Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communications


The Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication (SSSMC) is intended to facilitate the international advancement of cross-disciplinary mobile communication studies. It is intended to serve as a resource and to support a network of scholarly research as to the social consequences of mobile communication.




Thursday, June 10, 2004

The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication

Budapest, Hungary
10-11 Jun 2004
Organized by Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and WESTEL Mobile Telecommunications (Hungary)

Five areas of mobile communications were covered:
  1. Globalization and mobile communication
  2. Mobile communication and local life
  3. MMS and video in mobile communication
  4. Mobile communication and the new intimacy
  5. Networks, links, and connections