67th ICA Annual Conference: Interventions: Communication Research
and Practice
25-29 May 2017 in San Diego, USA
CFP: Mobile Communication
Veronika Karnowski, Chair
LMU Munich
Department of Communication Studies and Media Research
Oettingenstrasse 67, 80538 Munich
Belmont Park.
GERMANY
Phone: +49 89 2180 9495
E-mail: karnowski@ifkw.lmu.de
Submission Deadline: Nov 1, 2016
The Mobile Communication Interest Group focuses on the
phenomenon of mobility in communication – thus being placed at the intersection
of mobility, technology, and culture in human communication. While including a
wide array of perspectives and approaches in communication scholarship from historical
perspectives to studies on future media innovations, from ethno-graphic to
quantitative empirical approaches, from journalism studies to media effects
research the common ground of the Interest Group is state-of-the-art theorizing
of mobile communication as well as rigorous methodology.
The Interest Group welcomes papers on topics involving uses,
contents and effects of mobile communication in various forms and contexts such
as mHealth,mLearning, journalism, entertainment, political mobilization, mobile
communication and gender, wearables, location based services, tracking devices
and other emerging technologies, mobile social media, mobile communication in
developing countries, the history of mobile media, and general theoretical and
methodological advances in the study of mobile communication. This list is far
from exhaustive and is provided only as an indication of the scope of inquiry
welcomed by the Interest Group. We encourage the submission of papers and
proposals using a wide array of theoretical and methodological approaches.
Submissions
The Mobile Communication Interest Group only accepts full
papers:
- Use APA 6th edition format for all elements of the paper.
- Maximum length is 8,000 words plus tables and references.
- All manuscripts need to have complete blinding of authorship, i.e. submitters MUST DELETE ALL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION before submitting a paper.
- Submitted papers must NOT have been previously presented, scheduled for presentation, published, accepted for publication, and if under review, must NOT be published before the conference.
Accepted papers will be scheduled either in traditional
research presentation sessions (featuring four oral presentations of twelve
minutes in length), in high-density sessions (featuring seven brief oral presentations
of approx. seven minutes followed by individual discussions supported by poster
presentations if adequate), or in the conference’s interactive plenary poster
session (featuring poster presentations in a plenary session).
IMPORTANT: When programming accepted papers, the IG mobile
communication will disregard any choices/ requests made by authors regarding
favorite presentation types in order to assure equal treatment of all
submissions!
For further information regarding the submission process
please see the general guidelines and instructions. Any submission you make
comes with the professional expectation that you will present that work as a
registered attendee at the conference if it is accepted by the Interest Group.
ICA will send acceptance/rejection notices to submitters by mid-January 2016.
Top paper award
The Interest group will present a top paper award. Five papers
which receive the highest numeric score from peer reviewers will be sent to the
Awards Committee. The committee is blinded to authorship. The Awards Committee
will select the top paper, and the award certificate will be presented at the
Interest Group’s business meeting.
Review process
Reviewers will evaluate submissions based on five criteria
(Quality of Theory Development/Literature Review, Quality of Method & Analysis
Employed, Significance of the Findings, Relevance to the Mobile Communication Interest
Group, and Quality of the Writing) plus an overall recommendation on acceptance
versus rejection.
Finally, the Interest Group needs reviewers for paper
submissions. Please consider volunteering for this important service to our
scholarly community. Within ICA’s paper management system (where you submit
papers) you will find a link labeled “Volunteer to be a Reviewer”. Click on
this link and fill in your information. Under “qualification”, please let us
know your areas of expertise and check the keywords that best describe your
interests. We will use the keywords for matching submissions with reviewer
interests as well as we can!
