[Air-l] workshop on mobile media at AoIR.6

[Gitte Stald]

To all who intend to participate in AOIR.6 in Chicago:
Consider joining our pre-conference workshop on the mobile Internet
Wednesday October 5 (not October 6 as it says on the registration site) from
8am to 12pm. Participation in the workshop is free if you participate in
AOIR.6 and you register for the workshop when you register for the
conference. Please se description below. For further information / a longer
description of the purpose and program please contact me stald at hum.ku.dk
<mailto:stald at hum.ku.dk>  or Anxo Roibas A.C.Roibas at bton.ac.uk
<mailto:A.C.Roibas at bton.ac.uk> . 
Candidates should submit a brief position paper of 1-2 pages to the
organisers if they intend to participate with a paper or a creative
presentation or a problem proposal / problem scenario for discussion. We
welcome presentations of creative uses or hands-on demonstrations of
problems and potentials of the mobile Internet. Therefore we hope to see
scholars as well as practitioners among the participants.
The workshop will be open for other interested participants. Minimal number
of participants is 7.
Deadline for submissions of position papers and for sign-up for interested
participants: According to AOIR.6 general deadlines.

THE MOBILE INTERNET. Problems and potentials 
The workshop will explore theories and analysis and creative or
technological presentations on socio-cultural aspects of the mobile
Internet. The main focus is on topics regarding e.g. mobility, information
exchange, interpersonal communication, surveillance, democratic potential,
media convergence, user driven innovation, industrial interest in the mobile
Internet, plus aspects of uses related to age, gender, and culture. Other
suggestions are welcome.

Organizers/Presenters: Gitte Stald, Film & Media Studies U. of Copenhagen;
Anxo Cereibas Roibas, U. of Brighton 

See (many of) you in Chicago ...

:-) Gitte 

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Gitte Stald 
Film & Media Studies
Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
University of Copenhagen
Tel: +45 35329181
Email: stald at hum.ku.dk <mailto:stald at hum.ku.dk> 
URL: http://www.media.ku.dk <http://www.media.ku.dk/>