'Placing Mobile Communications' call for papers/conference & special issue
a stream for the Australian & New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) conference 2008 http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/ & special issue of the *Australian Journal of Communication *(36.1, 2009) Convenors/editors: Clare Lloyd, Scott Rickard, and Gerard Goggin. --------------------------------------------------- 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. In this light, the aim of the *Placing Mobile Communication *stream, and associated special issue of the *Australian Journal of Communication*, is to bring together researchers undertaking work on mobiles, with the particular aim of offering an opportunity to present and reflect upon Australian and New Zealand work in progress. We also wish to encourage discussion on where mobiles fit into media and communications traditions, and also on how local work fits into, and reconfigures, various contexts (regional, international, subcultural, national). Abstracts that examine the subject area from different theoretical and methodological approaches are welcomed. Suggested topics include (but are certainly not limited to): Gender politics and the mobile phone Locating the local and the global with mobiles Theories of the digital divide and the mobile phone Mobility and cultural geography The integration of mobile phone use into professional and personal life Mobile phone use from both mass and interpersonal communication perspectives Mobiles as media The place of mobiles in media, new media, and communications studies Reflections on the mobile, and mobile research, in Australia and New Zealand Mobiles policy, regulation, and political economy Contributions under these topic areas are welcome, as are suggestions of other topics — please email all three convenors: Clare Lloyd ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]), Scott Rickard ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and Gerard Goggin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). ------------------- ANZCA Conference submissions ---------------- Postgraduate students and junior scholars in particular are welcome to get in touch. Please remember that papers and abstracts must be submitted through the central submissions process. Papers for refereed stream of ANZCA conference: submit to Elspeth Tilley ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by 15 February 2008. Abstracts (up to 300 words) for non-refereed stream: submit to Nicole Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by 9 June 2008. The ANZCA 08 conference will be held in Wellington, New Zealand from 9 – 11 th July 2008: http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/. More information about ANZCA is at http://www.anzca.net/index.htm ---------------------- Special 'Placing Mobile Communication' issue of *AJC* (36.1, 2009) --------------------- We ask that those wishing to attend the ANZCA conference, please indicate to the convenors if you would also like your abstract or paper considered for the special issue of the AJC. For those who cannot attend ANZCA, but wish 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. For those submissions selected for the *AJC *special issue, full papers will be due by 1 September 2008. *Australian Journal of Communication* is a refereed international journal that publishes original papers on human communication research, theory, and practice. Interdisciplinary or specialist papers are welcomed. Contributors should be familiar with the nature and scope of the *Australian Journal of Communication*. Familiarity with past issues of the journal is essential. *AJC *General Editor is Dr Roslyn Petelin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
