Dear AoIR-Community, sorry for X-posting and for this very last minute announcement: I’d love to bring this Call for Papers to your attention: Special Issue “Maps in/as Media” (GI_Forum Journal) GI_Forum Journal invites submissions for the Special Issue “Maps in/as Media – On the Mediated Production of Geographical Knowledge,” edited by Pablo Abend and Helena Atteneder. The issue explores the role of maps in media ecologies and the production of spatial knowledge. We welcome theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions from fields including media studies, GIScience, geography, and STS. Abstract deadline - extended: 17 June 2026 Publication: Spring 2027 Details & submission: https://www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0x00418933 Contact: kontakt@mediengeographien.de<mailto:kontakt@mediengeographien.de> --- Dr. Helena Atteneder Tübingen University Institute of Media Studies Bluesky: @aneleh-redenetta.bsky.social helena.atteneder@uni-tuebingen.de<mailto:helena.atteneder@uni-tuebingen.de> Co-editor of GI_Forum Journal<https://www.austriaca.at/GI_Forum?frames=yes> NEW: Atteneder, H., Kühne, O., & Sedelmeier, T. (2025). Maps as Media Constructs: Exploring Theory, Practice, Critique, and Neopragmatism. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80707-7 Atteneder, Helena/Lohmeier, Christine (2024). Digital placemaking and its discontents: Exploring practices, power relations, and socio-spatial dynamics in Salzburg’s ‘Andräviertel’. Convergence, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241274749 Atteneder, Helena/Rodriguez-Amat, Joan Ramon (2024). Ideologies in Geospatial Futurism: A Computational and Critical Discourse Inquiry Into the Arcgis and ESRI-Blogs. Media and Communication, 12, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.8193