Just to let mobsoc listers that I'm organising a panel on 'Mobile
Phone Cultures, Politics, and Theories', at at Association of
Cultural Studies Conference, 20-23 July 2006, Istanbul Bilgi
University (http://www.crossroads2006.org/).
Abstracts due to me by Friday 27 January 2006; cfp below.
Many thanks,
Gerard Goggin
Mobile Phone Cultures, Politics, and
Theories
Description: In barely two decades
since their commercial launch in the early 1980s, mobile
telecommunications have now outstripped their fixed-phone
counterparts, being used by over a billion people worldwide. Mobile
phones play an indispensable and distinctive role in contemporary
societies, woven into the transformation of work, leisure,
relationships, family, sexualities, glocalization, identity formation,
embodiment, and fashion and implicated in class, race, gender, and
disability relations. There is now widespread interest in mobile
phones among media producers, policy makers, industry, user groups,
artists, and educators.
While there has been some sustained and
comparative work on social aspects of mobiles, what of their
implications for cultural studies and cultural theory? This panel aims
to explore the quite distinctive ways that mobile and wireless
technologies have been taken up in different cultures, language
groups, and places, and to map and debate the cultural politics of
converging mobile media now unfolding globally.
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Dr Gerard Goggin
ARC Australian Research Fellow
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072 Qld Australia
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] m: 0428 66 88 24
Dr Gerard Goggin
ARC Australian Research Fellow
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072 Qld Australia
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] m: 0428 66 88 24
www.gerardgoggin.net// www.cccs.uq.edu.au
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