CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
13th ICA Mobile Pre-Conference:
The All-Powerful Mobile
June 8, 2016, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Deadline for Workshop Proposals: December 15, 2015.
Two decades of research on the social implications of
mobile-mediated communication have passed, during which the repertoire of
mobile devices and mobile contents, functions and usage contexts have
tremendously expanded. As we stand at the threshold of the third decade of
mobile media research, we can look back at how powerful the influence of mobile
media has been in several aspects of people’s everyday life, and use these
insights to speculate about what the future of mobile media and mobile research
may bring.
The 13th annual ICA Mobile pre-conference aims to reflect
upon the influence of mobile technologies on everyday practices through the
theme “The All-Powerful Mobile.” The pre-conference will be organized into Blue
Sky Workshops. These workshops will provide a forum where graduate students,
new faculty, and more experienced scholars can discuss their research, thus
creating an opportunity to cultivate a supportive and integrated community of
thinkers. The preconference will also feature an opening keynote speaker and
other engaging informal, more social, activities.
We invite workshop proposals covering a broad range of
topics related to the social implications of mobile media. Topics may include
mobile media and civic engagement, mobile activism and social movements, mobile
social media, mobile learning and education, mobile media research methods,
mobile media and youth, mobile media in international contexts, mobile health,
mobile cultures and art, mobile media and place, mobile journalism, mobile
media usability and UX issues, mobile language,
sociology/anthropology/psychology of mobile communication and mobile media
histories.
Workshop proposals are welcome from scholars at all stages
of their careers and across multiple disciplines related to mobile
communication. We particularly encourage mobile scholars from the Asian region
to submit a proposal. Each workshop will be allotted a timeslot of
approximately 2 hours. Workshops should focus on the dissemination and
discussion of new ideas, theory and empirical results, but can also be more
practically or industry oriented. A workshop is typically organized around a
consortium of 4-5 proposers who present and discuss their work, but should be
open to the active partcipation of other preconference attendees. Preconference
attendees can attend multiple workshops.
Submissions should include a workshop summary of 500-800
words (excluding title and references). This summary should describe:
(1) the topic and its relation to the preconference theme,
(2) the goal of the workshop
(3) the scheduled activity, detailing how participants and
the audience may be involved, and
(4) the proposers and their contribution to the workshop.
Proposals can be submitted via email to icamobile16@gmail.com. The workshop
summaries will be published online and in the printed program. Submissions will
be reviewed by a review committee of mobile scholars, and selected based on
criteria of relevance, originality, theoretical/practical contribution, clarity
of presentation, as well as fit with the conference theme. Review will be
non-blind due to the workshop nature. Notifications of acceptance will be
emailed to contributors by January 2016.
Mobile scholars who wish to submit a workshop proposal but
are still looking for additional participants to form a consortium, are advised
to use the twitter hashtag #icamobile16 or to add a post on the ICA Mobile
Facebook page.
