Special Issue of Contracampo on “Immersive processes in Media Culture”

Over many decades of study in various fields of knowledge, ideas like “dive into an ocean”, “drifting”, “losing touch with reality”, among others, were used as metaphors for immersion in addition to a connotation nearly to the idea of absorption and attentional engagement on an activity. However, especially with the growth and access to new technologies in the construction of hybrid increasingly worlds, studies of immersion have been gaining new perspectives and different theories about the phenomenon have been revisited.

Thus, our interest with the proposal for a special issue on “Immersive processes in media culture” is to include the most recent studies on the phenomenon of immersion in various fields of knowledge production. We are interested in understanding the different approaches to immersive processes through the media and their methodological consolidations for the understanding of the phenomenon.… read more. “Call: “Immersive processes in Media Culture” – Special issue of Contracampo”

A Call for Papers/Presentations

DCRC presents: Autonomy & Automation: Robotics, AI and the Digital Cultural Future
A One Day Seminar at DCRC (Digital Cultures Research Centre, Bristol, UK)
Saturday March 8, 2014
airobotics.dcrc.org.uk

Through a curiously ambivalent wave of media attention, robotics and AI have emerged as major topics for media and cultural research. Accounts of drones and surveillance applications sit alongside promises of beneficial medical and social uses of ‘helpful’ robots and intelligent systems. All symptomatic of an increasing uncertainty around the character of technoscience and the technocultural transformation it hastens onward.

This one day seminar seeks to contribute toward the placing of robotics and AI firmly on the critical agenda via an interdisciplinary approach bringing humanities, science and technology studies into dialogue.

In doing so it will respond to questions around autonomy and automation that robotics and AI developments are posing today in social, cultural, political and military registers.… read more. “Call: Autonomy & Automation: Robotics, AI and the Digital Cultural Future (DCRC Seminar)”

Call for Abstracts for the 3rd Lund Conference on
Games, Interaction, Reasoning, Learning & Semantics
(G.I.R.L.S.14@LUND):
Evolution and Cooperation

Lund, Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science,
April 28-30, 2014
Sponsored by the Lund Research Group on Information and Information Quality (LU-IQ)

The 3rd Lund Conference on Games, Interaction, Reasoning, Learning and Semantics (G.I.R.L.S.14@LUND) welcomes submissions from researchers in philosophy, cognitive science, economics & linguistics, using agent based models with bounded rationality, models of evolutionary dynamics, and other naturalistic approaches. The primary conference aims are to foster cooperation between these groups and help establish common ground.

G.I.R.L.S. 14@LUND will be themed around Evolution and Cooperation.

Invited speakers (pending):

• Anna Dreber Almenberg (Department of Economics, Stockholm Schools of Economics, Sweden) http://sites.google.com/site/annadreber/
• Agneta Gulz (Lund University Cognitive Science, University of Lund, Sweden) http://www.fil.lu.se/person/AgnetaGulz
• Jason McKenzie Alexander (Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics, UK) http://evolve.lse.ac.uk/jalex/Home.php

Call for Papers

Eighth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
IEEE ICSC2014

June 16th-18th, 2014, Newport Beach, CA, USA

http://www.ieee-icsc.org/

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society

The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation of semantic information from content and the connection of semantics to knowledge, where “content” may be anything including structured data, video, audio, text, hardware, software, process, etc.

The Eighth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2014) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying emerging research topics and defining the future of the field. The event is located in Newport Beach, California at Hyatt Regency Newport Beach.… read more. “Call: IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2014)”