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, May 7, 2015

CFP: Quantified Selves | Statistic Bodies

Call for Papers − Quantified Selves | Statistic Bodies
Second Issue of “Digital Culture & Society”

http://www.transcript-verlag.de/digital-culture-and-society (more detailed information about the call on the website)

Abstract deadline: July 1, 2015

Paper proposals may relate to, but are not limited to, the following topics:


  • Quantified Selves
  • Wearable Technologies
  • Personal Informatics
  • Augmented Bodies
  • Personal Analytics
  • Lifelogging
  • History of Self-examination and Auto-documentation
  • Genetic Engineering
  • Neuroenhancement
  • Technologized Bodies and in-depth Visuality
  • Body Engineering

Deadlines and contact information:
Initial abstracts (max. 300 words) and a short biographical note (max. 100 words) are due on: July 1, 2015

Authors will be notified by July 19, 2015, whether they are invited to submit a full paper.
Full papers are due on: October 1, 2015.

Please send the abstracts and full papers to:
Pablo Abend - pablo.abend@uni-koeln.de
Mathias Fuchs - mathias.fuchs@leuphana.de
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