ICA Mobile Pre-Conference Call for “Blue Sky” Workshop Proposals
International Communicatio Association
The 15th Annual Mobile Pre-Conference
The 15th Annual Mobile Pre-Conference
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic
From Voice to … ?
Call for Proposals
Deadline for Workshop Proposals: Friday, Dec. 8, 2017
Where to submit proposals: icamobile2018@gmail.com
Location: National Technical Museum, http://www.ntm.cz/en, Prague, Czech Republic
Where to submit proposals: icamobile2018@gmail.com
Location: National Technical Museum, http://www.ntm.cz/en, Prague, Czech Republic
Research on mobile communication has grown from a niche area into a
well-established sub-discipline. Since the mid-1990s, the study of mobile
communication has developed its own research trajectories, theoretical and
conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches for better understanding
of the implications of the technology dominating contemporary social life.
We therefore call for “Blue Sky” workshop proposals for the 2018 Mobile
Preconference that continue to push our understandings of this field. The
proposals should focus on the discussion of new ideas, theory, and empirical
results, but also can be more practical-, community- or industry-oriented. The
preconference will be organized around several interactive Blue Sky workshop
sessions, with each lasting about 90 minutes. We invite scholars to present
ideas that are at various levels of gestation. Research ideas that are just
being formed, ideas for mobile pedagogy, and notions of mobile applications
used by practitioners in the field particularly are welcome. This forum is
designed to cultivate a supportive and integrated community of thinkers.
A Blue Sky workshop session typically will be organized around a
consortium of four or five main participants who present and discuss their work
around a coherent theme but also directly will engage and involve the audience.
Our preconference attendees usually participate in multiple workshops in the
same day, as a way to further develop our community of scholars.
The theme of “voices” at this year’s ICA conference resonates well with
the history of mobile communication research. Indeed, much of the early work
focused on just that, person-to-person talk. Mobile communication studies, and
telephone/telecommunications studies, before it, were pioneering in attention
paid to mediated voice (as well as listening). With time, we have seen the
development of ever-more-advanced ways of using our mobile handsets to interact
with one another, to gather information, and to entertain ourselves. In all of
this, however, mobile voice remains fundamental.
Workshop themes can focus on any of the dimensions of mobile
communication ranging from mobiles and social cohesion, mobile theory/methods,
mobile communication and the news, mobile learning, entertainment, gaming
and/or photography. They can look into mobile communication in organizations,
mobile communication and development, mobile communication for social good, and
mobile communication as a means for threats to privacy, cyberbullying and/or
robotification. Workshops could look into mobile romance, parenting mobiles,
locative gaming, mHealth, and the relationships of mobile technologies to the
elderly or children. They could focus on mobile communication in the Global
South, mobile communication and migration, mobile journalism, etc. In short, we
are open to a wide variety of themes associated with the the use of mobile
communication and mobile media in society.
Workshop proposals are particularly welcomed from mobile-oriented scholars
in the early stages of their careers. We also welcome established scholars to
partner with younger colleagues in the development of proposals. Each workshop
will be alloted a timeslot of 90 minutes.
Submissions should include a workshop summary of 500-800 words
(excluding title and references).
This summary should describe:
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 audience
members will be involved, and
(4) the participants and their relationship/contribution to the
workshop.
Proposals can be submitted via email to: icamobile2018@gmail.com.
The workshop summaries will be published online and in the printed program.
Submissions will be reviewed by a committee of scholars. Proposals will be
selected based on criteria of relevance, originality, composition of the group,
theoretical/practical contribution, clarity of presentation, as well as fit
with the conference theme. Review will be non-blind due to the interactive
workshop nature. Notifications of acceptance will be emailed to contributors by
early January 2018.
The 15th annual Mobile Preconference will take place at the National
Technical Museum that is approximately 1.5 km from the Prague Old Town Hilton
Hotel.
How to participate:
Teams wishing to submit a proposal should see the call for proposals.
Individuals wishing to attend the conference without presenting a paper
should see the registration page on this website.
