CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, WORKSHOPS, ARTWORKS AND PERFORMANCES DRHA –the 26th Annual Conference for Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts September 4-7, 2022 Kingston School of Art, London, UK https://www.drha.uk/2022/ Deadline extended until April 30th, 2022 DRHA –the 26th Annual Conference for Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts –will bring together artists, scholars, educators, curators, digital researchers, and entrepreneurs interested in the ways digital technology intersects with the arts and humanities. The 2022 conference theme is ‘Digital Sustainability’ in light of the immediate challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the longer-term shadow of climate catastrophe. Since its…

[Note: For other HICSS tracks and minitracks related to presence see https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/ –Matthew] Call for Papers Mediated Conversation minitrack https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ HICSS – Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 3-6, 2023 Hyatt Regency Maui, Hawaii, USA http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Submission deadline: June 15, 2022 Dear colleague, We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Mediated Conversation minitrack. This minitrack focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media. Conversations are at the core of human communication. Mediated conversations can use text, emoticons, audio, images, or video, or any combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on conversations…

Call for Panelists “Training the Trainer: Best Practices for Virtual Meeting Platforms” At NCA 2022, the 108th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association November 17-20, 2022 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA https://www.natcom.org/nca-108th-annual-convention-honoring-place-people-liberation-advocacy-community-and-environment Submission deadline: March 28, 2022 Panel organizer and chair: Penny Joyner Waddell, PennyJoynerWaddell@gmail.com Regardless of whether you are involved with a business, K-12 education, community college, technical college, or a university, professional development is expected and required by most industry leaders. Responding to NCA’s 2022 Theme of PLACE, this training session will address Community, Environment, and Location as it pertains to training and development. Post-COVID, virtual meeting platforms…

Call for Panelists “Virtual Reality in the Communication Studies Classroom” At NCA 2022, the 108th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association November 17-20, 2022 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA https://www.natcom.org/nca-108th-annual-convention-honoring-place-people-liberation-advocacy-community-and-environment Submission deadline: March 27, 2022 Panel organizer and chair: Lori A. Walters-Kramer, Monmouth College, lwalterskramer@monmouthcollege.edu My colleagues and I want to organize a panel that centers on the use of Virtual Reality in educational contexts (the classroom, the Speech Lab, etc.). Examples of possible topics include but are not limited to the following, using VR to familiarize students with different communication contexts (public speaking, group, interpersonal), helping students address their…

Call for Participation LA ACM SIGGRAPH Presents… Visions of the Metaverse 2022: Powering the Metaverse: The Hardware Platforms Date: Tuesday, 12 April 2022 Time: 7 – 9pm PDT Location: Zoom Virtual Event https://lasiggraph.org/event/powering-metaverse-hardware-platforms DESCRIPTION: Join Host/Moderator Larry Rosenthal, Vice Chair of LA Siggraph, as they welcome Industry Leaders from the Companies that are creating, building, and selling the tools for the Metaverse.  April’s webinar will focus on the Hardware systems, and May’s webinar will focus on the Software and tool Platforms. Both Webinars will be presented via Zoom and have a Live VR Meet-and-Greet afterwards online in the LA SIGGRAPH…

Call for Papers for Minds and Machines Special Issue on Computing Cultures: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives Following the 6th History and Philosophy of Computing Conference (HaPoC) Conference https://www.springer.com/journal/11023/updates/18800754 Guest Editors: Juan Luis Gastaldi (ETH Zurich) and Luc Pellissier (Université de Paris-Est Créteil) Submission deadline: June 28th, 2022 Digital machines of the 20th century were inspired by the biological individual, replacing the cultural and social image of machines from the 19th century with a solipsistic mental one. However, the growing cultural import of computing practices has become ever more pressing with the spectacular deployment of computers in all the dimensions of…