Call for Papers “Digital Twinning” New Media & Society Special Issue https://necs.org/news/calls-for-papers/digital-twinning Editors: Christoph Borbach, Wendy Chun, and Tristan Thielmann Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 31, 2023 Datafication in the analogue era followed a different logic than do today’s media processes, with all their entanglements and interdependencies with and within the ‘real’ world. Human bodies, system processes, and their data traces and virtual models are deeply intertwined in current postdigital—or rather, more-than-human (Lupton 2019)—media cultures. It is surely not a new idea that data and the technologies of its collection, storage, circulation, and evaluation are shaping how societies and…

Call for Papers Hybrid Culture in the Technology-Mediated World: Its Developments and Stakes INTERFACE –Journal of European Languages and Literature Issue 24 (July 2024) https://interface.org.tw/index.php/if/pages/view/CallforPapers24 Guest Editors: Nobuo Kazashi (Hiroshima City University) Tien-Yi Chao (National Taiwan University) Submission deadline: April 15, 2024 In our era, the phenomenon of “hybridization” is not only expanding extensively but also venturing into completely new dimensions due to rapid technological advancements. In particular, generative AI has opened up new phases of hybridization between language and image or between real and virtual. It would not be an overstatement that we have entered a completely new era…

Call for Papers SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2024 Fourth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE) March 18, 2024 Greenville, South Carolina, USA Co-located with the 29th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2024 (https://iui.acm.org/2024/), March 18-21, 2024 Workshop website: http://socialize2024.di.unito.it/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024 [not active as of December 11, 2024 –ML] For any information: socialize2024@easychair.org IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: January 16, 2024 Authors notification: February 9, 2024 Camera-ready: March 1, 2024 Workshop date: March 18, 2024 OVERVIEW The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together those interested in the development of interactive techniques, including social…

Call for Papers Digital Aesthetics Itinera #28 https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/itinera/cfp Edited by Giulia Andreini and Renato Boccali (IULM University) Submission deadline: July 31, 2024 In 1936, Walter Benjamin addressed the great change triggered by the technical reproduction of images. At that time, new media such as photography and cinema were transforming not only the forms of art but also the way people perceived the world through new forms of collective innervation. In fact, it was the way humans looked at things that were profoundly changed. Through these new technologies, humans were learning to come closer to objects and play with their images.…

Call for Papers Metaverse-Mediated Communication: Theories of Working, Learning, and Socializing Through XR Technologies A Special Issue of the Journal of Media Psychology https://bit.ly/jmpmetaverse Guest Editors: David Beyea, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, USA Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Rabindra Ratan, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Maxwell Foxman, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Alex Leith, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA Brian Klebig, Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN, USA Submission deadline for extended abstracts/preliminary proposals: December 10, 2023 With the rise of affordable and ubiquitous virtual…

Call for Papers Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2024 September 5-6, 2024 Amsterdam, The Netherlands https://saiconference.com/IntelliSys2024/CallforPapers Submission deadline: December 15, 2023 IntelliSys 2024 will focus in areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence and how it applies to the real world. IntelliSys provides a leading international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields with the purpose of exploring the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence. It is part of the conference series started in 2013. The conference programme will include paper presentations, poster sessions and project demonstrations, along with prominent keynote speakers and…

Call for Book Chapters Edited Collection on Subversive Gaming From Aparajita Bhandari (ab2725@cornell.edu) Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2024 Hello all, We are seeking chapter contributions for an edited volume on the topic of subversion in games and gaming culture as part of the Games in Context Series. Tanenbaum (2013) notes that video game players are often positioned by designers as “agents of chaos” that are resistant towards pre-authored narratives and architectures. While this description is overly simplistic and does not account for the diverse, context-dependent, and sometimes contradictory goals that motivate play, it does speak to the…

Call for Papers Mindscapes: Culture, AI, and Human Minds Workshop March 12, 2024 Macquarie University Sydney, Australia Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 3. 2024 In the age of intertwined human and AI-generated content, the Mindscapes workshop aims to explore the impact of these interactions on cultural practices. Generative AI like Language Models (LLMs), if skewed towards Western perspectives, inadvertently constrain self-determination in our agency to contribute to the meaning-making within our cultural practices, narratives and knowledges. This philosophical inquiry has profound implications in various societal domains. Can we achieve culturally sensitive AI design? This conference focuses on the interplay…

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Meaningful XR 2024 (#MXR24) May 23-25, 2024 Stanford/Palo Alto, California Call: https://bit.ly/mxr24cfp Submissions: https://bit.ly/mxf24submit Submission deadline: January 24, 2024 Whether designed to entertain or achieve more “serious” purposes, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR)—collectively “XR”—meaningfully impact users’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitions, physical health, well-being and behavior. Meaningful XR 2024 is a conference for scholars and industry professionals about theory, research, design innovations, principles, and practices related to meaningful uses of XR. The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from both academic and industry leaders, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions, “XRbitions”, and social mixers…

Call for Papers Special Issue on Cinema and Philosophy Journal of Continental Philosophy https://www.pdcnet.org/jcp Submission deadline: December 20, 2023 Philosophers of film have long viewed cinema as a somewhat indeterminate and evolving art form. From Ricciotto Canudo’s pronouncement a century ago that “film will increasingly serve as Art’s powerful coadjutor” to Alain Badiou’s recent determination that “there is a latent infinity in cinema,” film has consistently been recognized as a dynamic medium whose essence lies in some sense in excess of itself. Yet the rise of digital technologies, AI, and streaming platforms seems to be challenging this fundamentally progressive conception…

Call for Abstracts: International Conference Which Smartness? Whose Intelligence? Critical Perspectives on Digital Technology and Political Subjects May 13-14, 2024 Centre of Philosophy,  University of Lisbon, Portugal Event organized as part of the activities of Praxis-CFUL https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/praxis/events/digital-technology-political-subjects/ Submission deadline for abstracts: December 1, 2023 Digital technology has profoundly transformed our societies, shaping the way we interact, govern, and understand ourselves as subjects and political agents. From social media to videogames and digital platforms, the digital has become much more than a means of communication and information transmission. Digital environments are now spaces for existence, work, play, and politics. In other…

Call for Papers Agency and Intentions in AI (AIAI) University of Göttingen Göttingen, Germany May 15-17, 2024 https://ail-workshop.github.io/aiai-conference/index.html Submission of abstracts deadline: February 11, 2024 ABOUT “Agency and Intentions in Artificial Intelligence” (AIAI) builds on the success of our workshop series “Agency and Intentions in Language” (AIL), which brings together scholars in theoretical linguistics, philosophy, and psychology who are interested in questions related to agency, intentions, reasoning about actions, and causation. AIAI aims at extending this interdisciplinary theoretical discussion of fundamental principles underlying human-human interaction to human-machine interaction, broadly construed. The talk of “artificial intelligence” is everywhere.…