[Important note: I usually avoid posting Calls for Papers that involve the requirement that authors pay a fee for submission and/or publication but do so when the topic is particularly relevant to the presence community. In these cases, as with the Call below, I add an explicit note near the top of the post noting the fee requirement. For more information about the specific fees, see this page on the publisher’s website, and 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: “Encounters with…

Call for Papers Meaningful XR 2025University of California (UC) Davis and OnlineMay 22–23, 2025https://www.meaningfulxr.org/ Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2025 Dear Colleagues, We are excited to invite you to Meaningful XR 2025, a conference dedicated to exploring the transformative potential of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR)—collectively “XR”. Meaningful XR 2025 is an engaging gathering of researchers, educators, industry professionals, and students passionate about XR technologies and their meaningful applications. Join us on May 22–23, 2025, at the UC Davis International Center or participate virtually through our hybrid option. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Katherine Isbister, Professor of Computational…

Call for Chapters: “Fantasy geographies: Tourism, worldbuilding, heritage, meaning-making, ecologies and futures”http://commlist.org/archive/all/2024-all/msg01792.html Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2025 Edited by Jane Lovell, Evgenia Amey, Stijn Reijnders, Nitasha Sharma and Nicola MacLeod We invite abstract chapter submissions of 1000 words for a new volume on geographies of fantasy, to be submitted by 31 January 2025. The volume welcomes interdisciplinary viewpoints and encourages submissions from authors based in different geographical regions. PURPOSE OF THE BOOK This book aims to bring a significant new addition to critical tourism studies, dealing with an economically, culturally and environmentally significant topic that is yet…

Call for Papers “Communication and Artificial Intelligence”Communication and Society Journalhttps://nordmedianetwork.org/latest/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-communication-and-artificial-intelligence/ Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2025 Thematic Editors: Alberto Sá (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal) and Luis Miguel Pedrero (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain) Artificial intelligence stands as one of the foremost technological challenges of our time. With its considerable benefits in performing numerous tasks and processing vast amounts of information, the automation enabled by artificial intelligence has been acknowledged as a means to enhance productivity, minimise human error, conserve resources, and boost operational efficiency. Across sectors such as industry and healthcare, artificial intelligence is regarded with optimism, representing a…

Call for Papers: Sound on Screen IVJune 24-26, 2025Online / Oxford Brookes Universityhttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2024-all/msg01759.html Deadline for submission of abstracts and bios: January 24, 2025 PLEASE NOTE THE UPDATED FORMAT AND DATES: The conference will now be fully online on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th June for individual papers, and in-person and hybrid on Thursday 26th June. For the final day, we invite three-paper panel proposals on any topic and position papers on the broader discipline and direction of screen music and sound studies. Individual papers are warmly invited for the opening two days only. The Sound on Screen research network at…

[See the HHAI 2025 website for additional calls. –Matthew] Call for Papers HHAI 2025: The 4th International Conference Series on Hybrid Human-Artificial IntelligenceJune 9-13, 2025Pisa, Italyhttps://hhai-conference.org/2025/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 17, 2025 (paper submission: January 24, 2025) Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) is an international conference series that focuses on the study of Artificial Intelligence systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. HHAI aims for AI systems that work together with humans, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems. HHAI systems leverage human strengths and compensate…

Call for Proposals: (Re)Imagining AI Interventions /// Intervening (into) AI ImaginariesSpecial issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studieshttps://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/cfps Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2025 (papers due June 1, 2025) In an age of endless disruption, how do we live with the rapid advances and early analyses of artificial intelligence software, moral panic, and the voracious consumption of already oppressive datasets and social relations? We have already seen some deep scholarly engagement with issues of ethical database scraping and intellectual property violations (Crawford 2021; Delfanti & Phan 2024; Luka & Millette 2018), environmental impacts (Hogan & Lepage-Richer 2024;…

Call for Papers Methodological Approaches to Digital Spaces (MADS)A FREE Research SymposiumApril 9, 2025The University of Manchester, UK and onlinehttps://mads2025.com/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 3, 2025 Today’s digital world is increasingly complex. Amidst contexts which include emergent privacy concerns, new methodologies for collecting data, and innovative forms and mediums of digital art, we see an opportunity to gather those who examine such online spaces and learn from our interrelated research. We have accordingly organised MADS (Methodological Approaches to Digital Spaces), a FREE interdisciplinary symposium launched under the guidance and funding of NWCDTP to promote methodological and ontological advancements…

Call for Papers Journal of Visual Political Communication“Dark and Unethical Visual Politics” (Early 2026)http://commlist.org/archive/all/2024-all/msg01723.html Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2025 Visual Politics has gained significant prominence in recent years due to a series of controversial and unethical uses. Framing political actors, depicting contentious or satirical images, whether to build a positive interpretation or to mock authority, has always constituted a strategic and persuasive repertoire for political communication. Historically, the image was often seen as the last threshold for distinguishing facts from fakes. However the digital environment has reconfigured this status, drawing increased attention to malicious uses of images and their…

Call for Papers Real and Imagined Spaces in FilmUniversity of Zaragoza, SpainMay 29-30, 2025https://eventos.unizar.es/126084/detail/real-and-imagined-spaces-in-film.html Plenary Speaker: Áine O’Healy (Loyola Marymount University) Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 3, 2025 When Mark Shiel argued almost twenty-five years ago that film is more a spatial than a textual experience (2001, 6), he was highlighting the importance of space in films and arguing for its visibility against the traditional predominance of narrative and character in film theory and analysis. He was also asking to take cinematic constructions of real places seriously, as he later developed in his study of specific cinematic cities, particularly…

Call for Papers Workshop on AI and AR/VR for Exergaming (AIVR4Exergame)Co-Located with IEEE AIxVR 2025Lisbon, PortugalWorkshop Date: TBDAIVR4Exergame: https://tars-home.github.io/aivr4exergaming2025/IEEE AIxVR 2025: https://aixvr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2024 AI-enabled AR/VR-based exergames have the potential to enable a broader spectrum of users to participate in rehabilitative and fitness activities in immersive social environments that provide continual feedback to improve performance and incentivize continued usage. However, consumer grade AR/VR systems do not yet have the full capabilities needed to realize exergaming at scale. These challenges include, but are not limited to AI feedback algorithms that can run on untethered systems, long-term usage…

Call for Chapters Modern Media Literacy: Generative AI, Social Media, and the NewsTo be published by IGI Globalhttps://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/8263 Editors:Thomas Hallaq, Kansas State University, United StatesChristopher Groshek, Kansas State University, United States Deadline for submission of proposals: December 8, 2024Full Chapters Due: March 23, 2025 INTRODUCTION Overview of Media Literacy in the Digital Age Significance of Media Literacy for Critical Thinking and Responsible Digital Citizenship Role of AI, Social Media, and Mobile Media in Shaping Modern News Consumption Skills, Competencies, and Ethical Considerations in Media Literacy Skills, competencies, and ethical considerations in media literacy for the 21st century, particularly in the…