<div dir="ltr">************************************************************************<br>ACM Hypertext 2023<br>4-8 September 2023, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, Italy<br><a href="https://ht.acm.org/ht2023/" target="_blank">https://ht.acm.org/ht2023/</a> <br>Deadline: 31 March 2023 23.59 AOE<br>************************************************************************<br><br>Important Dates<br>• Regular papers and Workshops <br> - Submission: 31 March 2023 AoE<br> - Notification: 15 May 2023 AoE<br><br>• Late breaking, blue sky, demos, traversals, and doctoral consortium <br> - Submission: 26 May 2023 AoE<br> - Notification: 26 June 2023 AoE<br><br>• Camera ready version of accepted papers<br> - 14 July 2023: 23 July 2023 AoE<br><br>• Conference 4-8 September 2023<br><br>Note: The submission times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth)<br><br><br>The
ACM Hypertext conference is a premium venue for high quality
peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems, applications,
publishing, artwork and related practices. It is concerned with all
aspects of modern hypertext research including social and intelligent
media, narrative systems and applications, authoring, reading and
publishing hypertext, workflows and infrastructures as well as
reflections and approaches. <br><br><br>All accepted contributions will
be published by ACM and will be available in the Proceedings via the ACM
Digital Library. Selected contributions will be invited to submit an
expanded version after the conference to a special issue of the New
Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. <br><br><br>Submissions are welcome in the following tracks:<br><br>Interactive Media: Art and Design<br>Track chair Dr Sam Brooker (Richmond American University London, UK)<br><br>This
track is dedicated to papers that explore creative expression through
digital technology. Submissions may showcase new approaches to – or
applications of – interactive media technology for creative expression,
or evaluate existing work from a new perspective. Hybrid presentations
that mix theory and practice are welcome, though work should be rooted
in hypertext as method or approach.<br>Topics include but not limited to: <br>• Demonstrations: Live exhibition or exploration of a new or existing creative work.<br>• Critical analysis: Reflection on or discussion of pre-existing works or theoretical approaches.<br>•
Traversals: Demonstrations performed on historically appropriate
platforms, with participation and commentary by the authors of the
works.<br>• Interdisciplinary creative work: Evaluation or demonstration of creative work that crosses disciplinary boundaries<br><br><br>Authoring, Reading, Publishing<br>Track chair Dr Leah Henrickson (University of Leeds, UK)<br><br>This
track is dedicated to exploring how hypertext has transformed
authoring, reading, and publishing by disrupting, subverting, or
complementing book and media culture and practice. Submissions may focus
on specific case studies or theories of new emerging practices,
rhetorical analyses, or methodological reflections that take inspiration
from fields such as book history, digital humanities and/or media
studies.<br>Topics include, but not limited to:<br>• Authorship: Contextualising the production of hypertexts.<br>•
Book history: Historically-informed frameworks, theories, and concepts
for understanding hypertextual production, dissemination, and reception.<br>• Digital scholarly editions and adaptations: Hypertextual representations and reconceptualisations of extant texts.<br>•
Digital storytelling and electronic literature: How hypertexts are used
to communicate ideas and facilitate alternative textual experiences.<br>• Reading practices and reader response: How hypertexts are read (or not read) and interpreted.<br>•
Rhetorics and poetics: How hypertexts are framed in popular and
scholarly discourse, as well as theoretical considerations on forms of
expression supported by hypertextual formats.<br>• Text, paratext, and multimodality: Manifestations and effects of digital forms of intra- and intertextual connectivity.,<br><br><br>Workflows and Infrastructures<br>Track chair Dr Davide Picca (Université de Lausanne, CH)<br><br>This
track is dedicated to hypertext systems and their professional
applications to the GLAM field in order to facilitate access to
cultural knowledge. The main purpose is to illustrate through the
different contributions to the track, how STEM disciplines can help and
support the preservation and dissemination of tangible and intangible
cultural resources. This track welcomes contributions that present
real-world applications of hypertext systems, with a focus on the
benefits, challenges, and gaps that emerge from daily practice in fields
of study such as (but not limited to) Digital Museology, Intangible
Cultural Heritage applications and NLP approaches to cultural
resources. <br>Topics include, but not limited to: <br>• Semantic knowledge: How formal ontologies and formal modelling can contribute to organise cultural knowledge<br>• GLAM applications: Pipelines and digital curations for restoration and preservation of cultural artefacts<br>• Digital Museology: Innovations, trends as well as practical challenges encountered in the fields of museology<br>•
Intangible Cultural Heritage applications: How Big Data workflows and
digital transformation methods can be applied to cultural objects<br>•
NLP approaches to cultural resources: Computational semantics and
pragmatics, machine translation and multilingual NLP for cultural
objects<br><br><br>Social and Intelligent Media<br>Track chair Dr Grégoire Burel (Knowledge Media Institute, UK)<br><br>The
social and intelligent media track is dedicated to the understanding
and modelling of sociotechnical systems and their role in shaping
communication and information access, both virtually and offline.
Submissions should consider any online systems that include socially and
AI-mediated information such as social networks, recommender systems,
online publication tools and discussion platforms. As the focus of this
year conference is “Humanity within”, authors are encouraged to submit
interdisciplinary articles centred around the impact of social media and
AI on how hyperlinked content is accessed and consumed and its impact
on Humanity. This track welcomes submissions that further the
understanding of the technical inworkings of digital communities and
their societal impact, as well as novel methods and algorithms that
shape online communication, content creation and socially-mediated
information access. <br>Topics include, but not limited to:<br>• Privacy and Anonymity in Social Media – The way social media protect and/or blur the lines between the real and virtual world.<br>• Inclusiveness of Social Media – The role of social media in including minorities, disabilities and minoritised communities. <br>•
Diversity and Representativeness of Social Media – The way social media
favour (or not) content diversity and its representativeness as well as
the involvement of individuals (e.g., echo chambers, content
moderation).<br>• Immersive Social Media (e.g., metaverse) – The
development and impact of new interaction paradigms on real-world
interactions and online communication. <br>• Network Effects in Social
Media – The impact of social and hyperlink ties on content access and
distribution e.g., information access, ranking, misinformation and bot
networks).<br>• Social Media Algorithms – The structure, development, design, and analysis of social media platforms and algorithms.<br><br><br>Reflections and Approaches<br>Track chair Dr Mariusz Pisarski (University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, PL)<br><br>This
track considers how hypertext has transformed society and its tools:
new perspectives, future directions, and ongoing transformations that
challenge our assumptions about hypertext. This track welcomes
submissions focused on (but not limited to) critical reflection on the
evolution of hypertext systems, paradigms for new hypertext
applications, as well as theories for understanding and navigating the
complexity of digital communities enabled by hypertext design and
systems. <br>Topics include, but not limited to:<br>• Histories of hypertext: hypertext systems in critical discourse, technology discourse and in the arts community.<br>•
Histories of social media: how the pioneering formulas of early systems
– such as BBS, MUD and email discussion groups – evolved to modern
social media.<br>• Designs, paradigms and theories: evolution of hypertext in scholarly and artistic practice <br>•
Self-reflectivity of systems: historical impact of one hypertext system
upon another; remediations, migrations and borrowings of features in
contemporary writing/reading platforms<br>• Visual histories and
meta-histories of social media and hypertext: hypertext and social media
communities and ideas in visual and big-data analysis.<br><br><br>Submissions<br><br><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht23" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht23</a> <br><br>Submission deadline: 31 March 2023</div>