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Month: December 2024

  • Call: Chapters for “Fantasy geographies: Tourism, worldbuilding, heritage, meaning-making, ecologies and futures”

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    Call for Chapters: “Fantasy geographies: Tourism, worldbuilding, heritage, meaning-making, ecologies and futures”http://commlist.org/archive/all/2024-all/msg01792.html Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2025 Edited by Jane Lovell, Evgenia Amey, Stijn Reijnders, Nitasha Sharma and Nicola MacLeod We invite abstract chapter submissions of 1000 words for a new volume on geographies of fantasy, to be submitted by 31 January 2025. The volume welcomes interdisciplinary viewpoints and encourages submissions from authors based in different geographical regions. PURPOSE OF THE BOOK This book aims to bring a significant new addition to critical tourism studies, dealing with an economically, culturally and environmentally significant topic that is yet…

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  • Virtual reality: A ‘flight simulator’ for dental students

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    [This story from New York University (NYU) provides a vivid example of how presence-evoking technologies can be more effective than traditional training tools and methods, in this case in the field of dentistry. The flight simulator comparison is a compelling way to emphasize their role and value. Also note (in the last section) the development of more realistic custom controllers to enhance presence. See the original story for five more images. –Matthew] [Image: NYU dental student Kaitlyn Re (right) practices giving an injection alongside fellow student Dhwani Thakkar (left). Credit: Jonathan King] Virtual Reality: A ‘Flight Simulator’ for Dental Students…

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  • Call: “Communication and Artificial Intelligence” issue of Communication and Society

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    Call for Papers “Communication and Artificial Intelligence”Communication and Society Journalhttps://nordmedianetwork.org/latest/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-communication-and-artificial-intelligence/ Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2025 Thematic Editors: Alberto Sá (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal) and Luis Miguel Pedrero (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain) Artificial intelligence stands as one of the foremost technological challenges of our time. With its considerable benefits in performing numerous tasks and processing vast amounts of information, the automation enabled by artificial intelligence has been acknowledged as a means to enhance productivity, minimise human error, conserve resources, and boost operational efficiency. Across sectors such as industry and healthcare, artificial intelligence is regarded with optimism, representing a…

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  • VR (and presence) to enhance Purdue U. Hospitality and Tourism Management courses

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    [A professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management is exploring another application of presence-evoking virtual reality for enhancing students’ learning experiences, and presumably outcomes. As a doctoral student in this story from Purdue University notes, “I think the biggest gap VR devices can help overcome, especially for HTM students, is the distance between the classroom and the real workplace.” See the original version of the story for five more images. –Matthew] [Image: Shawn Jung, assistant professor in the White Lodging-J.W. Marriott, Jr. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, instructs his event planning class before attempting virtual reality exercises last spring in…

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  • Call: Sound on Screen IV conference

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    Call for Papers: Sound on Screen IVJune 24-26, 2025Online / Oxford Brookes Universityhttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2024-all/msg01759.html Deadline for submission of abstracts and bios: January 24, 2025 PLEASE NOTE THE UPDATED FORMAT AND DATES: The conference will now be fully online on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th June for individual papers, and in-person and hybrid on Thursday 26th June. For the final day, we invite three-paper panel proposals on any topic and position papers on the broader discipline and direction of screen music and sound studies. Individual papers are warmly invited for the opening two days only. The Sound on Screen research network at…

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  • Virtual reality might finally be socially acceptable

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    [This short essay from How-To Geek provides an important reminder about how far attitudes among the general public have come toward the use of the most well-known presence-evoking technology. See the original version of the story for three more images. –Matthew] Virtual Reality Might Finally Be Socially Acceptable By Sydney Butler, Editor, Hardware and Cutting Edge TechnologyNovember 27, 2024 When I first tried modern VR in 2016, it was a niche technology that drew plenty of mainstream ridicule. Today, things are very different, and no one has to be embarrassed about having a good time in a virtual world anymore.…

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