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.




Tuesday, March 25, 2008

CFP: Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking

[ Call for Abstracts ] 
Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking
Budapest, Hungary
September 25–27, 2008
Conference organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and T-Mobile 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 bioloy)

Target dates:
Submission of abstracts (max. 300 words) and short biographical statements (max. 150 words) by March 25, 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 Apr. 12, 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.
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Location: Budapest, Hungary