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.




Wednesday, November 26, 2014

CFP: Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government

Call for Papers
CeDEM 2015 - Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government
20-22 May 2015, Danube University Krems, Austria, www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem

Track: Connected Smart City
Chair: Carolin Schröder (Technical University Berlin, DE), Julia Glidden (21c Consultancy UK), Norbert Kersting (University of Münster, DE)

This track provides a platform for the various living labs, initiatives and projects that work on or with concepts of "Smart Cities". It aims at sharing experiences as well as test results and to further investigate relations of innovative technologies and democratic societies.
Contributions are especially appreciated on the following topics:
  • Becoming a smart city: Best practices, failures & practical challenges;
  • Successful technologies for encouraging citizen participation;
  • Successful technologies for integrating all dimensions of human, collective, and artificial intelligence within the city;
  • Smartness vs. Openness? Open data & Big data, Usability & Accessability, the internet of things and co-production;
  • Do smart cities need smart people? Relations of innovative technologies, democratic societies & concepts of "Smartness";


Deadline for the submission of full papers, reflections: 8 December 2014
Further information on the conference: www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem


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