Hello Everyone,
I’m writing to let you know the CFP for the Undergraduate Journal of Contemporary Issues and Media is available. The journal is open to submissions from all disciplines and all student levels. Please feel free to distribute.
This year, the theme is on AI:
What’s This Thing, ChatGPT?
Large language models, including AI chatbots like ChatGPT, have quickly become part of our communication practices. These natural language processing technologies have forever transformed human-computer interaction, and conversational Artificial Information (AI) systems are more advanced and human-like than ever before. As a result, we are confronted with new questions about the interrelationships between humans and technologies and how these tools may both improve and threaten our current modes of discourse and communication.
We invite submissions interrogating the information landscapes being shaped by ChatGPT and related tools. Possible lines of inquiry include the following:
- How do machines enable and limit us?
- What is the role of ChatGPT in higher education?
- How can a technology like ChatGPT be used for good in society?
- What does creativity mean in the age of AI?
- How do current technologies create biases?
- What are the ethical implications of composing with AI?
- How might AI tools both afford and constrain opportunities for marginalized individuals and groups?
Feel free to engage with ChatGPT to draft an essay, write a poem, conduct research, create a piece of art, or a comic, etc. as you answer one of these questions or a question of your own that deals with technology and machines in culture and society. Where does the technological end and the human begin?
Full disclosure: the writer of this Call for Proposals (CFP) used ChatGPT to help draft it and then added, deleted, and revised.
You can find more information about the journal here: https://writing.utah.edu/undergraduatejournal/index.php
We are looking forward to your students’ submissions. The deadline is January 15, 2024
Maureen
Maureen Mathison/Assoc Prof
Director of Graduate Studies
Department Honors Liaison
Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies
LNCO 3700/University of Utah
Maureen.mathison