Greetings.
I thought some mobile-society members might be interested in submitting
for the upcoming M/C journal 'mobile' issue (with specific focus on the
Asia-Pacific region).
Thanks
L
Apologies for cross-posting.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 13 November 2006
M/C - Media and Culture
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'mobile' issue of
M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/
M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.
To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which
contains
all the issues released so far, at
<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit
<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php>.
Call for Papers: 'mobile'
Edited by Larissa Hjorth & Olivia Khoo
Convergence has become part of burgeoning mobile media. The mobile phone
has come of age. As an integral component of visual media cultures,
camera
phone practices are arguably both extending and creating emerging ways
of
seeing and representing. In media footage of late, camera phones have
been
heralded as providing everyday users with the possibility of self-
expression and voice in the once unidirectional model of mass media. In
addition, the "exchange" and gift-giving economy underpinning mobile
phone
practices (Taylor and Harper 2003) is further enunciated by the camera
phone's ability to "share" moments between intimates (and strangers)
through various contextual frameworks and archives from MMS, blogs,
virtual
community sites to actual face-to-face digital storytelling.
This is particularly the case in the Asia-Pacific region, where mobile
practices in locations such as Tokyo and Seoul have brought about new
forms
of media use; for example, mobile phones are increasing being deployed
to
connect to, among other things, Web 2.0's burgeoning landscape of social
software. In much of the rhetoric of current media criticism, users are
being interpellated as prosumers (producers plus consumers), but what is
the reality behind this so-called agency? Do users really feel empowered
by
the structures of immediacy connected to user-generated content (UGC)?
Are
they 'liberated' by the multi-media functions of the mobile phone or is
the
increasing convergence of mobile media causing more complications than
pleasures?
This issue of M/C Journal seeks papers exploring the role of convergent
mobile technologies in the Asia-Pacific region. The issue aims to
explore
the socio-cultural particularities of various adaptations of mobile
media,
from case studies on mobile communication in the Asia Pacific, to cross-
cultural analyses of the transborder flows of mobile media production,
representation and consumption. Topics may include:
- Convergent mobile technologies
- The use of mobile technologies in the construction, regulation and
upkeep
of social software and virtual communities
- Pervasive mobile gaming
- Mobile communication case studies in the region
- The role of co-presence and maintenance of intimacy and community
through
mobile communication
- The "future" of mobile media
- Creativity and mobile media; the aesthetics of mobile media
- Critiques of prosumer rhetoric in mass media
- Emerging forms of techno-nationalism and governmental policies around
'mobility' and digital convergent cultures
- The changing role of temporality and spatiality in contemporary case
studies of mobile telephony
Submit your essays of 3000 words in length to the editors at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Article deadline: 17 January 2007
Issue release date: 14 March 2007
M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in
1998
as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the
meeting
of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C
Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page
for
comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are
blind
peer-reviewed.
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Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2007:
'adapt': article deadline 9 March 2007, release date 2 May 2007
'complex': article deadline 4 May 2007, release date 27 June 2007
'home': article deadline 29 June 2007, release date 22 August 2007
'error': article deadline 24 August 2007, release date 17 October
2007
'vote': article deadline 19 October 2007, release date 12 December
2007
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Dr Axel Bruns
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