About the Journal

 

About

ISSN 3029-0139 (Online)

The New Real Team is based at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, in partnership with Alan Turing Institute, festival partners, and supported by funding from EPSRC, AHRC, SFC, Creative Scotland, and the Data-Driven Innovation Programme.

The New Real is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal. All content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, unless otherwise stated. There are no fees to access or publish in the journal.

 

Aims & Scope

Our research explores how AI impacts on life at a profound level, often interacting with us in fascinating and unanticipated ways, and illuminates how emerging technology can become a creative, playful and deeply impactful part of everyday living.

We believe art and creativity can help to radically change how we think about AI design, moving beyond the current paradigm of learning patterns from large amounts of data, to embrace human traits such as bias, disagreement, and uncertainty as a signal with creative potential rather than noise that needs to be removed.

We devise imaginative ways to experiment with new experiences, practices, infrastructures and business models, and to empower people be agents of positive change.

The New Real emerged from the Experiential AI research theme and group, it conducts research on the following themes:

  • Creative AI for good

  • Human-centred creative AI

  • Next generation intelligent experiences

  • Public XAI and socio-technical literacy

  • Experiential AI

  • AI Art

  • AI Ethics

  • Social Dimensions of Emerging Technology

  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

 

Governance & Ownership

The New Real is owned and governed by the journal editors. Copyright to papers published within the journal issues are owned by their respective authors under Creative Commons licenses. The journal is published by the University of Edinburgh – a charitable body. Edinburgh Diamond – a service based within the University of Edinburgh Library – acts as the Publishing Partner by providing publishing services.

 

Indexing

The New Real is indexed in the following databases:

  • Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
  • BrowZine

 

Policies

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Publication Frequency

The New Real publishes three issues per year.