Issue # 48 / 2025

Imagining the future: artificial intelligence (AI) for philology, communication and its didactics in the context of transmodernity

Monographic section coordinated by PhD Eva García Beltrán

Presentation

n recent years we are witnessing the rapid evolution of a technology that means a before and after in all fields of knowledge: generative artificial intelligence. In academia, AI is redefining cognitive, communicative and didactic structures in all disciplines, and linguistics, philology and communication disciplines (audiovisual, journalism, advertising and public relations) are no exception. 

In this monographic section of our academic journal, we address an interdisciplinary analysis of the impact of AI on the study of linguistics, literature and communication, as well as on its emerging pedagogical practices. This is within the framework of transmodernity, as coined and conceptualized by Rosa María Rodríguez-Magda, that is, in a context marked by hybridization and technoculture. 

It proposes to examine how AI-based technologies are transforming discourse interpretation and production, textual analysis methods and educational practices in the field of philology and communication. From a transdisciplinary perspective, we seek to integrate innovative theoretical and methodological approaches that respond to the current challenges of the digital era.

Thematic areas

• The impact of language models and automated text generation on literary theory and philology.

• New forms of text creation and reception in AI-mediated environments.

• Transformations in digital communication and its relation to cultural production and media ecosystems.

• The role of AI in the teaching of languages, literature or communication and in innovative didactic strategies.

• Ethical, epistemological and ontological aspects of AI in the study of language and communication.

• Other issues about the influence of AI on the production, analysis or teaching of language, literature, journalism, film, video games, advertising, corporate communication, etc.  

IWe invite researchers and academics to reflect on the future of philology and communication in an era dominated by the convergence of the human and the artificial. We aspire to generate a space for critical and purposeful dialogue that, from diverse disciplinary perspectives, will contribute to a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities that artificial intelligence poses for the humanities and education.