Focus and Scope

Teknokultura (ISSN-e 1549-2230) covers the growing central role of technology within communication and social mobilisation contexts taking a critical view. It looks at the complex ways in which technology and new social communication media, in their role as significance systems, can restructure social, economic, political and cultural life, especially in the Ibero-American context, without excluding works that represent relevant experiences in other geographical areas. To this end, it offers lines of discussion on these issues through articles intended to disseminate the results of original research and innovative trials.

Keywords

activism; communication; digital culture; new social media; social change

Publication Frequency

Teknokultura is a digital publication which operates under an online first publication model. The journal will be published with a periodicity of 2 issues per year: January-June and July-December. The first issue will appear in June and the second in December. In addition, on an extraordinary basis, the journal may propose to Ediciones Complutense the publication of special issues.

Claims Procedure

Teknokultura is committed to providing detailed justifications for its editorial decisions and proffers all authors with a full copy of external evaluations. If an author considers that their article/submission has been unfairly or inadequately evaluated they are welcome to make their reasons known to the editorial committee at the following email address: direccion@teknokultura.net. The editorial committee will evaluate all such claims and communicate their decision and motives to the author.

Ethical Statements and Best Practices Guide

It is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing. Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors

Publication decisions

The persons responsible for taking the decision about which articles are published are section editors, editor and the direction, according to our editorial proccess. Reviewers have a key role in the deccission making proccess but the ultimate responsibility falls on the editorial board.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone who's not involved in the editorial proccess: author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers.

Open Academic Publication Network

Declaration for an Open Academic Publication Network (RPA – Red de Publicaciones Académicas Abiertas)

The RPA connects a set of digital journals, which without desiring to lose their individual independence and editorial goals, join to form a meeting place for thought and collaboration with those who wish to join it. In the saturated market of journals on thought, the network seeks to create its own niche from which to extend a free, open, independent publication culture interested in ideas, and active in the diffusion of innovative, heterodox, and diversified ideas.

Our founding charter includes the following goals and aspirations:

  • Collaborate in the creation and maintenance of a professional, academic network connecting publishers, scholars and authors for the purpose of shared diffusion of knowledge and social action.
  • Understand and assume heterodoxy in its various manifestations as an alternative to the dominant paradigms. It is not a matter of rejecting the dominant paradigms in themselves, although it is implicit an in-depth critique, but the dogmatic nature they assume when they are so widespread that they become a reference for setting the standard for what must be, thereby inhibiting choices for criticism and possibilities for suggesting alternative ways of being in scholarship, knowledge and common social practice.
  • Channel concerns, action, thought and the products of thought which lack their own space for diffusion or either conflict with or do not fit in with the editorial dictates of the journals that form the “impact market”. Indexing is alright as an option for visibility, but not as a way of weighting the value of their ideas according to bibliometric criteria based exclusively on a quantitative analysis and not on an analysis of their content.
  • Exclusive publication in open access systems, ensuring free access by researchers and those interested in the products of thought and human action.
  • Application of a principle of diversity in published material, including, if so desired, academic products as well as other relevant records of social action fostering reflection presented in formats and ways other than the conventional structures of scientific narrative (like image and sound files, performance records, dynamic dialogue modes, e.g., tweets, posts, blogs, etc., essays, biographical notes and other literary genres).
  • Search for quality in published material as tested by assurance systems that do not restrict free expression of thought or impose predetermined values on thought structures and systems. Conscientious editorial review, consultation with experts or peer review may be methods of ensuring quality, as long as they maintain a decisive commitment to promotion of free thought. Freedom to judge, but within a guarantee system intended to ensure quality without leaving the author, as the weakest piece in the market of intellectual production, unprotected: When in doubt, the author should decide.

Code of Conduct and best practice

The journal Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales abides by the Code of Conduct and Good Practices established by the Complutense University of Madrid for journals published by Ediciones Complutense in the Complutense Scientific Journals Website. The aim of the code is to ensure the scientific quality of publications and the adequate response of the editorial teams to the needs of readers, authors and reviewers. Works that do not comply with these ethical standards will be rejected.

Sources of Support

  • Alberto Corsín Jiménez
  • Adrián Gil
  • Ángel Gordo López
  • Antonio Lafuente
  • Albert García Arnau
  • Alberto Bonilla
  • Alejandra Val Cubero
  • Alvaro Moya Pérez de Aguado
  • André Sören
  • Ane Abarrategi Zaitegi
  • Bárbara González
  • Barbara Biglia
  • Blanca Callén Morei
  • Baltasar Fernández Ramírez
  • Beatriz Layunta Maurel
  • Capitolina Diaz
  • Carlota Neris González
  • Heidi Figueroa
  • Cláudia Casimiro
  • Celia Díaz Catalán
  • Chris Hables Gray
  • Concepción Gómez Esteban
  • Carlos Prieto
  • César Rendueles
  • Conchi San Martín
  • Flora Bacquelaine Vidal de Llobatera
  • Steven Mentor
  • Dimitris Papalopoulus
  • Dante Reis
  • Diana Fernández
  • Jordi Pinyol Mercadé
  • Eduardo Díaz Coello
  • Elena Rodríguez San Julián
  • Elisenda Úbeda Albós
  • Andrés Lomeña Cantos
  • Emilio López-Galiacho Carrilero
  • Enric Dolcet Pastells
  • María Lozano Estívalis
  • Esteban Sánchez Moreno
  • Eva Puche
  • Fernando Aguado Basabe
  • FA2 SALUD Y ARTE SL
  • Francisca Blanco Moreno
  • Lucía Ferreiro Prado
  • Francis Serrano
  • María José Gámez Fuentes
  • Gabriel Navarro Carretero
  • Agustín Linares
  • Héctor Puente Bienvenido
  • Heriberto Cairo Carou
  • Igor Sádaba Rodríguez
  • Ilana Mountian
  • Cristina Martínez Casas
  • Ivonne Moreno-Velázquez
  • Jose Pinheiro Neves
  • Juan Jacobo Nájera Valdez
  • Jan De Vos
  • Javier de Rivera
  • Jesús Manuel Pérez
  • Jose Luis Fernández-Pacheco Sáez
  • José Antonio Liébana Checa
  • José María Ormazabal
  • José Ignacio Bozano Herrero
  • Josep Seguí Dolz
  • Jaime Pastor Verdú
  • Juan Carlos Ballesteros
  • German Labrador Mendez
  • Teresa Marín García
  • Sara Olivé
  • Laura García de Salazar
  • Nicole M. Vélez Agosto
  • Lucía Benítez Eyzaguirre
  • Lucila Finkel
  • Luis Mancha
  • Lupicinio Íñiguez Rueda
  • José Manuel Sánchez Duarte
  • Manuel Azarola
  • Manuel Juan Barbera Bernal
  • Mario Socolovsky
  • Fernando Álvarez-Uría
  • Mario Domínguez
  • Marisela Montenegro
  • Mariano Fernández Enguita
  • Miguel Angel Martínez López
  • Millán Arroyo
  • Joan Pujol Tarrés
  • María Isabel Menéndez Menéndez
  • Natalia Feijóo
  • Nuria Jolis Olive
  • Pablo Cobo
  • Francisco Seoane Pérez
  • Alejandro Zaballos Samper
  • Yanjia Guo
  • Paloma González Díaz
  • Pilar Albertín Carbó
  • Julia Varela
  • Pilar Parra
  • Jorge Fernández
  • Richard Cleminson
  • Rafael Heiber
  • Ramn Sangüesa Solé
  • Rosa Borge Bravo
  • Roberto Rodríguez
  • Rubén Arriazu
  • Víctor Sampedro Blanco
  • José Antonio Sanahuja
  • Silvia Sánchez
  • Sonia Puente
  • Tomás Cano López
  • Victoria Anderica
  • Cristina Cuenca García
  • Adolfo Estalella
  • Yago López Losada
  • Julia González Alonso

Interoperability protocol

Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales provides an interface OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that enables interoperability between different platforms and repositories through the exchange of metadata.
Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0
Metadata formats: Dublin Core Metadata; MARC; MARC21; RFC1807
URL for harvesters: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/oai for publication and those published previously in other sources. In the event of plagiarism, the manuscript will be rejected.