Call for Participation Inaugural Virtual Reality and Pediatrics Healthcare Symposium Where are we? And where are we going? September 19-20, 2023 Yale School of Medicine Orange, Connecticut, USA https://pediatrics23.ivrha.org/ On September 19 and 20 the Yale XR Pediatrics and IVRHA (International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association) are co-sponsoring the inaugural Virtual Reality and Pediatrics Healthcare Symposium. The first evening of the conference features a reception at the brand new Yale XR Pediatrics Lab facility (with an OptiTrack mo-cap system and other goodies). There is a fantastic line-up of leading med-XR voices on the agenda. It will be a great opportunity…

Call for Papers Journal of Cinema and Media Studies Special issue: “But Is It Media?” https://github.com/jcmsjournal/editorial/wiki/CFP%3A-But-Is-It-Media%3F Important dates: Abstracts (500 words) due: September 6, 2023 Full article drafts (8,000 – 10,000 words) due: January 15, 2024 Anticipated publication: fall 2025, volume 65, issue 1 To submit, email the JCMS managing editor: editors@jcmsjournal.org With questions, email the JCMS co-editors-in-chief: liz@jcmsjournal.org and bo@jcmsjournal.org About the topic: “But Is it Media?” The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS) is calling for papers for its inaugural special issue. The topic of the special issue is “But Is It Media?” As the field of…

Call for Papers “ChatGPT and the Voices of Reason, Responsibility, and Regulation” Special issue of Technology and Reason https://soctech.spbstu.ru/en/news/chatgpt_i_golosa_razuma_otvetstvennosti_i_regulirovaniya/ Guest editors: Elena Seredkina, LIU Yongmou Submission deadline: March 5, 2024 ChatGPT reconfigures the public sphere. It brings to a head the question: Must we mean what we say? How to take responsibility for artificially produced text – and how in different technopolitical traditions to regulate it. The special issue seeks to highlight two aspects: 1) Large language models and the culture of dialogue in the context of human-machine interaction: From the perspective of the history of Western thought, the “dialogue”…

Call for Book Chapters: Fandom Effects and Marginalized Communities Submission deadline for abstract and CV: September 15, 2023 We are seeking book chapter contributions for an edited book on media effects within fandom communities or cultures. Although fan studies have flourished from a critical/cultural paradigm, our volume is focused on how social scientists approach fandom from an empirically based, primarily quantitative perspective. Thus, we would like this volume to provide an overview of fan studies from a social science perspective. Another focus of the book is on fandom communities as spaces for marginalized communities (e.g., BIPOC, LGBTQ+) or other identities…

CALL FOR PAPERS Anna’s AI Anthology. How to live with smart machines? Editor: Anna Strasser, DenkWerkstatt Berlin Publisher: xenomoi Verlag, Berlin https://www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/ANTHOLOGY-AI-2023 Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2023 Deadline for full paper: December 24, 2023 This anthology is inspired by the hybrid workshop ‘Human and Smart Machines as Partners in Thought?‘ organized by Anna Strasser & Eric Schwitzgebel in May 2023 at UC Riverside. Invited and confirmed authors are Daniel Dennett, Eric Schwitzgebel, Henry Shevlin, Joshua Rust, Keith Frankish, Michael Wilby, Ophelia Deroy, Paula Droege, and Sven Nyholm. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or other AI systems have been…

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