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, May 24, 2011

"Seamlessly Mobile?: Mobile Communication @ a Crossroads" (International Communication Association Preconference 2011)

NERD Center, Microsoft Research
Cambridge, MA, USA
24-25 May 2011
  • Patterns of mobile phone use and differences related to gender, age, lifestyle, culture, and/or access
  • Ethics and social responsibility of use, shifts in social expectations of remote vs. co-present others
  • Threats to privacy and issues of surveillance as they relate to technological innovations like GPS & location devices.
  • Research design and methodological challenges, including finding venues for one's work The expansion of online and offline social networking and its demands 
  • Technology, design, and accessibility issues/challenges/expansion and development (i.e. emerging markets)
  • Perceptions of use and imagining use beyond current capabilities (i.e. mobile fantasies, mobile art, mobile personalities, mobile witnessing/activism)
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Location: Cambridge, MA, USA