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.




Thursday, November 13, 2014

CFP: Technology and Emerging Media

CCA 2015 Annual meeting: Call for papers - Technology and Emerging Media

We invite you to submit a proposal (individual paper, panel or roundtable) to the Technology and Emerging Media (TEM) track within the next Canadian Communication Association conference that will take place on June 3-5, 2015 at the University of Ottawa, Ontario.

All participants in the TEM track will have the opportunity to submit a paper based on their presentation, for inclusion in the "TEM Proceedings" that are published online on the interest group’s website: http://tem.fl.ulaval.ca/ Detailed guidelines will be e-mailed  to TEM participants in due course.

The "Technology and Emerging Media" track covers works addressing a wide range of communication and media-related issues, with a focus on technology and technological innovation. Particularly relevant to the track are proposals addressing the following topics:

  • Information and communication technologies, notably aspects of their design, diffusion, and uses;
  • Digital media and related social phenomena;
  • Issues related to recent technological developments in the field of communication: social media/social Web, mobile media, online games, and new diffusion platforms for traditional media.


Please note that in order for your proposal to be included in the TEM track, we ask that you select "technology and emerging media" as a topic on the submission form. Further details on the submission process can be found at: http://www.acc-cca.ca/submit

The Technology and Emerging Media section is now an official CCA interest group. If you are interested in joining the group, please send a note to: guillaume.latzko-toth@com.ulaval.ca to be registered to the TEM mailing list.

REMINDER: Deadline for submitting proposals to the CCA conference is: December 12, 2014. General call for papers: http://www.acc-cca.ca/callforpaper