Focus and Scope
DigiLife explores the complex relationship between digital technologies and everyday life, focusing on platform economies, digital labor, and virtual communities. The journal examines the reshaping of work, social interaction, and identity through digital platforms, the social and political implications of platform-based economies, and the formation, sustainability, and evolution of virtual communities.
The scope of the journal encompasses a broad range of topics at the intersection of digital technologies and daily life, including:
- Platform economy and digital labor
- Virtual communities and online interaction
- Digital identity and self-presentation
- Algorithmic management and control
- Gig work and precarity
- Social media and everyday life
- Privacy, surveillance, and datafication
- Digital inclusion and exclusion
- Emerging digital cultures
- Comparative studies of digital transformation
DigiLife welcomes original research, review articles, case studies, perspectives, and opinions that critically examine digital lives and their social implications. The journal encourages interdisciplinary approaches that bridge sociology, media studies, communication, anthropology, and labor studies, with particular interest in contributions that center understudied contexts and marginalized voices.
