Call for Papers: Digital Social SciencesAn International, Peer-Reviewed, Open-Access Journalhttps://digitalsocialsciences.com/DSS [and a direct submission to ISPR] Digital Social Sciences (DSS) invites original, unpublished, and high-quality research articles examining the relationship between digital technologies, human experience, and society. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers, academics, and practitioners working across the social sciences, humanities, law, communication, and technology studies. We particularly welcome research exploring how digital and immersive technologies shape human perception, interaction, communication, social relationships, and experiences of presence in contemporary society. AREAS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PROCESS DSS welcomes…

[NOTE: See descriptions of the BAFTSS Special Interest Groups (SIGS) for more information about the organization’s scholarly focus, which includes topics relevant to presence. –Matthew] Call for Proposals: British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Conference 2027April 11-12, 2027Newcastle upon Tyne, Englandhttps://www.baftss.org/conference-2027-info.html Deadline for submissions: November 6, 2026 The 2027 edition of the annual conference and awards ceremony of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies will be held in Newcastle upon Tyne at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Monday 12 – Wednesday 14 April. The Conference Organizing Team now invites proposals for individual presentations, pre-constituted panels…

Call for Papers: A Dance of Perception: The Symbiosis of Image and SoundInternational Visual Sociology Association Conference 2027Cardiff, WalesJune 30 – July 3, 2027https://visualsociology.org/2027-ivsa-conference-cardiff-wales-uk/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 30, 2026 The IVSA Conference 2027 invites us to reflect on the intricate ways in which image and sound intertwine in shaping our understanding of society. Visual sociology not only employs images and image-making in practice, research and analysis, but also studies how visual culture itself constructs and reflects social life. Yet images rarely exist in silence. Whether in film, performance, digital media, ritual, or daily encounters, intentional or ambient…

Call for Papers: Games, Gamification, Media Literacy and Transformation in Educational ContextsThe International Journal of Games and Social Impact – Vol. 5, No. 4https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijgsi/announcement/view/263 Guest Editors: Ana Filipa Oliveira (Universidade Lusófona, CICANT, Portugal); Marisa Mourão (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, CICANT, Portugal); João Léste (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, LINC-Design, Brazil); Bieke Zaman (KU Leuven, Belgium) Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 20, 2026 We currently live in a deeply polarised media ecosystem, in which the speed and volume of information pose new challenges to citizens’ critical capacities (Tucker et al., 2018). In a world dominated by…

Call for Papers: Immersive Media in/of CrisisA conference organized by the VR as Empathy Machine research group at Utrecht University (Professor Sandra Ponzanesi, Dr. Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang, Laurence Herfs, Lisa Burghardt, and Dr. Wouter Oomen)May 24-26, 2027Utrecht, Netherlandshttps://vrmigration.sites.uu.nl/news-and-events/ Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2027 Immersive Media in/of Crisis will bring together interdisciplinary scholars to explore the various intersections between immersive media and crisis, ten years after the much-heralded framing of Virtual Reality (VR) as the “Ultimate Empathy Machine.” We invite contributions that thematize the notion of crisis across multiple valences—from delineating the imaginaries of immersive media as the ultimate…