Call for Proposals: Museums Computer Group (MCG)’s Museums+Tech 2026 ConferenceTheme: Using our spaces for authentic interactionsNovember 27, 2026M Shed – Princes Wharf, Wapping Rd, Bristol BS1 4RN, United Kingdom and Onlinehttps://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/mcg-museumstech-2026-using-our-spaces-for-authentic-interactions/ Deadline for submission of proposals: June 29, 2026 Something that unites and affects all museums is place. Some museums are sited where they are to help tell the story of the place they are in, occupying the sites of former works or heritage buildings. Others are designed to tell our stories to the people in and around the place they are in, such as many of our cherished local…

[Note that this journal requires a publication fee, which may be payable by your institution. For more information see the last section below. For general information about publication fees, see AJE Scholar’s “Understanding Submission and Publication Fees” and Wikipedia’s entry on Article Processing Charges. –Matthew] Call for Papers: AI-Mediated Communication: Emotion, Interaction, and Public MeaningA thematic issue of the journal Media and Communicationhttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/issue/futureissues#i577 Editor: Don Shin (Texas Tech University) Important dates: Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 1-15, 2026 Submission of full papers: October 15-30, 2026 Publication of the Issue: January/June 2027 ABOUT THE ISSUE This thematic issue examines how…

Call for Papers: Lockdown and its (Digital) AfterlivesMedia, Infrastructure, and Everyday Life in Regenerative PerspectiveA preconference of AoIR 2026, the annual conference of the Association of Internet ResearchersOctober 13, 2026Hyatt Regency HotelMexico City, Mexico[From a May 19, 2026 post by Eszter Zimanyi on the AoIR mailing list] Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 15, 2026 In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic instantiated waves of lockdowns of varying severity across the globe. As nations struggled to reach consensus over how to best contain and manage the spread of the highly contagious and deadly disease, tech entrepreneurs and platform companies positioned their digital…

Call for Papers: Hypermedia Warfare and Techno-Legal Entanglements: Media, Technology, and Legal Perspectives on Contemporary Conflict Zones (Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan)July 10, 2026, 9:30–18:00Audit Room, King’s CollegeCambridge Digital HumanitiesUniversity of CambridgeCambridge, UKhttps://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41366/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 30, 2026 (extended) Convenors: Ryan Heuser, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, Cambridge Digital Humanities Wesam Amer, CDH Affiliate and Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Professor of Law, University of Cambridge DESCRIPTION The last years have witnessed intense and overlapping global conflicts, in particular in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan – each with distinct geopolitical contexts but shared patterns in the intersection…

Call for Book Chapters: Scary Levels: Designing Fear in Games and Interactive Mediahttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2026-all/msg00722.html Editor: Zlatko Bukač (Assistant Professor, Department of English Studies, University of Zadar, Croatia) Deadline for submissions of 400-500 word proposals and short bio statements: July 1, 2026 Space and place continuously serve as sources of inspiration in video games and various other interactive media, within which they have a specific way of representing and operationalizing fear and dread. Interactive works can turn fear into a set of narrative and game design sequences that are problems and solutions for the experience of playing and reading. For example, how…

Call for Participation: Human-Machine Narration (HMN) Seminar: Methods, Storytelling, and Generative AIOctober 6-9, 2026Aarhus University’s Sandbjerg EstateSouthern Denmarkhttps://necs.org/news/events/hmn-seminar-methods-storytelling-and-generative-ai Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 15, 2026 The aim of this interdisciplinary scholarly retreat is to bring together researchers from all fields working with the intersection of AI and storytelling to reflect on and discuss how we study narratives that are no longer authored, circulated, or experienced exclusively by humans. New practices of storytelling are emerging and existing ones are transformed with the popular uptake of LLM-based chatbots across professional, public, and recreational settings. Today, LLM-infused storytelling impacts all forms of…