Call for Papers: The Role of Technology in Relational CommunicationA Special Issue of Review of Communicationhttps://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/technology-relational-communication/ Deadline for submissions: September 28, 2025 Special Issue Editor:Michelle T. Violanti, The University of Tennessee Knoxville Review of Communication is dedicated to advancing the field of communication by examining research areas that are still emerging to advance our knowledge about a communication phenomenon. The rise in telehealth, often advocated by insurance companies, has impacted provider-patient relationships at levels not seen previously. Similarly, workplaces have found ways to use technology to build and maintain relationships for their remote workers. Individuals working in isolating jobs, such as…

Call for Participation: The Other AI: Automated IntimaciesMay 13, 2025 at 13:00 to 22:00V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the NetherlandsAnd onlinehttps://v2.nl/events/the-other-ai-automated-intimacies You’re invited to the first one-day symposium of a research strand from the Queer Analysis Research Group, taking place at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. The event combines queer and trans theory with psychoanalytic perspectives in relation to the automation of intimate relations and the exteriorisation of desire. Can automation—and its failures—bring something new, or invite new interpretations of old habits and…

Call for Papers: AIS25: AI & Society: Shaping a Responsible FutureA Local Meetup of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025) CommunityJune 28-29, 2025Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist UniversityZhuhai, Chinahttps://socialresponsible.net/ Deadline for submissions: May 25, 2025 We invite you to contribute to AI & Society: Shaping a Responsible Future, a local meetup of the FAccT community centered around the critical societal impacts of Artificial Intelligence. This event aims to foster discussion, share insights, and present cutting-edge research on the ethical, social, and technical challenges and opportunities presented by AI technologies. We welcome submissions from researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and…

Call for Abstracts: Avatar Aesthetics WorkshopAt Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) 2025June 30, 2025Valetta, Maltahttps://digra.org/digra-2025-workshop-information/ DiGRA 2025:June 30 – July 4, 2025https://digraconference2025.org/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 10, 2025 (extended) The DIGRA workshop on Avatar Aesthetics invites submissions on the characteristic properties of avatar-based videogames as an art form, and on the aesthetic aspects of self-embodiment in videogames. Avatarial aesthetics relate to a broader tradition of bodily spectacles and amusements while also sharing similarities with experiences created by VR, installation art and performance art. Furthermore, avatar aesthetics intersects with the aesthetics of architecture, of space and travel, and with…

[For more about CSPE, visit its website, and in particular the About page. –Matthew] Call for Participation: The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (CSPE)20th Anniversary ConferenceJune 4-6, 2025Glasgow, Scotlandhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-the-study-of-perceptual-experience-20th-anniversary-conference-tickets-1284212828139r Dear all, The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (CSPE) has now been in existence for twenty years! We are going to hold a celebratory 20th Anniversary Conference on 4 – 6th June 2025 in Glasgow. We would love for you to join us. We will have a range of philosophy talks on all things sensory that have been core to the work at the CSPE, such as perception, illusion, hallucination,…

Call for Proposals: AI Politics: A New Interdisciplinary Book SeriesTo be published by: Intellect and University of Chicago Presshttps://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2536/ai-politics-series-cfp-2025.pdf Edited by Andrew Hoskins (University of Edinburgh) and Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway, University of London) Deadline for submissions: [not included in cfp] We invite proposals for a new interdisciplinary book series, AI Politics, which will interrogate and shape debate on the social, political, and epistemological transformations wrought by artificial intelligence. This series provides a critical platform for researchers engaging with the emergent realities of AI — not speculative futures, but the immediate and ongoing contests over knowledge, data, information, power, identity,…

Call for Abstracts: 2nd European Congress on Disinformation and Fact-CheckingOctober 29 & 30, 2025Madrid, Spain and onlinehttps://www.disinformation.es/call-for-papers Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2025 Following the success of the inaugural event in November 2023, the 2nd European Congress on Disinformation and Fact-Checking is back and will take place on 29 – 30 October 2025 to convene experts, scholars, journalists, policymakers, and practitioners to address the evolving challenges of disinformation in Europe and beyond. Building upon the foundation laid by the first congress, which emphasized the multifaceted impact of disinformation and the importance of international collaboration, this year’s event aims to further…

Call for Papers: From Adolescence and Adulthood: Uncovering Youths’ digital practices in a continuously changing worldMedia International Australia Journal Special Issuehttps://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/CfP%20From%20Adolescence%20and%20Adulthood_Q2%202026-1744054262703.pdf Editing team: Bruce Mutsvairo, Moa Eriksson Krutrök and Tanja Bosch Deadline for full draft submissions: July 31, 2025 Research on the appropriation of digital platforms and their impact has grown rapidly over the last two decades. Although research on digital platforms has expanded, there remains a gap in understanding how young adults specifically navigate, appropriate, and experience digital technologies. In recent research, only a few of these studies have taken a special interest in the use of digital technology…

Call for Papers: 1st workshop on BEAR: Benefits of pErsonalization and behAvioral adaptation in assistive RobotsAt the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2025)Eindhoven, The Netherlands [and online] BEAR Workshop:August 28 (tentative)https://bear-workshop.github.io/website/ RO-MAN 2025:August 25-29, 2025https://www.ro-man2025.org/ Deadline for submissions: May 30, 2025 We are delighted to invite you to submit your papers to the 1st workshop on BEAR: Benefits of pErsonalization and behAvioral adaptation in assistive Robots), which will be held at the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2025), in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in August 2025.…

Call for Papers: Concept Art and Character Design: Critical and Creative PerspectivesJuly 18, 2025University for the Creative Arts (UCA)Farnham, Englandhttps://cacd2025.edublogs.org/ Deadline for submission of abstracts and bio statements: May 30, 2025 The School of Games & Creative Technology at UCA, Farnham, is delighted to be hosting a one-day conference on Friday 18 July 2025, exploring the role of concept art and character design in the culture industries. Concept art is gaining increasing cultural, creative and academic recognition. This once-invisible aspect of development and production is acquiring increasing presence across many branches of the entertainment industry, including animation, videogames, comics and…

Call for Contributions: 7th International Conference on Creative\Media/Technologies (IConCMT)November 25-27, 2025St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (UAS)Pölten, Austriahttps://iconcmt.fhstp.ac.at/call-for-contribution Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 2, 2025 The 7th International Conference on Creative\Media/Technologies (IConCMT) will take place at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (UAS) from 25 to 27 of November 2025 offering exchange in multiple research areas within the field of media & digital technologies. This year we also celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Institute of Creative Media Technologies! To foster the exchange between various disciplines in the huge field of digital media, the IConCMT intentionally puts its…

Call for Papers: Symposium on Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR): Methods, Theories, and ReflectionsAugust 5-7 , 2025University of Zurich, Switzerlandhttps://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/divisions/computational-social-and-communication-science/CVMR25.html Deadline for submissions of panel presentation proposals and registration: May 8, 2025 As visual communication becomes increasingly central to digital culture, understanding how to analyze and interpret visual media at scale is both a methodological and theoretical challenge. The Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR) symposium brings together scholars working at the intersection of computation, theory, and critique to explore innovative approaches to the study of visual media. This three-day symposium aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and methodological innovation in response…