Abstract This editorial introduces the special issue, Proceedings of LCR Forum 2025: Innovations and Emerging Technologies in Media Arts . Moving beyond instrumental views of technological progress, this transdisciplinary collection interrogates emerging technologies, such as generative AI, algorithmic infrastructures, and mixed reality, as complex sites of power, visibility, and sociopolitical negotiation. The eight featured articles span diverse sociocultural contexts, exploring phenomena including TikTok algospeak, YouTube participatory endorsement, human-machine affective interaction, AI-generated post-digital personas, gendered illness narratives, political satire, and the interactive remediation of sacred history. Grounded in methodologies like multimodal discourse analysis, affect theory, and critical design fiction, the contributions examine how digital publics both reproduce and resist algorithmic regimes. In its entirety, this issue illuminates the dynamic entanglement of human agency and machine affordances, emphasizing the enduring, irreplaceable value of human consciousness in an increasingly automated communicative landscape.
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