Call for Chapters: Visual Culture at the Intersection of Human and Machine Vision

Editors

Nguyen Son, FPT University, Viet Nam

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: July 12, 2026
 Full Chapters Due: October 4, 2026
 Submission Date: October 4, 2026

Introduction

Technology's rapid development is profoundly altering the creation, interpretation, dissemination, and institutionalization of images in cultures worldwide. In the post-digital age, vision transcends the boundaries of human perception, artistic intent, or purely cultural discourse; instead, algorithmic systems that “see,” classify, predict, and manipulate reality are increasingly impacting how humans “see.” This book, “Seeing Humans, Seeing Machines: Visual Culture, Machine Vision, and Knowledge in the Post-Digital Age,” proposes a critical and interdisciplinary as well as theory-based exploration of the evolving relationship between human vision, machine vision, visual culture, and knowledge production.

Objective

This book brings together ideas from philosophy, visual studies, media theory, art and design, artificial intelligence, education, and social sciences to provide a clear and timely response to the effects of machine vision on knowledge, culture, and teaching. Despite investigations into the ethics of artificial intelligence, digital media, and posthumanism, there remains a gap in the theory of how computer vision transforms the ontology of images, the epistemology of knowledge, and the future of education and creative practice in a post-digital environment. This book addresses that gap by bringing together scholars, artists, technologists, educators, and theorists to explore how humans and machines perceive differently—and how those differences transform meaning, power, culture, and learning.

Target Audience

This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in visual culture, media studies, art, design, AI studies, education, philosophy, and social sciences; higher education faculty teaching visual communication, digital culture, AI ethics, or post-digital studies; artists, designers, and creative practitioners working with AI and computational imaging; policymakers and educational leaders addressing AI integration; and interdisciplinary scholars in digital humanities and critical data studies. The book will serve as both a research reference and a graduate-level teaching resource. In addition, it also lays down a conceptual foundation for future studies on machine vision from the perspective of visual culture.

Recommended Topics

Introduction to Seeing Humans, Seeing Machines; Phenomenology of Human Vision; Machine Vision as an Epistemic System; Posthuman and Post-digital Seeing; The Ontology of Algorithmic Images; Visual Culture in the Age of Machine Vision; Algorithmic Visibility and Cultural Power; Surveillance, Recognition, and Visual Governance; Bias, Ethics, and Politics of Machine Vision; Synthetic Images and Generative Visuality; Visual Capitalism and Data Economies; Art, Aesthetics, and Creative Practice; Artists Working with Machine Vision; AI as Co-Creator in Visual Arts; Post-digital Aesthetics; Machine Vision in Design and Visual Communication; Critical and Speculative Artistic Practices; Machine Vision and Knowledge Production; Visual Analytics and Scientific Seeing; Algorithmic Epistemology; Data Visualization and Truth-Making; Machine Vision in Research Methodologies; Cultural Memory and Digital Heritage; Education, Visual Literacy, and Post-digital Pedagogy; Teaching Visual Literacy in the AI Era; Machine Vision in Learning Analytics; Creativity, Authorship, and AI in Education; Curriculum Innovation in Visual and Digital Studies; Ethics of AI in Higher Education; Posthuman Vision and Hybrid Perception; XR, Immersive Seeing, and Synthetic Worlds; AI, Visual Futures, and Society; Policy, Governance, and Ethical Futures.

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 12, 2026, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by July 26, 2026 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters of a minimum of 10,000 words (word count includes references and related readings) are expected to be submitted by October 4, 2026, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-anonymized review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Visual Culture at the Intersection of Human and Machine Vision. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-anonymized peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global Scientific Publishing, an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference", "Medical Information Science Reference", "Business Science Reference", and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global Scientific Publishing specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2027.

Indexing Information for Prospective Authors

IGI Global Scientific Publishing meets the criteria for inclusion in major indexing services such as Scopus; however, it is important to note that all indexing decisions are made independently by these services. IGI Global Scientific Publishing books are selectively indexed by the indexing organization after publication. Indexing cannot be guaranteed for any book prior to publication, and the indexing organization has complete control over the final selection and timeline.

Important Dates

July 12, 2026: Proposal Submission Deadline
July 26, 2026: Notification of Acceptance
October 4, 2026: Full Chapter Submission
November 15, 2026: Review Results Returned
December 13, 2026: Final Acceptance Notification
December 20, 2026: Final Chapter Submission

Inquiries

Nguyen Duc Son.
FPT University, Greenwich Vietnam.
Sonnd24@fe.edu.vn
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