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Call for Papers Special Issue of The Journal of Urban Technology (Dec 2008) 'Mobile Media and Urban Technology' Edited by Alice Crawford, Gerard Goggin (USyd) & Larissa Hjorth (RMIT) Mobile phones have become integral to the everyday use and experiences of technologies in contemporary urban spaces. Extending the reach and significance of telephones and telecommunications, mobile phones have grown to include new applications such as text messaging, cameras, video, gaming, music, and locative media. The mobile phone has evolved into one of the definitive convergent urban technologies, producing numerous technical innovations and arousing academic interest in the wider commercial, social, and cultural roles for mobiles as media. We see mobile technology featuring in a number of ways in urban settings: as a critical part of business, especially small, medium, and micro-enterprises; in urban citizenship and mobile democracy; as a mode of production and consumption of mobile art; as public screens; as a platform for consuming music and video in cities; as a point of access to the Internet; as a navigational and mapping device; and as a location-aware method of employing social networking software in the creation of new patterns of friendship and intimacy in urban settings. In this special issue, then, we welcome papers on all aspects of mobile media and urban technology, including (but not restricted to): * mobile gaming and cities * urban planning and mobile technology * theorising mobiles and urban technology * new theories of urbanity and mobile media * how mobile media challenges or continues concepts of telecommunications and the urban * social shaping of mobile media as urban technology * mobile media and urban cultures * artistic uses of mobile media * mobility and urbanity in everyday life In particular we welcome papers that place themselves at the intersections of innovative work on urban technology, on the one hand, and mobile media, on the other hand. Deadline for abstracts is 15 August 2007, with acceptance advised by 30 August 2007. Full papers will be due by 15 December 2007. Please send abstracts or enquiries to all three co-editors: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] About the editors Alice Crawford's current research focuses on the role of information and communication technologies in the re-constitution of urban life and of gendered patterns of labor, leisure, and sexuality. She has taught in Communication and Media, Digital Design, and Women's Studies programs, and has worked as an information designer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Gerard Goggin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications, The University of Sydney. His books include Internationalizing Internet Studies (Routledge, 2008; with Mark McLelland), Mobile Phone Cultures (Routledge, 2007), and Cell Phone Culture (Routledge, 2006). Larissa Hjorth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is a lecturer in the Games and Digital Art programs at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. In 200,7 Hjorth is a research fellow at Yonsei University's Communication Research Institute, South Korea. Hjorth's main research interests include gendered customizing of mobile communication, gaming and virtual communities in the Asia-Pacific. Hjorth has published widely on the topic in journals such as Journal of Intercultural Studies, Continuum, ACCESS, Convergence, Fibreculture and Southern Review and has a forthcoming book on gendered mobile media in the Asia-Pacific region entitled, The art of being mobile (London, Routledge). About The Journal of Urban Technology Edited by Richard E. Hanley (New York City College of Technology, The City University of New York) the Journal of Urban Technology publishes articles that review and analyze developments in urban technologies as well as articles that study the history and the political, economic, environmental, social, esthetic, and ethical effects of those technologies. The goal of the journal is, through education and discussion, to maximize the positive and minimize the adverse effects of technology on cities. The journal's mission is to open a conversation between specialists and non-specialists (or among practitioners of different specialities) and is designed for both scholars and a general audience whose businesses, occupations, professions, or studies require that they become aware of the effects of new technologies on urban environments. Further details at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/10630732.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
