[kictanet] Call for Papers: New Media & Society]

[Gakuru Alex]

I think these mobicom multi-nationals should pay for this kind of
research work - not acquired it for free through academic papers,
alternatively they collaborate with their peers at universities?

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:21 PM, alice <alice at apc.org> wrote:
> Call for papers
>
> Special issue of New Media and Society:
> Mobile Communication and the Developing World
>
> Rich Ling & Heather A. Horst, guest editors
> We are seeking papers for a special edition of the journal New Media &
> Society focusing on mobile communication and media, and its impact on the
> developing world. We are interested in papers that empirically describe the
> use of mobile practices as well as the convergence of mobile and other
> platforms in the developing world (e.g. Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern
> Europe or other locations in the "global south"). Successful papers will
> examine the integration and use of mobile communication technology and its
> implications (both positive and negative) in individuals' lives. We are
> seeking papers that investigate the global as well as the local
> appropriations of mobile media use and its relationship to social change
> and/or development. Papers might address issues such as:
>
> *       What are the social, cultural, gender related and political
> dimensions of mobile communication in the developing world?
> *       What are the determinants, obstacles and implications of the
> adoption and use of mobile communications?
> *       What are the dimensions of inequalities and how does mobile
> communication address these inequalities?
> *       How does mobile communication facilitate activities such as care
> giving, coordination, social cohesion, money transfer, commerce, locally and
> globally?
>
>
> Submissions may be in the form of empirical research studies or
> theory-building papers and should be 5000 - 7000 words (in English). Papers
> must reflect new scholarship and not have been previously published (it is
> possible to submit revised conference papers). Authors interested in
> submitting to the special issue should send their 200-word abstract to
> either guest editor (Rich Ling or Heather Horst) on or before 1 March 2009.
>  A sub-set of these abstracts will be selected for further development.
> Papers based on the abstracts that have been accepted for further
> consideration, will be due on 15 July 2009. Authors of papers selected for
> formal review may be invited to participate in a Pre-Conference Workshop at
> Association of Internet Research meetings on 7 October 2009 in Milwaukee,
> Wisconsin USA.
>
> About the editors of this NM&S special issue:
>
> Rich Ling (richard.ling at telenor.com
> <mailto:richard.ling at telenor.com><mailto:richard.ling at telenor.com
> <mailto:richard.ling at telenor.com>>) is a sociologist at Telenor's research
> institute located near Oslo, Norway, and a guest Professor at the IT
> University of Copenhagen. He has also been the Pohs visiting professor of
> communication studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the
> recently published book New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile communication is
> reshaping social cohesion as well as The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's
> impact on society, and along with Scott Campbell he is the editor of The
> Reconstruction of Space and Time Through Mobile Communication Practices. For
> the past fifteen years, he has worked in the research arm of Telenor and has
> been active in researching issues associated with new information
> communication technology and society with a particular focus on mobile
> telephony.
>
> Heather A. Horst (hhorst at uci.edu
> <mailto:hhorst at uci.edu><mailto:hhorst at uci.edu <mailto:hhorst at uci.edu>>) is a
> sociocultural anthropologist at the Humanities Research Institute at the
> University of California, Irvine. She is the co-author (with Daniel
> Miller) of The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication that examines
> the implications of mobile phones for development in Jamaica and is
> co-author with Mizuko Ito, et al. of a forthcoming book published by MIT
> Press, entitled Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Living and
> Learning with New Media  She received her Ph. D. in Social Anthropology from
> University College London. Before joining UCHRI, she worked as a research
> fellow at the University of the West Indies and University College London
> and a postdoctoral scholar at University of Southern California, and
> University of California, Berkeley where her focus has been on the
> appropriation of new media and communication technologies in Jamaica and the
> United States.
>
>
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