May 23 – 24, 2012
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
