Call for Submissions: International Conference on Impact of Innovative, Disruptive and Emerging Technologies on Audiences and Society (IDEAS 2026)August 3-4, 2026Manchester, UKhttps://ideas-conference.org/ Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2026 New and disruptive technologies are rapidly transforming how people live, work, and connect, how organisations operate and perform, and how communities, societies and their interactions are managed and governed. For individuals, such technologies offer unprecedented access to information, new forms of communications, greater convenience in everyday life and new career opportunities, just to name some, but also raise concerns such as privacy, digital fatigue and job displacement. Organizations benefit from increased efficiency…

Call for Papers: The Palgrave Handbook of Virtual Reality Literature (Re-CFP)Palgrave Macmillanhttps://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/06/the-palgrave-handbook-of-virtual-reality-literature-re-cfp Editors: Anik Sarkar and Ratul Nandi Note: This is a call for additional essays. Deadline for submissions of abstracts: February 10, 2026 About the book: A discernible surge in scholarship on virtual reality appears imminent on a global scale. Even as the materialization of long-imagined science-fictional imaginaries is undeniably compelling, it is an equally crucial task to approach these transformations critically, probing the implications and consequences of our constructed realities as they enter new experiential paradigms. Virtual Reality may encode, enhance, and reconstruct real-life experiences, unveiling new avenues…

Call for Submissions: 6th International Media and Society Symposium (MASS 2026)“Transformations of Reality in the Post-Truth Era”May 14-16, 2026Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey (and online)https://mass.istinye.edu.tr/en Deadline for submissions of abstracts: April 15, 2026 The Faculty of Communication at Istinye University is pleased to announce the 6th International Media and Society Symposium (MASS 2026), to be held on May 14-15-16, 2026, under the main theme “Post-Truth.” The event will feature academic sessions, exhibitions, and workshops in a hybrid format (online and on-site). Researchers conducting original theoretical or applied studies, as well as practitioners and artists producing creative works through digital technologies, are…

Call for Proposals: IFM 20256: 8th Interactive Film and Media Annual ConferenceJune 9-12, 2025Via Zoomhttps://journals.library.torontomu.ca/index.php/InteractiveFilmMedia/cfphttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2025-all/msg01843.html Deadline for submissions: Monday, January 19, 2026 (extended) The 8th Interactive Film and Media Conference is excited to announce its Call for Proposals centered around the provocative and multifaceted theme of “Yet-To-Be-Known.” We live in trying times. Cascading crises—from climate collapse to social injustice to political upheaval—mean that uncertainty is a defining condition of our moment. But we need not see the horizons before us as insurmountable. Interactive Film and Media invites proposals for its eighth conference that engage with the yet-to-be-known.…

Call for Chapters: Beyond the Empathy Machine: Critical Perspectives on Virtual RealityA book edited by the “VR as Empathy Machine: Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament” Research Group at Utrecht Universityhttps://vrmigration.sites.uu.nl/2025/12/18/call-for-papers-beyond-the-empathy-machine-critical-perspectives-on-virtual-reality/ Editors: Professor Sandra Ponzanesi (s.ponzanesi@uu.nl), Dr. Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang (j.a.m.evang@uu.nl), Dr. Wouter Oomen (w.a.oomen@uu.nl), Laurence Herfs (l.l.herfs@uu.nl), and Lisa Burghardt (l.burghardt@uu.nl) Deadline for submissions of abstracts: February 15, 2026 Over the last decade or so, Virtual Reality (VR) has been honed as a new frontier in social tech. From Chris Milk and Gabo Arora’s invocation of VR as “the ultimate empathy machine” to the claims of VR as…