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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Call for Papers EvoMUSART 2024 – 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design Part of the evo* event April 3-5, 2024 Aberystwyth, Wales, UK https://www.evostar.org/2024/evomusart/ Download the CFP in PDF here. Submission deadline: November 1, 2023 The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2024 is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers who are working on the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques in creative and artistic fields. There is a growing interest in the application of Artificial Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence, Cellular Automata, Alife, and other…

Call for expressions of interest Drawology: tracing the ether (Remote creative collaborations) Investigators: Sarah Casey, Deborah Harty, Russ Marshall, Phil Sawdon Deadlines: Expressions: 22nd September 2023 Notification: 16th October 2023 Event: November 2023 This call for expressions of interest aims to identify artists, researchers and practitioners interested in drawing as collaborative practice with experience of engaging with remote creative collaborations. Those selected will be invited to an online event to share experiences of collaborative practice and partake in a round table discussion, to trace the potential for the use of technologies to facilitate international creative collaborations. The event also aims…

Call for Papers ICWL 2023 22nd International Conference on Web-based Learning November 26-28, 2023 Sydney, Australia http://icwl-sete.au/ICWL.html Paper submission deadline (extended): August 18, 2023 ICWL is an annual International Conference on Web-based Learning, founded by the Hong Kong Web Society. The first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002. Since then, ICWL has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2020), Hong Kong (2005, 2011), Malaysia (2006), United Kingdom (2007), Germany (2009, 2019), Romania (2012), Taiwan (2013), Estonia (2014), Italy (2016), South Africa (2017), Thailand (2018), Macao (2021) and Spain (2022). The 22nd ICWL will be…

Call for Late Breaking Results 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 – November 1, 2023 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ Submission deadline: August 31, 2023 The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of…

Call for Abstracts and Papers 2023 OkIP International Conference on Learning and Technology in Education (CLTE) Tiako Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA & Online October 2-5, 2023 https://eventutor.com/e/CLTE003 Submission deadline (extended): August 23, 2023 Oklahoma International Publishing (OkIP) is pleased to host the 2023 OkIP International Conference on Learning and Technology in Education (CLTE). The conference aims to unite scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to emphasize disseminating ongoing research and development. Proposals are solicited describing original works in the fields and related technologies. This event will include a peer-reviewed program of technical, industrial, and poster sessions. Accepted and presented full…

Call for Papers The Situated Metaverse: Cross-Cultural Philosophical and Practical Implications of Extended Reality A Topical Collection in the journal Digital Society https://link.springer.com/collections/jdbeeejfed Submission status: Upcoming Open for submission from October 1, 2023 Submission deadline: February 28, 2024 Digital Society is running a Topical Collection called “The Situated Metaverse: Cross-Cultural Philosophical and Practical Implications of Extended Reality.” Submissions open in October, but inquiries and proposals are welcome any time. Below is the description of the TC. — This Topical Collection aims to address how XR’s impacts will be understood in different cultural contexts. While researching emerging technologies involves some amount…

Call for Abstracts “Composing, Decomposing, Recomposing. Montage as a form of experience” PHILM – Philosophy and Cinema Magazine – Issue 3 Research Center of Philosophy and Cinema, University of Verona and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan 31a0ae_77553477974a435781628703bfbd921c.pdf (univr.it) (Call pdf) https://www.philm.univr.it/rivista (PHILM Magazine) Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 1, 2023 Throughout the twentieth century, montage proved to be a exceptional expressive resource, both in terms of the spatio-temporal organisation of the image and at the level of the viewer’s perceptual and interpretive responses. From an initially purely technical stage, the processes of articulation and recomposition of audiovisual…