RETHINKING COMMUNITY, RETHINKING PLACE
In the past few years, new forms of net-based communities have emerged, distributed on various websites and services, and making use of several media platforms and genres to stay connected. Now, as mobile and location-based technologies are reintroducing "place" as an important aspect in the formation of communal and social activities, it is time to consider and rethink the concept of online or virtual communities. Not forgetting the lessons we have learned from studying the early virtual communities, how do we describe, analyse, theorise and design the communities and social formations of the early 21st century? How do we address the blurring of boundaries between places and communities on- and offline?

CFP: PRESENCE 2008

October 16, 2008 – October 18, 2008

http://www.presence2008.org/index.php?page=call-for-paper

Padov
Italy

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

IMPORTANT DATES (CHANGED)

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)

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

October 20, 2008

Richard Ley Development Centre
Swansea

WISE KIDS are in the process of organising a National Conference in Wales together with the Wales Internet Safety Partnership (WISP)

The conference will focus on raising awareness of young people's use of Internet and mobile technologies, and will examine what issues educators, youth professionals and policy makers need to address to ensure that young people have the necessary skills and knowledge to use these media confidently, and explore the opportunities these present. Challenges and risks associated with these media will also be discussed, and the conference will explore the legal and safeguarding issues that schools and other organisations need to address to minimise risk caused by misuse of these media.

The key strands will be around innovative use of technology in education, children's experiences in virtual worlds, digital literacy, e-safety - legal and good practice guidelines. It is hoped that this conference will stimulate discussion, ideas and concrete action points that can help the sector move forward as a whole, in a way that truly supports young people, and those who work with them.

To register an interest in attending this conference, please visit: http://www.wisekids.org.uk/conf

Call for Submissions: China Media Research

December 15, 2008

New Media and Cultural Identity in Globalizing Society

Call for Submissions
A Special Issue of China Media Research

This special issue invites scholars from across disciplines to take up the intersections of new media and cultural identity in globalizing society. Papers dealing with new media and cultural identity in globalizing society from any theoretical and methodological perspectives are invited. Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. We will accept the extended abstract (up to 1,000 words) of the paper at the first stage of the reviewing process. Please email Word attachment of the extended abstract to the editor of China Media Research at jjze@zju.edu.cn. All extended abstracts must be received by December 15, 2008. The complete manuscript must be received by April 20, 2009 after the extended abstract is accepted. Accepted manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with APA style and should not exceed 8,500 words (including references). The special issue is scheduled for the 4th issue of CMR-2009. Please visit http://www.chinamediaresearch.net for more information about the quarterly journal of China Media Research. For inquiry, please contact Professor Jingjing Z. Edmondson at editor@chinamediaresearch.net or jjze@zju.edu.cn

CFP: FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY

January 30, 2009 – February 01, 2009

http://www.Technology-Conference.com

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY
Huntsville, Alabama, USA

This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the relationships between technology, knowledge and society. The Conference is cross-disciplinary in scope, a meeting point for technologists with a concern for the social and social scientists with a concern for the technological. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on information and communications technologies.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 9 October 2008.

CFP: The Good, the Bad and the Challenging. The user and the future of information and communication

May 13, 2009 – May 15, 2009

http://conference2009.cost298.org/

The Good, the Bad and the Challenging. The user and the future of information and communication technologies
Copenhagen, Denmark

organised by the COST Action 298 "Participation in the Broadband Society" is still open! Contributions on a broad variety of social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are welcome. Abstracts may be submitted until 15 October 2008, and should be posted via the conference website

The important dates for contributors are, at a glance:

Deadline for abstract submission: 15th October 2008
Notification of the acceptance of abstracts: 1st December 2008
Deadline for authors´ delivery of paper in order to be included in the printed programme and the proceedings: 1st February 2009
Conference: 13th-15th May 2009

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

May 21, 2009

Chicago, IL, USA

Mobile phones are becoming increasingly important in bringing people into the Information Society. It is widely accepted that the inhabitants of the future household will carry mobile devices that will be capable of voice and data communication, information retrieval and forms of entertainment consumption. Mobiles are now (and will increasingly become) payment devices that can also send, process and receive voice, text as well as images; in the next few years they will also be capable of information-retrieval and publishing functions normally associated with the Internet.

This preconference will draw together research constituting evidence for and against this emerging Mobile2.0 narrative in the context of the larger social-science understanding of mobile-use behavior.

In order to examine this question as well as other dimensions in mobile communication we are issuing a call for papers for a pre-conference at the 2009 meeting of the International Communication Association. Abstracts are due by October 31, 2009. Please send them, along with your name and contact information to zainudeen@lirne.net. Accepted abstracts will be notified by 21 November 2009. Final papers will be due by April 1, 2009.

CFP: PISTA

July 10, 2009 – July 13, 2009

http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/PISTA

The 7th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA 2009
Orlando, Florida, USA

The deadlines are the following:

Submissions: October 14th, 2008
Acceptance: December 8th, 2008
Final version: February 18th, 2009

Submitted papers or extended abstracts will have three kinds of reviews: double-blind (by at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer-to-peer reviews.
Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the reviews made to their submission so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors may not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions.

Past Events of Interest to the Field

Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking

September 25, 2008 – September 27, 2008

http://www.socialscience.t-mobile.hu/2008/

Budapest
Hungary

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

Ethical implications of mediated relationships
The mobile internet
Exploring the self through social networking
Mutual respect und acknowledgement
Gossip and social cohesion
The re-interpretation of privacy
Geobrowsing, privacy, and GPS-equipped phones
Real and virtual identities
Inclusion of elderly people
Exclusion and the network effect
Social networking and big business
Netocracy
Fraud and secrecy
Surveillance
Informatics challenging bioethics (genomics and the new biology)

Target dates:
Submission of abstracts (max. 300 words) and short biographical statements (max. 150 words) by April 20, 2008. Early submissions are strongly encouraged. Please send your submissions to Kristóf Nyíri, knyiri@t-email.hu. Those submitting abstracts will be notified of the decision concerning acceptance by May 19, 2008. Deadline for receipt of draft full-length (max. 2500 words) versions of papers: July 13, 2008. Receipt of draft papers by this deadline is a condition for inclusion in the program. The papers will be compiled and distributed to all participants at the time of the conference.

Call for Papers: International Social Capital Conference

September 19, 2008 – September 22, 2008

http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/conferences/2008/TSCF%20International%20Conference%202008.htm

TSCF 2008 INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL CAPITAL CONFERENCE,
"Perspectives on Social Capital and Social Inclusion"

Bugibba, Malta

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.

Papers submitted and accepted before 31 January 2008 will be inserted into the programme of the conference. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission.

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

September 18, 2008 – September 19, 2008

http://www.mgovernment.org/events/msociety2008/home.html

Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey

The First International Conference on Mobile Society (mSociety 2008) aims to be a platform for presenting, exchanging and disseminating the newest developments, ideas, applications and services involving all aspects of practice and research in mSociety.

The mSociety 2008 organization invites all professionals having interest in how mobility influences the society: both positive and negative. Possible perspectives may include, but not limited to, technology diffusion and adoption; dissemination of mobile content, applications and services for business and entertainment; economical, sociological and psychological impact of mobility on society.

New Submission Deadline: 2 June 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS: Mobile Music

September 15, 2008 – September 19, 2008

http://www.mgovernment.org/events/specialSessions.html

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

September 15, 2008 – September 16, 2008

http://www.mgovernment.org/events/mgov2008/home.html

Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey

The Euro mGOV Conference series establish a forum and provide a showcase for the developments on the public administration and mobile Internet technologies, services and business models, and tie them to the existing and future m-government applications and government business models. The series will present evidences of applications and trends in mobile government implementations from various parts of the world. The conferecne is a prime platform for presenting, exchanging and disseminating the newest developments, ideas, applications and services in the field of mGovernment among three essential constituents: public and private sector professionals and the researchers.

Euro mGov conference 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.

DeadLine Extension: 2 June 2008

Call for papers: MobileHCI 2008

September 02, 2008 – September 05, 2008

http://mobilehci2008.telin.nl/

MobileHCI 2008: The 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Royal Tropical Institute Conference Center
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

MobileHCI is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. The 10th conference in the MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for all mobile and wearable computing devices and services.

CFP: Social Mobile Media Workshop

August 01, 2008

Stanford University, Wallenberg Hall

Stanford University's H-STAR Institute (Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research), USA and Tampere University of Technology, Finland are organizing a research workshop for sharing findings for technical prototypes, emerging solutions, and for exploring new collaborative opportunities in the area of "Social Mobile Media."

Many exciting programs of research and development are underway within industry, universities, startups, and thinktanks to create and study uses of social mobile media applications. In addition to several keynote talks, we are inviting presentations representing the following themes:

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

July 20, 2008 – July 25, 2008

http://www.jmk.su.se/contents/sidor/english/info/scientific_conference.php

Call for papers: The 26th world congress of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
COMMUNICATION POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY (CPT) Section
Sub-theme: DIGITAL DIVIDES - NEW MEDIA, ICT POLICIES AND USER EMPOWERMENT

Stockholm University, Stockholm (Sweden)

The theme "Media and Global Divides" reflects one of the prevailing challenges of public policy-making in digital domains globally. It also represents one of the primary research areas of the Communication Policy and Technology Section of the IAMCR. The Section therefore welcomes this subject as the overall theme of the Stockholm 2008 IAMCR Conference and invites the submission of abstracts bearing on the related Sectional sub-theme: Digital Divides - New Media, ICT Policies and User Empowerment.

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

July 09, 2008 – July 11, 2008

http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/

Wellington, New Zealand

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

A stream for the
Australian & New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) conference 2008
http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/ Convenors/editors: Clare Lloyd, Scott Rickard, and Gerard Goggin.

Papers submitted by April 14 will still be refereed, (however papers submitted by April 14 will not have a 'revise and resubmit' option).

Abstracts (up to 300 words) will also be accepted for the non-refereed stream if submitted by 9 June 2008.

To have an abstract considered for the special issue of Australian Journal of Communication, please submit this to the convenors (Lloyd, Rickard, & Goggin) by 9 June 2008.

Call it a mobile, cell phone, or keitai; when an incoming call is heard, both power and place concerns arise. Mobile telephony adoption and usage is about power and place. The power of the mobile is increasing as it integrates with other everyday technologies, objects, and across media platforms. Currently there is significant emerging work on mobiles in various disciplines in Australia and New Zealand, as part of a vibrant international reckoning of mobiles and online technologies.

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)

June 24, 2008 – June 27, 2008

http://www.catacconference.org

Universite de Nîmes, France
Conference languages: English and French

CALL FOR PAPERS: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC'08)
ICTs Bridging Cultures? Theories, Obstacles, Best Practices
6th International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC08)

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.

Persuasive 2008 - The third international conference on persuasive technology

June 04, 2008 – June 06, 2008

http://www.persuasive2008.org/

Oulu, Finland

Persuasive Technology 2008 will gather people interested in how software and related technologies influence people's attitudes and behaviours. This conference will also feature the best new insights into how web sites, video games, and mobile phones and other applications can be designed to motivate and persuade people.

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

May 28, 2008 – May 31, 2008

Manila Philippines

College of Mass Communication and The School of Labor & Industrial Relations at The University of the Philippines in collaboration with The Department of Sociology at National University of Singapore invite abstracts for the 8th ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Inter-University Seminars on Social Development. Dr. James E. Katz will be one of the Keynotes in this conference.

Call for papers: International Communication Association Pre-conference Workshop

May 20, 2008 – May 21, 2008

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~parkyo/site/ICAProgram_mobile.pdf

This is a reminder about the mobile communication pre-conference for the upcoming annual meeting of the International Communication Association.? The theme of the pre-conference is "The Global and Globalizing Dimensions of Mobile Communication: Developing or Developed?" It takes place May 21-22 in Montreal and registration closes May 2. You can get more information about the pre-conference at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~parkyo/site/ICAProgram_mobile.pdf and information about ICA at http://www.icahdq.org/

Call for papers: The global and globalizing dimensions of mobile communication: Developing or developed?
International Communication Association Pre-conference Workshop

Le Centre Sheraton
Montreal, Canada

This pre-conference has the intention of examining the global dimensions of mobile communication. Mobile communication (both via traditional mobile telephony and via other wireless systems) is being felt on a global basis. There are, for example, currently more mobile telephones in the developing world than in the traditional industrialized countries. Thus while mobile communication has become a relatively normal part of daily life in industrialized countries, it is also becoming increasingly common in the developing world.

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

May 19, 2008 – May 22, 2008

http://www.atiner.gr/docs/2008AAACALL_MEDIA.htm

The Mass Media & Communication Research Unit
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (AT.IN.E.R.)
ATHENS, GREECE

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of Communications, Mass Media and other related disciplines. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of one paper, chair a session or observer. Past conferences drew participants from 5 continents and more than 50 countries, presenting papers on diverse topics such as political communication, EU enlargement, Website design, cross-media ownership, war correspondence, cultural studies, film, public relations, telecommunication policy, advertising, agenda setting, juvenile audience preferences, and cross-national communication, among others.

May 15, 2008 – June 25, 2008

Dear Mobile Phone Expert,

We researchers at the Rutgers University Center for Mobile Communication Studies (CMCS) are trying to get a sense of what leading thinkers see as important issues concerning mobile social networking and ask your help. Please go to the following website to enter your responses anonymously to the brief questions we have for you there. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=esvQeoDjm2H1UsAKcBZcYg_3d_3d

We would be happy to send you a copy of the report, just let us know by e-mail to Chih-Hui Lai (chihhui@scils.rutgers.edu). A final report of this study will also be available on our website ( http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/ci/cmcs/events ). Thanks!

Wi: Journal of Mobile Media

May 11, 2008 – May 14, 2008

Wi: Journal of Mobile Media* (formerly known as *Wi: Journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network*) addresses the latest in international scholarship, artistic productions and design research on mobility, wireless technologies, and digital media

http://www.wi-not.ca

Pedestrian Traffic

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

May 07, 2008 – May 13, 2008

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g792943590?jumptype=alert&alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

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

May 01, 2008 – May 04, 2008

http://www.futuresonic.com/08/2008conf.html

Futuresonic 2008
Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas
Manchester, UK

The Futuresonic international conference and the Social Technologies Summit invite proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and session themes. Submissions of innovative formats for social interaction are encouraged.

The conference theme is The Social - Online, Mobile and Unplugged Social Networking.

The Futuresonic conference is a place where important international discussions take place. The conference will bring together leading figures to unpick the hype around the latest technological zeitgeist, broaden the debate, and propose and explore a critical understanding of social technologies.

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

April 24, 2008 – April 26, 2008

http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/cptv/cptv.html

Santa Barbara, California

Founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing Passions works to create collegial spaces for new work and scholarship on culture and identity in television and related media, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality.

Exhibition, Conference & Screenings: FILMOBILE

April 04, 2008 – May 04, 2008

http://www.filmobile.net/

Exhibition, Conference & Screenings: FILMOBILE

London, UK

FILMOBILE EXHIBITION at London Gallery West
4 April to 4 May, 2008. 9 am to 5pm daily

FILMOBILE CONFERENCE AND SCREENINGS at The Old Lumiere Cinema
4 April to 5 April, 2008

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

April 01, 2008 – April 02, 2008

http:// www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jmasthof/Persuasive/

Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

In conjunction with the AISB 2008 Convention Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence (www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/index.html)

Can a web site persuade you to be politically active? Can a mobile phone motivate you to exercise? Does instant feedback on petrol use change how people drive? Do online rating systems inspire people to behave better online? This symposium will focus on how digital technology can motivate and influence people (or agents). It will bring together researchers, designers, and developers interested in computers designed to change attitudes and behaviors in positive ways.

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

March 23, 2008 – March 26, 2008

http://www.wmute2008.org

Beijing, China

The rapid progress of mobile and ubiquitous technologies enables internet connections , anytime and anywhere, with ease. Traditional ways of learning and teaching, happen ing at fixed times and places such as schools or offices and limited with numbers of people, are changing remarkably. Although such technologies allow people to learn in an appropriate context, they cannot guarantee that the learning environments we design will be successful. Issues of design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of such technology supported learning environments should be investigated from interdisciplinary points of view, including computer science, educational research, cognitive science, and so on.

International workshop SPM2008 in Tartu, Estonia

March 10, 2008 – March 14, 2008

http://www.ut.ee/spm2008/

International workshop SPM2008 in Tartu, Estonia
Social Positioning Method (SPM) 2008:
Mobile positioning data in geography and planning: data, analyses and applications

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

March 01, 2008

http://users.utu.fi/freder/appeltechno.htm

Edited by:
Fred Dervin, Senior Lecturer, (e-mail: freder@utu.fi)
Department of French Studies, University of Turku, Finland
&
Yasmine Abbas, (e-mail: abbas.yasmine@gmail.com)
Doctor of Design, Harvard, USA
ReD Associates, Denmark

Overall objectives of the book
The new interpersonal spaces created by web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies seem to correspond to the technologies of the self that Michel Foucault (1988) has addressed in his lectures at the Collège de France at the beginning of the 1980s. These new technologies enable the individual?s self to emerge publicly and to be worked upon with its "disciples": be they companions in Second Life, readers (for example on a blog) or listeners (Podcasts). With high speed Internet access and increasingly generous capacities of storage (mp3, USB keys, iPhone, portable computers...), the opportunities for staging the self have become unlimited.

The authors will explore aspects of the contributions of these new technologies to the expression and (co-)construction of identitie(s) of mobile individuals (physical and/or digital; short-term (expatriates, businessmen, trainees, exchange students?) and long-term (migrants, refugees, exiles?); inter-/intra- and/or transnational mobilities). more

Submission procedure
Researchers and practitioners (from linguistics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, IT?) are invited to submit a proposal (350 words) clearly explaining the mission, concerns of their proposed chapter as well as a short description of the corpus (if they plan on using one), the method of analysis and a basic bibliography by March 1, 2008 to freder@utu.fi & abbas.yasmine@gmail.com. The proposal can be in English or French.

Exploring New Media Worlds

February 29, 2008 – March 02, 2008

http://comm.tamu.edu/mediaworlds

Exploring New Media Worlds: Changing Technologies, Industries, Cultures, and Audiences in Global and Historical Context

An international conference hosted by:
Texas A&M University

Integrating fields of study in a time of change; setting a new agenda for media studies.

Papers and proposals are invited on any aspect of the conference themes, offering reports of new research, position-taking conceptual essays, discussions of media and telecommunication policy, and both international and historical comparisons on changing technologies, industries, cultures, and audiences.

The Mobile City conference

February 27, 2008 – February 28, 2008

http:// www.themobilecity.nl

NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute)
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The physical, geographical city with its piazza's, its neighbourhoods and crossings intersects with the "virtual space" of electronic communication-, information- and observation-networks of GSM, GPS, CCTV, UMTS, WIFI, RFID, etc. At the same time, the domain of digital space is increasingly becoming physical, an "internet of things" is emerging. Another example is the rise of 'pervasive games', digital games with a physical component in urban space. Is it still useful or even possible to talk about the city as being only physical? Or about the digital world as purely "virtual" (in the sense of 'not real' or immaterial)? The physical city and the spaces of digital technologies merge into a new "hybrid space". Hybrid spaces are shaped by the social processes that concurrently take place in digital and physical spaces. What is the influence of these developments on the ideas we have of time, space and place, citizenship and identity?

Call for Participation - Project Presentations
During the main conference on February 28th, Keynote speeches will be alternated with short project presentations about locative and/or mobile technologies for artistic purposes, business, research, etc. We are thinking of: locative media art, commercial locative services, pervasive gaming, mobile marketing campaigns, geo-tagging or geo- storytelling, research projects etc. etc. Your presentation will have to fit in 10 minutes, and be as concrete as possible. Your project will also be featured on our website. If you wish to present, please send us an email about your project at info@themobilecity.nl. Please do so before january 31st.

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

February 15, 2008

We are looking for contributions to a volume under contract with Oxford University Press on the study of mobile music and sound. We are most interested in case studies on specific uses of devices like MP3 players, portable video game players, cellular phones and ringtones, PDAs, etc., whether in particular regions of the world or within specific subcultures. Also welcome are proposals on different modalities of usage (for example, choreographies of mobile listening or mobile music in social movements) or on broader considerations of political economy (legal regulation of mobile music or commodity chains within the mobile music industry). We are imagining this volume to encompass the study of all sonic forms of portable digitality. If you are interested, please contact us at oxfordmobilemusic@gmail.com and let us know more about your research in this area and a potential contribution to the volume.

Jason Stanyek, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology Department of Music, New York University Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard University, 2007-2008 Multimedia Reviews Editor, Journal of the Society for American Music jstanyek@nyu.edu 212-998-8314

CFP: International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society

January 30, 2008 – February 01, 2008

http://www.Technology-Conference.com

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY
Huntsville, Alabama, USA

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 9 October 2008.

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

January 30, 2008

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (February 2009)
Special Issue on The family and communication technologies?
Edited by Linda Little, Elizabeth Sillence, Abigail Sellen, & Alex Taylor

New communication technologies are increasingly being used in family and social contexts to support and extend relationships. Yet the social aspects of these communication technologies and impact upon family life are often overlooked by researchers and designers keen to create task-based products.

With this in mind we feel that attention should now focus on the social aspects of communication technologies within the family if we are to better understand how and why people are using and adapting communication technologies to suit their family and social lives. Questions naturally arise related to social and moral values, trust, privacy, disclosure, exclusion, status within the home and also the impact upon the home/work/leisure divide. We want to focus on issues of context, purpose and benefit to see if we can build up a richer, more detailed account of real technology usage and impact upon family life.

30 January 2008, 1st Submission deadline

Job Posting- Rutgers University

January 28, 2008

One-year positions for 2008-2009, rank open

Position description: The Department of Communication at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey invites applications for several one-year visiting positions (rank open, with ABDs considered for the Assistant level). The main area of specialization we are seeking to address is Mediated Communication (Mediated Communication includes the social contexts and consequences of new technologies such as wireless communication, Web 2.0 and the Internet; for our purposes it does not include traditional mass communication and broadcast or print media.) We will also be considering applicants in our other core areas of Organizational Communication, Social Interaction, and/or Health Communication.

Major departmental initiatives at the intersection of these areas include the Center for Mobile Communication Studies, Center for Communication and Health Issues, and the Center for Organizational Development and Leadership. For more information, see http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/communication/communication-department.html

Qualifications: Ph.D. in Communication or related social science discipline preferred, evidence of teaching excellence, and a research program that includes scholarly publications and conference presentations.

Salary is competitive and commensurate with rank and qualifications.

Application deadline: Application review will begin January 28, 2008 and will continue until all positions are filled.

Application Procedure: Please send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and names of three references to:
Professor James E. Katz, Chair
Department of Communication
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071
(For further information contact Prof. Katz at j.k@rutgers.edu)

About the University: An AAU member and Research-I ranked university with more than 50,000 students on three campuses, Rutgers was established in 1766, making it the eighth oldest university in the U.S. Rutgers-New Brunswick is the largest campus and is conveniently proximate to both New York City and Philadelphia. Rutgers is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

CALL FOR PAPERS for Edited Book

December 15, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS for Edited Book
Hybrid Reality Games: Reconfiguring social and urban networks via locative media

Edited by:
Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D. (Communication, North Carolina State University) souzaesilva@ncsu.edu
Daniel Sutko (Communication, North Carolina State University) dmsutko@ncsu.edu

This edited book invites essays that critically investigate the inter-relations among mobile technologies, location-based activities, and playful/ social spaces, with the ultimate goal of finding interconnections between games and social networks.

Paper abstracts: December 15th 2007(500/700 words)
Notification of accepted abstracts: January 15th 2008
Full papers: June 15th 2008 (5000/7000 words)

Job posting-- HALLYM UNIVERSITY

December 10, 2007

HALLYM UNIVERSITY, KOREA

The School of Communication at Hallym University, Korea invites applications in the following position: Global/International Communication (with emphasis on transnational cultural circulation and/or new media). Applicants should have doctoral degrees in the related areas, and should demonstrate native or near-native level of English proficiency as successful candidates are required to teach 4~5 courses in English a year. No Korean language ability is required. The successful candidate will be expected to take up appointment on 1 March 2008. Applicants should have a good publication record and experience in teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Appointments will be for a probationary period of three to five years, depending on the rank of applicants, with appointment to the retiring age thereafter. The salary ranges from $35,000 for starting level lecturer to $65,000 for starting level associate professor rank a year. Housing benefits will be provided at no or nominal cost. A letter of application, a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications), and two names and addresses of reference people should be sent to Professor Shin Dong Kim, Chair of the International Appointments Committee, School of Communication, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do 200-702, Korea (email: kimsd@hallym.ac.kr) by 10 December 2007. Review of applications will begin immediately, and will continue until the positions are filled. Electronic submission of the application materials is required. Further details are available from the Chair. Hallym University is committed to equal opportunity.

Call for papers: Information and Communication Technologies in Emerging Markets

December 01, 2007

Telenor R&I's journal Telektronikk will publish a special edition with the theme "Information and Communication Technologies in Emerging Markets".

Impact of the regulatory environment and competition.
Although the attached authors' guide covers most formalities, authors are strongly encouraged to contact the editors to discuss and refine their ideas before submission. Note that the deadline has been changed to 1st Dec.

MEDIA CULTURE AND INDUSTRY IN ASIA-- 2007 International Conference

November 15, 2007 – November 17, 2007

MEDIA CULTURE AND INDUSTRY IN ASIA
2007 International Conference

15-17 November 2007
Seoul, Korea
Hosted by iCat, Hallym University
Sponsored by Media 2.0 Network

Objective
The world of media industry in Asia is fast changing and growing. One of the noticeable changes in that track is increasing volume of transnational distribution and consumption of media products: Television dramas, films, animations, manga/manhwa, computer games, and pop music among others. While they are becoming the main feature of transnational media contents these days, the way we view and imagine the media world seems to still be ¡®national(istic)¡¯ than transnational or global. The conference aims to bring observations, analyses, reports, arguments, and insights on this transnationalizing media of/in Asia from both cultural perspectives and industrial interventions.

MIT Communications Forum: NBC's Heroes:

November 15, 2007

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum

5-7 p.m.
Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab

The fragmenting audiences and proliferating channels of contemporary television are changing how programs are made and how they appeal to viewers and advertisers. Some media and advertising spokesmen are arguing that smaller, more engaged audiences are more valuable than the passive viewers of the Broadcast Era. They focus on the number of viewers who engage with the program and its extensions -- web sites, podcasts, digital comics, games, and so forth. What steps are networks taking to prolong and enlarge the viewer's experience of a weekly series? How are networks and production companies adapting to and deploying digital technologies and the Internet? And what challenges are involved in creating a series in which individual episodes are only part of an imagined world that can be accessed on a range of devices and that appeals to gamers, fans of comics, lovers of message boards or threaded discussions, digital surfers of all sorts? In this forum, producers from the NBC series Heroes will discuss their hit show as well as the nature of network programming, the ways in which audiences are measured, the extension of television content across multiple media channels, and the value that producers place on the most active segments of their audiences.

MIT Communications Forum: Games and Civic Engagement

November 08, 2007

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum

5-7 p.m.
Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab

A generation of scholars, critics and political leaders has denounced videogames as at best a distraction and at worst a negative influence on society. Yet for a growing generation of activists and researchers, games may also represent a resource for engaging young people with the political process and heightening their awareness of social issues. In what ways do young people use the online societies constructed in multiplayer games to rehearse and refine skills at citizenship? Can we imagine games as a medium that encourages public awareness and citizenship? And what might it mean to empower young people to create their own games to reflect their perceptions of the world around them? This is the second in a continuing series from the new MIT Center for Future Civic Media.

Call for paper-- Media International Australia

November 01, 2007

'Wireless Cultures and Technologies'
special issue of 'Media International Australia'
edited by Gerard Goggin (U Syd) and Melissa Gregg (U Qld)

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.

Mobile Web Americas

October 02, 2007 – October 04, 2007

http://www.mobilewebexpo.com/

Experts agree that the United States is about to see the same explosive growth in mobile web users as the UK and Asia. In Japan shopping and surfing the web from the mobile phone is done by over 40% of adults. Americans are more than ready for the mobile web but most sites are not. Think about the convenience of shopping or getting information anytime and anywhere right from your wireless phone or PDA. Early adapters to this technology have a tremendous advantage to establish themselves. Leaders on the traditional web will not necessarily be the leaders on the mobile web.
The Mobile Web Americas conference and expo will bring together industry professionals from around the world to discuss how to improve and capitalize on the mobile web.

Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence

September 27, 2007 – September 29, 2007

http://www.socialscience.t-mobile.hu/call_en.htm

Budapest
Hungary

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

Target dates:
Submission of abstracts (max. 300 words) and short biographical statements (max. 150 words) by March 25, 2007. Early submissions are strongly encouraged. Please send your submissions to Kristóf Nyíri, knyiri@t-email.hu. Those submitting abstracts will be notified of the decision concerning acceptance by Apr. 12, 2007. Deadline for receipt of draft full-length (max. 2500 words) versions of papers: Jul. 13, 2007. Receipt of draft papers by this deadline is a condition for inclusion in the program. The papers will be compiled and distributed to all participants at the time of the conference.

MIT Communications Forum: What is Civic Media?

September 20, 2007

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forumM

5-7 p.m.
Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab

In Bowling Alone (2000), Robert Putnam wrote about a generation of Americans cut off from traditional forms of community life and civic engagement, passive consumers of mass media. But others have noted the expansion of participatory cultures and virtual communities on the web, the growth of blogs, podcasts, and other forms of citizen journalism, the rise of new kinds of social affiliations within virtual worlds. What lessons can we learn from these online worlds that will make an impact in the communities where we work, sleep, and vote? What new technologies and practices offer us the best chance of revitalizing civic engagement? This forum marks the launch of the new MIT Center for Future Civic Media, a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program and is the first in a series of events designed to focus attention on the relationship between emerging media and civic engagement. The center has been funded by a $5 million grant from the Knight Foundation. Its directors will be Chris Csikszentmihalyi and Mitchel Resnick of the Media Lab and Henry Jenkins of CMS.

Call for Papers: MobileHCI'07

September 11, 2007 – September 14, 2007

http://www.mobilehci2007.org

MobileHCI'07 (www.mobilehci2007.org)
9th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Singapore

MobileHCI is one of the leading conferences in the field of Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services.

The 9th conference in the MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges, potential solutions and innovations towards effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the analysis, design, evaluation and application of human-computer interaction techniques and approaches for all mobile computing devices, software and services.

Call for papers-- MobiCom 2007

September 09, 2007 – September 14, 2007

http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2007/

MobiCom 2007
The Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Montreal, Quebec
Canada

ACM MobiCom 2007 is the thirteenth in a series of annual conferences sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. The MobiCom conference series serves as the premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. MobiCom is a highly selective conference focusing on all issues in mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking at the link layer and above.

Call for papers Mobile Communication Research Series, Volume 2

September 05, 2007

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

September 01, 2007

Mobile wireless devices such as handheld pdas, cellular telephones, and portable computers are part of a changing landscape of communications and culture. In the last decade alone, for instance, the use of cell phones has increased fourfold in Canada signaling a remarkable shift in the telecommunications industry, the convergence of a number of technologies onto a single platform, and new ways of conducting person-to-person communication and creating community. In addition to these devices, Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth, WANS, and GPS comprise integrated segments of the new infrastructure of the so-called wireless world as well as an emergent vocabulary for citizens and consumers. The Canadian Journal of Communication invites submissions, in English or in French, for a forthcoming special issue on mobile communications and wireless technologies. We are interested in innovative, critical approaches that decipher a range of mobile technologies and practices in wireless contexts.

Deadline for papers is Sept. 1, 2007. Papers selected by the editors will then be sent for peer review for final decision.

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

August 15, 2007

Special Issue of The Journal of Urban Technology (Dec 2008)
'Mobile Media and Urban Technology'
Edited by Alice Crawford, Gerard Goggin (USyd) & Larissa Hjorth (RMIT)

The editors of this special issue see mobile technology featuring in a number of ways in urban settings: as a critical part of business, especially small, medium, and micro-enterprises; in urban citizenship and mobile democracy; as a mode of production and consumption of mobile art; as public screens; as a platform for consuming music and video in cities; as a point of access to the Internet; as a navigational and mapping device; and as a location-aware method of employing social networking software in the creation of new patterns of friendship and intimacy in urban settings.

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

August 01, 2007

This Special issue looks at understanding crucial design issues of incoming scenarios of pervasive networked systems for elderly people. These systems should seek to improve elderly peoples' access to social services, to facilitate social contacts as well as access to context-based infotainment and entertainment, to facilitate social participation and independent living, in sum, to improve the welfare and quality of life for the industrialized world aging society and reducing the digital divide. More specifically this special issue addresses three major obstacles that must be overcome for elderly citizens to take advantage of these new technological developments: 1) lack of methods and tools to identify elderly users requirements for a social and creative media usage, 2) lack of knowledge in understanding the factors motivating usage of such applications as well as its social impact on senior citizens and 3) the complexity of multimodal user interfaces in networked applications.

Seminar on Young People, New Technologies and Political Engagement

July 24, 2007 – July 25, 2007

University of Surrey
UK

"Against the backdrop of increasing concern about the disengagement of individuals from politics, there is now a large body of literature which has explored the potential of 'digital democracy' to revitalise political life and challenge conventional forms of political participation. However, relatively little published research has focused on the impact of new technologies on the political engagement of young people, in particular. To start to address this gap, the seminar intends to bring together scholars from across the world - who are conducting research on young people, new technologies and political participation - to share the findings of empirical and theoretical work, discuss the policy implications of their research, and strengthen their international and inter-disciplinary ties."

For more information, please contact: Dr Paul Hodkinson (Sociology) P.Hodkinson@surrey.ac.uk or Dr Rachel Brooks (Dept. of Political and Policy Studies) R.Brooks@surrey.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS --IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2007

July 05, 2007 – July 07, 2007

http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

Lisbon
Portugal

The IADIS Mobile Learning 2007 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile learning research. In particular, but not exclusively, we aim to enrich the Big Issues in Mobile Learning debate with an international perspective and with empirical research that will further contribute to forge understanding of the Big Issues in Mobile Learning.

Mobile Media-- An international conference

July 02, 2007 – July 04, 2007

www.mobilemedia2007.net

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.

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

June 25, 2007 – June 29, 2007

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~laroyo/PATCH.html

Corfu
Greece

The prime goal of this workshop is to gather researchers from different fields, e.g. user modeling, mobile, ubiquitous and ambient technologies, artificial intelligence and web information systems and explore various practical use cases of application of those technologies. During the workshop we would like to identify the typical user groups, tasks and roles in order to achieve adequate personalization for Cultural Heritage applications.

Workshop: Brands and Groups

June 19, 2007 – June 20, 2007

Evolution House
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh

The Branded Meeting Places project is funded by the EPSRC-AHRC Design for the 21st Century Programme, and is run jointly a the University of Edinburgh (School of Architecture, Culture and Environment, Informatics and Institute for the Study of Science Technology and Innovation), and The Edinburgh College of Art.

In this workshop we will focus on how groups use brands and branded spaces in their social encounters. What is a brand in this era of hyper-mobility, digital interconnectivity, local and global reconfigurations and sceptical consumerism? The workshop will also provide an opportunity to discuss and showcase innovative information and communications technologies that foreground issues of brands, groups and branded meeting places.

The workshop is free to attend, but participants will have to pay for their own accommodation on the night of the 19th of June.

special issue-- Mobile Phone Cultures

June 01, 2007 – June 07, 2007

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

May 31, 2007

http://www.mobilefest.com.br/

The second semester 2007
São Paulo
Brazil

II MOBILEFEST 2007 is open to receive project and paper proposals to be selected to participate in the II Mobilefest International Seminar and Exhibition that will take place in the second semester 2007, in São Paulo, Brazil.
It is intended that papers and projects presented reflect upon Mobilefest theme:
How can Mobile Technology contribute to democracy, culture, art, ecology, peace, education, health and third- sector?

IMPORTANT DATES:
Project sending: 31st May 2007
Notification: 1st July 2007

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

May 30, 2007

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

This Special Issue seeks to foster a scientific understanding of the three related topics: (1) mobility, (2) mobile users, and (3) mobile use. The purpose is to provide a timely review of research efforts on the topic. The Special Issue is concerned not only with the individual user and with groups of users, but also with the larger social, organizational, and cultural contexts of the user community.

Important dates

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

May 27, 2007

57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA)
San Francisco, CA USA May 24-28, 2007

Session Participants:
An Integrative Model of Mobile Phone Appropriation
Werner Wirth (U of Zurich), Thilo von Pape (Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft Universität München), Veronika Karnowski (Ludwig-Maximilians U - Munich)

When Outcome Expectations Become Habitual: Explaining vs. Predicting New Media Technology Use From a Social Cognitive Perspective
Oscar Peters (U of Twente)

From Belief-Importance to Intention: The Impact of Framing on Technology Adoption
Arun Vishwanath (SUNY - Buffalo)

Social Connectivity, Multitasking, and Social Control: U.S./Norwegian College Students' Use of Internet and Mobile Phones
Ronald E. Rice (U of California - Santa Barbara), Ingunn Hagen (Norwegian U of Science & Technology)

Extending Family to School Life: College Students' Use of Mobile Phone
Yi-Fan Chen (Rutgers U)

Chair: Robert Larose (Michigan State U)

Call for Panelist--Gender in a Broadband Society

May 23, 2007 – May 25, 2007

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

COST 298 "Participation in the Broadband Society"
The second strand: Humans as E-actors (chaired by Leopoldina Fortunati)
Panel: Gender in a Broadband Society which covers gender and mobile media (Proposed by Larissa Hjorth)

Moscow

This session seeks to explore some of the gender politics underlying the rise in so-called "prosumer" (producer plus consumer) practices in an age of convergent technologies. The session will encompass case studies from various locations or regions to engage with the difference between industry rhetoric and actual practices by female users.

You are welcome to submit papers for the panel session exploring Gender in a broadband society for the 2nd strand of "Humans as eActors".
Proposed by Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Melbourne), E: larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au

Call for papers for ICA pre-conference on mobile communication

May 23, 2007 – May 24, 2007

www.lsa.umich.edu/comm/ica_mobile_preconference/

Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart?
International Communications Association Pre-conference Workshop #4

San Francisco Hilton
USA

The pre-conference is a joint effort by the University of Michigan Department of Communication Studies, Temple University, Microsoft Research and Telenor Research. It will be held at the San Francisco Hilton, the conference hotel, starting with a plenary session on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 23. There will be panels on Wednesday afternoon, followed by a reception. And there will be parallel sessions on Thursday, May 24, before and after a luncheon.

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

May 18, 2007

http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~icsfsp/index.htm

Leeds
United Kingdom

The Institute of Communications Studies (ICS) at the University of Leeds will be hosting a postgraduate conference for the presentation and discussion of research in communications performed by PhD students. Under the title "Communication Technologies of Empowerment", this meeting seeks to bring together new scholars who are studying how the latest developments in communication are affecting our democracies by enabling new forms of political participation and citizen engagement.

Job Posting

May 09, 2007 – May 15, 2007

The School of Communication at Hallym University, Korea invites applications in the following positions.

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).

Applicants should have doctoral degrees in the related areas, and should demonstrate native or near-native level of English proficiency as successful candidates are required to teach all courses in English. No Korean language ability is required. The successful candidate will be expected to take up appointment on 1 September 2007 preferably, or on 1 March 2008. Applicants should have a good publication record and experience in teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Appointments will be for a probationary period of three to five years, depending on the rank of applicants, with appointment to the retiring age thereafter. The salary ranges from $45,000 for starting level lecturer to $65,000 for starting level associate professor rank a year. Housing benefits will be provided at no or nominal cost. A letter of application, a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications), and two names and addresses of reference people should be sent to Professor Shin Dong Kim, Chair of the International Appointments Committee, School of Communication, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do 200-702, Korea (email: kimsd@hallym.ac.kr) by 28 May 2007. Review of applications will begin immediately, and will continue until the positions are filled. Electronic submission of the application materials is highly recommended. Further details are available from the Chair. Hallym University is committed to equality opportunity.

Call for papers--Mobile Music Technology

May 06, 2007 – May 08, 2007

http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org/

Mobile Music Technology
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

AMSTERDAM
THE NETHERLANDS

Combining music and mobile technology promises exciting future developments in a rapidly emerging field. Devices such as mobile phones, Walkmans and iPods have already brought music to the ever-changing social and geographic locations of their users and reshaped their experience of the urban landscape. With new properties such as ad hoc networking, Internet connection, and context-awareness, mobile music technology offers countless new artistic, commercial and socio-cultural opportunities for music creation, listening and sharing. How can we push forward the already successful combination of music and mobile technology? What new forms of interaction with music lie ahead, as locative media and music use merge into new forms of everyday experiences?

We invite practitioners, artists, designers, hackers and researchers from all areas, including music, technology development, new media, sound-art, music distribution, cultural/media studies, locative media and industry to submit work and register to attend.

Special issue: Mobile Media and Communication- PsychNology Journal

May 03, 2007 – May 10, 2007

http://www.psychnology.org/328.php

SPECIAL ISSUE: Mobile Media and Communication: Reconfiguring Human Experience and Social Practices?

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

April 27, 2007 – April 28, 2007

http://www.persuasivetechnology.org/

PERSUASIVE 07: The Second International Conference on Persuasive Technology

Stanford University,
Palo Alto, California

Can a web site persuade you to be politically active? Can a mobile phone motivate you to exercise? Does instant feedback on gasoline use change how people drive? Do online rating systems inspire people to behave better online? PERSUASIVE 07 will focus on how digital technology can motivate and influence people. This event will bring together researchers, designers, and developers interested in computers designed to change human attitudes and behaviors in positive ways. Key themes of PERSUASIVE 07 include health, education, sustainability, productivity, social relationships, trust, ethics and more. Technologies of interest include web sites, mobile phones, video games, and electronic devices, among others.

Living the Information Society

April 23, 2007 – April 24, 2007

http://ict-conference.up-ncpag.org/

Living the Information Society: The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on People, Work and Communities in Asia

Renaissance Hotel,
Makati City,
Philippines

The Philippine ICT Researchers Network through the National College of Public Administration and Governance of the University of the Philippines is hosting an international conference. Dr. Rich Ling will be the keynote speaker. The conference objectives are the following:

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.

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

April 20, 2007

12:45 - 4:30 PM

Scholarly Communication Center Lecture Hall
Rutgers Universityís Alexander Library, 4th Floor
169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ

Mobile monitoring and communication technologies are profoundly challenging individual and group privacy even as they offer vastly improved healthcare, safety and personal convenience. At this workshop, specialists from several disciplines describe cutting-edge technologies and discuss their implications as society enters a new world characterized by networked intelligent devices. Dimensions of risk and well-being are considered from domestic and international perspectives. The public is invited to attend the event.

This workshop is a part of Johnson & Johnson Blue Ribbon Health and Medical Speakers Series. Additional support provided by the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies and its Master in Communication and Information Studies and Ph.D. Programs and Center for Mobile Communication Studies, as well as EPCGlobal. For more information and program/abstracts.

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

March 28, 2007 – March 29, 2007

http://www.mtf07.com/index.html

Hasselt,
Belgium

The i-City Living Lab event 'Mapping the Fundamentals - Visions on a mobile future' will deal with societal, community and business aspects of mobile technologies and applications. Keynote speaker is Howard Rheingold. In addition visitors will have a chance to take part in the City eXperience Tour, demonstrating mobile applications currently available in Hasselt as a Living Lab for city services applications.

Conference-- Let's talk about txt!

March 27, 2007

http://www.newideasinmobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/txt-tools-post-card.pdf

Leeds
United Kingdom

This free one day event is designed to give you an insight into how other educational establishments are utilizing this simple technology to dramatically improve the way they communicate with their students and parents.

Mobile Nation Conference

March 22, 2007 – March 25, 2007

http://www.mobilenation.ca/index.html

Ontario College of Art & Design
100 McCaul Street
Toronto, ON M5T 1W1
CANADA
Tel: 416.977.6000 Fax: 416.977.6006

The Mobile Digital Commons Network, and the Canadian Design Research Network, host the Mobile Nation international conference, exploring the emerging field of mobile experience design. Mobile Nation investigates design methods for locative technologies, devices and games, showcasing international research, design and engineering. Dr. James E. Katz will be one of the Keynotes in this conference
Mobile Nation invites designers, engineers, and creators to explore the potential of these platforms in cultural industries, architecture, educational content delivery, way-finding, and advertising. Participants will share expertise with WiFi, Global Positioning System (GPS), Bluetooth, Radio Frequency ID tags, intelligent garments, ambient media applications, and geo-locative gaming.

New Journal --- International Journal of Communication

March 18, 2007 – March 31, 2007

http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc

The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world. The International Journal of Communication is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study.

Mobile Persuasion

February 02, 2007

http://mobilepersuasion.org/index.html

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

January 21, 2007 – April 22, 2007

http://www.contemporary.org/exhibitions.html

Baltimore Contemporary Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
USA

Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone explores some of the groundbreaking works that are being created by artists today using cell phone technologies. These works engage such features and technologies as camera phones, video phones, global positioning systems, Bluetooth technology, ring tone sounds, and messaging. Artistic interest in mobile phone technology lies not only in producing artworks for individual handheld devices, but in the potential of mobile phone technologies to create works that can be performative and participatory. Often created without the traditional systems of art world distribution or exhibition in mind, these works look beyond the walls of a gallery and move art into the dynamic realm of mobility, interaction, and global connectivity.

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

January 17, 2007

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.

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

December 04, 2006 – December 06, 2006

http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~tjondron/MoMIR2006.html

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.

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

November 01, 2006

The Department of Communication at the University of Utah invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of new media studies, effective July 1, 2007.

NEW-- journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network

October 31, 2006

http://wi-not.ca/

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

October 28, 2006 – October 29, 2006

http://www.asiacultureforum.org

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)

The State of Telecom: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue

October 20, 2006

https://secure2.ersvp.com/register/flow/flow5/splash.htm?eventid=4920&nextMessage=splash

Columbia University
116th Street and Broadway
New York NY 10027

The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) and Institut de l'Audiovisuel et des Télécommunications en Europe (IDATE) will link their respective annual reviews of the North American and European telecommunications and information industries. The joint CITI-IDATE conference will focus on the state of telecom from a trans-Atlantic perspective, offering industry, users, policymakers, investors and academics from both sides of the Atlantic the opportunity to exchange insights, experiences and expectations.

CMCS people can attend CITI events with the fee waived, courtesy of Bob Atkinson

Annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)

September 27, 2006 – September 30, 2006

http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=5

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.

EURO mGOV 2006: Second European Conference on Mobile Government

August 30, 2006 – September 01, 2006

http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euromgov2006/home.html

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

July 23, 2006 – July 28, 2006

http://www.iamcr.net/callpapers/Audience%20Section%20CFP.doc

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.