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Mobile Communication, Community and Locative Media Practices: From the Everyday to the Revolutionary
2012 International Communication Association (ICA) Preconference
Workshop
Conference website: http://sociomobile.org/mobile2012/
Keynote Speaker: Mimi Sheller (Drexel University, USA)
Mobile and location-based networked interactions permeate our world. We no longer enter the Internet--we carry it with us. We experience it while moving through physical spaces. Smart phones, GPS receivers, and RFID tags are only a few examples of location-aware mobile technologies that mediate our interaction with networked spaces and the people in them. Increasingly, our physical location determines the types of information with which we interact, and the people and things we find around us. These new kinds of networked interactions manifest in everyday social practices that are supported by the use of mobile technologies, such as participation in location-based mobile games and social networks, engagement with location-based services, development of mobile annotation projects, and social mapping, just to name a few. The engagement with these practices has important implications for identity construction, our sense of privacy, our notions of place and space, civic and political participation, building community, policy making, as well as cultural production and consumption in everyday life.
This preconference will provide a venue for innovative scholars from around the world who are doing research in exploring how we experience our locally-rooted mobile networked interactions and mobile communication's impact on community. It will give them a chance to gather and discuss the challenges that this shift in the use of both mobile phones and the Internet poses not only for the users but for those doing research on mobile communication. We welcome abstracts that will focus on the following areas:
- Mobile communication and location awareness in everyday life practices;
- New urban spatialities developed with mobile gaming and locative social media; definitions of "community" in a mobile mediated context
- Privacy and surveillance issues as they relate to location-based social networks;
- Identity and spatial construction through locative media art / performance design and its impact on communities;
- Civic engagement and political participation through mobile social media, new mapping practices and location-aware technologies;
- Learning and education potentials of mobile and location-based media;
The two-day preconference will be comprised of formal panel presentations, one keynote speaker, opportunities for informal discussions, and time for networking. Thirty – fifty attendees are expected. The preconference will be at the main ICA hotel. The pre-conference registration fee will be $100.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words are due by November 15, 2010. Please send them along with your name and contact information to Dr. Adriana de Souza e Silva (adriana@souzaesilva.com). Accepted abstracts will be notified by December 1, 2010. Final papers will be due April 1, 2012.
Lead Organizers:
Dr. Adriana de Souza e Silva (Associate Professor of Communication, NC State University)
Dr. Jason Farman (Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland)
Dr. Kathleen M. Cumiskey, Associate Professor of Psychology, College of Staten Island/CUNY)
Dr. Lee Humphreys (Assistant Professor of Communication, Cornell University)
Dr. Richard Ling (Professor of Mobile Communication, IT University of Copenhagen)
Dr. Scott Campbell (Associate Professor of Communication, University of Michigan)
Dr. Yi-Fan Chen (Assistant Professor of Communication, Old Dominion University)
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For further information, please contact:
Dr. Adriana de Souza e Silva
Associate Professor of Communication
Interim Associate Director, Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media PhD program
North Carolina State University
http://www.souzaesilva.com
souzaesilva@ncsu.edu
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VISUAL LEARNING: DEVELOPMENT - DISCOVERY - DESIGN
Conference to take place in Budapest, December 1-2, 2011
Conference organized by theVisual Learning Lab, Department of Technical Education,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Contributions are invited from educational theorists, designers, architects, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, media theorists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics:
- educational theory and visual learning
- pictorial skills
- visual intelligence
- the visual mind
- scientific visualization
- visualization and higher education
- visualization and engineering skills
- design theory
- image and creativity
- visual argument
- information visualization
- images in the network age
slot of altogether 30 minutes is planned for each presentation. We envisage an ensuing volume of selected papers.
Submission of abstracts (max. 200 words) and short biographical statements (max. 100 words) by Sept. 20, 2011 (deadline extended). Please send your submissions simultaneously to Prof. Andras Benedek <benedek.a@eik.bme.hu> (Head, Department of Technical
Education) and to Kristof Nyiri <knyiri@t-email.hu> (Professor of Philosophy, Department of Technical Education). Those submitting abstracts will be notified of the decision concerning acceptance by Sept. 30, 2011.
No conference fees will be charged. Participants are encouraged to arrange their own accommodation. The conference venue (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1117 Budapest, Magyar Tudosok korutja 2, Bld. Q, Wing A) is located near downtown Budapest.
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Seamlessly Mobile?: Mobile Communication @ a Crossroads
2011 International Communication Association (ICA) Preconference
Workshop
Mobile phones are becoming increasingly adept as ubiquitous tools that serve purposes beyond that of mere voice communication. How we conceptualize mobile-mediated communication alongside computer-mediated communication is less distinct as access to the Internet becomes more integrated into mobile phone devices. Are people moving toward a more seamless integration of mobile and computer media as supporting their communication needs? Is the integration of the Internet into mobile phones shifting how people conceptualize what it means to be "online" vs. "offline"? Does this shift in mobile communication bear any social consequences?
This preconference will provide a venue for innovative scholars from around the world who are doing research in the area of mobile communication. It will give them a chance to gather and discuss the challenges that this shift in the use of mobile phones poses not only for the users but for those doing research on mobile communication. We welcome abstracts that will focus on the following areas related to these provocative questions:
- Patterns of mobile phone use and differences related to gender, age, lifestyle, culture, and/or access
- Ethics and social responsibility of use, shifts in social expectations of remote vs. co-present others
- Threats to privacy and issues of surveillance as they relate to technological innovations like GPS & location devices.
- Research design and methodological challenges, including finding venues for one's work
- The expansion of online and offline social networking and its demands
- Technology, design, and accessibility issues/challenges/expansion and development (i.e. emerging markets)
- Perceptions of use and imagining use beyond current capabilities (i.e. mobile fantasies, mobile art, mobile personalities, mobile witnessing/activism)
The preconference will be comprised of formal panel presentations, opportunities for informal discussions, and time for networking. In addition there may be invited performances of innovative artists whose work focuses on mobile communication as it relates to the themes of this preconference.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words are due by November 8, 2010. Please send them along with your name and contact information to Katie.cumiskey@csi.cuny.edu. Accepted abstracts will be notified by November 29, 2010. Final papers will be due April 1, 2011.
Lead Organizers:
Dr. Kathleen M. Cumiskey, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Director of Social Media Lab, College of Staten Island/CUNY, Staten Island, NY USA;
Katie.cumiskey@csi.cuny.edu
Dr. Richard Ling, Head of Group Digital Culture and Mobile Communication, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen S, Denmark; rili@itu.dk
Dr. Scott Campbell, Assistant Professor and Pohs Fellow of Telecommunications, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA;
swcamp@umich.edu
Dr. Lee Humphreys, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA; lmh13@cornell.edu
Dr. Yi-Fan Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Theater Arts, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA; Y5Chen@odu.edu
[Call for papers]
Mobile communication and social policy
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
October 9-11, 2009
Conference organized by the Center for Mobile Communication Studies, Rutgers University
https://www.scils.rutgers.edu/conferences/mobile/
Many topical sessions are being organized, and more will be developed out of the accepted submissions.
Among the topics being considered include (but not limited to):
- Identity and anonymity in location and communication
- Access and responsiveness of political leaders to mobile-equipped citizens
- Role of mobile communication in political activism
- Policy-making for mobiles
- First responders/crisis management/emergency notification/disaster recovery
- Issues of national integration and diasporas related to use of mobile communication
- Mobile learning
- Wellness, health and the role of the mobile
- Mobile device accessibility and integration/empowerment of handicapped people
- Mobile phone/device crimes and crime prevention
- Religious and spiritual activities and their implications for social practices
- Interpersonal contact services and related commercial activities
[ Call for papers]
Special issue of New Media and Society:
Mobile Communication and the Developing World
Rich Ling & Heather A. Horst, guest editors
We are seeking papers for a special edition of the journal New Media & Society focusing on mobile communication and media, and its impact on the developing world. We are interested in papers that empirically describe the use of mobile practices as well as the convergence of mobile and other platforms in the developing world (e.g. Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe or other locations in the "global south"). Successful papers will examine the integration and use of mobile communication technology and its implications (both positive and negative) in individuals' lives. We are seeking papers that investigate the global as well as the local appropriations of mobile media use and its relationship to social change and/or development. Papers might address issues such as:
- What are the social, cultural, gender related and political dimensions of mobile communication in the developing world?
- What are the determinants, obstacles and implications of the adoption and use of mobile communications?
* What are the dimensions of inequalities and how does mobile communication address these inequalities?
- How does mobile communication facilitate activities such as care giving, coordination, social cohesion, money transfer, commerce, locally and globally?
Submissions may be in the form of empirical research studies or theory-building papers and should be 5000 - 7000 words (in English). Papers must reflect new scholarship and not have been previously published (it is possible to submit revised conference papers). Authors interested in submitting to the special issue should send their 200-word abstract to either guest editor (Rich Ling or Heather Horst) on or before 1 March 2009. A sub-set of these abstracts will be selected for further development. Papers based on the abstracts that have been accepted for further consideration, will be due on 15 July 2009. Authors of papers selected for formal review may be invited to participate in a Pre-Conference Workshop at Association of Internet Research meetings on 7 October 2009 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA.
About the editors of this NM&S special issue:
Rich Ling (richard.ling@telenor.com<mailto:richard.ling@telenor.com>) is a sociologist at Telenor's research institute located near Oslo, Norway, and a guest Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He has also been the Pohs visiting professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the recently published book New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion as well as The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society, and along with Scott Campbell he is the editor of The Reconstruction of Space and Time Through Mobile Communication Practices. For the past fifteen years, he has worked in the research arm of Telenor and has been active in researching issues associated with new information communication technology and society with a particular focus on mobile telephony.
Heather A. Horst (hhorst@uci.edu<mailto:hhorst@uci.edu>) is a sociocultural anthropologist at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine. She is the co-author (with Daniel Miller) of The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication that examines the implications of mobile phones for development in Jamaica and is co-author with Mizuko Ito, et al. of a forthcoming book published by MIT Press, entitled Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media She received her Ph. D. in Social Anthropology from University College London. Before joining UCHRI, she worked as a research fellow at the University of the West Indies and University College London and a postdoctoral scholar at University of Southern California, and University of California, Berkeley where her focus has been on the appropriation of new media and communication technologies in Jamaica and the United States.
[ Call for papers]
Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking
Conference to take place in Budapest, September 25–27, 2008
Contributions are invited from philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, media theorists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics:
- Ethical implications of mediated relationships
- The mobile internet
- Exploring the self through social networking
- Mutual respect und acknowledgement
- Gossip and social cohesion
- The re-interpretation of privacy
- Geobrowsing, privacy, and GPS-equipped phones
- Real and virtual identities
- Inclusion of elderly people
- Exclusion and the network effect
- Social networking and big business
- Netocracy
- Fraud and secrecy
- Surveillance
- Informatics challenging bioethics (genomics and the new biology)
Target dates:
Submission of abstracts (max. 300 words) and short biographical statements (max. 150 words) by March 25, 2008. Early submissions are strongly encouraged. Please send your submissions to Kristóf Nyíri, knyiri@t-email.hu.
Those submitting abstracts will be notified of the decision concerning acceptance by Apr. 12, 2008. Deadline for receipt of draft full-length (max. 2500 words) versions of papers: July 13, 2008. Receipt of draft papers by this deadline is a condition for inclusion in the program. The papers will be compiled and distributed to all participants at the time of the conference.
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The global and globalizing dimensions of mobile communication: Developing or developed?
International Communication Association Pre-conference Workshop
This pre-conference has the intention of examining the global dimensions of mobile communication. Mobile communication (both via traditional mobile telephony and via other wireless systems) is being felt on a global basis. There are, for example, currently more mobile telephones in the developing world than in the traditional industrialized countries. Thus while mobile communication has become a relatively normal part of daily life in industrialized countries, it is also becoming increasingly common in the developing world.
This means that mobile communication is truly a global phenomenon. The use of mobile communication in both developing and in the industrialized countries has had dramatic impact on how we communicate and how we access to basic information. Through use of mobile communication we coordinate our everyday affairs; we used the technology to enhance entrepreneurial opportunities and we have gained a way to organize assistance when it is needed. In the industrialized world, many countries have more subscriptions than they have population and in the developing world, mobile communication is morphing into an efficient way to organize remittances between guest workers and their families back home.
The "first wave" of mobile communication research has included case studies from dozens of countries around the world. However, there has been a relative paucity of studies which use comparative methods, or try to assess and describe local/regional phenomena in light of broader international/universal themes. Because of this, we wish to welcome abstracts that focus on issues such as:
- Global/universal patterns vs. local improvisation
- Mobile communication and social and/or economic development and change
- Mobile communication and globalization
- Comparative studies of mobile communication (use patterns, political economies, media and communication systems, etc)
- Cross-cultural approaches to mobile communication
- Easy and inexpensive network access and inexpensive/used mobile phones has meant that mobile communication has become the primary way in which many persons in the developing world first experience the use of telephony.
In order to examine this question as well as other dimensions mobile communication we are issuing a call for papers for a pre-conference at the 2008 meeting of the International Communication Association. Abstracts are due by 15 October. Please send them to Richard.ling@telenor.com The papers that are accepted will be notified by 30 October 2007. Final papers are due by May 1, 2008. The program will accommodate up to 6 panel sessions.
The pre-conference is a joint effort by the University of Michigan, Temple University & Telenor. It will be held at Le Centre Sheraton in Montreal (the conference hotel for the general ICA meeting), starting with a plenary session on Tues the 20th of May along with sessions on on the 20th and the 21st.
Cost: ICA Members: $50.00 USD
ICA Student members: $20.00 USD
Non-member price: $75.00
(Includes refreshments, lunch and reception)
Organized by
Dr. Rich Ling, Telenor Research Richard-seyler.ling@telenor.com
Prof. Scott Campbell, University of Michigan swcamp@umich.edu
Prof. Concetta Steweart, Temple University Concetta.Stewart@temple.edu
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Arab Mobile Communication Studies. [ link ]
Center for Mobile Communication Studies. The world's first academic unit to focus solely on social aspects of mobile communication. [ link ]
Dr Leslie Haddon's website. [ link ]
International Telecommunications Union. An excellent source of information on mobile telephony in all regions of the world. [ link ]
Mobile Devices/SMS/Instant Messaging Social Science Research. [ link ]
mobile-society list. Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communications list. [ link ]
mobile-society. The Mail Archive. [ link ]
Mobile communication: The social implications of mobile communication. This site is focused on the academic analysis of mobile communication in society. [ link ]
Mobile Devices and the Cultural Worlds of Young People, Annenberg Center. A project investigating the sociological impact of mobile technology on youth. [ link ]
Telenor. Articles and information regarding the use of the mobile telephone in a range of social contexts. [ link ]
textually.org. All about texting, SMS, and MMS. [ link ]
The Digital World Research Centre investigates the relationships between people, society and digital technologies. [ link ]
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