[acc-cca-l] CFP: Human Machine Communication Special Issue: Diffusion of Human-Machine Communication During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ahmed, Rukhsana rahmed4 at albany.edu
Sun Sep 6 18:33:50 MDT 2020


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Dear colleagues,

Hope you are staying safe and healthy this fall semester.

Please find below the call for paper for a special issue on Human-Machine Communication:

Special Issue Editors:

- Do Kyun David Kim, Ph.D (kimcomm at louisiana.edu<mailto:kimcomm at louisiana.edu>), Richard D’Aquin / BORSF Endowed Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette

- Rukhsana Ahmed, Ph.D (rahmed4 at albany.edu<mailto:rahmed4 at albany.edu>), Associate Professor and Chair of Communication Department at the University at Albany, SUNY

- Gary L. Kreps, Ph.D (gkreps at gmu.edu<mailto:gkreps at gmu.edu>), University Distinguished Professor at George Mason University

Human-machine communication (HMC) facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI) technology will be a significant part of the New Normal already emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic. Likely, HMC will be further routinized in the post-pandemic world, altering human lifestyles, offering an alternative to face-to-face communication between humans, meeting demands for independent or remote work, necessitating teaming with communicable devices or robots, and providing context for the development of human-like friendships with AI partners. In fact, not only has HMC complemented, but it has also, at present, substantially replaced human communication in many areas of personal and professional life.

This special issue focuses on strategic human-machine communication that contributes to overcoming difficulties caused by a pandemic and addressing the HMC-based New Normal based on human-machine communication during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Particularly, we welcome studies investigating the acceleration of the diffusion of human-machine communication as a communicative solution for current and future pandemics and implementation of HMC as a new normal.

Based on this general theme, this special issue aims to feature diverse circumstances of HMC related to pandemics, such as human-robot interaction, virtual and augmented realities (humans “in” the machine or machine environments), cyborg/augmentics (human-machine hybridity), human-machine teaming, and automation, and to be inclusive of multiple methodological, epistemic, and disciplinary approaches. This special issue strives to advance HMC scholarship internationally by encouraging excellence in academic research.

For more information or questions, please contact the Special Issue Editor Dr. David Kim at kimcomm at louisiana.edu<mailto:kimcomm at louisiana.edu>.

Additional information available at:

https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/callforpapers.html

Deadline: December 30, 2020.

All manuscripts should be submitted via the journal’s online submission system (https://hmcjournal.com) with the remark, “Special Issue” in the cover letter. In the online submission system, there will be a drop-down menu under Document Type. Please choose “Special Issue Submission.”



Please consider submitting, and I thank you in advance for circulating widely.

Cordially,

Rukhsana
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Rukhsana Ahmed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Chair
Department of Communication<https://www.albany.edu/communication/r_ahmed.php>, Social Science 351
Research Associate, Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities<https://www.albany.edu/cemhd/index.php>
University at Albany, State University of New York<https://www.albany.edu/>
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222
T: (518) 442-4887 | F: (518) 442-3884 | E: rahmed4 at albany.edu<mailto:rahmed4 at albany.edu>
Chief Editor, Health Communication<https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/sections/health-communication#about> (specialty section of Frontiers in Communication<https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication>)
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Science, Society and Policy <https://issp.uottawa.ca/en/about-the-institute>
Research Associate, Scholarly Communications Lab<https://www.scholcommlab.ca/>
Facemask Challenge - A COVID-19 Educational Campaign <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.00486/full>




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