Digital environments have generated a vast ecosystem of literary and para-literary production, including fan fiction communities, transmedia projects, Alternate Reality Games, Wiki-based Storyworlds, and countless hybrid forms that challenge older taxonomies. At the same time, social platforms such as Reddit, TikTok, Substack, and Wattpad have become powerful engines for the creation and circulation of American stories, shaping new forms of canonicity and counter-canonicity outside beyond traditional institutions. These developments raise critical questions about authorship, readership, identity, participation, and power—particularly in relation to the diverse communities that constitute the Americas.
Moreover, digital humanities approaches, archival reconstruction, and data-driven methodologies are redefining how marginalized histories are recovered and how narrative justice can be pursued across North, Central, and South America as well as the Caribbean. The digital sphere has become a contested terrain in which representation, access, and inequality intersect with innovation, creativity, and cultural reinvention.
This issue seeks to examine the cultural, political, and aesthetic implications of these shifts. We welcome scholarship that explores digital literature, online narrativity, platform-based storytelling, and digital cultural production in the Americas from interdisciplinary perspectives.