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CFP // 4S Open Panel Due FRIDAY // Decolonial, Colonial, and Indigenous Imaginaries in Games of Sea, Sky, and Land
by Nicole W 24 May '23

24 May '23

Hello all! Abstracts of 250 words are due FRIDAY, May 26 for our 4S Open Panel: Decolonial, Colonial, and Indigenous Imaginaries in Games of Sea, Sky, and Land! Here’s the CFP as posted on the 4S site: While game studies has begun to acknowledge postcolonial and decolonial theory, the sociotechnical basis of games is rooted in colonial and imperial imaginaries. Trammell (2022) argues that game studies' fundamental theories of play are likewise racist and colonial. In-game conceptions of sea (kai), sky (lani), and land (ʻāina) seem subject to the same doctrine of discovery as reality; Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) is just one example of terra nullius exhibited in a cute resource management game. Sea, sky, and land are simply there to be occupied, mined, developed, and abandoned once the game - or the player - is done. These colonial concepts are embedded in the hegemony of play (Fron et al., 2007). As scholars from settler colonial societies that parallel this exploitation and the oppression of Hawaiian peoples, we seek to create a space where scholars can expand conversations about how the natural environment is imagined, represented, and envisioned in games, who and what can 'take space' in games, and what that means in our realities and to our futures. We encourage papers that investigate: Decolonial, colonial, and Indigenous sociotechnical imaginaries in games; their representation of and/or relationship with sea, sky, and land; how games imagine a better relationship with the natural world; implications of colonization in games; experiencing empathy toward nature and its gifts in games; effects of limitless natural resources and 'seasonless' farming. Other perspectives on postcolonialism, decolonialism, colonialism, imperialism, games, or the conference theme are also welcome. 4S will be happening in Honolulu, HI, USA, this November 8-11, 2023. This is a hybrid conference with the opportunity to present either in-person or online remotely. For more information/questions you can contact Nicole Winchester ( nicole.winchester(a)yorku.ca) Shelbey Walker (skwalker(a)yorku.ca) Nyle Sky Kauweloa (nsk(a)hawaii.edu) or Karanbir Jallo (jallo(a)yorku.ca) You can find the link to the panel <https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=31507> here, and the link to the submission site <https://members.4sonline.org/members/proposals/propselect.php?orgcode=4S&pr…> here. Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested!

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Call for Complete or Nearly Complete Chapters, Handbook on Games and Sex/Sexuality
by Wysocki, Matthew 23 May '23

23 May '23

Call for Complete or Nearly Complete Chapters, Handbook on Games and Sex/Sexuality We have a contract with Bloomsbury Publishing for a handbook on the intersection of video games and sexual content and sexuality. Traditionally, handbooks are envisioned as comprehensive surveys of the discipline aimed at the library market. Volumes typically consist of about 25-35 contributions written by experts in their respective areas of the field. Much work has been done by our contributors already and we are working with them on final edits and revisions. However, to be blunt, attrition due to many factors has taken a toll on us and we are now a few chapters short of our target. Our publisher has given us permission to do a second call for contributors. The concept behind a handbook is to compile a comprehensive assembly of essays in an attempt to map a discipline. As such we are primarily, but not necessarily exclusively, looking for synthesis/review essays that bring together existing research. We are not opposed to efforts which map out new directions in the field as long as they consider where we are as a basis for where we might/will be going. What makes this topic intriguing is that both the borders of sex and sexuality and the nature of video games resist easy categorization. Game Studies as an “academic field” is inherently interdisciplinary, creating both challenge and opportunity for how to conceptualize this (these) topic(s). If you have a near publication quality paper to round out an impressive collection of chapters, we would love to work with you as a possible contributor. Please send it along with a short author(s) bio to Matthew Wysocki (mwysocki(a)flagler.edu) AND Steffi Shook (Steffi.Shook(a)mville.edu) While the publisher is working with us the original schedule was to have the completed manuscript to them by the end of summer. ________________________________ This email contains CONFIDENTIAL information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify us by reply email and delete this email from your records. Furthermore, the contents of this email do not necessarily represent official policy of Flagler College.

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CDT online event - May 24, 2023 (10 am ET) - Can Large Language Models Analyze Non-English Content?
by Dhanaraj Thakur 23 May '23

23 May '23

Hi everyone, Please see details below about an online event CDT is hosting on May 24 at 10am ET. This will follow the upcoming launch of our research report "Lost in Translation: Large Language Models in Non-English Content Analysis." In the meantime please RSVP for our event here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mind-the-gap-can-large-language-models-analyze…>. thanks, Dhanaraj *Mind the Gap: Can Large Language Models Analyze Non-English Content?* *Time: *10:00 AM EDT *Date: *May 24, 2023 From search engines to social media to hiring algorithms, automated systems increasingly shape people’s online experiences worldwide. Despite internet users speaking thousands of languages, most of these systems are primarily trained using English-language data. Computer scientists claim that they have found a solution to this linguistic gap in a new technology called “multilingual language models.” Multilingual language models work similarly to the language models that power new generative systems like ChatGPT, but instead of being trained on millions of examples of text in mostly one language, they pull text from dozens or hundreds of languages and learn connections between them. But do these multilingual language models work as well as companies say they do? A new technical primer <https://cdt.org/insights/languages-left-behind-automated-content-analysis-i…>by CDT shows that these systems may have key shortcomings which only compound when used to analyze non-English languages. This panel will convene NLP researchers building systems and digitizing languages spoken by millions of people in India and South Africa, content policy experts evaluating the impact these systems have on users’ rights, and CDT’s research and policy team members for a deep dive into how these multilingual language models work, what their capabilities and limitations are, how they can be improved, and what’s at stake when these systems fall short. Speakers: * Aliya Bhatia <https://cdt.org/staff/aliya-bhatia/>, Center for Democracy & Technology * Gabriel Nicholas <https://cdt.org/staff/gabriel-nicholas/>, Center for Democracy & Technology * Dr Monojit Choudhury <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/monojitc/>, Turing Institute * Dr Vukosi Marivate <https://africa.harvard.edu/people/vukosi-marivate>, Masakhane * Jacqueline Rowe <https://www.gp-digital.org/team/jacqueline-rowe/>, Global Partners Digital *RSVP here* <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mind-the-gap-can-large-language-models-analyze…> -- *Dhanaraj Thakur* (he/him) | Research Director Center for Democracy & Technology |*cdt.org <https://cdt.org/>* *E:* dthakur(a)cdt.org | *P:* +1 202 407 8849

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CFP for the mediated conversation minitrack at HICSS 2024 (June 15 deadline)
by Yoram Kalman 23 May '23

23 May '23

Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Mediated Conversation minitrack. This minitrack focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media. The deadline to submit your research to the HICSS Mediated Conversation minitrack is June 15. Conversations are at the core of human communication. Mediated conversations can use text, emoticons, audio, images, or video, or any combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on conversations that are interpersonal as well as those that occur via organizational or mass communication; involve journalistic, educational, or political contexts; or which appear in any other sphere of human activity, including the emerging interplay of human-machine communication — as evident, for example, in recent developments of generative AI tools for conversation. For details, see [1]https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. HICSS-57 conference will be held January 3-6, 2024, in Waikiki at Hilton Hawaiian Village (Oahu, Hawaii, USA). The submission site can be accessed from [2]https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/. The submission deadline is June 15, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. HST This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore mediated conversation and its implications; to raise new socio-technical, theoretical, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions; and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches. The Mediated Conversation minitrack is the successor of the Persistent Conversation minitrack (established by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring at HICSS in 1999), which was originally focused on the novelty of conversational persistence. With the prevalence of mediated conversation, we are called upon to consider a wider field of issues. Examples of appropriate topics include but are not limited to: * Innovation in mediated conversational practice * The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems (e.g., MOOCs and big data applications) * Methods for analyzing mediated conversation: qualitative, quantitative, data analytics, etc. * Mediated collaboration * The role of artificial intelligence in mediated conversation * The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., loafing, incivility, hate speech, bullying, and communication overload * Studies of virtual communities or other sites of mediated conversation * Ethics and mediated conversation: privacy, deception, freedom of speech, security, and information warfare * The role of mediated conversation in knowledge management * The role of mediated conversation in organizations * Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and challenges of mediated conversations and conversational exchanges (e.g., in education, healthcare, social movements, government, citizen participation, management, and news media) * Conversation visualizations and analytics * The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions * Novel properties of mediated conversation * A platform’s role in mediating the conversation * Power dynamics and conversational patterns among users of social media * The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between media producers and media audiences * Human-machine communication and related conversations (e.g., chatbots) Fast-track journal opportunity: Authors of papers accepted for presentation in the minitrack will be offered the opportunity to submit an extended version of their papers for consideration for fast-track publication in the ACM journal ACM Transaction on Social Computing ([3]https://tsc.acm.org/) Mediated Conversation minitrack co-chairs: Seth C. Lewis (Primary contact) University of Oregon [4]sclewis(a)uoregon.edu Yoram M. Kalman The Open University of Israel [5]yoramka(a)openu.ac.il Gina M. Masullo The University of Texas at Austin [6]Gina.Masullo(a)austin.utexas.edu -- Yoram Kalman Associate professor Head – MBA Program Dept. of Management and Economics The Open University of Israel Cell: +972-54-574-7375 [7]http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/Yoram_Kalman.html References 1. https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ 2. https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ 3. https://tsc.acm.org/ 4. mailto:sclewis@uoregon.edu 5. mailto:yoramka@openu.ac.il 6. mailto:Gina.Masullo@austin.utexas.edu 7. http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/Yoram_Kalman.html

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Deadline approaching: CfP SI on Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media
by Lukasz Szulc 23 May '23

23 May '23

Dear colleagues, A reminder to send your abstracts by the 1st of June for the Special Issue of the journal Communication, Culture & Critique focused on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’. The Special Issue is co-edited by Yener Bayramoğlu, Łukasz Szulc and Radhika Gajjala, and will be published in September 2024. For more information and detailed timeline, see: https://academic.oup.com/ccc/pages/call-for-papers-transnational-queer-cult… All the best, Łukasz Dr Łukasz Szulc<https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/%C5%82ukasz-szulc> (he/him) Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture University of Manchester UNITED KINGDOM @Twitter<https://twitter.com/LukaszSzulc> | @GoogleScholar<https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=1X7eQV0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao> RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2023) Culture is transnational. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779221131349 (2022) A Lot of Straddling and Squirming: Taking Queer Migrant Stories beyond the Academic and Digital Walls. https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/276/6556263 (2021) Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380385211024117 (2020) Digital Gender Disidentifications: Beyond the Subversion Versus Hegemony Dichotomy and Toward Everyday Gender Practices. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15396

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Two professor posts @ University of Sheffield
by Helen Kennedy 23 May '23

23 May '23

Application deadline: 26th June 2023 The Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield is hiring two professors. The department houses a vibrant Digital Media + Society <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/research/digital-media-and-society> area, comprising undergraduate and MA programmes, an expanding PhD student group, a dynamic research culture and an amazing staff team. We would love to see applicants with Digital Media + Society expertise to apply for these posts! We are looking to recruit inspirational academics to play key leadership roles in research, impact, teaching and/or department management. You will complement and extend our existing strengths, and have a track record of research excellence, teaching innovation and leadership. We are especially keen to hear from candidates whose work relates to one or more of the following fields: - AI, automation & emergent technology in society; - decolonisation and the Global South; - gender and intersectionality - race and digital media; - social divisions, inequalities and solidarities. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we particularly welcome applications from currently under-represented groups within the department, including candidates who are from black, Asian and minority ethnic and refugee backgrounds; who are LGBTQ+; or who are living with disabilities. To find the job ad, go to https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs > browse jobs > and search ‘chair in sociological studies’. For informal enquiries, contact Head of Department Professor Nathan Hughes ( nathan.hughes(a)sheffield.ac.uk) <http://nathan.hughes@sheffield.ac.uk/>, or me to talk specifically about our Digital Media + Society <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/research/digital-media-and-society> area. -- Helen Kennedy, Director, ESRC Digital Good Network <https://digitalgood.net/>, @digitalgoodnet Professor of Digital Society, @hmtk, Living With Data <https://livingwithdata.org/>, she/her Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences <https://acss.org.uk/> *LATEST PUBLICATION: * Generic visuals of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779211061415>(2022, w/Giorgia Aiello, Chris W Anderson, Camilla Mørk Røstvik, *I**nternational Journal of Cultural Studies*.

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Tomorrow! (un)Stable Diffusions
by Fenwick Mckelvey 22 May '23

22 May '23

Hi all Please share widely. Tomorrow! May 23, please join us for a two-day international symposium on AI's publics, publicities, and publicizations at Milieux Institute, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. We have had an unprecedented interest so we've opened a waitlist. If you've registered and don't plan to attend, please cancel your ticket on Eventbrite to make space for others. (un)Stable Diffusions May 23 to May 24, 9am to 5pm EST Online and in person at Milieux Institute EV Building, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W Montreal Quebec Details: https://machineagencies.milieux.ca/unstable-diffusions/ Registration is free to attend in person and online. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/unstable-diffusions-tickets-547903402827 Description 21st-century AI is very much in its formative stage: It is still unsettled, and is continually being both stabilised and contested by diverse sets of actors: from technologists, startup founders and global companies to policy makers, journalists, and civil society. For some, AI is being positioned as a fix to our social problems, which in turn will change how we live, communicate, work and travel. Others raise substantive concerns that these developments might reinforce inequality, exacerbate the opacity of decision-making processes, and ultimately question human autonomy. We are thus living in a time when the infrastructures and institutions of our everyday lives are being (re)built at the hands of techniques which already elude popular and professional understanding; but while the controversies about the specific pathways to be taken are still visible, we can already perceive elements of closure and institutionalization. Our symposium invites contributions from an international audience to interrogate the shaping of AI. Building on an international collaboration between research teams from Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Canada, we invite presentations that pursue critical engagements with AI’s media representations, policy framings, and scientific debates. Crucially, we also invite epistemic reflections in how we are all Shaping AI, including practice-based research or research-creation. The event is hosted at the Milieux Institute at Concordia University by the Machine Agencies Research Group and is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Take care Fenwick

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CFP: HCI for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation - IFIP WG 13.8 Workshop @ Interact 2023
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 22 May '23

22 May '23

2nd Call for papers This IFIP WG 13.8 workshop on HCI for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation will take place preceding INTERACT2023, in York, UK, on 28 or 29 August 2023 (TBC). Online attendance will be allowed. https://ifipwg138.wordpress.com/hci-democracy/ Motivation This workshop will explore and discuss how Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as a field of knowledge and practice can contribute to develop platforms for digital democracy and participation. These issues are mainly seen at two levels: (1) the optimal design of the digital environment of citizen participation platforms, and (2) explore how HCI can contribute to the development of new trends in Political Science, such as e-democracy. The practice of designing digital platforms for citizen participation and democracy could benefit greatly from a multidisciplinary sociotechnical approach that incorporates into design reflection on issues of democratic theory and practice, legal and political science. Researchers have sought to articulate design patterns and evaluation tools for these platforms with general perspectives on the democraticity of the processes they sustain. But citizen participation systems give rise to specific problems related to usability and user experience. The user is both the institution, company, formal, and informal collective, as well as the subjects that interact with these platforms. This workshop proposes a multidisciplinary exploration and discussion about design of digital platforms for citizen participation and democracy, including issues such as the necessary digital and technological resources, typology of tools that allow communication (to share knowledge), create community (to find and integrate individuals into a collective) and cooperation between individuals (to achieve common community goals), legality of the decisions taken in these platforms or subjective trust in their general function. The target audience for this workshop includes researchers and practitioners from different disciplines working on topics related to Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation in HCI. Early-stage researchers and PhD students are also encouraged to submit work-in-progress papers. Topics of Interest We look for position papers trying to answer one or more of the following questions: How can different approaches towards sociotechnical and interaction design pro-mote or undermine democratic participation? What are the best design patterns and requirements that lead to effective platforms for Digital Democracy and Participation? How can digital democracy platforms be evaluated? What are the best tools and methods to support communication, community formation and deliberation in democratic processes? Design thinking and innovation: how the design process should be led by democratic requirements and not by technology affordances? How to identify forms of democracy and associated practices through the presenta-tion of relevant case studies. How to identify and assess the nature and type of citizen participation in the pro-cess of design of these platforms. Workshop Objectives In this workshop, we understand the above issues as sociotechnical in nature and aim to trace the cultural and political dynamics that drive the design of this type of platforms. More concretely, we solicit position papers that help us fulfil the following objectives: To help develop a framework of HCI to be applied in e-democracy and participatory processes. Collect examples and experiences of digital democracy platforms. Collecting examples and experiences that show that the field of HCI can be beneficial in the design and development of digital platforms for citizen decision processes Formulate a research agenda for future work on digital democracy research on HCI. Expected Outcomes The workshop will produce a research agenda for studying the optimum development of digital platforms for e-democracy processes through a HCI lens, and how best to understand and analyze them. The aim with this research agenda is to stimulate further research interest and provide direction for critical research on HCI apply to design digital participatory platforms. In addition, extended versions of the workshop papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS series as a volume collecting papers from the INTERACT 2023 workshops and in a special issue in the Interacting with Computers journal. Submission Procedure Please submit your position paper of four pages in the INTERACT 2021 proceedings format to Jose Abdelnour-Nocera at abdejos[at]uwl.ac.uk Deadline: 31st of May 2023 Notification of Acceptance: 8th of June 2023 Each submission will be reviewed by two reviewers from the larger IFIP TC13.8 community. Participation in the workshop requires an accepted position paper. Organizing Committee The workshop is organized by IFIP TC13 WG13.8 – Interaction Design for International Development. The organizers are: José Abdelnour Nocera is professor in Sociotechnical Design and Head of the Sociotechnical Group for Innovation and User Experience at the University of West London. He is the current Chair for IFIP TC13 WG13.8 and the British Computer Society Sociotechnical Specialist Group. His interests lie in the sociotechnical and cultural aspects of stakeholder diversity in systems design. Estela Peralta is Senior Lecture in Design Engineering at the University of Sevilla (Spain). Her research focuses on development smart environment and products adapted to the human factor, considering biomechanical, cognitive, and environmental aspects, for any type of population, including people with special needs Lene Nielsen is associate professor at IT university Copenhagen (Denmark). She current research democratically owned enterprises, their use of technology, and the way they govern the business. As member of Forum on IT and Cooperative Governance (FITCG) she researched democratic entrepreneurship for the Danish Parliament that resulted in suggestions for new legislation to further cooperatives in Denmark. Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez is Lecturer in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of Sevilla (Spain). His research focuses on art and politics, including critical urban theory, cultural policies, the high and the low in art and hegemony. Professor José Abdelnour Nocera School of Computing and Engineering Head of Sociotechnical Group for Innovation and User Experience University of West London St Mary’s Road, Ealing – London W5 5RF

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Guest Talk on Digital Sovereignty, 25 May, 2-4 pm
by Esther Laufer 22 May '23

22 May '23

Dear all, You are warmly invited to attend the hybrid talk held by our guest speaker Professor Jamal Shahin (Vrije Universiteit Brussels/ University of Amsterdam) on 25 May, 2-4 pm. If you want to attend on site or remote via Webex, please register at kolleg(a)cais-research.de >From reifying to rarifying: reasons to avoid digital sovereignty (and reasons why we should talk about it) Abstract With all of the attention being paid to policies of digital sovereignty, politicians risk giving the concept a reified quality -- and in turn, so do those who study it. By turning it into something tangible and measurable, the risks of conflict along territorial lines also become very prominent on our global digital network. As we spend this week pinning down the concept of digital sovereignty into a concrete 'object' of academic study, I will argue that we risk to lose the value of the term. Rather than reifying the nebulous concept into a tangible, measurable object of study, I would argue that we need to rarify the term, that is: make it (even) "less dense and solid". The richness in understanding the discourses, practices, and norms of digital sovereignty help us understand how policymakers wish us to interact with the digitally-mediated world. As closure, I will support the argument that claims that we need to set out a research agenda that is not discipline creating, but discipline transcending.

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CFP; AI Special issue
by Feona Attwood 22 May '23

22 May '23

CFP: Artificial Intelligence, Pornography, and Sex Work Guest editors James Mackay and Polina Mackay j.mackay(a)euc.ac.cy; mackay.p(a)unic.ac.cy We invite proposals for a special issue of the journal Porn Studies focused on the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on pornography and sex work. The rapid advancement of AI technology and its increasing influence on these sectors present pressing ethical and societal issues that require further examination. Since 2022, public use of AI has sharply increased, due in no small part to the media attention paid to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Numerous sites and apps, such as MidJourney or DALL- E, now offer AI image generation, transforming a user's written prompt into a recognisable image via an artificial neural network. Such platforms have content moderation policies and guard rails in place to prevent sexual imagery, but that has now led to the creation of a number of websites offering AI porn production. Those sites join a marketplace that already has many companies offering deepfake technology, something that also employs AI to merge porn clips and stills with the faces of celebrities – or, increasingly, with noncelebrities. The promise of AI image generation is something new, however, creating photo-quality images of people that have never existed, as well as photorealistic images of impossible bodies, acts and situations (e.g. realistic furries, aliens, and mutations of the human body). Beyond the image, AIs are also being integrated into sex work, with chatbots such as Replika offering explicit erotic conversations as part of their “virtual companion” service, and reports of sex workers on OnlyFans employing AI to generate automatic responses to subscribers. Finally, the integration of teledildonics and sex robots with artificial intelligence continues apace, with the promise of ever more lifelike interactions. The aim of all this technological advance is clear: a fully customizable pornatorium that escapes the physical limitations of performance and fully realizes the desiring imagination. However, these advancements also raise critical questions about ethics, legality, and the implications for individuals in the industry. The editors would like to stress that we welcome contributions from multiple disciplinary angles. Potential topics could include (but are not limited to): Evaluating approaches to content moderation in mainstream AI image generators and their effectiveness. Ethical and legal challenges associated with the use of AI in pornography and sex work. Implications of AI for sex workers, including potential threats or opportunities. The ethics and legality of AI image creation in pornography, especially given the use of photographs of real bodies in the underlying dataset. The implications of replacing the human element in porn, considering all genders. The exploration of inherent implicit biases (racial / ethnic) in AI image generations. Depictions of AIs in porn and/or sex work in fiction, films, or other media. Impact of AI on the perceptions and consumption patterns of porn users. Implications of AI-generated content for the mental health and well-being, both of consumers and sex work practitioners. Issues of privacy and consent, especially in cases involving deepfakes and non- consensual image generation. Policy and regulatory evolutions needed to address the integration of AI in pornography and sex work. What role do tech companies and AI developers play in mitigating the potential negative consequences of AI applications, particularly the generation of content considered to be illegal? Are there best practices that can be adopted? AI’s potential to contribute to the creation of more ethical, inclusive, and diverse pornography and sex work experiences. Porn’s impacts, both positive and negative, on the development of AI tech. Submissions should initially be in the form of a 300 word abstract, which should be sent to both editors (j.mackay(a)euc.ac.cy; mackay.p(a)unic.ac.cy) no later than Monday 4th August. Accepted papers will be due on March 1st, 2024. All papers will be subject to the journal’s normal peer-review process and are expected to be published online in Fall 2024. We look forward to your contributions as we delve into this critical area of study.

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