CALL FOR PAPERS
Dossier: Artificial Intelligence and digital capitalism in Latin America: futures in dispute and rights in transformation
Editors:
Ana Rivoir (Universidad de la República de Uruguay)
Dídimo Castillo (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México)
In recent decades, processes of digitalization, datafication, and automation have profoundly transformed the organization of work, the production of knowledge, and forms of social regulation. More recently, the accelerated development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems—particularly those based on large volumes of data and machine learning models—has intensified these transformations, reconfiguring institutional practices, public and private decision-making, and regimes of epistemological authority.
The expansion of these technologies is embedded in a phase of capitalism characterized by the centrality of data as a strategic resource, the concentration of technological capabilities in large corporations, and the growing technological dependence of peripheral regions. This process—conceptualized as digital capitalism, platform capitalism, or data capitalism—accelerated during the pandemic and post-pandemic period, deepening pre-existing inequalities and generating new forms of precarization and exclusion.
AI not only introduces technical innovations, but also raises fundamental epistemological and ontological questions. Modes of production, validation, and circulation of knowledge are transformed in contexts of cognitive automation and algorithmic decision-making, and debates emerge regarding the redistribution of agency between humans and technical systems, the configuration of sociotechnical assemblages, and the redefinition of the boundaries between the human and the artificial. Likewise, the expansion of AI poses normative and ethical challenges related to rights, social justice, technological sovereignty, and democracy. Disputes over data control, algorithmic regulation, the concentration of corporate power, and automated biases reveal that ongoing processes are neither neutral nor inevitable, but rather open and dynamic sociopolitical configurations.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, systematic knowledge about the fields of application, structural implications, and social impacts of AI remains limited and fragmented. This dossier seeks to contribute to a critical and situated debate on artificial intelligence and to promote rigorous research that enables understanding both the power dynamics and inequalities associated with AI, as well as the institutional, regulatory, and social configurations that shape its present and future developments.
Proposals addressing one of the following thematic axes will be accepted:
- Epistemology and ontology in the age of AI
● Transformations in regimes of knowledge production and validation
● Cognitive automation and algorithmic authority
● Ontological debates on agency, sociotechnical assemblages, and the human–artificial relationship
● Ethical implications in the production and use of algorithmic knowledge - State, governance, regulation, and technological sovereignty
● Use of AI in public administration
● Digital governance, regulation, and normative frameworks
● Technological sovereignty and digital infrastructures
● Ethical dimensions in the design, implementation, and control of AI systems - Democracy, rights, power, and social justice
● AI and public deliberation
● Human rights and algorithmic systems
● Concentration of power and the geopolitics of AI
● Algorithmic biases, discrimination, and social justice
Contributions must consider a regional Latin American perspective, and those that include comparative studies between countries and subnational units (such as provinces, states, and cities) are especially welcome, without excluding case studies.
Submissions must comply with the journal’s approach and publication guidelines. The dossier will be published in June 2026.
Submission deadline: April 17, 2026.
