CFP: MINA Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium

CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, PROJECT SHOWCASES &

CALL FOR SMARTPHONE, MOBILE AND POCKET CAMERA FILMS

The MINA Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium and the International Mobile Innovation Screening provide a platform for filmmakers, artists, designers, researchers, educators and industry professionals to debate the prospect of wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in art and design, education, and the creative industries and on-going development of mobile social media, mobile technologies, mobile production and mobile aesthetics.

This year, the fourth MINA Symposium edition is centred around the question: What are current, potential and inspiring mobile opportunities for the future of universities, of the private sector, of individuals and digital communities? and will seek to answer this question through presentations of papers, panels discussions, workshops, performances and mobile screenings.

MINA invites any submission relating, but not limited to the following:

• MOBILE & AESTHETIC
• MOBILE & COMMUNITIES
• MOBILE & HYBRID ART
• MOBILE & INTERACTIVITY
• MOBILE & MARKETING
• MOBILE & PEDAGOGY
• MOBILE & MEDIA PRODUCTION
• MOBILE & SOUND
• MOBILE & SPACE
• MOBILE & STORY-TELLING 

Selected papers will be published in the Creative Technologies journal – Special MobileEdition.

FORMAT

Papers and pre-constituted panels can be delivered in-situ and via live web/video-broadcast.

A. For each PAPER submission, please submit:

• a proposal / abstract of approximately 300 words, including the title
• a brief biographical (100 words maximum) per author(s)

The paper presentation should be planned around 20 min, plus 10 min Q&A

B. For each PANEL / WORKSHOP / PERFORMANCE proposals, please submit:

• name of at least three people to form a panel
• a proposal / abstract of approximately 300 words, including the title
• any technical requirement, if not standard (computer, Internet, video projector, microphone)
• each panel / workshop member brief biographical (100 words maximum), including their personal contact information

The panel discussion should be planned around 30 – 40 minute, the workshop and performance format is flexible.

The International Mobile Innovation Screening 2014 will showcase short films produced on and with smartphones, mobile and pocket cameras. In its 4th edition the MINA showcase will include micro-movies and micro-formats (Vine, Vyclone and live streaming apps), travel, mobility and adventure films (i.e. sports or drone videos) including projects realised with GoPro cameras. Selected mobile films will be featured in the MINA showreel, MINA DVD, MINA eBook and MINA’s international partner festivals.

Submisson via http://mina.pro/submit/

KEY DATES

Deadline for paper proposals and pre-constituted panels, workshops submission and screening: 28st of July 2014.

All PAPER submissions, PANEL and/or Workshop, Screening proposals will be double peer reviewed and presenters will be notified of acceptances by: 29th of September 2014.

MINA will take place on the 20th & 21st November (TBC) at AUT University (Auckland, NZ/Aotearoa)

SUBMISSION

Please use the following submission link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mina2014

If you have any questions related to the Symposium please contact Laurent Antonczak [ laurent@mina.pro | +64 211 625 072 ].

If you have any questions related to the Screening please contact Max Schleser [ max@mina.pro | +64 22 692 0872 ].

For further information, please check also:www.mina.pro and #MINA2013 eBook: http://bit.ly/eBook2013

Follow MINA on Twitter: @MINAmobile and LIKE us on Facebook: http://goo.gl/EjnpMV

Creativity and Technology

Creativity and Technology: Social media, Mobiles and Museums

Jame E. Katz, Wayne Labar, & Ellen Lynch (Eds.) 

This book brings together papers given at a major conference jointly organised by the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University (the world's first academic unit to focus solely on social aspects of mobile communication) and Liberty Science Center (the New Jersey-New York City region's largest education resource). Presented by leading thinkers and museum experts, the papers provide an incisive, up-to-the-minute analysis of trends in the use of mobile devices by museum audiences, with a special focus on outreach efforts to under-served communities.

Among the many important contemporary issues covered in this publication are:

• How social networking and mobility tools can help museums connect with their audiences 
• Assessments of current tools and systems 
• How these tools can help enrich and extend the learning experience 
• The principles that guide new social media applications
• How to integrate social media applications into contemporary museum practice 
• What the future holds for mobile media devices and social networking in the museum setting 
• Data-driven analyses of developments in the field 
• Insightful distillations of museum experiences to date
• Forecasts of trends and developments "just around the corner".

Citation:

Katz, J. E., Labar, W., & Lynch, E. (Eds.) (2011). Creativity and technology: Social media, mobiles and museums. MuseumsEtc

Mobile Communication

Mobile Communication
Dimensions of Social Policy

James E. Katz (Ed.)

Synopsis
The mobile phone has given near-transcendent power to ordinary people. All aspects of social life have been touched by mobile technology. An ever-growing host of tracking, immersion, gaming, and commercial applications are becoming available. The community of mobile communication scholars has blossomed from a handful of pioneers a decade ago to a large and dynamic intellectual community that spans the globe. Area researchers have gained much insight into cultural, symbolic, and social interaction aspects of mobile communication as well as its relevance to commerce.

To address the social policy dimension of the mobile communication revolution, this volume presents analyses by leading thinkers in the field. The volume offers novel and keen insights into the topic. Subjects include the role of mobiles in policy formation and evaluation in several areas including the mobile-digital divide and political campaigns. Also explored are processes and policy implications of mobiles in creating or alleviating social problems including social isolation and family dispersion. Other chapters analye social policies for mobile devices, including attempts to regulate the use of the technology and to understand and moderate its potential harm to human health. The contributors' scope ranges across five continents and they address concerns at local, national, and international levels.

Citation:

Katz, J. E. (Ed.), (2011). Mobile communication: Dimensions of social policy. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Mobile Communication

Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together And Tearing Us Apart

Rich Ling and Scott Campbell (Eds.)

Description
This volume brings together scholars from around the world to consider how mobile communication is both bringing us together and destroying our sense of social cohesion. There is no question that uses of technology can lead to increased cohesion within personal communities. However, as social networks become inundated with mobile communication users, the contributors argue, they may become isolated and social division can take hold.
Mobile Communication covers a wide range of topics, including the replacement of co-present interaction with mediated contact; analysis of mobile-based cohesion and gender; the role of media choice and its effect on the quality as well as quantity of social cohesion; mobile communication and communities of interest; and mobile communication, cohesion, and youth.

Qualitative and quantitative analyses of mobile use and its impact on social cohesion are also considered. There are chapters on caravan couples in Australia, factory workers in China, young couples in Germany, citizens in Slovenia, and sports clubs in Ireland. There is also research on drunken calls between university students in the U.S., calls among international students in Switzerland who strive to keep in contact, and communications by immigrant women in Melbourne, Australia.

Citation:

Ling, R. & Campbell, S. W. (Eds.). (2011). Mobile communication: Bringing us together and tearing us apart. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers. 

The Connected Home

The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life

Richard Harper (Eds.)


Description
The title of this new book: "The Connected Home" reflects the move away from the idea that smart homes would alter the lives of those living in them by providing technologies to take over tasks that were previously the responsibility of the householder, such as managing entertainment, education – and even eating! Up until around 10 years ago this view was commonplace but time has shown that the technologies to support a smart home have not developed in such a way as to support this premise. Instead, what people do in their homes has moved the concept of a smart home into that of the 'connected home'. The rise of on-line games technologies, video connections via Skype, social networking, internet browsing etc are now an integral part of the home environment and have had a significant effect on the home. The contributors to this exciting new book consider and discuss the effects and ramifications of the connected home from a variety of viewpoints: an examination of the take-up of personal computers and the Internet in domestic situations; an analysis of the changing intersection of technology and human habits in the connected home; the impact of gaming, texting, e-book readers, tablets and other devices and their effect on the social conditions of a household; the relationship between digital messaging applications and real geography; and an overview of how sensing technologies for the smart home might evolve (lightweight medical technologies for example). The book culminates by addressing unfinished ambitions from the smart home agenda, the factors that have prevented their realisation, and addresses the need for extending research into the area.

Citation:

Harper, R. (Ed.) (2011). The connected home: the future of domestic life. New York, NY: Springer.