Calls & Participation
Call for papers · Rolling submissions
DDSS welcomes original contributions exploring decolonial thought, digital technologies, and the social sciences. Topics include digital colonialism, platforms and infrastructures, AI and knowledge, media and representation, digital labour, inequality, resistance, and epistemic justice.
Submission types: Research Articles, Critical Essays, Research Notes, Interventions, Reviews, Book Reviews, and Reports.
Submissions are considered throughout the year; this general call has no fixed deadline. DDSS uses editorial assessment rather than external peer review. There are no submission or publication fees. Read the Author Guidelines & Style Guide for type-specific requirements, recommended lengths, and manuscript preparation.
Call for participation · Editorial and language collaboration
We invite expressions of interest in editorial assessment, section development, language editing, and the development of multilingual publishing. We welcome contributions from colleagues working in Turkish, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, and other languages, alongside English.
The current submission system is configured for English. Publication in additional languages will depend on confirmed editorial capacity; please contact us before submitting in another language.
Tell us about your research interests, relevant experience, editorial languages, availability, and the role you would like to take. See the Editorial Board page for profile information to include. Roles and responsibilities will be agreed together.
Call for Associate Editors
DDSS welcomes expressions of interest from colleagues who would like to contribute to editorial assessment and the development of journal sections. Associate Editors will help assess scope and scholarly contribution, communicate constructive revision requests, and support submissions through the editorial process in their areas of expertise.
We welcome relevant research or editorial experience, familiarity with decolonial and critical digital scholarship, and a commitment to fair, transparent, and ethical assessment. Please indicate the submission types and languages you can work with, your research interests, and your availability. Responsibilities and workload will be agreed before appointment.
Call for Copy/Language Editors
We also invite colleagues interested in improving the clarity, coherence, consistency, and readability of accepted contributions. Copy/Language Editors may help with grammar, terminology, reference consistency, author queries, and proof checks while respecting each author’s voice and the diversity of scholarly expression.
Please specify the languages and varieties in which you can edit, relevant experience or examples of work if available, and your availability. We particularly welcome contributions that can support multilingual publishing. Translation work, where proposed, will be discussed separately; language editing does not imply responsibility for the author’s research findings.
How to express interest
Send a short biography, affiliation or independent researcher status, research interests, editorial languages, an academic profile or ORCID if available, and the role you are interested in to ozguryilmaz955@gmail.com. Please use “DDSS Associate Editor” or “DDSS Copy/Language Editor” in the subject line. Expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis; no fixed deadline is set. Appointment terms, including workload and any remuneration arrangements, will be discussed explicitly before a role is agreed.
Thematic calls and collaborations
This page will also host future calls for thematic contributions, collaborative initiatives, and events. Each dated call will specify its scope, organizers, eligibility, contribution format, and deadline. No separate time-limited thematic call is currently listed here.
Enquiries and expressions of interest: ozguryilmaz955@gmail.com
