SIGCAS Special Topics Call for Contributions: Navigating the Influences of Human-Centered Computing on Policy Innovation
We welcome contributions investigating how user-centered design methodologies can be leveraged to create more inclusive and functional regulatory mechanisms. Contributions can also explore how HCC approaches can facilitate participatory policymaking while ensuring that citizen voices are effectively integrated throughout the policy lifecycle. This issue aims to tackle the ethical considerations of using HCC to inform AI-focused regulation in policy contexts, addressing issues such as algorithmic bias, data privacy, accountability, discrimination, and more. We also particularly encourage pieces that examine sociotechnical approaches to AI regulation, data governance, and data sovereignty in the Global Majority.
Please submit your contributions to this Special Issue to SIGCAS Computers and Society through email at editors_sigcas [at] acm.org by September 15th, 2025 (the subsequent issue will be published on December 15th, 2025). Please include “SIGCAS Special Issue” in the subject line. Submissions should be a maximum of 2,500 words, drafted in Microsoft Word or Google Docs format, and references formatted in IEEE style.
Call for Book Reviews
For future issues of ACM Computers and Society, we would like to publish three to four book review essays. Each review should be in the 750-1500 word range and should focus on a recent book related to topics of interest to the SIGCAS membership. Alternately, a longer review essay that examines two or three related books together in some thematic way will also be considered.
Potential authors are encouraged to send initial book review ideas to: editors_sigcas [at] acm.org.
For more information, see the post on Call for Reviews.
Submission deadline: Rolling
Call for Short Pieces
The SIGCAS Publications Group is seeking short pieces that are relevant, provocative, diverse, and unexpected for inclusion in upcoming issues of Computers and Society. The editors intend to run several pieces in each issue, ranging in topics and nature. Short pieces should be short. As a rule of thumb, aim for less than 1,200 words in length. If it is longer, we encourage you to submit your longer article for inclusion as a longer piece.
For topical ideas, see our new Computers and Society Areas of Interest chart.
To be considered for inclusion, send your short piece to editors [at] sigcas@acm.org with the subject line “Short Piece” before the relevant submission deadline. All submission deadlines can be found here.
Submission deadline: Rolling
Call for Book Reviews
For future issues of ACM Computers and Society, we would like to publish three to four book review essays. Each review should be in the 750-1500 word range and should focus on a recent book related to topics of interest to the SIGCAS membership. Alternately, a longer review essay that examines two or three related books together in some thematic way will also be considered.
Potential authors are encouraged to send initial book review ideas to: editors_sigcas [at] acm.org.
For more information, see the post on Call for Reviews.
Submission deadline: Rolling
Call for Article Submissions
For future issues of ACM Computers and Society, we are seeking articles on any topic pertaining to the mandate of SIGCAS. Potential authors are encouraged to send initial abstracts to editors_sigcas [at] acm.org.
Submission deadline: Rolling