Call for Papers: From Adolescence and Adulthood: Uncovering Youths’ digital practices in a continuously changing worldMedia International Australia Journal Special Issuehttps://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/CfP%20From%20Adolescence%20and%20Adulthood_Q2%202026-1744054262703.pdf Editing team: Bruce Mutsvairo, Moa Eriksson Krutrök and Tanja Bosch Deadline for full draft submissions: July 31, 2025 Research on the appropriation of digital platforms and their impact has grown rapidly over the last two decades. Although research on digital platforms has expanded, there remains a gap in understanding how young adults specifically navigate, appropriate, and experience digital technologies. In recent research, only a few of these studies have taken a special interest in the use of digital technology…

Call for Papers: 1st workshop on BEAR: Benefits of pErsonalization and behAvioral adaptation in assistive RobotsAt the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2025)Eindhoven, The Netherlands [and online] BEAR Workshop:August 28 (tentative)https://bear-workshop.github.io/website/ RO-MAN 2025:August 25-29, 2025https://www.ro-man2025.org/ Deadline for submissions: May 30, 2025 We are delighted to invite you to submit your papers to the 1st workshop on BEAR: Benefits of pErsonalization and behAvioral adaptation in assistive Robots), which will be held at the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2025), in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in August 2025.…

Call for Papers: Concept Art and Character Design: Critical and Creative PerspectivesJuly 18, 2025University for the Creative Arts (UCA)Farnham, Englandhttps://cacd2025.edublogs.org/ Deadline for submission of abstracts and bio statements: May 30, 2025 The School of Games & Creative Technology at UCA, Farnham, is delighted to be hosting a one-day conference on Friday 18 July 2025, exploring the role of concept art and character design in the culture industries. Concept art is gaining increasing cultural, creative and academic recognition. This once-invisible aspect of development and production is acquiring increasing presence across many branches of the entertainment industry, including animation, videogames, comics and…

Call for Contributions: 7th International Conference on Creative\Media/Technologies (IConCMT)November 25-27, 2025St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (UAS)Pölten, Austriahttps://iconcmt.fhstp.ac.at/call-for-contribution Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 2, 2025 The 7th International Conference on Creative\Media/Technologies (IConCMT) will take place at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (UAS) from 25 to 27 of November 2025 offering exchange in multiple research areas within the field of media & digital technologies. This year we also celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Institute of Creative Media Technologies! To foster the exchange between various disciplines in the huge field of digital media, the IConCMT intentionally puts its…

Call for Papers: Symposium on Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR): Methods, Theories, and ReflectionsAugust 5-7 , 2025University of Zurich, Switzerlandhttps://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/divisions/computational-social-and-communication-science/CVMR25.html Deadline for submissions of panel presentation proposals and registration: May 8, 2025 As visual communication becomes increasingly central to digital culture, understanding how to analyze and interpret visual media at scale is both a methodological and theoretical challenge. The Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR) symposium brings together scholars working at the intersection of computation, theory, and critique to explore innovative approaches to the study of visual media. This three-day symposium aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and methodological innovation in response…

Call for Papers: Dancing (with technology)For the Fall 2026 issue of Intermediality. History and Theory of the Arts, Literature, and Technologieshttp://intermedialites.com/en/call-for-papers-no-48-dancing-with-technology-danser-avec-la-technologie/ Guest Editors:Hilary Bergen, The New SchoolPhilippe Bédard, Independent Scholar Important Dates:Deadline to submit proposals: June 7, 2025Announcement of selected proposals: June 30, 2025Submission of completed texts for peer review: December 1st, 2025Publication of accepted texts: Fall 2026 Isadora Duncan⎯fin de siècle pioneer of modern dance—believed that only the movement of the “naked” (unshod, unmediated) human body could be considered natural and therefore hold value. Duncan was fixated on stripping dance to its core instrument—the singular human form (Daly 1994).…