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  • About: Somatechnics Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal that explores the complex interplay between bodies, technologies, and society. The journal focuses on the study of how bodies are shaped, understood, and experienced in relation to various technologies and cultural practices. It offers an interdisciplinary platform for critical and theoretical engagement with the ways in which corporeality is constituted, transformed, and regulated through technological, medical, cultural, and social interventions.
  • Objective: The primary objective of the Somatechnics Journal is to advance scholarly discussions on the intersections of embodiment and technology. The journal publishes original research articles, theoretical essays, and reviews that address topics such as the politics of the body, gender and sexuality studies, biopolitics, posthumanism, medical humanities, disability studies, and digital cultures. It encourages contributions that critically analyze the ways in which bodies are mediated, modified, and represented through various technological and cultural lenses.
  • Impact and Audience: The journal caters to a wide range of scholars and practitioners across disciplines including cultural studies, sociology, gender studies, anthropology, philosophy, and media studies. By providing a forum for innovative and critical scholarship, the Somatechnics Journal seeks to foster dialogue and debate about the implications of somatechnics for understanding the body in contemporary culture. The journal is valuable for those interested in exploring the ethical, social, and political dimensions of embodied experiences in relation to technology and society.

  • Editor-in-Chief:  Dr Holly Randell-Moon,

  • Scope: Somatechnics Journal is an interdisciplinary academic journal that explores the relationships between bodies, technologies, and society. The journal provides a critical platform for examining how bodily experiences are shaped and reconfigured by social, cultural, and technological influences. Somatechnics is dedicated to the scholarly investigation of the dynamic interplay between the human body and various forms of technology, broadly defined, including digital media, medical technologies, and social practices.
    1. Critical Body Studies: Articles that investigate the ways in which bodies are socially constructed and subject to various forms of governance, regulation, and transformation. This includes explorations of bodily norms, representations, and the impact of societal structures on physical experiences.
  • 2. Technology and the Body: Research on how emerging technologies—such as biotechnology, prosthetics, wearable devices, and digital media—interact with, alter, or redefine the human body and its capacities.
  • 3. Gender and Sexuality: Studies that explore the intersections of gender, sexuality, and technology. This includes critical examinations of gendered and sexualized bodies in relation to technological advancements and media representations.
  • 4. Posthumanism and Transhumanism: Articles discussing philosophical, ethical, and cultural implications of posthuman and transhumanist theories. Topics may include the enhancement of human capabilities, the merging of organic and inorganic matter, and the conceptualization of identity and agency in a technologically mediated world.
  • 5. Disability Studies: Research focused on the relationship between disability, embodiment, and technology. This includes the role of assistive technologies in redefining abilities and the social and political implications of technological interventions on disabled bodies.
  • 6. Medical Humanities: Articles that critically engage with medical technologies and practices, examining how medical interventions, treatments, and discourses shape bodily experiences, identities, and ethics.
  • 7. Cultural and Social Theories of the Body: Studies examining how cultural narratives, social practices, and ideological constructs influence perceptions and treatments of the body in contemporary and historical contexts.
  • 8. Queer and Feminist Technoscience: Research exploring the intersections of queer theory, feminist theory, and science and technology studies. This includes analyses of how technological advancements challenge or reinforce existing gender and sexual norms.
  • 9. Digital and Virtual Embodiment: Articles focused on how digital and virtual environments (e.g., social media, virtual reality) influence understandings of the body, identity formation, and social interaction.
  • 10. Surveillance and Control: Studies investigating the role of technology in monitoring, regulating, and controlling bodies within various institutional, political, and social frameworks.
  • 11. Race and Ethnicity: Research addressing the intersections of race, ethnicity, and technology, particularly in relation to the body and identity politics. This includes analyses of how technological practices and representations are racialized.
  • 12. Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Articles examining the ways in which biopolitical and necropolitical frameworks—how societies manage life and death—impact bodies, identities, and technological practices.
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  • Print ISSN:  20440138

    Electronic ISSN:   20440146

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  • Subject Area and Category:   Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Medicine, Anatomy, Social Sciences, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Law, Sociology and Political Science

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  • Cite Score:  1.7

  • SNIP:  0.644

  • Journal Rank(SJR):  0.362