Call for Papers Critical Studies in Media CommunicationFORUM – A Century of Propaganda Studies: From Pen and Sword to Surveillant Smartphonehttps://t.co/IZ2qDU7ime Editors:Emma L. Briant, Ph.D., Monash University, AustraliaMarc O. Jones, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Qatar Submission deadline: December 13, 2024 This Forum marks what has been, arguably, a century since the birth of modern Propaganda Studies: the flurry of scholarship that followed as a reaction to the rise of fascist and Stalinist propaganda use in Europe at a time of developing mass media. Propaganda is the deliberate use of organized communications to influence an audience or audiences to achieve political, or…

[NOTE: As with virtual reality’s long and continuing evolution, I’d argue that the answer to the question to be addressed at this event will impact but not negate the progression of presence experiences available to scholars and the public. –Matthew] Call for Papers Are we about to experience another AI Winter?A symposium of the 2025 convention of the UK Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)January 14-16, 2025Bristol, UKhttps://easychair.org/cfp/AISB-25AIW Deadline for submission of short papers and abstracts: November 11, 2024 The history of AI reflects many periods of novel technological development, followed by hyperbolic…

Call for Proposals Big Pictures edited collection on creative interventions in the built environmenthttps://www.instagram.com/wilsondesignkpu/p/DA9jXNSyQIR/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 30, 2024 We are excited to announce that we are currently seeking submissions for an edited collection of essays and imagery focusing on creative interventions in the built environment. Drawing from the themes showcased in the Big Pictures conferences (2023 and 2024), the publication will feature work exploring the role of murals, billboards, public art, and interactive projects in creating meaningful experiences in urban spaces. Potential themes could include, but are not limited to: Activating temporary and transitional public spaces…

Call for Papers Technotext: Text and Technology in Literature, Linguistics, and MediaIssue 26 (March 2025) of INTERFACE – Journal of European Languages and Literatureshttps://interface.org.tw/index.php/if/pages/view/CallforPapers26 Guest Editors:Charlène Clonts (Kyushu University)Claudio Sansone (National Central University) Deadline for submissions: December 30, 2024 The relationship between text and technology is as ancient as human civilization. Perhaps the first step might be the stone tools used to edge cave paintings or/and the formulas of oral literature. Later writing technologies (hieroglyphs, syllabaries, alphabets, etc.) revolutionized the way humans record, disseminate, and preserve knowledge, as their enabling the transformation of text into object they also enabled innovations…

Call: Chapters for “The Effects of Community on Game Play and Design” [NOTE: The earlier Call can be found in a June 2024 ISPR Presence News post. –Matthew] Dear colleagues, Please see the below CFA/CFP for an ongoing edited collection/book project. The project has undergone a refocusing from its initial title (“Git Gud”), so we are recirculating the CFA/CFP with a new December deadline to provide colleagues another opportunity to submit. There is now a clearer understanding of submission expectations and adjustment to the volume’s scope, which is now more explicitly focused on community and its role in game play,…

Call for Abstracts and Artistic Submissions Creative Machines and Minds Without Life: Critical Detachment and Disengaged FuturesA Cybioses Study Circle/Symposium organized by the Nordic Summer University (NSU)March 5-8, 2025“Augmented Performance Lab” at Aalborg University CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmarkhttps://www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-2-cybioses-life-in-the-future-imperfect/ Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2025 As part of the study circle/symposium series Cybioses – life in the future imperfect, organized as part of the Nordic Summer University (NSU; https://www.nsuweb.org/), we are pleased to announce a call for abstracts and artistic submissions for our symposium on “Creative Machines and Minds Without Life”. Invitation We invite scholars, artists, students, technologists, and other professionals working or…