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, September 20, 2011

CFP: Visual Learning: Development - Discovery - Design

[ Call for Abstracts ]
Visual Learning: Development - Discovery - Design 
Conference to take place in Budapest, December 1-2, 2011 
Conference organized by theVisual Learning Lab, Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. 

Contributions are invited from educational theorists, designers, architects, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, media theorists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics: 
  • educational theory and visual learning pictorial skills 
  • visual intelligence 
  • the visual mind 
  • scientific visualization 
  • visualization and higher education 
  • visualization and engineering skills 
  • design theory 
  • image and creativity 
  • visual argument 
  • information visualization 
  • images in the network age
slot of altogether 30 minutes is planned for each presentation. We envisage an ensuing volume of selected papers. 

Submission of abstracts (max. 200 words) and short biographical statements (max. 100 words) by Sept. 20, 2011 (deadline extended). Please send your submissions simultaneously to Prof. Andras Benedek (Head, Department of Technical Education) and to Kristof Nyiri (Professor of Philosophy, Department of Technical Education). Those submitting abstracts will be notified of the decision concerning acceptance by Sept. 30, 2011. 

No conference fees will be charged. Participants are encouraged to arrange their own accommodation. The conference venue (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1117 Budapest, Magyar Tudosok korutja 2, Bld. Q, Wing A) is located near downtown Budapest.