Digital transformation of social theory | Virtual Special Issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change Introduction Steffen Roth, Harry F. Dahms, Frank Welz, and Sandro Cattacin: Print theories of computer societies. Introduction to the digital transformation of social theory ICT and the increasing availability of digital data are dramatically changing the processes of research and knowledge production in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). Whereas the methodological momentum in digital humanities and computational social sciences is already immense, theory development in the SSH is much less dynamic and consists mainly of digital resurrections of the classics of our fields. The contributions to this virtual special issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change do, therefore, not constitute efforts at presenting new social theories of the digital transformation, but rather, efforts at digitally transforming social theory. This introduction presents an overview of the topic and the contributions and outlines key elements of a research agenda on the digital transformation of social theory. Articles Marinus Ossewaarde: Digital transformation and the renewal of social theory: Unpacking the new fraudulent myths and misplaced metaphors Emrah Karakilic: Rethinking intellectual property rights in the cognitive and digital age of capitalism: An autonomist Marxist reading Karl Palmås: From hacking to simulation: Periodizing digitally-inspired social theory José Javier Blanco Rivero: The fractal geometry of Luhmann’s sociological theory for debugging systems theory Steffen Roth: Digital transformation of social theory. A research update Jean-Sébastien Guy: Digital technology, digital culture and the metric/nonmetric distinction Matthias Wenzel and Matthias Will: The communicative constitution of academic fields in the digital age: The case of CSR Click here for abstracts and links to the articles: https://wp.me/pvO07-1oK ***** Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Steffen Roth Full Professor of Management, La Rochelle Business School, France Research Professor of Digital Sociology, Kazimieras Simonavičius University in Vilnius, Lithuania URL: http://derroth.org ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-601X ***** CFP | EURAM 2020 in Dublin | Standing Track on Management and Organization Theory: https://wp.me/pvO07-1o9 BIG DATA INSIGHTS into social macro trends (1800–2000): A replication study @TFSC: https://wp.me/pvO07-1oy HARNESSING BIG DATA for a multifunctional theory of the firm @EMJ: https://wp.me/pvO07-1m5 GOVERNMENT.COM? Multifunctional cabinet portfolio analysis of 201 national governments @JOCM: https://wp.me/pvO07-1mF CSR BEYOND ECONOMY AND SOCIETY. A post-capitalist approach @J Bus Ethics: https://wp.me/pvO07-1gv