Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:13:30 +0000
From: Kevin Mcsorley <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: final CFP: Mobilize!
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Dear Colleagues:
This is a reminder to alert you that the FINAL, extended deadline for
abstract submission for the Mobilize! conference is this Friday, 23
February 2001. The conference will be held May 29-30, 2001 in Windsor,
UK;
more information can be found at the link below:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/mobilize/
Abstracts of 300 words can be sent to [log in to unmask]
If there are any further questions or difficulties, please do not
hesitate
to get in touch. Thankyou
<call 4 papers>:
Mobilize!
Interventions in the social, cultural and interactional analysis of
mobility, ubiquity and information & communication technology
the 2nd Digital World Research Centre
interdisciplinary international workshop
for postgraduate social scientists
tue 29th - weds 30th may 2001
@ cumberland lodge, windsor, uk.
<agenda>:
The aim of this workshop will be to provide a structure for debating
emerging research directions in the social studies of mobile and
ubiquitous
technologies. This workshop will be distinct in highlighting analytic
perspectives in an interdisciplinary framework to enable constructive
dialogue within a supportive atmosphere. It will present significant
current empirical research in progress, together with an emphasis on
theoretical and methodological issues.
papers and presentations welcomed from, but not limited to:-
! sociology
! psychology
! economics
! geography
! urban studies
! computer science
! design
! HCI
fees for postgraduate researchers will be highly subsidized
<issues>:
Following the practical and symbolic centrality of mobile
communications to
recent gatherings and mobilisations from Paulsgrove to Prague, this
academic mobilisation is round the technological leitmotif of the
mobile
itself. Mobile communications and convergent technologies, and the
actions
and performances they facilitate, are continually and rapidly
developing
and extremely ubiquitous social phenomena. How such technologies and
their
associated uses and techniques of =91mobility=92 and =91ubiquity=92
might b=
est be
understood and critically interrogated is one focus of this workshop.
the production of viable mobile technologies for a broad range of user
also
raises numerous new issues around interactive system design. Social
scientists are being placed at a critical juncture where a
significant
impact can be made on the design of mobile technologies and associated
design methodologies, employing the analytical methods and techniques
brought to bear on studying behaviour, cognition and social practices.
the increase in users and introduction of new technologies and network
services has also led to a dramatic change in the economics
characterising
the mobile telecoms market. Understanding requires consideration of
the
competition forces which determine the agents=92 strategies, together
with
issues such as number of licenses in granted, interconnection between
operators and efficient allocation of the spectrum, which require the
presence of an active regulator.
<menu>:
! mobile cultures
! =91the future is=85=92
! location, location, location
! mobilities, ubiquities and new social theory
! social exclusion & ICT imperatives
! working and domesticating
! surveillance, hypercoordination and mobilisation
! gender & mobility
! designing mobile technologies
! informing design methodologies
! Regulation and network economics
! Interconnection terms and access pricing
! License auctions and spectrum allocation
! methodological issues in mobile analysis
! digital & disciplinary convergence
(these themes are not exclusive and any proposal relevant to the
conference
will be considered)
<send To>:
23rd feb 2001, abstract
30th april 2001, full paper submission
abstracts of no more than 300 words in PDF or rtf format.
submit via e-mail to [log in to unmask] or by post/fax to the
organizers
below.
kevin mcsorley, karenza moore, barry fentiman
alex taylor, dionisia tsavara
mobilize
digital world research centre
school of human sciences
university of surrey
guildford gu2 7xh. uk
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/mobilize/
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
tel: +44(0)1483 873979
fax: +44(0)1483 259550
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