Call for Papers – Welfare and Digital: Opportunities, Challenges, and Innovations – WeE 1/2026
The call for papers “Welfare and Digital: Opportunities, Challenges, and Innovations“, edited by Giuseppe Luca De Luca Picione, Gabriella Punziano, and Domenico Trezza, is now open.
Selected contributions will be published in issue no. 1/2026 of the Welfare e Ergonomia journal, published by FrancoAngeli and recognized as Class A by Anvur.
The digital revolution is radically transforming welfare, redesigning tools, processes, and governance models. Digital platforms, social media, artificial intelligence, and big data are opening new possibilities for access, participation, and innovation, but they also pose crucial challenges in terms of transparency, privacy, and equity. This call aims to stimulate theoretical and empirical contributions, as well as case studies, that address these themes from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives.
Deadlines
- Abstract (max 3,000 characters, including spaces): submission by September 25, 2025 to the address: welfarergonomia.rel@irpps.cnr.it.
In case of acceptance, the full article (maximum 25,000 characters including spaces) must be submitted by January 20, 2026.
Topics of Interest
Proposed topics include:
- Impacts of digitalization on social and socio-health policies
- Digital data governance in welfare services
- The role of social media in the transformation of welfare
- Digital exclusion and new inequalities
- Technologies and participatory co-design
- Socio-technical and ethical risks in the use of digital data
- Digital data quality and future scenarios.
