Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
For a Special Issue on
Intercultural Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Negotiating Identity, Culture, and Digital Interaction
Manuscript deadline
Special Issue Editor(s)
Prof. Nashwa Elyamany,
Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT)
[email protected]
Prof. Noorhan Abbas ,
University of Leeds, UK
[email protected]
Intercultural Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Negotiating Identity, Culture, and Digital Interaction
Artificial intelligence is transforming how people communicate across cultural, linguistic, and geographical boundaries. Intercultural encounters are increasingly mediated by generative AI, automated translation, recommendation systems, conversational agents, social media platforms, virtual influencers, and immersive digital environments.
These technologies do more than support communication. They influence which cultural narratives become visible, how identities are represented, how meaning is translated, and how individuals and communities interact across cultures. This Special Issue examines AI as an active participant in intercultural communication and considers its implications for identity, language, cultural representation, intercultural competence, inclusion, ethics, and human agency.
We welcome theoretical, empirical, methodological, and critical contributions from communication studies and related disciplines, including linguistics, media studies, education, psychology, sociology, and computer science.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Human–AI interaction across cultural contexts
- AI-mediated interpersonal and intercultural communication
- Conversational agents, chatbots, and intercultural dialogue
- Machine translation and cross-cultural understanding
- Generative AI and multilingual communication
- Trust, credibility, authenticity, and communicative competence
- Digital identity construction and self-representation across cultures
- Cultural hybridity and algorithmically mediated identities
- Virtual influencers, avatars, and synthetic cultural identities
- Diasporic identities and transnational digital communities
- Recommendation systems and exposure to cultural perspectives
- Algorithmic curation of cultural narratives
- Social media platforms and cross-cultural communication
- Echo chambers, polarization, and intercultural dialogue
- Platform governance and global communication flows
- AI, minority languages, and low-resource languages
- Code-switching and intercultural pragmatics in AI-mediated communication
- Linguistic diversity and cultural meaning in large language models
- Digital intercultural competence
- AI-supported intercultural education and training
- Virtual exchange, global classrooms, and digital citizenship
- Cultural bias, stereotyping, and unequal representation in AI systems
- AI and the representation of marginalized and Indigenous communities
- Decolonial and Global South perspectives on AI
- Digital inequality, data justice, and equitable participation
- Ethical communication and responsible AI governance
- Innovative methods for studying AI-mediated intercultural communication, including digital ethnography, multimodal discourse analysis, computational methods, corpus-based research, social network analysis, experimental research, and mixed-method approaches
Submission Instructions
- Full manuscripts should be submitted through ScholarOne. During submission, authors must select “Intercultural Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Negotiating Identity, Culture, and Digital Interaction” as the Special Issue title.
- The Special Issue welcomes diverse forms of scholarship, including:
- Original empirical research employing qualitative, quantitative, computational, or mixed methods.
- Conceptual and theoretical papers advancing intercultural communication scholarship.
- Comparative international studies.
- Systematic and critical literature reviews.
- Methodological papers introducing innovative approaches to researching AI-mediated intercultural communication.
- Interdisciplinary studies bridging communication, linguistics, education, psychology, media studies, sociology, and computer science.
- Manuscripts should be a maximum of 8000 words, including references, tables, figures, and appendices.
- Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration by another journal.
- All submissions should follow the journal’s standard formatting, referencing, anonymisation, and ethical requirements.
- Authors should clearly explain how their manuscript contributes to the Special Issue’s focus on artificial intelligence and intercultural communication.
- Submissions will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process. Inclusion in the Special Issue cannot be guaranteed and will depend on the outcome of peer review.
- Authors may be invited to revise their manuscripts following editorial screening and peer-review feedback.
- Abstracts are not required in advance of full manuscript submission.
- The anticipated publication date for the Special Issue is August 2027.