Author: Matthew Lombard
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Call: “Revisiting Agenda-Setting Theory in the Age of AI” issue of Communication and Change
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Read more: Call: “Revisiting Agenda-Setting Theory in the Age of AI” issue of Communication and ChangeCall for Papers: Revisiting Agenda-Setting Theory in the Age of AIA special issue of the journal Communication and Changehttps://link.springer.com/journal/44382/updates/27740956 Deadline for submission of abstracts and author information: June 30, 2025 (full papers by October 1, 2025) This special issue of the Springer open-access journal Communication and Change is edited by Lei Guo, Professor of Communication at Fudan University and Associate Editor of Communication and Change, alongside Chris Vargo (guest editor), Associate Professor of Advertising, Public Relations, and Media Design at the University of Colorado Boulder and Editor-in-Chief of The Agenda Setting Journal. David Weaver, Distinguished and Roy W.…
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‘An ideal tool’: Prisons are using virtual reality to help people in solitary confinement
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Read more: ‘An ideal tool’: Prisons are using virtual reality to help people in solitary confinement[A powerful, positive application of presence is described in this story from The Guardian about the use of virtual reality experiences of the outside world for prisoners in solitary confinement. See the original version for five more images. –Matthew] [Image: Credit: Courtesy of Creative Acts] ‘An ideal tool’: Prisons are using virtual reality to help people in solitary confinement Participants view scenes of daily life as well as travel adventures – then process the emotions they trigger through art By Abigail GlasgowMarch 8, 2025 One Monday in July, Samantha Tovar, known as Royal, left her 6ft-by-11ft cell for the first…
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Call: “Doing Family with Digital Platforms” issue of MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research
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Read more: Call: “Doing Family with Digital Platforms” issue of MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication ResearchCall for Abstracts: Doing Family with Digital PlatformsSpecial issue of MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Researchhttps://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/announcement/view/1255 Deadline for submissions: May 14, 2025 Families are increasingly connected through digital platforms and are currently living in what has been referred to as ‘the platform society’ (Erstad et al., 2024; van Dijck et al., 2018). In the platform society, state and commercial platforms influence the organization of our lives. These new forces create new possibilities and challenges for families that must learn to use and navigate platforms as part of their family life; a life that is “increasingly structured according to platform…
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How immersive tech is making St. Peter’s Basilica more accessible in person, online and for the future
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Read more: How immersive tech is making St. Peter’s Basilica more accessible in person, online and for the future[This story from National Geographic, but identified as independently produced for Microsoft, describes how the creation of a detailed digital twin is being used to provide new presence experiences of St. Peter’s Basilica in both in-person exhibitions at the famous landmark and online for people around the world. See the original version of the story for 11 different images. For more information see a Vatican News story that includes a 1:01 minute video (also available on YouTube). Two more short videos are also available on YouTube here and here. –Matthew] Immersive technology reveals new views of St. Peter’s Basilica Advanced…
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Call: “The Challenges of Technology for Humanity” at Canadian Jacques Maritain Association Symposium
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Read more: Call: “The Challenges of Technology for Humanity” at Canadian Jacques Maritain Association SymposiumCall For Papers / Appel De Communications: Canadian Jacques Maritain Association / L’association canadienne Jacques MaritainAnnual Spring SymposiumTheme: The Challenges of Technology for HumanityIn conjunction with the Canadian Philosophical Association and Congress for the Humanities and Social SciencesJune 1-4, 2025George Brown CollegeToronto, Ontario, Canadahttps://www.maritain.info/spring-meeting-cfp Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 30, 2025 We live in a time that is experiencing rapid technological change. The advances in Artificial Technology, robotics, medicine, telecommunications, and space travel, to name only a few examples, are directly impacting human life in ways inconceivable only a decade ago. Our societies are being impacted by these new…
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AI-cloned voices could be added to virtual reality to help patients in pain
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Read more: AI-cloned voices could be added to virtual reality to help patients in pain[A group of medical researchers has proposed using a new combination of presence-evoking technologies to provide personalized emotional support and distraction to reduce the levels of pain experienced by patients. This story from the Association of Health Care Journalists provides some of the details and includes links to more information. –Matthew] [Image: Source: Getty via MobileHealthNews] AI-cloned voices could be added to virtual reality to help patients in pain By Karen BlumFebruary 14, 2025 When you’re in physical pain, listening to loved ones and looking at relaxing scenes may help comfort you and take your mind off of your ailments.…
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Call: 2nd International Colloquium on Positive Psychology, Wellbeing and Spirituality
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Read more: Call: 2nd International Colloquium on Positive Psychology, Wellbeing and SpiritualityCall for Papers: 2nd International Colloquium on Positive Psychology, Wellbeing and SpiritualityJune 16-18, 2025Turku, Finlandhttps://linnas.fi/kurssit/icppws/ Deadline for submissions of 300-word abstracts: April 1, 2025 Following on from the success of the inaugural international and interdisciplinary colloquium in Bhubaneswar, India in January 2023, the international PWS research group (Positive Psychology, Wellbeing and Spirituality) will be holding a second academic gathering in TBA, Finland in June 2025. This blind peer reviewed conference will focus on developing greater in-depth understanding of PWS, the interconnectivity between the PWS disciplines and the praxis that engenders high quality PWS organizational outcomes. Across all disciplines and workplace…
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Paradox Museum takes guests through a 21st century funhouse of mind-boggling (presence) illusions
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Read more: Paradox Museum takes guests through a 21st century funhouse of mind-boggling (presence) illusions[This AP story describes not only the presence-evoking Paradox Museum, with “more than a dozen” global locations including Miami, but the increasing popularity and variety of “immersive art experiences” available to the public. See the original version of the story for 13 more images and a 1:43 minute video. For more information, see the Paradox website and the website of the Museum of Illusions (which has over 60 locations). –Matthew] Paradox Museum Miami takes guests through a 21st century funhouse of mind-boggling illusions By David FischerFebruary 4, 2025 MIAMI (AP) — Art gallery, science exhibition and 21st century funhouse, Paradox…
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Call: Creative AI Exploration and Imagination: Innovative Methods for Alternative Digital Futures Workshop
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Read more: Call: Creative AI Exploration and Imagination: Innovative Methods for Alternative Digital Futures WorkshopCall for Contributions: Creative AI Exploration and Imagination: Innovative Methods for Alternative Digital FuturesSeptember 25-26, 2025Leipzig University, Germanyhttps://tinyurl.com/5n8e7ptn Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2025 Are you exploring the intersections of citizen engagement, futures methods and artificial intelligence? Do you experiment with arts-based and/or participatory futures methods to reimagine digital futures? We invite you to share your work at our upcoming show-and-tell workshop. IDEA AND BACKGROUND Artificial intelligence (AI) and other types of digital technologies are deeply intertwined with the everyday lives of citizens, yet their underlying conditions and consequences often remain invisible or difficult to grasp. Many people experience the…
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How virtual reality (and presence) is adding a new dimension to dining
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Read more: How virtual reality (and presence) is adding a new dimension to dining[Several of the projects described in this story from Forbes incorporate vivid presence experiences into dining in creative ways (the first one and the last one, Kitchen Memories, sound particularly intriguing). But as one expert is quoted as saying, “No one has really cracked the code on how to apply VR in the world of food… this is only the rotary phone of what’s to come.” See the original version of the story for four more images and follow the links for more information. –Matthew] [Image: Diners await their first bite-size course during Epic.Now at New York’s Michelin-starred Icca. Credit:…
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Call: Communication and the Future Division at National Communication Association 2025
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Read more: Call: Communication and the Future Division at National Communication Association 2025Call for Submissions: National Communication Association (NCA) 111th Annual ConventionCommunication and the Future DivisionNovember 20-23, 2025Denver, Colorado, USAhttps://www.natcom.org/111-annual-convention/https://www.natcom.org/call-for-submissions/ Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2025 The Communication and the Future (CATF) Division is dedicated to exploring communication research as it intersects with future-oriented thinking. The Communication and the Future Division accepts a variety of topics and methods: Be it critical, interpretive, qualitative, or quantitative, the division seeks to synthesize examinations of new communication issues in conjunction with established theories in the field. *Our field remains committed to inter/multidisciplinary projects that may bridge interests from a number of divisions or interest groups.…
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MASA presence: Sesame AI chatbot is “crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice”
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Read more: MASA presence: Sesame AI chatbot is “crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice”[A new chatbot from Sesame AI is evoking new levels of medium-as-social-actor presence. As noted in coverage by ZDNet, the company’s goal is “to achieve something called ‘voice presence’ or the ‘magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued.’” The first-person report from TechRadar below is typical of reactions in coverage from ZDNET, PCWorld, The Verge and Beebom. Several writers make comments like this one from Mike Elgan in Machine Society: “It’s the closest thing to a relationship AI, as in the 2013 Spike Jonze movie ‘Her,’ starring Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix.” Read more about, and…
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