Call for Papers: National Association of Communication Centers (NACC) 202726th Annual Excellence at the Center ConferenceTheme: Authenticity & Accessibility in the Age of AIHosted by the Speakers Workshop at the University of IllinoisApril 2-3, 2027Champaign, IL and OnlineConference: https://speakersworkshop.illinois.edu/nacc-excellence-at-the-center-conference-2027/NACC: https://commcenters.org/ Deadline for proposals: February 15, 2027Deadline for completed competitive papers and award nominations: March 15, 2027 CONFERENCE THEME: AUTHENTICITY & ACCESSIBILITY IN THE AGE OF AI At a moment when large language models and generative AI are changing how we collectively learn, think, teach, and communicate, new questions are emerging for communication centers. What does it mean to support authentic…

Call for Papers: Mental Models of AIWorkshop on Mental Models in Human-AI Interaction: Methods and Challenges in the Generative and Agentic AI EraCo-located with ACM IUI 2027, Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User InterfacesFebruary 8, 2027Helsinki, FinlandMM/AI Workshop: https://mentalmodelsofai.com/ACM IUI: https://iui.acm.org/2027/ Deadline for submission of papers: November 9, 2026 The mental model construct is widely used in HCI to refer to the knowledge structure people hold to reason about computing systems. Yet the construct is often used interchangeably with related concepts (e.g. folk theories, sensemaking) and methods of studying it are many and diverse. Generative and agentic AI systems further…

Call for Papers: Getting involved: Our lives with mediated charactersSpecial issue of the journal Psychology of Popular Mediahttps://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/ppm/getting-involved.html Coeditors:Nathan Walter, Northwestern University – [email protected] Tukachinsky Forster, Chapman University (Guest editor) – [email protected] Timeline:Deadline for submission of full-length manuscripts: May 1, 2027Anticipated publication: July 2028 Twenty-five years ago, Jonathan Cohen’s foundational work on identification with media characters helped transform how communication and psychology scholars understand the relationship between audiences and the characters they encounter through media. By distinguishing identification from related experiences such as liking, similarity, and parasocial interaction, Cohen offered a conceptual vocabulary that would profoundly influence media psychology scholarship.…

Call for Proposals: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) London 2027 ConferenceJuly 12–16, 2027London and onlinehttp://www.eva-london.org/ Deadline for submissions of main conference proposals: January 11, 2027Deadline for submissions of Research Workshop proposals: February 22, 2027 We are delighted to announce the call for proposals for the EVA London 2027 Conference, taking place from 12–16 July 2027 at the BCS London office in Moorgate, central London, UK. The conference will be held as a hybrid event, with both in-person and online participation via Zoom. The conference is organised under the auspices of the BCS Computer Arts Society Specialist Group. For full…

Call for Papers: The Aesthetics of GamesSpecial issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of Gameshttps://www.gamephilosophy.org/cfp-the-aesthetics-of-games-special-issue-of-jpg/ Guest editors: Alexandre Declos (Neuchâtel) and Nathan Wildman (Tilburg) Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2027 Whether games qualify as artworks remains a matter of debate. It is, however, uncontroversial that games can possess aesthetic value and exhibit aesthetic properties. But what is distinctive about the aesthetic appeal of games, and how should we theorize it? Several influential answers have been proposed. Some argue that the distinctive aesthetics of games lies in their interactivity (Tavinor 2009; Lopes 2010) or in the sculpted agencies they afford…

Call for Participation: Bristol Digital Cultures Research Centre seminar on Multi-Sensoriality in Emergent MediaOctober 28, 2026 at 12:30 – 14:00 [Time zone in Bristol, UK; note time change October 25, 2026 – Matthew] Online via Zoomhttps://www.dcrc.org.uk/dcrc-seminar-with-susan-kozel-muindi-fanuel-muindi-tom-livingstone/ Please join us for the first 2026/27 UWE Bristol Digital Cultures Research Centre seminar on Multi-sensoriality in Emergent Media. We have a fantastic lineup: Susan Kozel, Muindi Fanuel Muindi and Tom Livingstone. The seminar will take place on line 12:30 – 14:00 on Wednesday October 28th, 2026. You will find the Zoom link and the speakers’ abstracts here below. Zoom link: https://uwe-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99660618540Meeting ID: 996…

Call for Chapters: Body-Worn Cameras and the Visual Politics of Violence: Embodied WitnessingRoutledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies serieshttps://ecrea.eu/page-18206/13670415 Edited by Lewis Rarm (Victoria University of Wellington) and Federico Selvini (IULM University) Deadline for submission of abstracts and bio statements: November 1, 2026 Since the early 2000s, wearable cameras have become increasingly prominent consumer recording technologies. Their development and commercial rise—driven in particular by GoPro, founded by Nick Woodman in 2002—were initially associated with extreme and action sports. These devices enabled athletes to record their own performances from a first-person perspective, even in remote and often inaccessible environments, without…

Call for Chapters: Voices Without Faces: Synthetic Communicators, Trust, and Accountability – Arab and Global PerspectivesEdited volume proposal in preparation for Emerald Publishinghttp://commlist.org/archive/calls/2026-all/msg00813.html Editors:Prof. Alamira Samah Saleh (Cairo University and Sinai University, Egypt)Prof. Nermeen Alazrak (Cairo University and Canadian International College, Egypt) Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 15, 2026 Synthetic communicators are already at work in newsrooms, broadcasting studios, and communication departments worldwide, including across the Arab region: AI news anchors, automated bylines, virtual influencers, and AI spokespersons who answer the public around the clock. This edited volume treats the synthetic communicator as a single phenomenon across journalism, broadcasting,…

Call for Papers: “Ambient Amplification: Vibe Chasing Across Platforms”Volume 2 of a themed collection for the journal Platforms & Societyhttps://lists.aoir.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/ZSZSLTAWNIC5NGNI5TZUYYPJYHWPFHXJ/ Editors:Elena Pilipets, University of SiegenMarloes Geboers, University of Amsterdam Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 30, 2026 We are excited to announce an open call for contributions to the second volume of the special-themed collection on “Ambient Amplification” with Platforms & Society – Vibe Chasing. Through the lens of “ambient amplification,” the special theme attends to the growing centrality of peripheral awareness in contemporary platform cultures. Much of what shapes attention online arrives indirectly – as recurring recommendations, familiar gestures,…

Call for Papers: Digital Social SciencesAn International, Peer-Reviewed, Open-Access Journalhttps://digitalsocialsciences.com/DSS [and a direct submission to ISPR] Digital Social Sciences (DSS) invites original, unpublished, and high-quality research articles examining the relationship between digital technologies, human experience, and society. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers, academics, and practitioners working across the social sciences, humanities, law, communication, and technology studies. We particularly welcome research exploring how digital and immersive technologies shape human perception, interaction, communication, social relationships, and experiences of presence in contemporary society. AREAS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PROCESS DSS welcomes…

[NOTE: See descriptions of the BAFTSS Special Interest Groups (SIGS) for more information about the organization’s scholarly focus, which includes topics relevant to presence. –Matthew] Call for Proposals: British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Conference 2027April 11-12, 2027Newcastle upon Tyne, Englandhttps://www.baftss.org/conference-2027-info.html Deadline for submissions: November 6, 2026 The 2027 edition of the annual conference and awards ceremony of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies will be held in Newcastle upon Tyne at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Monday 12 – Wednesday 14 April. The Conference Organizing Team now invites proposals for individual presentations, pre-constituted panels…

Call for Papers: A Dance of Perception: The Symbiosis of Image and SoundInternational Visual Sociology Association Conference 2027Cardiff, WalesJune 30 – July 3, 2027https://visualsociology.org/2027-ivsa-conference-cardiff-wales-uk/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 30, 2026 The IVSA Conference 2027 invites us to reflect on the intricate ways in which image and sound intertwine in shaping our understanding of society. Visual sociology not only employs images and image-making in practice, research and analysis, but also studies how visual culture itself constructs and reflects social life. Yet images rarely exist in silence. Whether in film, performance, digital media, ritual, or daily encounters, intentional or ambient…