Call for Chapters: Brand Relationships: Consumer Behavior, Communication, and Trust in Digital Spaces[From the National Communication Association COMMNotes e-list] Deadline for submission of chapter abstracts and synopses: June 12, 2026 BOOK SYNOPSIS Brand Relationships: Consumer Behavior, Communication, and Trust in Digital Spaces examines the evolving nature of relationships between brands and consumers within digitally mediated environments. As communication technologies have transformed the marketplace into an interactive and participatory space, consumers increasingly interpret brands not simply as transactional entities, but as relational actors engaged in ongoing dialogue. This volume advances a communication-centered framework that positions relational processes, such as meaning-making, responsiveness,…

Call for Participation: Rose Bruford College XR-Research SymposiumJune 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM – 5:30 PMRose Bruford CollegeSidcup, Englandhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rose-bruford-college-xr-research-symposium-tickets-1987595193729 Reserve a spot at the Eventbrite link above The XR-Research Symposium at Rose Bruford College brings together academics, artists and technologists using XR technologies for research in theatre and performance. The use of XR (augmented/mixed/virtual reality) tools and techniques is now well-established in many fields of artistic practice and academic enquiry, from their use to make various kinds of digital performance to VR reconstructions of historic theatres. This one-day symposium brings together academics and practitioners to share, discuss and explore how…

Call for Papers: “Reshaping Spatial Acoustics” WorkshopAugust 25-26, 2026Aalto University, Finlandhttps://www.aalto.fi/en/school-of-arts-design-and-architecture/respa-reshaping-spatial-acoustics-1 Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 18, 2026 Sound is energy traveling through a medium. Sound is also experienced by humans and other living organisms, and as such, it is a way of transmitting information. In this process of sound becoming a medium in itself, it has an embodied effect on a person’s ability to think, feel, and act in a given environment. Our research project “RESPA –Reshaping Spatial Acoustics: Embodied Sound in AR Environments” (PI Sanna Lehtinen) is based on the idea that it increases “productive awareness” that…

Call for Papers: 13th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems – IntRS’26Held in conjunction with the 20th ACM Conference on Recommender SystemsSeptember 28–October 2 2026Minneapolis, Minnesota, USAIntRS’26 Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/intrs26/ACM Conference on Recommender Systems: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys26 Important Dates:Submission deadline: July 20, 2026Author notification: August 14, 2026Camera-ready version: August 28, 2026 Research on Human-AI collaboration involves several critical areas of investigation, such as Human-in-the-loop, Symbiotic AI, Explainable AI, User-centered design, and Intelligent Interfaces. Overall, this area of research is aimed at developing systems that can work effectively with human users, considering their preferences, cognitive abilities, and ethical values.…

Call for Papers: Patching Up / RapiécerIssue n° 50 (Fall 2027)Intermediality. History and Theory of the Arts, Literature, and Technologieshttp://intermedialites.com/en/call-for-papers-no-50-patching-up-rapiecer/ Editors:Karine Bellerive, Université du Québec à Montréal and Université de SherbrookeSandrine Lambert, Concordia University No payment from the authors will be required Deadline to submit proposals: June 15, 2026Announcement of selected proposals: July 10, 2026Submission of completed texts for peer review: November 15, 2026Publication of the texts approved by the Editorial Committee: Fall 2027 Patching up means adding pieces—patches—to maintain, repair, and extend the life of something; at times, it goes beyond simply filling a gap to become a creative…

Call for Papers: General call for the journal Philosophy of Photographyhttps://www.intellectbooks.com/philosophy-of-photography#call-for-papers Philosophy of Photography is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the understanding of photography, published twice yearly since 2010. The journal provides a forum for debate on theoretical issues arising from the historical, political, cultural, scientific and critical matrix of ideas, practices and techniques that constitute photography as a multifaceted and changeable form. In a contemporary context remarkable for its diversity, rate of transformation and political challenges, the conjunction of the terms ‘philosophy’ and ‘photography’ in the journal’s title is intended to act as a provocation to serious reflection on…

Call for Papers: ICIDS 202619th International Conference on Interactive Digital StorytellingTHEME: Adapt | abilitiesNovember 30 – December 4, 2026Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand and onlinehttps://icids2026.ardin.online/ Deadlines for submissions:Long and Short Papers: June 22, 2026Late-breaking Works: September 14, 2026 This year’s ICIDS (International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling) will return to Southeast Asia, having last been hosted in the region in Singapore in 2014. The hosting city is Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, a country with a rich history as a cultural crossroads, where diverse traditions from across its varied landscapes have intertwined to create a complex and non-homogeneous society.…

Call for Book Chapters: Parasocial Griefhttps://telegra.ph/CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS-Call-for-Book-Chapters-Parasocial-Grief-05-01 Editors: Katie Thomas (Virginia Tech) and Alex Boesch (Ohio University) Deadline for proposals: July 30, 2026 We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited academic volume exploring the multifaceted phenomenon of parasocial grief. This book examines how individuals experience grief in relation to parasocial relationships/breakups with media figures, fictional characters, influencers, and other public personalities. This volume has interest from a publisher and seeks to advance scholarly understanding of parasocial relationships by centering grief as a meaningful and underexplored dimension of media engagement. Parasocial grief may emerge in response to a range of experiences,…

Call for Papers: At the Crossroads of Mind and Machine: Neuroethics Reshaped by LLMs (LLM-Neuroethics)A special issue of the journal Neuroethicshttps://link.springer.com/collections/jfcjdddgdd Editors:  Shengbai Chen, Xiaojun Ding, Jianhua Mei, Hao Zhan and  Mirko Farina Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2026 We are witnessing an unprecedented explosion in Large Language Models (LLMs), shifting the integration of generative AI and mind sciences from theoretical speculation to immediate practical application. As LLMs are increasingly deployed to decode neural data, model human cognition, and act as therapeutic agents, establishing robust philosophical and ethical frameworks is no longer a future goal but an urgent necessity.…

Call for Proposals: Museums Computer Group (MCG)’s Museums+Tech 2026 ConferenceTheme: Using our spaces for authentic interactionsNovember 27, 2026M Shed – Princes Wharf, Wapping Rd, Bristol BS1 4RN, United Kingdom and Onlinehttps://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/mcg-museumstech-2026-using-our-spaces-for-authentic-interactions/ Deadline for submission of proposals: June 29, 2026 Something that unites and affects all museums is place. Some museums are sited where they are to help tell the story of the place they are in, occupying the sites of former works or heritage buildings. Others are designed to tell our stories to the people in and around the place they are in, such as many of our cherished local…

[Note that this journal requires a publication fee, which may be payable by your institution. For more information see the last section below. For general information about publication fees, see AJE Scholar’s “Understanding Submission and Publication Fees” and Wikipedia’s entry on Article Processing Charges. –Matthew] Call for Papers: AI-Mediated Communication: Emotion, Interaction, and Public MeaningA thematic issue of the journal Media and Communicationhttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/issue/futureissues#i577 Editor: Don Shin (Texas Tech University) Important dates: Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 1-15, 2026 Submission of full papers: October 15-30, 2026 Publication of the Issue: January/June 2027 ABOUT THE ISSUE This thematic issue examines how…

Call for Papers: Lockdown and its (Digital) AfterlivesMedia, Infrastructure, and Everyday Life in Regenerative PerspectiveA preconference of AoIR 2026, the annual conference of the Association of Internet ResearchersOctober 13, 2026Hyatt Regency HotelMexico City, Mexico[From a May 19, 2026 post by Eszter Zimanyi on the AoIR mailing list] Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 15, 2026 In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic instantiated waves of lockdowns of varying severity across the globe. As nations struggled to reach consensus over how to best contain and manage the spread of the highly contagious and deadly disease, tech entrepreneurs and platform companies positioned their digital…