Digital technologies are restructuring how cultural works are created, circulated, experienced, managed, and governed. Research on digital culture often examines these changes within separate domains, which can obscure the connections between creative practice, platform communication, industrial organization, and cultural governance. This Special Issue brings these dimensions into a shared analytical frame and examines digital transformation as a reconfiguration of cultural production and communication across institutions, markets, platforms, and regions.

The issue welcomes original empirical, conceptual, and comparative studies on digital performing arts, AI-supported and embodied forms of cultural production, platform-mediated arts communication and audience participation, digital cultural heritage, cultural management and talent development, governance and policy responses, and the international circulation of cultural content. Particular attention is given to research that links technological change to observable shifts in artistic practice, organizational arrangements, communication processes, public participation, or institutional design. Studies of Macao and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are encouraged when they generate questions and findings that speak to wider international debates.

Associated with the Lin Fong International Cultural Forum 2026 at City University of Macau, the Special Issue creates a focused venue for research that connects cultural-industry transformation with arts and communication scholarship. It seeks work that explains how digital systems reorganize cultural value, participation, and institutional action across diverse cultural settings