Call for Papers: GamiFIN 2026: 10th Annual International Conference on GamificationMarch 23-27, 2026Saariselkä, Lapland, Finlandhttps://gamifinconference.com/call-for-papers-2026/ Deadline for submissions for ACM-published entries, including Research articles, Posters, Work-In-Progress (WIP) papers, and Demonstrations: October 27, 2025 Deadline for submissions of presentation-only entries, including Posters, WIP papers, Demonstrations, and Doctoral consortium notes: January 5, 2026 We are celebrating our 10th Anniversary, and as part of our celebratory year, we are introducing a new publisher of the proceedings: ACM-ICPS. GamiFIN 2026 conference welcomes submissions of the following types: Research articles, Posters, Work-In-Progress (WIP) papers, Demonstrations, and Doctoral consortium notes, as well as extended abstracts for special…

Call for Chapter Abstracts: Games and Nostalgia for the Futurehttps://digra.org/call-for-book-chapters-games-and-nostalgia-for-the-future/ Edited by Richy Srirachanikorn Deadline for submission of abstracts (750 words): November 3, 2025 Scholars and artists, whose works touch on nostalgia, memory, ‘old’ technology, and video games are invited to submit abstracts for an edited volume. The editor is currently finalizing with Play Story Press and Psychgeist to be the publisher. Note: Authors do not have to pay to submit the abstracts, and if accepted, have their chapters published. WHY VIDEO GAMES, NOSTALGIA, AND “FOR THE FUTURE”? Video games and nostalgia share an interesting overlap. They are culturally recognizable…

Call For Papers: Touch Screen. Imaginaries of Hapticity in Audiovisual MediaComparative Cinema Nº 26 (Summer 2026)https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/announcement/view/240 Deadline for submissions: January 30, 2026 In the preface of The Address of the Eye (1992), Vivian Sobchack demands an opening towards phenomenology, a need to transcend the psychoanalytic and Marxist perspectives that had dominated film theory until then, and that had “obscured the dynamic, synoptic, and lived-body situation of both the spectator and the film” (1992, xvi). Through the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sobchack led a cinematographic way of thinking focused on affect—and in consonance with the “affective turn” that has been bolstered…

Call for Participants: Recruiting Participants for a Research Study of Users’ Relationships with Social AI ChatbotsFrom air-l, the e-list of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2025-September/194951.html From Peter RoyalSeptember 22, 2025 Dear colleagues, I’m a PhD candidate in communication at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) working on my dissertation on human-AI communication and relationships, advised by Dr. Steve Jones. I’m seeking to interview current or former users of social AI chatbots. Please see the attached flyer or the description below for key details about the study. I would be very grateful if you would share this with your networks.…

Call for Papers: Early Digital Multimedia in MotionThematic section of Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS)https://www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/313 Guest editors:Fred Pailler (fred.pailler@uni.lu)Valérie Schafer (valerie.schafer@uni.lu)Alina Volynskaya (alina.volynskaya@uni.lu) Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 5, 2025; full papers due March 1, 2026 This thematic section aims to examine the convergence and migration of technologies, standards, content, and practices that underpinned the digital transition and the emergence of/multimedia/in the 1980s and 1990s. The term became a 1990s buzzword, referring at once to the convergence of different media formats (audio, video, text, graphics), a broad category of “new media” applications (digital encyclopedias, virtual museums, interactive games, and…