[Air-L] ICA Mobile

[Brett Oppegaard]

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> Any questions about ICA Mobile (a long-running preconference of the annual
> International Communication Association conference), please contact me at
> brett.oppegaard at hawaii.edu. Deadline is Dec. 8.
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> - Brett Oppegaard, Associate Professor, University of Hawaii
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> Call for “Blue Sky” workshop proposals
> *From Voice to … ?* *The 15th Annual ICA Mobile Preconference*
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> May 23, 2018
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> *Deadline for Workshop Proposals:* Friday, Dec. 8, 2017
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> *Where to submit proposals:* icamobile2018 <icamobile2018 at gmail.com>
> @gmail.com <icamobile2018 at gmail.com>
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> Research on mobile communication has grown from a niche area into a
> well-established sub-discipline. Since the mid-1990s, the study of mobile
> communication has developed its own research trajectories, theoretical and
> conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches for better
> understanding of the implications of the technology dominating contemporary
> social life.
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> We therefore call for “Blue Sky” workshop proposals for the 2018 Mobile
> Preconference that continue to push our understandings of this field. The
> proposals should focus on the discussion of new ideas, theory, and
> empirical results, but also can be more practical-, community- or
> industry-oriented. The preconference will be organized around several
> interactive Blue Sky workshop sessions, with each lasting about 90 minutes.
> We invite scholars to present ideas that are at various levels of
> gestation. Research ideas that are just being formed, ideas for mobile
> pedagogy, and notions of mobile applications used by practitioners in the
> field particularly are welcome. This forum is designed to cultivate a
> supportive and integrated community of thinkers.
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> A Blue Sky workshop session typically will be organized around a
> consortium of four or five main participants who present and discuss their
> work around a coherent theme but also directly will engage and involve the
> audience. Our preconference attendees usually participate in multiple
> workshops in the same day, as a way to further develop our community of
> scholars.
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> The theme of “voices” at this year’s ICA conference resonates well with
> the history of mobile communication research. Indeed, much of the early
> work focused on just that, person-to-person talk. Mobile communication
> studies, and telephone/telecommunications studies, before it, were
> pioneering in attention paid to mediated voice (as well as listening). With
> time, we have seen the development of ever-more-advanced ways of using our
> mobile handsets to interact with one another, to gather information, and to
> entertain ourselves. In all of this, however, mobile voice remains
> fundamental.
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> Workshop themes can focus on any of the dimensions of mobile communication
> ranging from mobiles and social cohesion, mobile theory/methods, mobile
> communication and the news, mobile learning, entertainment, gaming and/or
> photography. They can look into mobile communication in organizations,
> mobile communication and development, mobile communication for social good,
> and mobile communication as a means for threats to privacy, cyberbullying
> and/or robotification. Workshops could look into mobile romance, parenting
> mobiles, locative gaming, mHealth, and the relationships of mobile
> technologies to the elderly or children. They could focus on mobile
> communication in the Global South, mobile communication and migration,
> mobile journalism, etc. In short, we are open to a wide variety of themes
> associated with the the use of mobile communication and mobile media in
> society.
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> Workshop proposals are particularly welcomed from mobile-oriented scholars
> in the early stages of their careers. We also welcome established scholars
> to partner with younger colleagues in the development of proposals. Each
> workshop will be alloted a timeslot of 90 minutes.
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> Submissions should include a workshop summary of 500-800 words (excluding
> title and references).
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> This summary should describe:
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> (1) the topic and its relation to the preconference theme,
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> (2) the goal of the workshop,
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> (3) the scheduled activity, detailing how participants and audience
> members will be involved, and
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> (4) the participants and their relationship/contribution to the workshop.
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> Proposals can be submitted via email to: icamobile2018
> <icamobile2018 at gmail.com>@gmail.com <icamobile2018 at gmail.com>. The
> workshop summaries will be published online and in the printed program.
> Submissions will be reviewed by a committee of scholars. Proposals will be
> selected based on criteria of relevance, originality, composition of the
> group, theoretical/practical contribution, clarity of presentation, as well
> as fit with the conference theme. Review will be non-blind due to the
> interactive workshop nature. Notifications of acceptance will be emailed to
> contributors by early January 2018.
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> The 15th annual Mobile Preconference will take place at the National
> Technical Museum that is approximately 1.5 km from the Prague Old Town
> Hilton Hotel.
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