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Dear Colleagues:
This is a reminder to alert you that the deadline for abstracts for the 
Mobilize! conference is rapidly approaching. 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/

the FINAL deadline for abstract submissions is 23 February 2001. Abstracts 
of 300 words can be sent to  [log in to unmask]

If there are any further questions or difficulties regarding this panel, 
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 ‘mobility’ and ‘ubiquity’  might best 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’ 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
! ‘the future is…’
! 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>:

16th 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/

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