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

CFP: Social Networking and Communities

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.

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

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

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.

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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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

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

Job announcement for the IT University of Copenhagen

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.