Call for Proposals 12th International Digital Storytelling Conference 2025Lives, Voices, and Knowledge in a World on FireOctober 31 and November 1, 2025 – VirtualNovember 6-8, 2025 – Belém, Amazon, Brazilhttps://dst2025.org/call-for-proposals/ Deadlines for submission of abstracts: Global North: February 15, 2025 Global South: March 15, 2025 We invite proposals for participation in the 12th International Digital Storytelling Conference, which will feature two distinct components: A virtual gathering, from October 31 to November 1, 2025 and an in-person event in Belém, Brazil, from November 6-8, 2025. Hosted by Museu da Pessoa and StoryCenter, this will mark the first time the conference is…

Call for Papers The 12th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2025)July 21-23, 2025University of Siegen, Germanyhttps://2025.comtech.community/ Deadline for submission of papers: March 14, 2025 The 12th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2025), to be held at the University of Siegen, Germany from July 21-23, 2025, cordially invites you to submit research papers, case studies, workshop proposals, posters, demos, panels/symposia, community events and doctoral research plans for potential presentation or facilitation at the conference! The biennial International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T) is the premier international forum for stimulating debate and disseminating research on the complex…

Call for Papers SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025Fifth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE)Co-located with the 30th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2025Cagliari, Italy SOCIALIZE WORKSHOP:March 24, 2025http://socialize2025.di.unito.it/ ACM IUI 2025:March 24-27, 2025https://iui.acm.org/2025/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: January 15, 2025Authors notification: January 20, 2025Camera-ready: March 1, 2025Workshop date: March 24, 2025 OVERVIEW The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all interested in developing interactive techniques, including social robots, that can help promote social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g.,…

Call for Papers Mediatization Conference 6, 2025Exploring Mediatization in Times of interplay between Human and Artificial IntelligenceMarch 7-8, 2025Hybrid: Lublin, Poland and Onlinehttps://www.umcs.pl/en/ms-cfp.htm Organizers:Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in LublinPolish Communication Association, Mediatization Section Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2025 We cordially invite you to the next, sixth edition of the international scientific conference: Mediatization Conference 6, 2025. This time we want to discuss the relationship and dependencies between mediatization processes and applications of artificial intelligence in various areas of human life. In particular, we are interested in the interactions between human and algorithmic factors, which in different ways drive…

Call for Papers: Arts and Games21st annual spring seminar organized by the Tampere University Game Research LabMarch 26-27, 2025Tampere University, Finlandhttps://springseminar.org Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 20, 2024 The fields of arts and games are continuously and progressively intersecting, creating hybrids and cultural frames, mutually influencing each other. This is not new; arts have been using games as subject and material for millennia from depictions of athletes in ancient Greek sculpture to Yoko Ono’s All White Chess Set (1966) and from Caravaggio’s Cardsharps (1594) to Harold Hejazi’s game performance series Adventures of Harriharri. Weiqi, or as it is named…

Call for Papers Future ScreenA Special Issue of DIGITCULT@Scientific Journal on Digital Cultureshttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2024-all/msg01817.html Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 31, 2024 (full papers due March 31, 2025) No payment from the authors will be required Issue edited by: Gianni Corino (Plymouth University), Andrew Prior (Plymouth University), Tatiana Mazali (Politecnico di Torino). Digitcult journal calls for research papers on the novel concept of Future Screen, a cross disciplinary topic that has the potential to reshape immersive media, film, narrative and game design, music and performing arts and more broadly the sector of Creative industries, Culture and Entertainment. We would contributors to…

[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…