This volume examines digital alienation as a defining condition of contemporary society, in which technological mediation reshapes experiences of sociality, selfhood, temporality, and moral responsibility. Bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives from sociology, philosophy, media studies, and critical AI studies, the book analyses how algorithmic governance, platform capitalism, and data-centred modes of knowing language and culture reconfigure social relations while generating new forms of distance, dependency, and ethical adversity. Rather than treating alienation solely as loss or deprivation, the contributors explore its temporal, relational, and normative dimensions, asking how targeted estrangements may open possibilities for critique, care, and moral imaginations oriented towards alternatives. Through empirically grounded case studies and theoretically informed interventions across diverse cultural contexts, Digital Alienation advances global sociological debates on technology and human flourishing, offering conceptual tools for understanding—and potentially transforming—the moral conditions of life in an increasingly digital world.

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Keywords: alienation, digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, algorithm, technology

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Submit a chapter abstract by September 15, 2026 to digitalalienation.rc36@gmail.com and contribute to interdisciplinary debates on digital alienation and technology.

More info: Selected authors will be notified by October 15, 2026, and full chapters will be due by December 15, 2026. Contributions from diverse disciplinary and international perspectives are warmly encouraged.

​This collective monograph explores the complex interplay between violence and alienation in late‐modern societies. The contributing authors examine various social agents of violence and the mechanisms of social alienation that contribute to the emergence and reproduction of violent practices. Addressing individuals, groups, and power dynamics as agents of violence, the book highlights the influence of social stratification, inequality, cultural norms, and political mechanisms. The chapters integrate theoretical approaches with empirical cases, covering a wide range of contexts including gender‐based violence, institutional spheres such as politics, law, education, and family, as well as media representations, collective trauma, digital environments, and forms of social resistance. By identifying the mechanisms that sustain contemporary violent phenomena, the book will be valuable to social science researchers, social policy practitioners, human rights advocates, and a broad readership interested in the causes and mechanisms of violence and pathways towards its sociological mitigation.

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Keywords: alienation, violence practices, power relations, sociological mitigation

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Submit a chapter abstract by September 15, 2026 to BOTH olgsimon@gmail.com AND silvia.pezzoli@unifi.it  on violence, alienation, and contemporary social dynamics. Abstracts submitted to only one of the editors will not be accepted.

More info: Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to submit full chapters by December 15, 2026. The volume welcomes theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary contributions addressing violence and alienation.