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

[alice]

I agree totally  :-)

best
alice


Gakuru Alex wrote:
> 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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