[ Call for Abstracts ]
Mobile Communication, Community and Locative Media Practices: From the Everyday to the Revolutionary
2012 International Communication Association (ICA) Preconference
Workshop
Conference
Keynote Speaker:
Mimi Sheller (Drexel University, USA)
Mobile
and location-based networked interactions permeate our world. We no
longer enter the Internet--we carry it with us. We experience it while
moving through physical spaces. Smart phones, GPS receivers, and RFID
tags are only a few examples of location-aware mobile technologies that
mediate our interaction with networked spaces and the people in them.
Increasingly, our physical location determines the types of information
with which we interact, and the people and things we find around us.
These new kinds of networked interactions manifest in everyday social
practices that are supported by the use of mobile technologies, such as
participation in location-based mobile games and social networks,
engagement with location-based services, development of mobile
annotation projects, and social mapping, just to name a few. The
engagement with these practices has important implications for identity
construction, our sense of privacy, our notions of place and space,
civic and political participation, building community, policy making, as
well as cultural production and consumption in everyday life.
This
preconference will provide a venue for innovative scholars from around
the world who are doing research in exploring how we experience our
locally-rooted mobile networked interactions and mobile communication's
impact on community. It will give them a chance to gather and discuss
the challenges that this shift in the use of both mobile phones and the
Internet poses not only for the users but for those doing research on
mobile communication. We welcome abstracts that will focus on the
following areas:
- Mobile communication and location awareness in everyday life practices;
- New urban spatialities developed with mobile gaming and locative social media;
- definitions of "community" in a mobile mediated context;
- Privacy and surveillance issues as they relate to location-based social networks;
- Identity and spatial construction through locative media art / performance design and its impact on communities;
- Civic
engagement and political participation through mobile social media, new
mapping practices and location-aware technologies;
- Learning and education potentials of mobile and location-based media
The
two-day preconference will be comprised of formal panel presentations,
one keynote speaker, opportunities for informal discussions, and time
for networking. Thirty – fifty attendees are expected. The preconference
will be at the main ICA hotel. The pre-conference registration fee will
be $100.
Abstracts
of no more than 500 words are due by November 15, 2010. Please send
them along with your name and contact information to Dr. Adriana de
Souza e Silva (adriana@souzaesilva.com). Accepted abstracts will be
notified by December 1, 2010. Final papers will be due April 1, 2012.
Lead Organizers:
Dr. Adriana de Souza e Silva (Associate Professor of Communication, NC State University)
Dr. Jason Farman (Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland)
Dr. Kathleen M. Cumiskey, Associate Professor of Psychology, College of Staten Island/CUNY)
Dr. Lee Humphreys (Assistant Professor of Communication, Cornell University)
Dr. Richard Ling (Professor of Mobile Communication, IT University of Copenhagen)
Dr. Scott Campbell (Associate Professor of Communication, University of Michigan)
Dr. Yi-Fan Chen (Assistant Professor of Communication, Old Dominion University)
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For further information, please contact:
Dr. Adriana de Souza e Silva
Associate Professor of Communication
Interim Associate Director, Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media PhD program
North Carolina State University
http://www.souzaesilva.com
souzaesilva@ncsu.edu
