[Air-L] ‘Placing Mobile Communications’ – 2nd call for papers/conference & special issue journal

[Clare Lloyd]

Hello Everybody,

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2nd Call for papers for ‘Placing Mobile Communications’
A stream for the Australian & New Zealand Communication Association
(ANZCA) conference 2008
http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/
Convenors/editors: Clare Lloyd, Scott Rickard, and Gerard Goggin.

Papers submitted by April 14 will still be refereed, (however papers 
submitted by April 14 will not have a 'revise and resubmit' option).

Abstracts (up to 300 words) will also be accepted for the non-refereed
stream if submitted by 9 June 2008.

To have an abstract considered for the special issue of Australian
Journal of Communication, please submit this to the convenors (Lloyd,
Rickard, & Goggin) by 9 June 2008.

Please see full submission details below.

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Call it a mobile, cell phone, or keitai; when an incoming call is heard,
both power and place concerns arise. Mobile telephony adoption and usage
is about power and place. The power of the mobile is increasing as it
integrates with other everyday technologies, objects, and across media
platforms. Currently there is significant emerging work on mobiles in
various disciplines in Australia and New Zealand, as part of a vibrant
international reckoning of mobiles and online technologies.

In this light, the aim of the Placing Mobile Communication stream, and
associated special issue of the Australian Journal of Communication, is
to bring together researchers undertaking work on mobiles, with the
particular aim of offering an opportunity to present and reflect upon
Australian and New Zealand work in progress. We also wish to encourage
discussion on where mobiles fit into media and communications
traditions, and also on how local work fits into, and reconfigures,
various contexts (regional, international, subcultural, national).

Abstracts that examine the subject area from different theoretical and
methodological approaches are welcomed. Suggested topics include (but
are certainly not limited to): 

Gender politics and the mobile phone
Locating the local and the global with mobiles
Theories of the digital divide and the mobile phone
Mobility and cultural geography
The integration of mobile phone use into professional and personal life
Mobile phone use from both mass and interpersonal communication
perspectives
Mobiles as media
The place of mobiles in media, new media, and communications studies
Reflections on the mobile, and mobile research, in Australia and New
Zealand
Mobiles policy, regulation, and political economy

Contributions under these topic areas are welcome, as are suggestions of
other topics — please email all three convenors: Clare Lloyd
(Clare.Lloyd at newcastle.edu.au), Scott Rickard
(scott.rickard at arts.monash.edu.au), and Gerard Goggin
(g.goggin at unsw.edu.au).

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ANZCA Conference submissions
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Postgraduate students and junior scholars in particular are welcome to
get in touch. Please remember that papers and abstracts must be
submitted through the central submissions process.
Attention Post Graduate Students: 
Any Post Graduate paper submitted in the refereeing round
(that is sole-authored by the Post Graduate and the Post Graduate is not
a fulltime staff member) is eligible for the Grant Noble Prize, see
ANZCA website for details. 
Also there is now another Post Graduate prize of $300 sponsored by QUT.

Papers for refereed stream of ANZCA conference: submit to Elspeth Tilley
(e.tilley at massey.ac.nz) by 14 April 2008.
Papers submitted by April 14 will still be refereed,
(however papers submitted by April 14 will not have a 'revise and
resubmit' option).

Abstracts (up to 300 words) for non-refereed stream: submit to Nicole
Patterson 
(n.v.patterson at massey.ac.nz) by 9 June 2008. 

The ANZCA 08 conference will be held in Wellington, New Zealand from 9 –
11th July 2008: http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/. More information about
ANZCA is at http://www.anzca.net/index.htm

This yearto see for yourself please visit the programme page 
http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/massey/depart/cob/conferences/anzca-2008/anzca08-programme/anzca08-programme_home.cfm



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Clare Lloyd, BA (Comm Stud) (Hons)
PhD Candidate
School of Design, Communication and Information Technology
The University of Newcastle
Callaghan NSW 2308

Email:    Clare.Lloyd at newcastle.edu.au
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/design-communication-it/
Location: ICT Building
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