, or Italian for Interface Issue 26, to be published in March 2025.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)

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