CALL FOR PROPOSALS Animex Research and Innovation Conference April 17-18, 2023 Teesside University, UK Hybrid Conference: In-Person and Online https://www.tees.ac.uk/animexconference/index.cfm Submission deadline: January 6, 2023 We are delighted to announce the inaugural Animex Research and Innovation Conference. The Animex Research and Innovation Conference is the latest addition to the Animex family and brings students and practitioners together from across the animation, games and VFX landscape to share their research in these disciplines. TOPICS We are seeking proposals for a variety of formats from animation, games and VFX. All related proposals will be considered but we encourage you to consider the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Trusting and Distrusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature University College Dublin, Ireland June 7-9, 2023 https://trustlit.org/conference-2023/ Keynote Speakers: Prof. William Davies (Goldsmiths, University of London) Prof. Ellen Rutten (University of Amsterdam) Submission deadline: February 13, 2023 This conference aims to connect two prominent scholarly conversations of the contemporary moment: concerning, on the one hand, the ways in which the digital age has shaped (and been shaped by) human trust relations; and on the other, how digital technologies have intersected with the traditions and practices of imaginative literature. We seek to bring together scholars interested in either…

Call for Papers THE STRUGGLE IS (FOR) REAL: CULTIVATING AUTHENTICITY IN THE “BEREAL” AGE Flow Volume 29 Special Issue 4 https://ecrea.eu/page-18206/13024948 Deadline: January 13, 2023 The viral popularity of BeReal prophesizes the next generation of social media and social sharing platforms. The image-centric sharing platform, launched in 2020 by Alexis Barreyat and Kevin Perreau, promotes itself as a platform for people who hate social media. The platform’s 10 million active users receive a daily notification reminding them it is “time to BeReal” while allowing two minutes to snap their current moment. Already recognized as the “antidote to social media fakery”…

Call for Papers InfoDesign – Special issue Information design and technology https://infodesign.org.br/infodesign/announcement/view/24 Submission deadline: February 28, 2023 For some time there has been a growing interest in investigating the use of technology in various activities and areas of information design, both in physical and digital environments. As technology becomes more interconnected and indispensable in our everyday lives, this has become an important and urgent area of research. With this special issue, we aim to bring together contributions that focus primarily on the relationship between information design and technology, and report on emerging issues within this topic. Related topics include, but…

Call for Papers Special Issue of Moral Philosophy and Politics on “The Future of Work, Play, and Education in the Metaverse” https://mopp-journal.org/go-to-main-page/calls-for-papers/ Guest Editors: Nir Eisikovits (Director, Center for Applied Ethics, UMass Boston) James Hughes (IEET Executive Director and Associate Provost, UMass Boston) Alec Stubbs (UMass Boston Post-Doctoral Fellow) Submission deadline: July 1, 2023 With Facebook’s rebranding to Meta in 2021, the concept of ‘the metaverse’ became a ubiquitous term overnight, inviting both excitement and intense skepticism about the possibilities of our digital future. Broadly speaking, ‘the metaverse’ refers to the emerging online network of three-dimensional, virtual worlds facilitated by…

Call for Papers Reti, saperi, linguaggi – Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences Special Issue: Making Visible: Bodies, Environments, and Apparatuses Editors: Prof. Chiara Cappelletto and Giulio Galimberti Call: https://groups.google.com/g/ISR-HPS-STS/c/nptBBleJh80 Journal: https://www.rivisteweb.it/rivisteweb/journaldetails/index/issn/2279-7777 Submission deadline: September 4, 2023 Dear all, in this special issue of Reti, saperi, linguaggi, a peer-reviewed A-ranked journal released by Il Mulino, we want to address the topic of imaging technologies. Sixty years ago new visualization strategies came to the public floor displaying “pictures” of our living bodies and our cerebral and reproductive functions. These strategies make visible– that is, they visibilize–biological processes that are not visual per…