5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

The advent of digital technology has been associated with profound alterations of professions, lives, and identities of young people, and has resulted in extensive and impactful societal shifts. Youth sociology in the digital era is pivotal, including to understanding the dynamics that will shape the future landscape of global community. Viewed through this lens, we can discern the seeds of social change, conflicts and identify the challenges that must be surmounted to ensure a successful integration of technology and society.

We invite authors from particularly from sociology, and related disciplines, to contribute empirically grounded, theoretically novel and analytically robust research centering around the theme of the production and reproduction of youth in the digital era.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Intergenerational relations and conflicts in the digital era
• New professions and the employment of the youth in the digital era
• New forms of production and social relations among youth in the digital era
• Young migrant workers in the digital era
• Gendered performance and emotional labor in the digital era
• Algorithmic management of labour in the digital era
• Lifestyles, and values of youth in the digital era
• New phenomena associated with e-commerce and socialmedia (e.g., live-streaming sales, online matchmaking, online gaming, etc. )