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.




Monday, June 25, 2007

Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence

Budapest, Hungary
September 27-29, 2007
Organized by Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and WESTEL Mobile Telecommunications (Hungary)

Contributions are invited from philosophers, media theorists, psychologists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics:
  • metaphors of telecommunications convergence
  • convergence and/or interaction?
  • entertainment, advertisement, convergence
  • the internet, cell phones, and social networking
  • WiFi and urban planning
  • VoIP and its conseqences
  • texting, chat, and networking in an environment of convergence
  • varieties of blogging
  • the wiki principle
  • microlearning
  • mobile computing
  • touchscreens and handwriting