Call for Papers: 2025 Zip-Scene Conference on Immersive StorytellingTopic: Hunting for Attention: Interactive Digital Storytelling in Fragmented Attention LandscapesOctober 23-25, 2025DOX: Centre For Contemporary ArtPrague, Czech Republichttps://conf.zip-scene.com/ Submission deadline: July 1, 2025 Immersive storytelling productions often deploy multisensory inputs—such as visuals, sound, touch, and even smell—to create a multidimensional experience that captures and sustains attention. By placing the audience or experiencer at the center of the narrative, these experiences encourage active participation and decision-making, which deepens engagement. Technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality, and games oftentimes expand the boundaries of traditional storytelling, allowing for intricate world-building and for a strong…

Call for Papers: “TRUST: Building Trust in Human-Robot Interaction”A full-day SCRITA and RTSS Workshop at IEEE RO-MAN 2025August 29, 2025Eindhoven, The NetherlandsTRUST 2025 Workshop: https://scrita.herts.ac.uk/2025/RO-MAN 2025 Conference: http://ro-man2025.org/ Deadline for submission of papers: June 30, 2025 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES The TRUST workshop is the result of a collaboration between two established workshops in the field of Human-Robot Interaction: SCRITA (Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction) and RTSS (Robot Trust for Symbiotic Societies). This joint initiative brings together the complementary goals of these workshops to advance research on trust from both the human and robot perspectives.…

Call for Papers: “How Does Artificial Intelligence Change Communication?”Special Issue of Journal of Language and Social Psychologyhttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/jls/callforpapers Editors:Dr. Andrea L. Guzman (Northern Illinois University)Dr. Bingjie Liu (Ohio State University)Dr. Renwen Zhang (National University of Singapore) Deadline for submission of abstracts: August 1, 2025 GOALS AND FOCI How we study and understand the social psychology of language is rapidly changing with the growth of AI. This special issue of the JLSP focuses on scholarship that addresses the conceptual and theoretical questions regarding how artificial intelligence (AI) changes communication practices and research. We invite submissions from scholars in the fields of communication,…

Call for Papers: “The Future of Sound: Memories, Networks and Artificial Intelligence”Thematic Section of the journal Revista Comunicando Thematic editors: Cláudia Henriques (Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)Teresa Costa Alves (Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Deadline for submission of full texts: October 15, 2025 We live in a time in which digital technologies, with a special emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI), have profoundly redefined practices associated with the sound universe, memory and sharing in a collective context. The processes of creation, circulation and archiving of sound content are no…

Call for Applications: gamevironments 2025 Research DayTheme: Video Games and Our FuturesOctober 22, 2025Hybrid: University of Bremen, Germany and onlinehttps://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/gvresearchday Deadline for applications (CV and 500-word abstract): June 30, 2025 The gamevironments Journal is hosting the 4th Annual Research Day (three previous workshops were hosted by the International Academy for Study of Gaming and Religion, IASGAR). Exclusively for early-stage researchers, graduate students, and doctoral students, the workshop welcomes research on all aspects of games and gaming, including media-centered as well as actor-centered approaches, perspectives of game developers and publishers, and viewpoints of gamers. The gamevironments Research Day 2025 offers a…

Call for Papers: Future of Magazine International Conference: (Re)Thinking Magazines: Challenges and OpportunitiesOctober 29- 31, 2025Lusófona UniversityLisbon, Portugal [and online]https://maglab.cicant.ulusofona.pt/fom-2025 Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 9, 2025 (extended) MagLab is pleased to announce the open call for the second edition of the biennial Future of Magazine (FoM) international conference, organized by CICANT, Lusófona University’s research center, taking place from October 29 to 31, 2025. The conference will feature paper presentations, poster sessions, and a remote panel, offering multiple formats for sharing and discussing original research. The most outstanding contributions will be invited to develop their work for publication in…