[Air-l] CFP - Mobile Society Special Issue : Canadian Journal of Communication

[Richard Smith]

Call for Papers: Canadian Journal of Communication

Special Issue on: Wireless Technologies, Mobile Practices

Mobile wireless devices such as handheld pdas, cellular telephones,  
and portable computers are part of a changing landscape of  
communications and culture. In the last decade alone, for instance,  
the use of cell phones has increased fourfold in Canada signaling a  
remarkable shift in the telecommunications industry, the convergence  
of a number of technologies onto a single platform, and new ways of  
conducting person-to-person communication and creating community. In  
addition to these devices, Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth, WANS, and GPS  
comprise integrated segments of the new infrastructure of the so- 
called wireless world as well as an emergent vocabulary for citizens  
and consumers. The Canadian Journal of Communication invites  
submissions, in English or in French,  for a forthcoming special  
issue on mobile communications and wireless technologies. We are  
interested in innovative, critical approaches that decipher a range  
of mobile technologies and practices in wireless contexts. Possible  
themes include:

Everyday uses: sharing our lives via the mobile (text, voice, video)

Civic engagement, activism and mobile technologies

Wireless services and emergency communication

Privacy, surveillance and mobile phones

Community Wireless Networks

Policy: CRTC regulations and spectrum policy

Mobility, Labour: new conditions of work

Shifting notions of space, place and time in a mobile world

Rhetoric and discourses on mobility and wireless worlds

Art, design and mobile technologies

Mobile genres  and cellular convergence

Global and international perspectives on mobile technologies


Full-length papers (@ 7000-9000 words) should be submitted  
electronically following the guidelines laid out on the CJC  
submissions website ( http://www.cjc-online.ca/submissions.php ).  
Make sure to write in all caps "MOBILE" in the Comments to the Editor  
field, and to include it on the cover page of your article as well.  
Do not include your name on the cover page.

Deadline for papers is Sept. 1, 2007. Papers selected by the editors  
will then be sent for peer review for final decision.

Comments and queries can be sent to one of the special issue editors:

Dr. Barbara Crow, York University,  [send email to  
bacrow at sympatico.ca via gmail] bacrow at sympatico.ca

Dr. Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University,  [send email to  
kim.sawchuk at simpatico.ca via gmail] kim.sawchuk at sympatico.ca

Dr. Richard Smith, Simon Fraser University, [send email to  
smith at sfu.ca via gmail] smith at sfu.ca