Call for Papers Leisure and TechnologiesSpecial issue of Leisure Studies Special Issue Editors:Damion Sturm (Massey University, NZ) – d.sturm@massey.ac.nzGarry Crawford (Salford University, UK) – G.Crawford@salford.ac.uk Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 20, 2024 This special issue explores the relationship between leisure and technology. With contemporary leisure activities often deeply shaped, if not potentially determined, by technological advancements and developments, a broader understanding of leisure and technology is required. This special issue looks to probe some of the ways in which technologies underpin, influence, infringe upon and/or furnish creations, opportunities for and expressions of leisure, while also contemplating how these affordances…

Preliminary Call for Full and Short Papers UMAP 2025 – The 33rd ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and PersonalizationJune 16-20, 2025New York City, NYhttps://www.um.org/umap2025/call-for-papers/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 23, 2025Deadline for submission of papers: January 30, 2025 ACM UMAP is the premier international conference bringing together research in AI and HCI to support effective human-AI collaboration via interactive systems that can model, adapt and personalize to their users. The conference is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code…

Call for Papers International Communication Association (ICA) 2025Pre-conference: Media, Trust & TechnologyJune 11, 2025, 9:00am-4:00pmUniversity of Colorado (CU) Boulderhttps://www.icahdq.org/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2025 The question of trust in media is one of the major questions of our times. The Edelman Trust Barometer has surveyed trust in media for over 20 years, and Gallup has surveyed trust in news since the 1970s. Debates about political polarization, hyper-partisanship, mis- and dis-information and propaganda all point to questions about trust in media in general, and in the news media in particular. With traditional media business models in a period of…

Call for Abstracts Beyond Anthropocentrism: Non-human Agents and Objects in ScienceFor 2025 issue of the journal Spontaneous Generationshttps://www.acpcpa.ca/articles/call-for-abstracts-beyond-anthropocentrism-non-human-agents-and-objects-in-science Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 31, 2024 Spontaneous Generations graduate journal for the history and philosophy of science and technology at the University of Toronto, invites abstract submissions for 2025’s issue on non-human agents and objects in science. We invite submissions from the history of science, philosophy of science, and science and technology studies broadly construed. A description of the issue’s topic and submission details follows. Traditional studies of science focus on human theorizing and human actions while viewing non-human factors…

Call for Papers Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual ConferenceTheme: “Reframing Togetherness”June 3-6, 2025George Brown College, Toronto, ONhttps://acc-cca.ca/index.php/conference/cca-2025-june-3-6-toronto/https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025 Deadline for submissions: December 2, 2024 The Canadian Communication Association invites submissions for its annual conference, to be held from June 3 to 6, 2025 as part of the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS; https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025), at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario. The conference will feature a keynote talk by Professor Sarah Sharma (https://sarahsharma.com/) from the University of Toronto. The theme for Congress 2025 is Reframing Togetherness. CFHSS writes: “As the first college to host Congress,…

Call for Papers Fifth annual International Conference on Games and Narrative (ICGaN 25)Theme: Adapt, Adopt, Adjust: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Adaptation, Storytelling and SimulationMarch 3-6, 2025Hosted by the Games Institute, University of WaterlooWaterloo, Ontario, Canada [Also online]https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/international-conference-games-and-narrative-2025 Deadline for submissions: November 20, 2024 Below are some details from the CfP, but please also check out the website as there is more discussion and description of the theme and types of submissions we are looking for there. THEME & TOPICS We are looking for interdisciplinary work understanding adapted and adaptive experiences, narratives, mechanics, and gameplay. Some example topics include: Narrative and design…