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CFP: From SMS to Smartphones

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CALL FOR PAPERS
From SMS to Smartphones:
Tracing the Impact and Developmental Trajectory of the Mobile Phone in Asia

13-14 February 2012
National University of Singapore

Asia is widely regarded as a region that has enthusiastically embraced information technology. This observation is especially true of the region's adoption and appropriation of the mobile phone. The affordability, versatility and ubiquity of the mobile phone has had a discernible impact on Asia. Despite the significance of mobile phones in the Asian landscape, research on this topic has been shaped by studies on the US and Scandinavia, while research on Asia is growing, but in its nascent stages. This workshop seeks to address the imbalance by bringing together researchers who are studying mobile phone trends in Asia and collectively, workshop participants will discuss and deliberate over the global implications of their research findings and the developmental trajectory of the mobile phone. The workshop will be held at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore from 13-14 February 2012.

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Please submit your proposal to Sun Sun Lim at sunlim@nus.edu.sg by 15 September 2011

CFP: "Cell phones and communities: The use of mobile media in Brazil"

Among developing nations, Brazil is a key site for studying the social dimension of mobile technologies. The country is part of the so-called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), an acronym that refers to fast-growing developing economies. Brazil is the fastest growing economy in Latin America, and has over 217 million mobile phones, which represents an average of 111 working devices per 100 inhabitants . The country has also experienced one of the fastest mobile phone growth rates in the world since 2005 (averaging 16.6% annually); is the largest mobile phone market in Latin America; and is the fifth-largest mobile market in the world in absolute numbers, with roughly 217 million subscriptions as of September 2011. However, numbers alone reveal little if not analyzed within a broader social, cultural, and economic framework. The focus on a homogeneous large-scale market leads to overly sanguine perspectives that often obscure how socioeconomic diversity causes and reflects mobile phone use. As in many developing countries, Brazil has astounding income gaps among different sectors of the population which influence and are influenced by technology development and use. For example, the use of high-end services such as mobile banking, and location-based services like Foursquare and Yelp is an intrinsic part of the daily mobile practices of the high-income population in the country. Conversely, the lower-income population in Rio de Janeiro is familiar with the diretao-a mobile phone that allows users to make clandestine calls to anywhere in the world with the use of an illegal sim card. However, Brazil has also been at the forefront of an experimental and innovative approach towards new technologies, forecasted in cultural events that focus on art, music and film festivals dedicated to new and creative uses of mobile technologies, such as the Mobilefest and Arte.mov.

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Abstracts: 15 February 2012 (500 words).
Notification of accepted abstracts: 15 March 2012.
Full papers: 15 June 2012 (8000/9000 words).
Notification of accepted papers: 15 September 2012.

M4D2012

https://sites.google.com/site/m4d012/call-for-papers

Ghaziabad, India

Following the conferences in Karlstad (2008) and Kampala (2010) IMS School of Management Studies (Ghazibad, India) in co-operation with HumanIT (Karlstad University, Sweden) will organize the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Technology for Development, M4D2012.

The M4D conference is a unique opportunity for practioners, researchers, development agencies and NGO workers to convene, discuss and socialize. As in previous M4D conferences there will be a possibility for both research-oriented as well as practioner-oriented contributions (papers and posters). M4D2012 will be one of the most exiting events of 2012 so mark these dates in your calendar al ready now

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Submission deadline: July 31,2011

CFP: ICTD2012

http://www.ictd2012.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

ICTD2012 - Fifth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA USA
Peer review mentor program submission deadline: May 1, 2011

ICTD provides an international forum for scholarly researchers exploring the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. The conference program and accepted papers will reflect and deepen the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research, with anticipated representation from anthropology, computer science, communication, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, information science, political science, public health, sociology, and so on.

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CFP: 3rd Mobilities conference 2012

http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/mobilities/

CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd Mobilities conference 2012
Local and mobile: Linking mobilities, mobile communication and locative media

North Carolina State University, Raleigh (NC), USA

While mobility is an important framework to understand contemporary society, the pervasiveness of location-aware technology has made it possible to locate ourselves and be networked within patterns of mobility. As user generated maps and location-aware mobile devices become commonplace, we experience a shift in the way we connect to the internet and move through space. Networked interactions permeate our world. We no longer enter the internet--we carry it with us. We experience it while moving through physical spaces. Mobile phones, GPS receivers, and RFID tags are only a few examples of location-aware mobile technologies that mediate our interaction with networked spaces and influence how we move in these spaces. Increasingly, our physical location determines the types of information with which we interact, the way we move through physical spaces, 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 and location-aware technologies, such as participation in location-based mobile games and social networks, use of 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, policy making, as well as cultural production and consumption in everyday life.

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IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2011 (800 words, including references)
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2011

Call for Abstracts:MOBILE COMMUNICATION: MOBILE INTERNET, LOCATIVE MEDIA, MOBILITY AND PLACE

http://www.imv.au.dk/nyheder/2012/mobileworkshop/

International Research Workshop
Aarhus University, Media Studies
Thursday 29 ? Friday 30 March 2012

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

We invite researchers who work with mobile communication as a cultural, spatial and social phenomenon to join us for this two-day round-table workshop hosted by the Media Studies Department at Aarhus University. We will emphasize the spatial aspects of mobile communication and mobile internet. The workshop aims to reflect and discuss general theoretical perspectives, empirical case studies and methodological implications of studying mobile internet and locative media in relation to mobility and place. We have invited an international panel of speakers in order to encourage and facilitate the development of an international research network on mobile communication.

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Submitting abstract for presentation
There will be a limited number of participants in the workshop. Deadline for submitting an abstract for presentation is 15. January 2012. The abstract should be no longer than 250 words. All participants will receive a response by 1 February. Please send your abstract to Sarah Schorr: imvsgs@hum.au.dk

CFP ICA Mobile Communication pre-conference

http://sociomobile.org/mobile2012/

CALL FOR PAPERS
Mobile Communication, Community and Locative Media Practices: From the Everyday to the Revolutionary
2012 International Communication Association (ICA) Pre-conference Workshop

Phoenix AZ, 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.

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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.

CFP: MIS Quarterly Special Issue on Information Systems for Symbolic Action

http://www.misq.org

MIS Quarterly Special Issue on Information Systems for Symbolic Action: Social Media and Beyond

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2012

Guest Editors:

Mark Aakhus, Rutgers University (aakhus@rutgers.edu)
Pär J. Ågerfalk, Uppsala University (par.agerfalk@im.uu.se)
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University (kalle@po.cwru.edu)
Dov Te'eni, Tel Aviv University (teeni@tau.ac.il)

This special issue aims to foster Information Systems research in understanding, illustrating, and explaining how IS forms an inherent aspect of human activity and a means of symbolic action. We invite submissions that advance IS theory and research on the intersection of information systems and symbolic action through theoretical review, analysis, and development, empirical and design studies, or large-scale empirics and methodology development. Central issues to be tackled revolve around novel conceptualizations of IS, uses and design of IS, and methods for investigating IS as grounds, means, and outcomes of symbolic action. (The full call is available here: http://www.misq.org/)

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Position at Temple U. - Emergent Media - tenure track

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CFP: VISUAL LEARNING

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CFP: VISUAL LEARNING: DEVELOPMENT - DISCOVERY - DESIGN

Budapest, Hungary

Conference organized by the Visual 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

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Submission of abstracts (max. 200 words) and short biographical statements (max. 100 words) by Sept. 20, 2011 (deadline extended

MobilityShifts

http://mobilityshifts.org/

MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit

The New School, New York City

MOBILITYSHIFTS IS: provocative conversations, original ideas, engaging performances, workshops and art projects about digital learning. Where, when, how, and even what we are learning is changing. Digital learning is not only taking place online or in the university classroom but is also situated in museums, after school programs, living rooms, public libraries and peer-to-peer universities. The future of learning will not be solely determined by digital culture but by the re-organization of power relationships and institutional protocols. MobilityShifts will bring together leading scholars, artists, web developers, technologists, teachers, librarians, policy makers, critical legal scholars and learning activists to discuss how digital media can play a positive role in this process of transformation.

Comprised of a conference, exhibition, workshops, project demos and a theater performance, this summit will add an international layer to the existing debate about digital fluencies for a mobile world and learning outside the bounds of traditional institutions of higher education.

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CFP: NETMOB 2011

http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~blondel/netmob/

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Second conference on the
Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets and Networks

MIT (Media Lab), Cambridge, MA, USA

Mobile phone datasets have become widely available in recent years and have opened the possibility to improve our understanding of large-scale social networks by investigating how people exchange information, build trust, create markets and develop social interactions. Mobile phone data is also helping us understand complex processes such as the spread of information and viruses or transportation and the use of urban infrastructures.

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IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: July 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2011
Conference: October 10-11, 2011

Faculty Opening - Assistant Professor of Communication, North Carolina State University

The Department of Communication at North Carolina State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in digital media.

The candidate will have an earned doctorate by August 2012 in Communication or a related field (humanities, social sciences, or interdisciplinary). The successful candidate will have an established record of research in digital media, a commitment to the integration of theory and practice, and a commitment to multidisciplinary scholarship. Possible areas of expertise within digital media include, but are not limited to, game studies; mobile communication; locative media; social and public media; digital aesthetics; social networks; digital culture; digital media infrastructure, ownership, and policy; digital media access; new digital research methods; and surveillance, privacy and control. The specific sub-area of practice is less important than a commitment to understanding and exploring digital media as an arena for creative expression, communication, power, and/or social change. Preference will be given to candidates whose research demonstrates success in, or has strong potential for, external funding.

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Faculty Opening - Open Rank Faculty Position in Learning Technologies at The Harvard Graduate School

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) invites applications for a faculty position in Learning Technologies. We seek individuals who work at the nexus of research and practice. This search is open rank and may result in the appointment of tenured or tenure-track faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor of Education, Associate Professor of Education(untenured), or Professor of Education.

We especially seek candidates with the qualifications and experience to contribute to our doctoral program (Ed.D.) training the next generation of education researchers, as well as our master?s program in Technology, Innovation and Education. Among the topics of research and teaching expertise of interest to us are intelligent tutoring systems, creative and collaborative media, universal design for learning, transformed social interactions, representation and visualization for learning, online learning and professional development, predictive analytics for individual and organizational data, and mobile learning. However, we encourage applications from scholars whose work is in other areas, as well. We especially encourage applications from women and minorities.

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Faculty Opening - Assistant or Associate Professor of Telecommunication, Informati, MIchigan State U

The Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media (TISM) at Michigan State University invites applications for a tenure stream faculty position in the area of social media/social computing at either the assistant or associate professor level. We seek a scholar whose research addresses social media and/or social computing practices, applications, or effects. An interest in mobile applications of social media is desirable. Teaching duties will include graduate and undergraduate courses in information and communication technologies and social media. The ability to teach courses in research methods, interactive media design, and/or human computer interaction is also desired.

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CFP: Children, risk and safety online. Cfp from EU Kids Online

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/EUKidsOnline/Conference.aspx

"Children, risk and safety online: Research and policy challenges in comparative perspective

LSE, London, UK.

The conference will showcase final results and recommendations regarding online activities, risks and safety, based on a survey of 25,000 European children conducted by the EU Kids Online network of more than 100 researchers in 25 countries and funded by the European Commission's Safer Internet Programme.

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Submission deadline: April 30, 2011

CFP: Mobile Family Interaction

http://familyinteraction.wordpress.com/

CALL FOR PAPERS
Mobile Family Interaction

30 August 2011
Stockholm, Sweden.

This workshop aims to deepen our understanding of mobile technology use by preteens. The ubiquitous nature of this technology opens up new possibilities for technology use and abuse that need to be considered by parents and governments. This ongoing technological change will also affect family interaction and parenthood, bringing up new uses for mobile technology throughout families.

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Faculty Opening - Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago

The Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for an Assistant Professor, tenure-track position, in game studies and mobile media. We are looking for a faculty member who will engage with scholars in the humanities, social sciences, engineering, education and health sciences around the core interests of the digital humanities. Related areas include social networks, social capital, digital literacies, digital disparities, education, privacy, civic engagement and policymaking.

Review of applications will commence October 15, 2011. Applications received by then will receive full consideration. The search will proceed until the position is filled.

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New date: CFP: International Telecommunications Society Asia-Pacific Regional Conference

http://www.its2011taiwan.com/

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Telecommunications Society Asia-Pacific Regional Conference

Taipei, Taiwan

This three-day conference sets out to examine the notion of convergence in the digital age, with particular reference to new services of media and telecommunications.

This is an interdisciplinary conference and welcomes papers on convergence in the digital age in its many forms from wired and wireless communication to debates around social networking, popular entertainment and enhanced services whilst also seeking papers on western and non-western forms of media and communications regulation.

A Committee of academic, private and public sector professionals and, established participants in the ICT sector will be put to referee and select submitted papers. The Call for Papers will be advertised on the ITS website and three hosting universities? websites. Submissions will be accepted in English from all global regions. Selections are to be done strictly on merit, without preference given to any particular contributor or organisation. Selected papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

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IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for abstract submission: December 31, 2010. (new date: January 25, 2011.)
Deadline for panel proposal: January 25, 2011.
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2011

January 3, 2011

Dear Colleagues:

Due to many requests, we would like to inform you that we extended the paper abstract submission deadline for the 2011 ITS Asia-Pacific Regional Conference to January 25, 2011. The panel proposal deadline is also January 25, 2011.

In addition, a special issue on the topic ?Convergence in the Digital Age: Asia-Pacific Region? is planned together with the prestigious journal Telecommunications Policy. Selected papers from this conference will be recommended for submission, on a refereed basis.

Focusing in particular on new services in media and telecommunications, this interdisciplinary Conference welcomes papers on convergence in the digital age in its many forms -- from wired and wireless communication to emerging issues in social networking, online entertainment and enhanced services, whilst also seeking papers on western and non-western forms of media and communications regulation.

For complete details on this Conference, including the Call-for-Papers, please visit the Conference web site at www.its2011taiwan.com.

Please direct all Conference inquiries to its2011.taiwan@gmail.com

Yu-li Liu
Organizing Committee
2011 ITS Asia-Pacific Regional Conference

CFP: ANZCA 2011 - COMMUNICATION ON THE EDGE: SHIFTING BOUNDARIES AND IDENTITIES

http://www.anzca.net/component/content/article/92-anzca-2011.html

The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

The Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) is a professional association for researchers and teachers in the diverse disciplines of communication.

At a time of tectonic shifts in the way individuals, societies, organisations, and the media communicate, the boundaries of what constitutes communication are being re-drawn. New forms of knowledge are demanding new practices and groups that have been previously marginalised are calling to be heard.

The theme of this year's ANZCA conference is deliberately open to broad interpretation. It not only captures the spirit of communication at the cutting edge of a rapidly changing world but also inspires us to consider the impact of such change on communities and organisations.

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CFP: Mobile, digital and social media stream

http://www.management.ac.nz/anzca2011

The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

FULL PAPERS DUE FOR REFEREEING: Monday 7th February 2011
ABSTRACTS FOR NON-REFEREED PAPERS: Monday 7th February 2011.

Digital communication is impacting on our everyday lives, constantly shifting and changing our personal relationships, and enhancing opportunities to interact with others. Or does it? What challenges lie ahead in an era when manufacturers dominate the market place, and challenge our conceptions of our digital everyday lives with new apps, services and devices? And in what ways are we adopting, adapting, and appropriating technologies to improve our everyday communications? How are social participation sites challenging our personal understanding of risk, control and privacy? Or perhaps our identities are being challenged by the ubiquitous camera; reconceptualising our notions of who we are, and our locations both physical and virtual? How are marginalised communities and organisations engaging with digital communications; is the digital divide widening or narrowing?

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CFP:Communication and Mobilities

CALL FOR PAPERS
Communication and Mobilities
Panel organized for the Canadian Communication Association 2011 conference

June 1-3, 2011
Fredricton, NB

Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University) and Phillip Vannini (Royal Roads University) invite submissions for a CCA conference panel (or panels) that address the theme of "communications and mobilities." This panel aims to reflect on the technological and cultural processes underpinning the intersections between communication and our understanding of mobility.

Technologies of mobility deeply shape our ways of life, informing ideas, demanding new skills and practices, facilitating or impeding relationships, and restricting enabling, transforming access to crucial resources. Forms of mobility challenge us to question the separation of disciplines such as those between communication, transportation, and diasporic studies, and of concepts such as time and space, or human subjects, material objects and environmental matters.

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International Conference on Education & Learning in Mobile Age (CELMA)

http://srs.hud.ac.uk/conference/

Lake District, UK

The International Conference on Education & Learning in Mobile Age ? CELMA focuses on learning in the digital world with advanced mobile technologies, such as handheld devices, and smart phones. The applications of innovative technologies and inspiration methodologies in this domain will bring scientists, researchers, engineers, trainers and trainees together towards new era of teaching and learning societies. You are invited to submit your paper(s) of about 6 pages and/or a proposed to organize a technique session (see below for submission information). All accepted papers will be published in edited books by IGI global.

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Summary of Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: January. 15, 2011

CFP: Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies

Call f or Papers
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
Issue 26(5) October 2012
Wising Up: revising mobile media in an age of smart phones

This issue of Continuum explores the impact of smartphones on individuals, families, communities and organisations. A smartphone is a mobile phone which uses 3G and/or WiFi networks to connect to internet-based applications and services. Popular operating systems include Android, Blackberry OS, OS X iPhone, and Windows Mobile. Online, the smartphone can function as a social media portal, a games console, a navigation device and an app platform. It can connect users to services including banking, ecommerce and health. Offline, the smartphone can function as an entertainment deck, a multimedia capture and editing device, and a mobile office. Traversing the online and offline seamlessly, the smartphone represents a new generation in ubiquity and Web 2.0 practices.

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Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words and a brief bio by May 2011 to larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au Articles will be due by October 2011

ICA Rutgers party at the Aura Restaurant on May 27, 6:30-8 PM.

Dear CMCS members,

With the upcoming ICA meeting in Boston fast-approaching, I would like to invite you to the Rutgers party at the Aura Restaurant on May 27, 6:30-8 PM. Please see the attached invitation for further details. I hope to see many of you there.

Sincerely,

James E. Katz
Professor and Director, Center for Mobile Communication Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
732-932-7500 x8118

New submission date: Call for Abstracts: ICA-Preconference Workshop

http://sociomobile.org/mobile2011/

Seamlessly Mobile?: Mobile Communication @ a Crossroads
2011 International Communication Association (ICA) Preconference Workshop

Boston MA, USA

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?

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Abstracts of no more than 500 words are due by November 15, 2010. Please send them along with your name and contact information to Katie.cumiskey@csi.cuny.edu. Accepted abstracts will be notified by December 1, 2010. Final papers will be due April 1, 2011.

CFP: Special issue of Feminist Media Studies on Women and Mobile Intimacy

Call for Papers
Women and mobile intimacy in an age of social media and affective technology

Special issue of Feminist Media Studies (Dec 2012)

Edited by Larissa Hjorth & Sun Sun Lim

In the burgeoning of emotional, affective labour by the rise of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) and the rise of public and private intimacies by and through social media, what does it mean to speak of ?mobile intimacy? today? In a world aflux with mobile, ubiquitous technologies how are various forms of mobility (and immobility) across temporal, spatial, geographic, economic, socio-cultural and technological differences transforming how we experience and define intimacy? One thing remains certain ? these practices are informed by gender and cultural context.

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Please submit a 350-word abstract and abridged CV to both larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au and sunlim@nus.edu.sg no later than May 1, 2011.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstracts 1 May 2011

MSR India's TEM Group is Hiring

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/tem/hiring.aspx

MSR India's TEM Group is Hiring

Position: Full-time Researcher or Postdoc
Location: Microsoft Research India (Bangalore)

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CFP: Social media as politics by other means

Call for papers: Workshop leading to an edited book

Social media as politics by other means:
How architecture and algorithms affect online political discourse

Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 11, 2011

The rise of social media platforms, coupled with powerful search engines and a new economy of web-based advertising, is driving change across a variety of social sectors, but most especially in politics. To better understand this situation, and develop an edited book manuscript, a small group of scholars will be assembling at Rutgers University on April 11, 2010.

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Media and political institutions seek to harness the power of algorithms to better predict the interests of readers, citizens, customers and supporters. Most of these data and algorithms exist behind firewalls or within a black box unavailable for public inspection. Hence, little is known about the way in which content seems to appear on political blogs and websites, and how political alerts and solicitation e-mails and other forms of political communication are designed and to whom they are dispatched. In a sense, a circle is closing in upon itself: what people find available to read on blogs is influenced by what people read previously; the messages that people receive from political or commentary sites are strongly influenced by what they and like-minded people have already responded to or, in some cases, even simply opened.

The technologies of content selection and message emission are powerfully influencing what the politically engaged and attentive public sees, thinks about and discusses. Yet for most people, these technologies are invisible: they seem to think that the issues to which they attend, such as those highlighted on their favorite blogs and other outlets, is a result of human judgment and editorial selection. By contrast, it appears that architecture and algorithms are often responsible for these seeming judgments.

Our interest is in understanding how these architectural and algorithmic technologies affect social media content and messaging concerning politics. We also wish to understand how the results of the operation these technologies are perceived by the attentive public. Although much interest has been devoted to questions of political campaigns, our focus is on ordinary political discourse. That is, we want to understand how technologies of system architecture and behavioral metering affect political process of the public on a daily basis. As such, we step outside the campaign mode and examine important, but often overlooked, processes concerning the use of social media and political socialization and influence as a backdrop of daily life.

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CFP: Mobile learning

http://bremen.londonmobilelearning.net

CALL FOR PAPERS
"Mobile learning: Crossing boundaries in convergent environments" Conference

Monday to Tuesday, March 21st to 22nd, 2011
Bremen, Germany
Submission deadline: January 7, 2011

The conference is hosted by the University of Bremen, run by the Department for Media Education and Design of Multimodal Learning Environments and by the Institute Technology and Education (ITB) in association with the London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG), Pontydysgu and MirandaNet.

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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH LAUNCHES SUMMER INSTITUTE ON MHEALTH

The National Institutes of Health today announced the creation of the first NIH mHealth, or mobile health, Summer Institute. Scheduled for the summer of 2011, this week-long workshop will bring together leaders in mobile health technologies, behavioral science researchers, federal health officials and members of the medical community to provide early career investigators with an opportunity to learn about mHealth research. The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), part of NIH, partnered with Qualcomm, a developer of wireless technologies, to cosponsor the course.

NIH's mHealth Summer Institute will provide an overview of the engineering, behavioral science and clinical aspects of wireless research and will facilitate interaction between participants and experts from across the mHealth spectrum. The institute will cover the current state of the science in mobile technology and engineering, behavior change theory and clinical applications, and will highlight the intersection of these areas for health-related research. Interdisciplinary teams of participants will develop potential mHealth research projects.

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CPF: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2011

http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2011/call_for_papers.html

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Speakers will include Naomi Baron, Susan Herring, Crispin Thurlow, Deborah Tannen, and more

Submission Deadline: NOVEMBER 10, 2010

TENURE-TRACK POSITION AT THE RANK OF ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE OR FULL PROFESSOR

THE SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, invites applications for positions in THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION from scholars who value a climate of cross-departmental collaboration and interdisciplinary commitment to the development of discoveries and new ideas in response to local and global challenges. The school embraces Rutgers? goals of diversification of its communities and programs and encourages applicants who would address these goals. The school offers six degree-granting programs and is home to more than 50 faculty within its three academic departments?Communication, Journalism and Media Studies, and Library and Information Science. Global media and democracy; social media interaction and collaborative design; health and wellness; and leadership, organizations, and policy are currently school-wide research foci.

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND NEW MEDIA THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

The Department of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Organizational Communication, with an emphasis in new media, to begin September 1, 2011. The Department consists of three main areas, including Rhetoric and Language, Interpersonal Communication, and Organizational Communication. The organizational communication group, presently consisting of five faculty, is positioned at the frontier of ways of organizing work and other activities in today's world and includes as a major emphasis the ways technology has transformed knowledge, identities, relationships, boundaries, participation, the punctuation of life; and in many cases has recast work itself. Digital technologies are viewed not only as media in the traditional sense but also problems for attention in non-technical as well as technical ways. For example, new communication technologies extend but also limit abilities; may be seen as ethically neutral or loaded; and can inhibit as well as foster the coordination of tasks. We are seeking an outstanding applicant who is committed to deepening students' and the discipline's critical understanding of how we conduct, experience and (literally and figuratively) "read" varied forms of organizing today, in discrete work or organizational settings and in informal as well as formal networks. In this way, we are employing the term "organizational literacy" for the new faculty position.

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CFP: Qual Meets Quant

http://www.qualmeetsquant.org

CALL FOR PAPERS
Qual Meets Quant:
Bridging the Gap between Technical and Social Researchers to Foster International Development through Mobile Platforms

Workshop to be held at the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2010,
London, UK

The increasing ubiquity of mobile phones in developing economies has enabled the capture, for the first time in history, of massive amounts of behavioral human data in areas of interest to international development. Proper analysis of such data could provide important insight into areas from health and education to microfinance and agriculture. Unfortunately, much of the research related to mobile phones and development has been done in methodological silos: technical researchers focus on quantitative analysis; ethnographers perform in-depth qualitative research; and policy makers extrapolate policies from published research.

This workshop intends to bring together technical and social researchers, as well as policy makers, to explore the potential of mixed-method approaches to analyzing these new sources of data. On one hand, large quantitative datasets are being generated by mobile devices adopted either for personal use or as data-gathering tools by practitioners from NGOs. On the other, ethnographers and social researchers carry out qualitative research to gain a deep understanding about mobile technology acceptance and human behavior. Finally, organizations such as the United Nations and the National Statistical Institutes periodically compile large datasets of statistical information including demographic and socio-economic indicators to assess social progress.

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IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission deadline: 15th October, 2010.
Notification of acceptance: 15th November, 2010.
Camera-ready submission: 23rd November, 2010.

CFP: The Journal of Information Technology for Development

Journal of Information Technology for Development
Special Issue on
Information and Communication Technology and Human Mobility: Cases from Developing Countries and Beyond

Aims and Scope
Humans have always been mobile, but telephony has not. Even since the widespread uptake of mobile phones in developing countries, the devices have not always been carried by their itinerant owners as they travel very locally or further afield. For more aged users in particular, but also for those travelling to areas not served by mobile coverage, a mobile phone is still sometimes regarded more as a landline that remains at home (or remains at an area of coverage) than a means of communication that an individual will always carry along with his/her keys and money. This attitude is changing as coverage becomes ever wider in developing countries, mobile phones become more essential to the everyday lives of users, and as travellers are more able to use handsets farther and farther from home.

This increase in use of mobile phones and, to a lesser extent, other ICTs, is happening during what has been termed as "the age of migration" a time marked by a rapid increase in the rate of urbanisation in developing countries, and a growth in the number of international migrants (for which people from developing countries comprise over half the total population). As these migrants move to new locations, they frequently bring with them their mobile phones ? a device that for many of the poor is the only technology, save perhaps a small radio, that they own.

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Deadlines
Submissions of papers: 22 November 2010

CFP: Activist Media and Biopolitics: Critical Media Interventions in the Age of Biopower

http://medien.uibk.ac.at/amab2010

University of Innsbruck, Austria

Following the decline of tactical media as a guiding concept in media of resistance, many of the key concerns articulated in tactical media seem to have migrated to the intersection of informatics and the life sciences. Paralleling a shift of interest from hard/software to "wetware" in information technology, and from territorial to biopolitical regimes, activists, artists and scientists began developing networks of collaboration across disciplines, institutional settings, and economic frameworks, questioning the workings of biopower by introducing discontinuities in a new hegemony of knowledge. Interventions have targeted biopolitical areas such as precarious labor, technologies of security, asylum policies, health care reforms, body politics, gendering, racial profiling, genetic engineering, cellular research, nutrition, biopharmaceuticals, and many others. Carrying forward the interventionist practices of tactical media, biopolitical activists have surprised the mainstream by engaging in dissident practices at the very core of scientific knowledge formation and the related constructions of political/social realities. Outside the laboratories, they have challenged established categories about food, plants and animals through direct actions.

This conference brings together theoreticians, practitioners and activists whose work focuses on challenges to the hegemonic biopolitical discourse, and on developing tools for a critical understanding of biopower.

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Summary of Important Dates
15 July, 2010: submission of abstracts (max. 500 words)
30 July, 2010: notification of speakers
15 October, 2010: submission of manuscripts (max. 5000 words incl. references, abstract of 150 words, a style-guide will be available in due time)
20 December, 2010: notification of papers accepted for publication

Pre-call M4D2010: Mobile Communication Technology for Development

http://m4d.humanit.org/
http://m4d.kcl.co.ug/

early November 2010
Kampala, Uganda

M4D2010 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and all those with interests in the use of Mobile Communication Technology for Development.

M4D2010 will combine two days of plenary peer-reviewed paper sessions, with two days of workshops, panel sessions, discussion forums, and demos.

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Important dates:
Submission deadline: 1 July 2010
Acceptance note: 31 August 2010
Final papers due: 30 September 2010

CFP: New Languages, New Relations, New Realities

http://www.generalsemantics.org/index.php/browse/programs/symposium-2010.html

Fordham University
Lincoln Center Campus
New York, New York

A symposium sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics

Featuring the 58th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
to be delivered by Deborah Tannen
"Language and New Media: How Texting, Tweeting, E-mail and Facebook Are Transforming Relationships"

Co-sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics, Media Ecology Association, Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research, Institute of Applied Mimetics, and Fordham University.

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Send papers, proposals, and inquiries by July 15 to igs2010 (at) generalsemantics.org, or contact Lance Strate, IGS Executive Director, c/o Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458 or 718.817.4864 (voice), 718.817.4868 (fax).

CFP: Mobile Life Conferences

http://www.m4life.org/

Brighton, UK

Please refer to the conference web site (http:// www.m4life.org) for updates, detailed information on submissions and participation to

• The 5th European Conference on Mobile Government (EURO mGOV 2010)
• The 3rd International Conference on Mobile Society (mSOCIETY 2010)
• The 2nd Int. Conference on Mobile Development (mDEVELOPMENT 2010)

Important dates are:

• Practice talk proposals : Ongoing until 31st of May 2010
• Research Paper Submission Deadline : 30th o April 2010
• Conference Dates : 26-28 July 2010

CFP: The Mobile Media Reader

Editors: Noah Arceneaux (San Diego State University) and Anandam
Kavoori (University of Georgia)
Peter Lang Publishing

We are currently seeking contributions for The Mobile Media Reader, an anthology to be published by Peter Lang in 2012. This project began as an update of The Cell Phone Reader, a 2006 anthology of critical studies of various aspects of mobile communication. Given the dramatic and ongoing technological changes associated with mobile devices, we have now decided to compile an entirely new set of essays.

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IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts accepted until October 22, 2010.
Contributors notified by November 26, 2010.
First drafts (6,500 words, Chicago Style) due May 16, 2011.

CFP: International Symposium on Technologies for Social Advancement (T4SA'10)

http://www.imcsit.org/pg/341/268

Wisła, Poland

The T4SA symposium encourages submissions of original research papers, practical applications and technology, and position papers on all aspects of computing technology connected directly or indirectly with social advancement. We are also looking for ideas about ways to use, deploy, develop and promote the application and use of mobile phones and Internet Technology toward educational and social goals.

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IMPORTANT DATES:
All Paper Submissions: May 31, 2010
Authors Notification: July 12, 2010
Camera-ready Submission and Registration: August 23, 2010

Social Media and Government Policy-Making

2010-2011 Global Initiatives Lecture Series
Ecologies in the Balance? The way forward
"Social Media and Government Policy-Making: Has the great promise been realized?"

12-1:30pm Luncheon Program, followed by reception & discussion
Faculty Lounge, Room 323
4 Huntington Street
School of Communication and Information, Rutgers U

Speaker:
Laurel Ruma, Gov 2.0 Evangelist and Editor, O'Reilly Media

Panelists:

• Mats Edenius, Head, Informatics & Media Dept., Uppsala University, Sweden
• David Hoover, Sr. Legislative Aide to NJ Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula
• James Katz, Chair, Rutgers Dept. of Communication

Moderator:
Hartmut Mokros, Sr. Assoc. Dean, Rutgers School of Communication and Information

CFP: Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use

http://tinyurl.com/33hy2zw

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline extended to September 24th, 2010

Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use

A book edited by John Lannon (University of Limerick, Ireland), Edward F. Halpin (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) and Steven Hick (Carleton University, Canada) To be published by IGI Global

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Intergovernmental agencies, governments and non-governmental organizations are now using Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to collect, organize and disseminate information on peoples' rights, the promotion of human rights, and the protection of individuals and communities at risk. These efforts have moved beyond the traditional human rights regime, as more attention is being paid to rights based approaches to development, and to the interconnectedness of environmental protection, climate change and the wellbeing of humanity. As a result, ICT policies and practices are having an even more far-reaching effect on the enjoyment of human rights by all. Since 2001 ICTs have transformed the capacity of organisations, movements and oppressed communities to highlight human rights abuse, and to advocate for causes and victims of oppression. They make it easier to share and to access information; they facilitate human rights data aggregation and analysis; they offer innovative tactical approaches to campaigning; and they precipitate real-world campaigning and lobbying activities. They enable global participation, and give local actors and previously invisible groups international visibility. At the same time the features that make ICTs an effective tool for the promotion and protection of human rights also make them useful in the exploitation of people and the violation of human rights. They contribute directly and indirectly to the abuse of children, for example; they facilitate the distribution of material that is hostile to racial and religious groups; they threaten the security and the privacy of individuals; and they contrib ute to the operation of international trafficking and other criminal activities.

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Register: Mobiles for Women & Women in Mobile

http://mobiletechwomen.eventbrite.com/

New York City, NY, USA

Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 6:00 PM

Hosted by MobileActive.org, Mobile Tech Salons are a regular gathering of people passionate about mobile technology for social change.

CFP: Convergence Volume 17 no 3

http://convergence.beds.ac.uk/callforpapers/mobilegaming

Vol 17, no 3, August 2011
Distractedly engaged: mobile gaming and convergent mobile media

From casual mobile phone games to networked, location-aware hybrid reality, mobile gaming and mobile social applications are increasingly diverse, widespread and powerful cultural practices. Designers and players of mobile games and applications are participating in reconfigurations of experiences of location, space, place and corporeality and raising new questions about the human-technology relation more generally. Moreover, with the success of devices such as the iPhone, the mobile phone is becoming a key area for new games and social media. In light of this phenomenon with its unique characteristics for networked interactivity and participation, what are some of the emergent issues for embodiment and engagement?

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Deadline for full and final submissions: 31 July 2010

CFP: COMMUNICATION POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY (CP&T) Section (IAMCR)

http://www.iamcr2010portugal.com/

Braga, Portugal

The Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section of the IAMCR invites the submission of abstracts bearing on the Conference theme as well as on the Section sub-theme: "Citizen Participation through Technology, Access and Policy".

The media and technology landscape as well as relevant communication policies are changing fundamentally, with a shift from mass media and personal media to media for mass self-communication. The technological facilities for mediated communication are proliferating and becoming increasingly fragmented as a result of convergence and the emergence and rapid spread of new media and internet technologies like interactive digital broadcasting, mobile technologies, social computing, internet-of-things and - more recently - cloud computing. Within this transitional digital media ecosystem researchers increasingly aim to understand how participation by people and communities can (still) take a central position and to what end. How can citizens and/or consumers be empowered in participation through ICT design, usages and policy? Or what are the threats and constraints for people to become disempowered in a convergence culture? Three main areas of user (dis)empowerment are being identified as themes of special interest for CP&T section: (1) market and state ?feudalisation?, (2) privacy and surveillance, and (3) inclusion and media literacies.

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Deadlines:
Deadline abstracts: January 31, 2010

CFP: Mobile communications Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) 2010

http://www.canberra.edu.au/anzca2010/call-for-papers/submission-guidelines

Old Parliament House, Canberra

CFP: Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) 2010 Conference
ANZCA 2010 Theme: Media, Democracy & Change Mobile communications: Communication is on the move

Abstracts for unrefereed papers, and full refereed papers due Thursday 25th February, 2010.

Mobile technology is an important part of Australian life. There is a growing and considerable pool of research on mobiles in a diverse range of disciplines, each with different approaches. The mobile phone and other mobile technologies have already started to play a significant role in both democracy and change. It is predicted that voting from mobile technologies is on the horizon for 2012 in the USA. Election campaigns overseas in Canada, UK and the Philippines in recent years clearly highlight the change from paper based campaigns to digital. Groups can now assemble swiftly to an SMS bleep to assist in someone?s defence. The ability to act quickly en masse in this way is a radical organisational change for political groups, and places power in the hands of citizens in a new way. So what role does the mobile have to play in democracy?

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CFP - INC2010 International Network Conference 2010

http://www.inc2010.org

Heidelberg, Germany

We invite you to participate in the International Network Conference 2010, to be held in Heidelberg, Germany, from 6 - 8 July 2010. This conference, the eighth in our series, will bring together leading figures from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest advances in networking technologies from research and commercial perspectives.

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Summary of Important Dates
31 January 2010 Deadline for submission of papers
5 March 2010 Notification of paper acceptance
9 April 2010 Deadline for camera-ready paper submission
23 April 2010 Deadline for author registration

CFP: special issue of Etikk i Praksis on mobile / ubiquitous computing: dreams and nightmares

Twenty-five years ago, William Gibson presented an extraordinary and prophetic account of _cyberspace_: this space contained a complete virtual world so rich and complex as to be capable of replacing a real world and embodied existence, thereby eliminating what seemed to be a hard and stable boundary between the real and the virtual, the inner and the outer, the offline and the online. What was once clearly science fiction now becomes ever more the reality of our lives in the developed world, as increasingly intertwined with the multiple interactions made possible by ever-increasing bandwidth and the explosive diffusion of computers and computer-based communication networks. The resulting blurrings of these once hard and stable boundaries thereby results in a number of ethical challenges.

We invite chapters that help us explore the various ethical dimensions of these broad terrains, through analysis and reflection that include attention to one or more specific issues.

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Final date for submissions: July 1, 2010. Contributions in English as well as Scandinavian languages welcome.

CFP: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010)

http://www.i-society.eu

London, United Kingdom

CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter. The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas.

The mission of i-Society 2010 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society.

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Deadlines:
Full papers and short papers by January 31, 2010

CFP: ICA 2010 Pre-conference,

http://www.sirca.org.sg/mobiles2010/

Singapore

The Mobiles preconference workshop aims to foster discussions around how developments in emerging markets reflect the trends in mature markets, as well as assess potential for the cross-pollination of information and communications technologies for development and/or empowerment.

Please submit your abstracts to sirca_mobiles@ntu.edu.sg by 13th November (Friday) 2009, 11:59 EST.

CFP: CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) '10

http://www.catacconference.org/

CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) '10: diffusion 2.0: computing, mobility, and the next generations.

University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

The CATaC conference series provides a premier international forum for current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme.

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CFP: The Communication Review special issue

The Communication Review special issue:
Twitter Revolutions- Addressing Social Media and Dissent"
Volume 14, Issue 2 (2011)

Guest Editor: Christian Christensen, Uppsala University, Sweden

Recent events in Iran - and in other locations such as Moldova, Georgia, Egypt, Palestine and China - have stimulated a great deal of discussion on the use(s) of social media for the purposes of political dissent and activist organization, as well as in impacting public opinion on matters of national and international security. What the Iranian case has added to the discussion - crystallized in the above quote from Giroux - is supposed evidence of the powerful role of social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in facilitating dissent during times of conflict and suppression. However, the aftermath of the June 2009 Iranian elections also provided ample evidence of the inverse: how the use of social media by anti-government activists, as well as access to highly sophisticated monitoring hardware and software on the part of the Iranian authorities, rationalized processes of state surveillance and repression. A great deal of discourse - often revolving around sexy phrases such as "Twitter Revolutions" or "The YouTube War" - has posited the central role of technology in anti-government protests or acts of dissent, only for critical questions to be raised shortly afterward regarding the actual level of use and impact of such technologies.

Welcoming a variety of methodological, theoretical and disciplinary perspectives

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Deadline for extended proposal submission: June 1, 2010

CFP: e-Youth: Balancing between opportunities and risks?

http://www.ucsia.org/main.aspx?c=.EYOUTH or http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.EYOUTH

Antwerp, Belgium

The conference will focus on national and international research dealing with social, cultural, economic, legal, psychological and ethical issues regarding youngsters' uses of different internet applications and mobile telephony. Contributions on both the multiple opportunities offered by technologies and on the (new) risks youngsters are confronted with are welcomed. Research and initiatives concerning the educational and mediating role of parents and educators will be discussed too. The conference will also provide a forum for good practices of sensitizing or educational campaigns.

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Deadlines:
An extended abstract (maximum 1000 words) has to be submitted by January 15th, 2010.

Latest Issue of the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI)]

Contents

Preface

Children's Interaction with Mobile Touch-Screen Devices: Experiences and Guidelines for Design
Lorna McKnight (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Brendan Cassidy (University of Central Lancashire, UK)

Designing for Children's Mobile Storytelling

Sonia Franckel (University of Maryland & Google, USA)
Elizabeth Bonsignore (University of Maryland, USA)
Allison Druin (University of Maryland, USA)

Bits and Pieces: Potential Future Scenarios for Children's Mobile Technology
Michael Eisenberg (University of Colorado, USA)
Leah Buechley (MIT Media Lab, USA)
Nwanua Elumeze (University of Colorado, USA)

MuseumScrabble: Design of a Mobile Game for Children?s Interaction with a Digitally Augmented Cultural Space
Christos Sintoris (University of Patras, Greece)
Adrian Stoica (University of Patras, Greece)
Ioanna Papadimitriou (University of Patras, Greece)
Nikoleta Yiannoutsou (University of Patras, Greece)
Vassilis Komis (University of Patras, Greece)
Nikolaos Avouris (University of Patras, Greece)

Mobile Health 2010 Conference

http://www.mobilehealth2010.org/

Stanford University, Stanford, California

Mobile Health 2010 brings together grass roots and national health organizations, academics, and mobile vendors for sharing best practices around consumer-based mobile technology and how it can promote better health. The theme this year is Using Mobile Technology to Change Health Behaviors. The conference is co-hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AIDS.gov, and the Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab.

Mobile Health 2010 will highlight research findings, solutions, and insights into using mobile technology to change health-related behaviors and improve personal and public health. This event features pre-conference workshops and two full days of sessions featuring leaders in the field sharing their best insights on the use of mobile technology to improve health behavior.

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CFP: Mediated Youth Cultures: A special issue of Continuum

"Mediated Youth Cultures"
A special issue of Continuum
Published Early 2012
ISSN: 1030-4312

Guest Editors: Andy Bennett and Brady Robards
Centre for Public Culture & Ideas, Griffith University, Australia

Conventionally speaking, the study of youth cultures and their associated practices has been focused around the notion of the youth cultural group as a locally situated, physical entity. In recent years, however, research has pointed to the impact of digital media technologies on young people, their cultural practices and forms of interaction. In particular, it has been noted how more recently introduced communication technologies, notably the internet and the mobile phone, have opened up new, often ?virtual? spheres of interaction between young people. This in turn begs new questions about the nature of youth culture in the early 21st century. This special edition of Continuum will consider the impact of new communication technologies on youth culture and the way the latter have altered and enhanced the forms of interaction underpinning youth cultural

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Deadline for abstracts, 14th May 2010

CFP: Media Asia Journal (Vol. 37 No.4)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Media Asia Journal (Vol. 37 No.4)
Theme: Innovations in Mobile Use in the PAN-ASIA context

The Singapore Internet Research Centre (SiRC) invites submission of manuscripts produced from the ICA 2010 Mobiles Preconference "Innovations in Mobile Use", with a PAN-ASIA focus, for publication in the Media Asia journal. Media Asia is a quarterly journal which serves as an important platform for the exchange of views and information on mass communication in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. Each issue of the journal has valuable information, views and comments relevant to communication professionals, scholars and laymen.

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Indication of interest (written): May 14, 2010
Paper submission for Media Asia special issue deadline: July 27, 2010
Acceptance notification (includes publication guidelines): September 07, 2010
Final manuscript due: October 01, 2010
Target publication date: December 2010

Workshop on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Networks

http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~blondel/netmob/

MIT (Cambridge, MA)

The workshop format is flexible: no registration fees, a simplified submission procedure, and the possibility to present recent results or results submitted elsewhere.

All contributions that deal with the analysis of mobile phone datasets are welcome.

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Deadlines:
Abstract submission deadline: March 5, 2010.

Museums, Mobile Devices and Social Media

http://www.lsc.org/socialmedia

Museums, Mobile Devices and Social Media:
Where We Are Today, What's Next?

Hyatt Regency New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Researchers, museum staff, and program developers will be gathering in New Brunswick, New Jersey. They will be taking an in-depth look at what the future holds in terms of mobile media devices and social networking applications in the museum setting. Presentations will include data-driven analyses of what is going on in the field and insightful distillations of museum experiences to date. Forecasts of trends and developments that are 'just around the corner' will be offered. In addition to plenary talks, interactive sessions will be held to draw on 'crowd-sourcing' of attendees to identify consensus views as well as important points of divergence. This event promises both unique perspectives about the principles that guide new social media applications as well as practical advice about how to integrate such systems into contemporary museum practices.

Register now to take advantage of extremely attractive rates. Special discounts are available at the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick, the site of the conference, and free parking is available to registrants.

MMDSM report

CAS Annual Conference 2010 : ICT: Africa's Revolutionary Tools for the 21st Century

http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/events/annual_conference/2010

Informatics, George Square, Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh

the Centre of African Studies is calling for papers that address the conference title, "ICT: Africa's Revolutionary Tools for the 21stCentury?".Given the broad range of uses to which ICT are put, the conference organisers welcome papers that relate to the use or potential of ICT in influencing change in Africa. Papers may wish to address issues of access, adoption, or impact, and may be framed in any discipline. Topics might include, but need not be restricted to: health (including veterinary science), education/learning, livelihoods and socio-economic interaction, finance (including money transfer), culture, media, governance, or any other aspect of empowerment. Papers covering other topics will also be considered, and both theory-based and empirical papers covering any region or country in sub-Saharan Africa are welcome.

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Those who are interested in presenting a paper should send an abstract of no more than 300 words to African.Studies@ed.ac.uk, placing "ICT" in the subject heading. The abstract submission deadline is 12th February 2010 and applicants will be notified shortly after this date.

Seminar: MOBILE MEDIA RESEARCH - MOVING FORWARD

program

Time: 13.00-16.00
Location: The IT University of Copenhagen, auditorium 3

At this seminar, researchers from University of Copenhagen, the IT University of Copenhagen, and the National IT- and Telecommunications Agency present up-to-date research in the area of mobile media in Denmark and in an international perspective.

Mobile media are integrated in our everyday lives at all levels from the individual user to workplaces and social institutions. The functions and meanings of mobile media as such and in combination with other means of communication, information, and entertainment play a central role in processes of cultural and social change and in our access to information in local as well as global contexts. Media and communication research monitors these processes and places them in historical perspective - including the history of yesterday and today - in order to evaluate the development of mobile media and their social consequences.

CFP: Special Issue of International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Title: Locative Media and Communities
Guest Editors: Katharine S. Willis (University of Siegen)
Keith Cheverst (University of Lancaster)

The development of locative media applications is not simply about the physical location or social setting in which the interaction occurs, but rather about situating the media within the social setting of a community. This Special Issue will explore the potential for locative media applications to support community cohesion and the integration of such media within existing community structures and practices. The workshop will address the dual challenge of capturing the temporary and spatially changeful nature of behaviours with locative media, as well as responding to the intricate web of strong and weak social ties that make up local social networks, in order to find ways to support community practices. In terms of methodology it will focus on the potential of ethnographic approaches for investigating and evaluating the integration of media in these social settings.

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TIMELINE
28th February 2010: Paper submission deadline

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: HIGHER EDUCATION, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
HIGHER EDUCATION, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: CONCEPTS, MODELS, AND APPLICATIONS

THE CALL
We seek manuscripts that document and assess partnerships between institutions of higher education and K‐12 schools, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and corporations that have been made successful (or even unsuccessful in interesting ways) in part through the use of emerging and evolving digital technologies. Topics or sites might include service‐learning; internships; volunteer programs; cooperative education; distance‐learning; continuing education; professional schools such as law, medicine, education, and nursing; community development programs including alumni relations and fundraising; and/or sponsored research. Technologies might include social networking, webconferencing, mobile devices, virtual environments such as SecondLife, course management systems, and/or Web 2.0 applications.

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TIMELINE
December 30, 2009: Final Proposal Submission Deadline

multiple positions at Rutgers

Marya L. Doerfel
Email: mdoerfel@rutgers.edu
Associate Professor
School of Communication & Information
Rutgers University

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
ONE OR MORE TENURE‐TRACK POSITIONS AT THE ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE OR FULL PROFESSORSHIP

THE SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, invites applications from scholars who value a climate of cross‐departmental collaboration and interdisciplinary commitment to the development of discoveries and new ideas in response to local and global challenges. Global media and democracy, social media interaction and collaborative design, and health and wellness are school‐wide initiatives recently introduced. The school embraces Rutgers' goals of diversification of its communities and programs and encourages applicants who would address these goals. The school offers six degree‐granting programs of study and is home to more than 50 faculty within its three academic departments?Communication, Journalism and Media Studies, and Library and Information Science.

THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION invites applications that complement the faculty's synergies in the areas of Community, Connections, and Collaboration, which are informed by theory and research in the areas of human communication technologies, organizational communication, interpersonal communication/social interaction, and health communication. An ideal candidate has an active research program that combines two of these four department foci. Candidates have the potential to become affiliated with one of our three research centers, including the Center for Mobile Communication Studies (CMCS), The Center for Organizational Development & Leadership (ODL), and the Center for Communication & Health Issues (CHI).

SUBMISSIONS: Applications should be submitted in electronic format. Include letter of application, CV, up to three representative publications, and names and contact information of three references. The applicant's program of research should complement the research foci of current faculty. Senior level applicants should provide integrative leadership in research, instruction, and external funding. Letter of application should address these points, and clearly articulate the candidate's fit to departmental and school‐wide research interests. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in hand or firmly expected by August 2010. Duties of the successful candidate, at both junior and senior rank, include departmental, school, and university assignments in teaching, scholarship, and service, consistent with university and school policy for tenure‐track appointments. Submit to: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/facultysearch no later than December 1, 2009.

The school's two other departments are also conducting faculty searches:
THE DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM AND MEDIA STUDIES is looking to hire in the following two areas: Global Media & Democracy and Digital Media & Society. Research foci include, but are not limited to: Social media, transmedia and convergence; New media policy; International journalism; Gaming as social practice; Networked journalism; Community media and public culture; Global, local, and regional cultural production.

THE DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE seeks faculty candidates who wish to take the future of information and information applications in their hands. Areas of particular interest to the department include (but are not limited to): Interaction with information at individual, social, and cultural levels; Information access in digital environments; Human computer interaction; Children, information, schools, and libraries.

Applicants whose research interests fall across departmental boundaries are encouraged to apply. For more about the Rutgers‐School of Communication and Information see: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu. Founded in 1766, Rutgers is the eighth oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the elite AAU research universities in North America. An equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is committed to building a diverse community and encourages the applications of women and minority candidates.

CFP: Social Networking and Communities

CFP: MUM 2009--The 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

CFP: Global Media Journal

CFP: Global Mobility Roundtable- Transformation through Mobility

CFP: 'Place & Mobiles' collection

1st International Symposium on Intelligent Mobile Technologies for Social Change

Mobile communication and social policy

CFP: ACM Academic MindTrek 2009: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era

CFP: Images in Mobile Communication (edited volume)

CFP: The 37th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy

CFP: 12th International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning

CFP: MobileHCI09

CFP: Locating Media Workshop at Mobile HCI

Job announcement for the IT University of Copenhagen

CFC: Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characterist

CFP: Language in the (New) Media: Technologies and Ideologies

CFP: mLife 2009: Three Conferences and Exhibitions

• mSOCIETY 2009: The 2nd International Conference on Mobile Society
• EURO mGOV 2009: The 4th European Conference on Mobile Government
• mDEVELOPMENT 2009: The 1st Int. Conference on Mobile Development

PhD summer school on the political economy of ICT

CFP: 8th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL'09)

CFP: Symbolic Interaction and computer mediated communication

CFP: IAMCR-Communications Policy and Technology Section

CFP: IAMCR-Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society Section

CFP: Trust and ICTs and Development (Special Issue of Information Technologies and People)

CFP: Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics

CFP: The Second International m-Libraries Conference

CFP: 2nd Digital Cultures Workshop: Social Media Publics

Mobile Tech 4 Social Change

Mobile Music for Everyday People: A Symposium on Mobile Music and Sound

2009 ICA Pre-Conference CFP: Mobile 2.0: Beyond Voice?

CFP:The Good, the Bad and the Challenging. The user and the future of ICTs (deadline extended)

CFP: International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Spontaneous Interaction and Mobile Device Use

Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Events

CFP: Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission

Reporting with the Mobile Phone: The Role of Mobile Technology as an Information Platform in China

CFP: SPATIAL ILLITERACIES: The 4th Annual Graduate Student Symposium

Symposium on Community and Municipal Wireless Systems

CFP: SPECIAL ISSUE OF NEW MEDIA AND SOCIETY/MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD

CFP: Mobile Research Conference 2009

• Issues in mobile survey research with a strong emphasis on estimating and/or reducing survey errors (i.e., coverage, sampling, measurement, and nonresponse errors);
• Cost efficiency of using mobile technology in survey research (i.e. cost-error balance of mobile survey research);
• Contributions aimed at predicting and explaining mobile technology usage;
• Comparative studies using mobile technology, e.g. within multi-mode data collection frameworks or cross-cultural contexts;
• Technological advances in using mobile devices, applications, and procedures for primary data collection.

• Marek Fuchs, University of Kassel, Germany
  "Mobile surveys. The future of survey research or just another mode?"
• Tim Macer, meaning ltd., United Kingdom
  "Mobile technology in research: Trends and perspectives"

CFP: FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY

Call for Submissions: China Media Research

1st International Conference on "M4D": Mobile communication technology For Development

Jobs Posting- Rutgers University

MOBILITY IN AMERICA

Young People, Mobile and Internet Technologies 2008 - Maximising Opportunities, Addressing Challenge

CFP: PRESENCE 2008

Call for Papers: PRESENCE 2008
11th Annual International Workshop on Presence

Continuing with the series of annual workshops, PRESENCE 2008 will provide an open discussion forum to share ideas regarding concepts, measurement techniques, technologies, and applications related to presence. Issues of prominent interest include (but are not limited to):

• Presence in shared virtual environments and online communities
• Presence in social interactions with virtual agents and digital counterparts
• Real bodies, avatars and cyborgs
• Presence and ubiquity with mobile and geo-location technologies
• Presence as a socio-cultural achievement; practices, preferences and material resources to manifest presence
• Realistic action in virtual environments
• Parasocial interaction and relationships
• Cognitive processes and the sense of presence
• Linguistic and non-verbal strategies to create, negotiate and challenge presence in mediated environments
• Neuropsychology of presence
• Presence affordances in digital technologies
• 3D sound, acoustic environments and presence
• Advanced broadcast and cinematic displays (stereoscopic TV, HDTV, IMAX)
• Haptic and tactile displays
• Holography
• Affective and socio-affective interfaces
• Presence analysis, evaluation, and measurement techniques
• Causes and consequences (effects) of presence
• Presence augmentation through social, physical, and contextual cues
• Presence, involvement and digital addiction
• Presence applications (education and training; medicine; e-health and cybertherapy; entertainment; communication and collaboration; teleoperation; usability and design; art and performance, etc.)
• Presence theory; historical investigation of presence concepts; fictions, constructions and realism; transportation, flow, absorption, awareness; philosophical perspectives on presence
• Ethical and societal implications of presence technologies
• The future of presence experiences

• May 23, 2008 - Submissions due (via ISPR online submission and review system)
• May 15, 2008 - Early registration opens
• July 7, 2008 - Acceptance/Rejection notifications
• September 1, 2008 - Finished, camera-ready papers due (via ISPR online submission and review system)
• September 5, 2008 - Early registration closes
• October 1, 2008 - Late registration closes (onsite registration only)

Call for paper: International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the AoIR

Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking

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)

Call for Papers: International Social Capital Conference

The Social Capital Foundation (TSCF) invites papers and proposals for the TSCF 2008 International Social Capital Conference. The call will open on 2 January 2008. All papers and proposals should be submitted by 30 July 2008.

The First International Mobile Society Conference: Shaping the future's psychology and the society

CALL FOR PAPERS: Mobile Music

Sheraton Voyager
Antalya, Turkey

CALL FOR PAPERS: Mobile Music
A Special Session at the
MOBILE LIFE CONFERENCES and EXHIBITIONS

• mSOCIETY 2008 -- The 1st International Conference on Mobile Society
• EURO mGOV 2008 -- The 3rd European Conference on Mobile Government

Chairs:
Michael Bull, Professor, Sussex University, UK

Session Description:
For the first time in history over 50% of consumers in industrialised cultures worldwide have the capability of listening to music whilst on the move ? either through the use of their mobile phones or on dedicated MP3 players such as the Apple iPod. In this stream we wish to discuss the social, aesthetic and commercial impact of the rise of mobile music consumption:

We wish to encourage contributions that discuss:

• The changing nature of the "social" that might be implied by the personalized environment created through the use of mobile technologies.
• The potential for artistic and aesthetic production and consumption through the use of these technologies.
• The changing nature of consumption patterns - collaborative and individualised.
• What lessons might be learnt by the industries involved in terms of their response to new technologies, new markets and new patterns of consumption.

Submissions in the form of research papers (max 10 pages) and practice talks (max 1 page) are solicited via the conferences online submission system at the http://www.mgovernment.org/confadmin/confadmin.php

Further information on submissions and all about the conferences can be found at http://www.mgovernment.org/events/

Contacts:
For all enquiries please write to the session chairs: M.Bull@sussex.ac.uk or the conference secreteria mlife@mgovernment.org

For other Special sessions at the mLife Conf. & Exhibitions please visit http://www.mgovernment.org/events/specialSessions.html

DeadLine Extension:The Third European Conference & Exhibitions on Mobile Government

Call for papers: MobileHCI 2008

CFP: Social Mobile Media Workshop

• user experience in mobile social media creation and collaboration
• mobile web 2.0
• mobile video story-telling platforms
• specific roles for video in mobile learning and working
• theories and applications for modeling collaboration in mobile environments
• emerging mobile video technologies and user interfaces (e.g., touch screen based mobile devices, mobile software development platforms)
• location based mobile social media applications

Call for papers: The 26th world congress of the IMACR

'Placing Mobile Communications'/ 2nd call for papers/conference & special issue

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The first round of refereeing has closed and we've had an incredible response! Click on our programme page to see just some of the diverse and engaging responses to the theme of Power and Place. If you missed the deadline, though, don't despair. You can still be refereed for the conference provided you get your paper to us by April 14, when there will be a second round of refereeing decisions.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC'08)

The biennial CATaC conference series - 10 years old in 2008! - provides a premier international forum for current research on how diverse cultural elements shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives in their presentations and discussions of the conference theme and topics.

1st Digital Culture: New Forms of Living and Organizing?

Persuasive 2008 - The third international conference on persuasive technology

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS / PAPERS-- for the 8th ASEAN Inter-University Seminars on Social Development

Call for papers: International Communication Association Pre-conference Workshop

Le Centre Sheraton
Montreal, Canada

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Call for papers: 6th International Conference on Communication and Mass Media

Wi: Journal of Mobile Media

• Letter from the Editors
  by Andrea Zeffiro, Kim Sawchuk, Barbara Crow and Michael Longford
• A Door to the Digital Locus: Walking in the City with a Mobile Phone and Michel de Certeau
  by Fabio B. Josgrilberg
• Registering Realities, Parasiting Networks: An Interview with Antoni Abad
  by Kim Sawchuk
• Pedestrian Thoughts: Waiting in the Street Looking Squatting Filming Taking Time
  by Robert Prenovault
• Street Level Conversations: On the Urban Interventions of Stephan Schulz
  by Jennifer Dorner
• Spatial Dissonance, Subjective Imagination and Locative Media: An Interview with Paula Levine
  by Barbara Crow
• What Else do We Lose When we Make People Disappear? The Passage Oublié Project
  Maroussia Lévesque & Jason Lewis

The Information Society An International Journal, Volume 24 Issue 3 2008

• Introduction to the Special Issue on Mobile Societies in Asia-Pacific
  DOI: 10.1080/01972240802019954
• Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature
  DOI: 10.1080/01972240802019970
• Sex, Cannibals, and the Language of Cool: Indonesian Tales of the Phone and Modernity
  DOI: 10.1080/01972240802020044
• Reorienting the Mobile: Australasian Imaginaries
  DOI: 10.1080/01972240802020077
• SMS in China: A Major Carrier of the Nonofficial Discourse Universe
  DOI: 10.1080/01972240802020101
• A Reviews of: "Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Deconstructing WSIS"
  DOI: 10.1080/01972240802020218
• A Reviews of: "Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics"
  DOI: 10.1080/01972240802020226
• A Reviews of: "Dangerous Enthusiasms: E-Government, Computer Failure, and Information System Development"
  DOI: 10.1080/01972240802020234

Call for Papers: THE SOCIAL - ONLINE, MOBILE AND UNPLUGGED SOCIAL NETWORKING

Console-ing Passions: Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism

Exhibition, Conference & Screenings: FILMOBILE

FILMOBILE is a network project bringing together the mobile phone industry, filmmakers and artists working with mobile devices. FILMOBILE is organising a major event in the spring of 2008 consisting of a three parts: a gallery exhibition, cinema screenings and an international conference. This event will explore the cultural impact brought about by new mobile technologies and initiate debates between artists, the media and the new mobile industry.

Call for Papers: Persuasive Technology Symposium

The 5th International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education

International workshop SPM2008 in Tartu, Estonia

Contributions are invited from philosophers, media theorists, psychologists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics: The aim of SPM 2008 workshop is to discuss theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of mobile positioning based applications in geography and planning and to share know-how between academic, public and private institutions.

Call for chapters-- New technologies of the self, mobilities and (co-)construction of identity

Exploring New Media Worlds

The Mobile City conference

Call for Papers-- The study of mobile music and sound

CFP: International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society

Call for papers-- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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30 January 2008, 1st Submission deadline

Job Posting- Rutgers University

CALL FOR PAPERS for Edited Book

Job posting-- HALLYM UNIVERSITY

Call for papers: Information and Communication Technologies in Emerging Markets

MEDIA CULTURE AND INDUSTRY IN ASIA-- 2007 International Conference

MIT Communications Forum: NBC's Heroes:

MIT Communications Forum: Games and Civic Engagement

Call for paper-- Media International Australia

Following on from an ARC Cultural Research Network workshop, this special issue of Media International Australia aims to generate debate about the current and potential uses of wireless technology in Australia. It seeks to map and assess the research and development taking place in relation to wireless use to account for the Australasian context within wider international trends. Among other things, it will explore the benefits of established cultural research methods and theories for understanding the rationales and desires behind technology design and adoption.

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Mobile Web Americas

Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence

Contributions are invited from philosophers, media theorists, psychologists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics:

• metaphors of telecommunications convergence
• convergence and/or interaction?
• entertainment, advertisement, convergence
• the internet, cell phones, and social networking
• WiFi and urban planning
• VoIP and its conseqences
• texting, chat, and networking in an environment of convergence
• varieties of blogging
• the wiki principle
• microlearning
• mobile computing
• touchscreens and handwriting

MIT Communications Forum: What is Civic Media?

Call for Papers: MobileHCI'07

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Call for papers-- MobiCom 2007

Call for papers Mobile Communication Research Series, Volume 2

The Mobile Communication Research Series:
Volume II, Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart?

The theme for Volume II of the MCRS explicitly draws from the mobile communication pre-conference at the 2007 annual convention of the International Communication Association. We encourage the submission of papers presented at this event. We also strongly encourage the submission of research that was not presented at the ICA pre-conference. All submissions will be subject to competitive review. Abstracts of 200 words describing the proposed papers are due by 5 September 2007 with those accepted due in final form by 15 January 2008. Submissions may be in the form of empirical research studies or theory-building papers and should be 5 - 7000 words (in English). Papers are preferably new work but if material from other venues is available it will also be considered for publication. Send your abstract to either Rich Ling or Scott Campbell.

Call for papers: Canadian Journal of Communication

Call for papers: Special Issue of The Journal of Urban Technology

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Deadline for abstracts is 15 August 2007, with acceptance advised by 30 August 2007.

CALL FOR PAPER: SPECIAL ISSUE - JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR

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Seminar on Young People, New Technologies and Political Engagement

CALL FOR PAPERS --IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2007

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Mobile Media-- An international conference

Mobile Media-- an international conference on social and cultural aspects of mobile phones, convergent media, and wireless technologies

The University of Sydney
Australia

In this international conference, held at the University of Sydney, Australia, 2-4 July 2007, we aim to comprehensively analyse and debate mobile media - exploring its emerging structures, features, practices, value chains, producers and audiences, delving into its social, cultural, aesthetic and commercial implications, and debating its futures.

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CALL FOR PAPERS --International Workshop on Personalization Enhanced Access to Cultural Heritage

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Workshop: Brands and Groups

special issue-- Mobile Phone Cultures

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g778374640~db=all

• 'Mobile Phone Cultures' special issue of 'Continuum: Journal of Media and Culture', 21.2 (2007)
  edited by Gerard Goggin
• Introduction - Mobile Phone Cultures
  Author: Gerard Goggin
• The Construction of the Mobile Experience: the Role of Advertising Campaigns in the Appropriation of Mobile Phone Technologies
  Authors: Juan Miguel Aguado; Inmaculada J. Martínez
• Social Thinking and the Mobile Phone: a Study of Social Change with the Diffusion of Mobile Phones, Using a Social Representations Framework
  Authors: Alberta Contarello; Leopoldina Fortunati; Mauro Sarrica
• Illusions of Balance and Control in an Always-on Environment: a Case Study of BlackBerry Users
  Author: Catherine A. Middleton
• Feminizing the Mobile: Gender Scripting of Mobiles in North America
  Author: Leslie Regan Shade
• 'What Hath God Wrought?' Considering How Religious Communities Culture (or Kosher) the Cell Phone
  Author: Heidi Campbell
• Pocket Technospaces: the Bodily Incorporation of Mobile Media
  Author: Ingrid Richardson
• Becoming the Milky Way: Mobile Phones and Actor Networks at a U2 Concert
  Author: Chris Chesher
• Snapshots of Almost Contact: the Rise of Camera Phone Practices and a Case Study in Seoul, Korea
  Author: Larissa Hjorth
• 'Hol' Awn Mek a Answer mi Cellular': Sex, Sexuality and the Cellular Phone in Urban Jamaica
  Author: Tanya Batson-Savage
• Overseas Filipino Workers and Text Messaging: Reinventing Transnational Mothering
  Author: Cecilia Uy-Tioco
• Socio-cultural Aspects of Mobile Communication Technologies in Asia and the Pacific: a Discussion of the Recent Literature
  Author: Mark McLelland
• Picture This: the Impact of Mobile Camera Phones on Personal Photographic Practices
  Author: Lisa Gye
• The Cameraphone and Online Image Sharing
  Author: Virginia Nightingale
• Text-messaging Cultures of College Girls in Hong Kong: SMS as Resources for Achieving Intimacy and Gift-exchange with Multiple Functions
  Authors: Angel M.Y. Lin; Avin H.M. Tong
• Mobiles into Media: Premium Rate SMS and the Adaptation of Television to Interactive Communication Cultures
  Authors: Christina Spurgeon; Gerard Goggin

MOBILEFEST 2007 -- CALL FOR PAPERS

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Mobility: Understanding mobile use and users

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• Timeline: 30 May 2007, 1st Submission deadline
• 30 September 2007, Notification of 1st review
• 15 December 2008, 2nd Submission
• 1 March 2008, Final notification
• 1 April 2008, Final revisions due.
• July 2008, Target publication date,

Mobile Communication Adoption

Call for Panelist--Gender in a Broadband Society

http://conference.cost298.org/index.php?fl=0&p1=226&p2=253&p3=427&p4=557&id=562

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Call for papers for ICA pre-conference on mobile communication

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Call for Papers--ICS Postgraduate Conference/Communication Technologies of Empowerment

Job Posting

• Position 1. Global/International Communication (with emphasis on transnational cultural circulation and/or new media)
• Position 2. Media and Communication studies at large (one year visiting position, renewable).

Call for papers--Mobile Music Technology

Special issue: Mobile Media and Communication- PsychNology Journal

• Editorial Preface
  Ilkka Arminen
  http://www.psychnology.org/File/PNJ5(1)/PSYCHNOLOGY_JOURNAL_5_1_COVER_TOC_EDITORIAL.pdf
• Is It Fun to Go to Sydney? Common-Sense Knowledge of Social Structures and WAP
  Ilpo Koskinen
  http://www.psychnology.org/File/PNJ5(1)/PSYCHNOLOGY_JOURNAL_5_1_KOSKINEN.pdf
• Texters and Talkers: Phone Call Aversion among Mobile Phone Users
  Ruth Rettie
  http://www.psychnology.org/File/PNJ5(1)/PSYCHNOLOGY_JOURNAL_5_1_RETTIE.pdf
• Discourses on Mobility and Technological Mediation: The Texture of Ubiquitous Interaction
  Giuseppina Pellegrino
  http://www.psychnology.org/File/PNJ5(1)/PSYCHNOLOGY_JOURNAL_5_1_PELLEGRINO.pdf
• Mobile Fantasies on Film: Gathering Metaphoric Evidence of Mobile Symbiosis and the Mobile Imaginary
  Kathleen M. Cumiskey
  http://www.psychnology.org/File/PNJ5(1)/PSYCHNOLOGY_JOURNAL_5_1_CUMISKEY.pdf

PERSUASIVE 07

Living the Information Society

• To bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers (i.e. from the academe, development agencies, regulators, etc.) in the Asia-Pacific to present their research and perspectives regarding the effects of ICT in society;
• To map the current state of social science research on the impact of ICT on Asian societies.

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Personal Privacy in a World of Intelligent Devices: A Scholarly Workshop

Mapping The Fundamentals '07-- Visions on a mobile future

Conference-- Let's talk about txt!

Mobile Nation Conference

New Journal --- International Journal of Communication

Mobile Persuasion

Stanford University
California, USA

Mobile Persuasion is for innovators, researchers, and companies creating mobile technologies that change people's beliefs and behaviors. Applications include health, commerce, activism, social networking, addiction, advertising, gaming, and environmental conservation. This full-day event will feature expert presentations and panels on how mobile technology can change attitudes and behaviors. During breaks you can meet other participants or check out the booths and demonstrations.

Exhibition: CELL PHONE: Art and the Mobile Phone

Call for Papers: Media and Culture Journal on 'mobile' issue

Media and Culture Journal (M/C) is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

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1st International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Information Retrieval (MoMIR2006)

Yogyakarta
Indonesia

The rapid expansion of digital multimedia data delivered on new generation mobile devices, such as PDA, smart phones, and portable audiovisual player, has created new challenges for more effective content retrieval anywhere at anytime.

MoMIR workshop is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2006). The purpose of the workshop is to provide an international forum for researchers, students, professionals, and experts from academia and industry to present new research results, exchange ideas, and discussion on future challenges in multimedia information retrieval on mobile and wireless platforms.

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NEW POSITION AT UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NEW MEDIA

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NEW-- journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network

wi, the journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN), publishes the latest in Canadian mobilities research, encompassing disciplines such as design, engineering, computer science, communications and media studies.

Currently focusing on the research work of MDCN projects, wi aims to expand its purview in the coming months to include other national and international scholarship, artistic productions and design research on mobility, wireless technologies, and digital media.

In this issue:

• A Letter from our Editors-in-Chief (Barbara Crow, York University & Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University)
• Mapping the Mobile Digital Commons Network (Michael Longford, Concordia University)
• p2P: Cityspeak's Reconfiguration of Public Media Space (Marrousia Lévesque, Lucie Bélanger & Jason Lewis, Concordia University)
• The Liminal Magic Circle: Boundaries, Frames, and Participation in Pervasive Mobile Games (Alison Harvey, Concordia University)
• The Persistence of Surveillance: The Panoptic Potential of Locative Media (Andrea Zeffiro, Concordia University)
• Learning From Commercial Mobile Games (Janice Leung, York University)
• Iterative and Digital: The Use of Blogs and Wikis in Social Science Research (Neil Barratt, Concordia University)

Mobile and Pop Culture in Asia-- An International Conference

Gwangju
Korea

Hosted by Asia Culture Forum 2006 Organizing Committee & Executive Agency for Culture Cities, Ministry of Culture and Tourism Organized by Asia's Future Initiative (AFI)

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The State of Telecom: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue

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Annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)

Internet Research 7.0: Internet Convergences
Brisbane, Australia

The Internet works as an arena of convergence. Physically dispersed and marginalized people (re)find themselves online for the sake of sustaining and extending community. International and interdisciplinary teams now collaborate in new ways. Diverse cultures engage one another via CMC. These technologies relocate and refocus capital, labor and immigration, and they open up new possibilities for political, potentially democratizing, forms of discourse. Moreover, these technologies themselves converge in multiple ways, e.g. in Internet-enabled mobile phones, in Internet-based telephony, and in computers themselves as "digital appliances" that conjoin communication and multiple media forms. These technologies also facilitate fragmentations with greater disparities between the information-haves and have-nots, between winners and losers in the shifting labor and capital markets, and between individuals and communities. Additionally these technologies facilitate information filtering that reinforces, rather than dialogically challenges, narrow and extreme views.

The Telecommunications Industry and Government Surveillance

555 Lerner Hall
Columbia University

EURO mGOV 2006: Second European Conference on Mobile Government

Euro mGov 2006 organization cordially invites researchers and practitioners from academia, public sector, IT and Telecom Industry to participate and contribute to this largest gathering of the mobile government professionals.

Important Dates and place:
Submissions Deadline: 1 May 2006
Notification to the Authors: 15 June 2006
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

IAMCR 2006 Conference-- Audience Section

International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2006 Conference
Conference Theme: Knowledge Societies for All - Media and Communication Strategies
The conference theme offers the Audience Section an opportunity to reassess the theories, methods and issues that inform our practice as audience researchers. As knowledge communities, audiences are changing. The classifications of audiences we traditionally relied on (masses, publics and markets) are challenged by the fluidity and ephemeral nature of virtual and mobile audiences. The delivery of media content via mobile devices (cell phones; PDPs, iPods and MP3 players etc) suggests we need to broaden our understanding of the places and spaces where people are likely to be audiences. Digital media require us to reconsider our assumptions about the meaning of engagement and interactivity. The arrival of powerful new audience/user research tools for online consumer research are contributing to the development of new definitions of what entertainment means, and alerting us to the emergence of ways of being audiences and of researching them. Conference will be held in American University of Cairo.

Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst with Author Dan Reingold

The KPMG Peat Marwick / Stanley R. Klion Forum presents: Dan Reingold with Professor David Beim.
This event is co-hosted by the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information and the Student Leadership and Ethics Board of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center. Please RSVP online.

ASIA CULTURE ACADEMY FELLOW, KOREA

International Communication Association Preconference 2006, Communication and Technology Division

International Communication Association
Preconference 2006, Communication and Technology Division
"After the Mobile Phone? Social Change and the Development of Mobile Communication"
June 18, 2006 at the University of Erfurt, Germany
http://www.icahdq.org/events/conference/2006/AfterMobilePhoneCall.html

International Communication Association 56th Annual Conference
"Networking communication research"
June 19 - 23, 2006, Dresden, Germany
ICA Plenary Speakers
Manuel Castells, Annenberg School for Communication, USC, Los Angeles
Jürgen Habermas, University of Bergen
http://www.icahdq.org/events/conference/2006/conf2006.asp

Cultural Space and Public Sphere in Asia-- An International Conference

Asia's Future Foundation (AFF) will be hosting the Cultural Space and Public Sphere in Asia-- An International Conference in cooperation with Institute for Communication Arts and Technology (iCat), Hallym University. Conference will be held in Seoul, Korea.

Call for papers: The Mobile Communication Research Annual

The Mobile Communication Research Annual:
Volume I, The Reconstruction of Space & Time through Mobile Communication Practices

Abstracts of 200 words describing the proposed papers are due by 17 March 2006 with those accepted due in final form by 1 September 2006. Submissions may be in the form of empirical research studies or theory-building papers and should be 5 - 7000 words (in English). Papers are preferably new work but if material from other venues is available it will also be considered for publication. Send your abstract to either Rich Ling or Scott Campbell.

Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the 21st Century

Call for Chapters
Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the 21st Century will address the innovative, unanticipated, and far reaching ways that mobile communication technologies are altering how we live and work. The potential, effects, and future of mobile communication will be explored in twenty-five original essays by scholars and practitioners in a reader friendly balance of theoretical and empirical chapters.

Technology, Time and Everyday Life

A full-day workshop will be held on Friday 25 November 2005 at the Oxford Internet Institute in Oxford. The workshop is for about twenty specially invited international participants who are prominent in the field of social research on mobile technologies. Its distinctive focus will be on understanding the social dynamics shaping, and being shaped by, the ICTs. It will concentrate on two main themes: (1) The new challenges that digital convergence poses for theory and research practice in the area; and (2) The effects of mobile technologies on the temporal dimensions of contemporary society.

Cell Phone Culture

No contemporary cultural artifact embodies the genius and the disruptive excess of capitalism as clearly as the cell phone. Ubiquitous in most developed societies in Europe, the Americas and Asia, the cell phone has become a laboratory some would say an asylum for testing the limits of technological convergence. Less a telephone today than a multi-purpose computer, cell phones are game consoles, still cameras, email systems, text messengers, carriers of entertainment and business data, nodes of commerce. Particular age cohorts and subcultures have begun to appropriate cell phones for idiosyncratic uses that help to define their niche or social identity. This Forum will examine the cell phone as a technological object and as a cultural form whose uses and meaning are increasingly various, an artifact uniquely of our time that is enacting, to borrow the words of a contemporary novelist, a ceaseless spectacle of transition. Professor James Katz and professor Jing Wang were speakers for this event.

Effects of New Mobile Services on Communication Behavior: Current Status and Future Prospects

Mobile communications is in a transition from traditional voice services to a broad array of multi-media applications, ranging from mobile radio to mobile television ("mobisodes") and mobile games. This convergence will also reconfigure industry boundaries and affect current market positions. Cable companies have recently announced joint ventures with mobile carriers to offer quadruple play services (fixed voice, video, Internet access, mobile voice), creating strong competition for broadcasters and telephone companies. The lecture will explore the status of and future trends in this exciting industry and its implications for consumers and service providers. Dr. James E. Katz was invited to give a talk of this issue.

AT&T POST-MORTEM: The Rise & Fall of an Icon

Columbia Business School invited Dr. James E. Katz to be one of the speakers in this symposium. This symposium discussed the factors leading to the apparent demise of AT&T as it is acquired by SBC. For over a century, AT&T has been an iconic American institution, and its demise signifies the end of an era. Experts, including academics, industry veterans, journalists, and financial analysts will present their views on the cause and implications of the end of AT&T.

2005 Seoul Conference on Mobile Communication

"Beyond Phones: Mobility and the Future of Media"

Korean Association of Broadcasting Studies (KABS) was hosting the Second Seoul Conference on Mobile Communication in cooperation with Institute for Communication Arts and Technology (iCat) and SK Telecom in Seoul, Korea.

Mobile Communication and Asian Modernities II

France Telecom R&D Beijing, in association with the Research Center for Social Theory, Peking University, had a conference in Beijing, China on "Mobile Communication and The conference addressed the social, cultural, and economic implications of mobile telephony in Asia, with a particular focus on developments in China. Specifically, conference papers focused on the role of mobile communication technologies in reflecting and reframing 'modern' life, as defined particularly by Asian users, in Asian contexts.

Tenure Track and Non-Tenure Track Opportunities at SCILS

Dear CMCS associates:

The Department of Communication is seeking applicants in mobile communication and other areas. If you know of potential candidates, please have them look at http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/about/employment/comm/emp2005-2006.html and invite them to apply.

Also, we will soon be having a "make-over" of our website that should help it be more valuable to you, and will be soliciting ideas for our next workshop.

Many thanks for your interest.

James E. Katz, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Mobile Communication Studies
Professor of Communication
Department of Communication
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1071
USA
Telephone 732.932.7500 x8118
Email: jimkatz@scils.rutgers.edu
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~jimkatz/
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/ci/cmcs/

Social Capital, Quality of Life and IST (SOCQUIT) Results Conference

The SOCQUIT consortium with the kind support of France Télécom R&D have organised a mini-conference "Social Capital and Quality of Life in the Information Society", where the SOCQUIT results will be presented, and discussions will be held with stakeholders on social capital and quality of life. The conference will take place in Paris, France.

The First European Conference on Mobile Government

The first EUROPEAN conference on mobile Government was held at Sussex University, UK during 10-12 July 2005. The proceedings containing the largest collection of papers on this new field of eGovernment is available via email to Mobile Government Consortium at mgci@mgovernment.org.

Mobile Communication and Asian Modernities

A conference on "Mobile Communication and Asian Modernities", organized by the Department of English and Communication, The City University of Hong Kong.

Mobile Communication: Current Research and Future Directions

Workshop on Mobile Communication and the Network Society

CMCS hosted a workshop on Mobile Communication and the Network Society at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ on May 21, 2005.

Workshop theme:
Mobile communication and electronic networks are facilitating the creation of surprising new forms of social interaction and co-created services. These forms range from the amusing and ephemeral to the transformational and even deadly. New forms are increasingly affecting every sphere of human endeavor from classroom education to political revolutions. How adequate are current communication perspectives for understanding this world of mobile networks? What insights can theory offer, and in what places should theory be modified?

To investigate this topic, a group of outstanding social scientists have been invited to contribute chapters to a forthcoming book, edited by Prof. James E. Katz. The experts met at Rutgers University for a day-long workshop on Saturday, May 21, 2005 to further develop and critique their chapters and exchange views. In addition to the chapter authors, several other scholars interested in the topic will be in attendance to share their ideas and insights.

Seeing, Understanding, Learning in the Mobile Age

Conference was held in Budapest, Hungary.

Newsweek Executive Forum: Wireless & Telecommunications Dinner Forum

The Seoul (Korea) Conference on Mobile Communication

This conference was meant to be a checking station to report what have happened in different societies in the East and West. Mapping and charting the current and future development/application of mobile media will help us understanding how societies are living with this new technological invention. Keynote speakers were Dr. James E. Katz and Dr. Rich Ling.

The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: Places, Images, People, Connections

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

International Workshop on Mobile Technologies and Health: Benefits and Risks

A workshop organized by Leopoldina Fortunati and Vincenzo Della Mea, University of Udine, Italy. Workshop was held in Udine, Italy.