Call for Papers: Transforming Passions6th International Geomedia ConferenceSeptember 17-19, 2025Karlstad, Swedenhttps://www.kau.se/en/transformingpassions Deadline for submissions of proposals for individual papers, thematic panels, audiovisual essays, workshops or paper sessions: April 14, 2025 Passion is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only joy and intense emotional investment but also pain and suffering. Passion’s significance in the realm of media, visual cultures and artistic practices serves as a driving force behind the relationship people develop with technologies, platforms, content, and forms of creation, as well as with places, territories and other spatial formations. The rise of digital media has amplified a cultural turn to…

Call for Abstracts: 20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?20th Anniversary International ZeMKI ConferenceCentre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI)October 23-24, 2025University of BremenBremen, Germanyhttp://zemki.uni-bremen.de/futures Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2025 Media and communication research has traditionally focused on the present, often asking: What are the consequences of each “new” medium? How do digital media and their infrastructures impact contemporary cultures and societies? With this conference, however, we aim to shift the perspective—from analyzing present-day impacts to envisioning future possibilities. What can we learn from the current mediatization and datafication of society…

Call for Papers: Beyond Artificial: Exploring the Socio-Emotional Landscape of AISpecial issue of Communication and Change (C&C)https://link.springer.com/journal/44382/updates/27706964 Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2025 Communication and Change (C&C) is accepting submissions to a forthcoming special issue themed “Beyond Artificial: Exploring the Socio-Emotional Landscape of AI.” Dazzling – and daunting – are the possibilities in a future where love, friendship, and even our sense of self might be redefined by the machines we create. Even today, conversational agents and digital personal assistants are increasingly participating in daily lives throughout technologically advanced societies. And as enthusiastically as they are being embraced currently, the…

Call for Papers: 19th European Conference on Game Based Learning (ECGBL 2025)Nord University, Norway [and online; see NOTE below]October 1-3, 2025http://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecgbl/ecgbl-call-for-papers/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 12, 2025 NOTE: ECGBL 2025 will primarily be a physical event in Norway, but there will be an option to present online for those unable to attend in person. OVERVIEW Game-Based Learning (GBL) has significantly transformed how education and training are delivered. The ECGBL provides a unique opportunity for scholars and practitioners to share their research and insights on GBL. Papers are invited on a broad range of topics, including but not limited…

Call for Papers: Videogame TheoryA special issue of Media Theoryhttps://mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp-videogame-theory/ Deadline for submission of abstracts and bio statements: February 1, 2025 Media Theory is an independent (scholar-led), online and (libre) open access journal of peer-reviewed, theoretical interventions into all aspects of media and communications. This special issue will commission articles on videogame theory from scholars in the humanities and social sciences, especially those working in the field of videogame studies. Videogame scholars have drawn on a range of theories to analyse and interpret the medium, including affect theory (Anable 2018), queer theory (Ruberg 2019), visual theory and critical race theory…

Call for Papers: Image, Imagination, Communication: Exploring the Ethical as Natural or Artificial, Real or SurrealMay 28-30, 2025Duquesne Universityhttps://www.duq.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools/liberal-arts/departments-and-centers/communication-and-rhetorical-studies/conferences.php Deadline for submissions of abstracts: April 1, 2025 The 18th Biennial Communication Ethics conference and the Silver Jubilee Anniversary Conference (2000-2025) of the International Communicology Institute will explore current research on the “image” and “imagination,” broadly conceived, across the human sciences. Our focus is on the phenomenological, semiotic, rhetorical and ethical foundations of communication in the experience of embodied thinking, speaking and inscribing. We seek to explore the frontiers of natural and artificial sign-systems, encounter diverse manifestations of concrete reality and…