[Note: See especially the second-to-last bullet-pointed topic. –Matthew] Call for Papers Digital Battlefields: Communication Technology, Conflict, and the Struggle for Global Attention Journal of Communication Technologyhttps://www.joctec.net/special-issue-calls Submission deadline: September 1, 2024 The Journal of Communication Technology (ISSN 2694-3883), the official journal of the Communication Technology division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is pleased to announce a Special Call for Papers for an issue on Digital Battlefields.  Note: If you submitted a manuscript to the previous special issue call on “The Digital Armed Conflict: The Battle for Ukraine Online,” please submit it again to be considered…

Call for Abstracts “Sense of Reality: Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition” WorkshopSeptember 26-27, 2024Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris (and online)https://sites.google.com/view/sense-reality-workshop-2024 Submission deadline: August 1, 2024 Dear colleagues, On behalf of the organizers, Lucas Battich (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Francesca Righetti (RUB), and myself (Sofiia Rappe, RUB), I would like to announce a call for papers for the upcoming hybrid workshop “Sense of Reality: Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition.” There is more to perception than mere sensory contents: we typically have the feeling that what we perceive is real and not, for example, merely imagined. We have a sense of reality.…

Call For Abstracts Body Augmentation: Possibilities of Identities and Technology in/of Video Games ConferenceOrganized by MultiPlay – The Network for Multidisciplinary Research on Digital Play and GamesFree and onlineOctober 28, 2024https://multiplaynetwork.org/call-for-papers/ Submission deadline: August 30, 2024 As is tradition for MultiPlay, we have a special horror related conference for the end of October. This time we are focusing on the monstrous (and liberational!) possibilities of body augmentation through video games. We welcome abstracts from utopian and dystopian perspectives, on the real life hardware capabilities or upon representations of augmentation within games. We are currently seeking abstracts related to body augmentation,…

Call for Papers and AbstractsThe 8th Image Schema Day Workshop (ISD8)At the 23rd conference of the Italian Association of Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA)November 25-28, 2024Bozen-Bolzano, Italyhttps://isd8.imageschema.net/ Submission deadline: September 1, 2024 The ISD workshop series has had 7 amazing previous editions and as chairs of The Image Schema Network are very happy to announce that the 8th edition has been accepted to the workshop program of the 23rd conference of the Italian Association of Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA). As in previous years, ISD8 is a networking event that invites researchers on image schemas, conceptual primitives and spatiotemporal reasoning from various scientific disciplines…

Call for Participation and Contributors Immersive Experience Network Summit 24October 21, 2024Londonhttps://immersiveexperience.network/huddle-events/live-immersive-experience-summit-24/https://immersiveexperience.network/immersive-summit-24-contributors/ IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE SUMMIT 24 A gathering of creators of live immersive, interactive and playable experiences to meet, exchange knowledge and foster new collaborations and connections. THE SUMMIT Join us at the Immersive Experience Network Summit 24, an event designed as a catalyst for growth within the live immersive sector by providing a space for our collaborative community to share knowledge and create new connections. Following on from the success of our Immersive Design Symposium, we’re growing and doubling the size of the venue to allow more creators to…

Call For Papers Persuasive 2025: The 20th International Conference on Persuasive TechnologyMay 5-7, 2025Limassol, Cyprushttps://2025.persuasivetech.org/call-for-papers/ Submission deadlines: Papers: January 3, 2024 Workshop and tutorial proposals: December 1, 2024 Workshop papers, posters, demos, artefacts, and doctoral consortium: March 1, 2025 In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and…