Dear AoIRists, While social robots may not immediately fall into your purview or sense of Internet studies, much less media studies, let me humbly suggest that in many incarnations, they deserve to. The easiest example is the telenoid - a Casper-the-ghost looking social robot that mediates human communication in both verbal and non-verbal fashion, by way of Internet-facilitated communication. And so, with the usual apologies for duplications and request for cross-posting to suitable lists and potentially interested colleagues - on behalf of my co-editors: Call for Papers: Social Robots: Form, Content, Critique special issue of The International Journal of Social Robotics Co-editors: Michaela Pfadenhauer (Karlsruhe University / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Satomi Sugiyama (Franklin College, Switzerland), Charles Ess (University of Oslo). We invite papers from scholars and researchers across the disciplines (including philosophy, robot ethics, Artificial Intelligence, cognitive science, media/sociology, information science, art history) that examine and explore social robots through three distinct but inextricably interwoven frameworks: * Form/appearance (e.g., human/animal likeness in appearance; everyday media forms and robotic functions; cultural attitudes toward robot forms, etc.) * Content/AI/applications (e.g., implications of artificial intelligence in everyday human experiences such as memories, relationships, and conceptions of the self and self-understanding; applications that shape human-robot interactions; applications of mobile media and their implications in human¹s robotic experiences, etc.) * Critical issues that undergird the above, including; ethics, intimacy, emotions, authenticity, etc. Paper submission deadline: 1 January 2014 Notification to authors: 1 March 2014 Submission of authors' revised papers: 1 May 2014 Final acceptance: 1 June 2014 (accepted papers will be immediately published at the IJSR webpage with a Digital Object Identifier for citation purposes) Publication: August, 2014 The call is an outcome of the COST Strategic Workshop on Social Robotic and Sustainability that took place in Brussels, Belgium, on 10-13 June 2013. <http://www.cost.eu/events/socialrobotics> The online submission system is available at: : <http://www.editorialmanager.com/soro/> Authors are required to register on the website and to follow the Journal¹s ³Instructions for Authors² as provided there. == Many thanks in advance, - charles Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess@media.uio.no