Linkage

About the Journal

Linkage is a leading peer-reviewed and open-access journal, published by Institute for Advanced Social, Science, and Sustainable Future (IASSSF), Jakarta, Indonesia. Linkage is published twice a year (February and August), and all articles published are available online with open access.

Aims

As an interdisciplinary journal, Linkage is dedicated to advancing critical understanding of the dynamic intersections between digital communication ecosystems and contemporary cultural formations in our hyperconnected society. Its goal is to illuminate how emerging media landscapes, algorithmic cultures, and networked publics reshape social relations, cultural practices, and collective meaning-making processes. By providing a platform for cutting-edge scholarship, Linkage aims to foster innovative theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches that can navigate the complexities of post-digital culture, platform capitalism, and the evolving nature of human connectivity in the 21st century.

Focus

This journal focuses on research that examines the transformative power of contemporary communication technologies and their entanglement with cultural production, social movements, and identity formation. It emphasizes studies that critically analyze how digital infrastructures, algorithmic mediation, and networked communication practices generate new forms of cultural expression, political participation, and community building. The focus is on interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges communication studies, cultural theory, media archaeology, and critical technology studies to understand how digital-material assemblages shape lived experiences and social realities.

Scope

This journal seeks to publish a broad range of scholarly articles, including:

• Platform Studies and Algorithmic Culture: Research on social media ecosystems, algorithmic governance, content moderation practices, influencer economies, and the cultural politics of digital platforms in shaping public discourse and social behavior.
• Meme Culture and Viral Communication: Studies on internet memes, viral phenomena, remix culture, participatory media, and how digital vernaculars create new forms of cultural transmission and collective identity formation.
• Digital Activism and Networked Publics: Analysis of hashtag movements, digital organizing strategies, online-offline activism convergence, counter-surveillance practices, and how networked technologies enable new forms of political mobilization and resistance.
• Posthuman Communication and Emerging Technologies: Exploration of AI-human interaction, virtual and augmented reality experiences, metaverse cultures, and how emerging technologies challenge traditional boundaries between human and non-human communication.
• Critical Discourse Analysis of Contemporary Issues: Studies employing discourse analysis, semiotics, and rhetorical criticism to examine how current global challenges—climate change, pandemics, migration, inequality—are mediated, contested, and negotiated through various communication channels.
• Hegemony and Power Dynamics in Communication: Research on media ownership, cultural imperialism, propaganda mechanisms, resistance narratives, and how dominant ideologies are constructed, maintained, and challenged through various forms of communication and cultural production.

e-ISSN: 3089-1663