who will be publishing this proposed book? Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Gerard Goggin wrote: > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:57:23 +1000 > From: Gerard Goggin <[email protected]> > To: mobile-society <[email protected]> > Subject: [mobile-society] 'Place & Mobiles¹ cfp (due 1 Nov 2009) > > 'Place & Mobiles' collection > edited by Rowan Wilken (Melbourne) > & Gerard Goggin (New South Wales) > > One of the striking aspects of globalisation is that it has led to a revival > of interest in, and a renewed concern for, the concept of place. This renewal > of interest in place - which parallels a recent 'geographical turn' in media > studies - has direct implications for how we engage with mobile phones. > > A key reason for this reinvigoration of the idea of place, and why it is > considered an important notion, is that it represents a 'weaving together' of > social and human-environment interactions. It is this intertwining of social > and human-environment interactions that also makes place crucial to how > embodied, technologically mediated mobile social practice is understood. > > Yet, despite its apparent significance, and despite the fact that it enjoys > wide currency and use, place nevertheless remains an elusive concept, one > that is difficult to encapsulate and define with any accuracy. In addition to > a lack of definitional precision, there is a wide range of approaches to > conceiving of place, all of which serve to further highlight its complexity. > > What is more, place is increasingly recognized as important to our > understandings of mobile phone use, and the notion of place is widely > referenced in the mobile phone literature, yet there is little sustained > critical engagement with this concept, or adequate examination of how mobile > phone use might impact on our existing conceptions and experiences of place > and vice versa. > > Such an undertaking is all the more important given the extension of mobile > phones into media, with vibrant users cultures emerging associated with > social networking, camera and video phones and sharing, mobile Internet, > Bluetooth, and applications (iPhones, smartphones), and technologies > explicitly tied to determining location and responding to place (GPS, > location-based technologies). > > This book collection seeks to respond to these issues by establishing a > close, critical dialogue between place theorists and mobiles researchers. > Accordingly, we invite proposals for papers that will examine the > interrelationship between place and mobile media use. > > Papers could address (but need not be limited to) any aspect of the following > questions: > > * Is place as conventionally understood - that is, as a 'proper, stable and > distinct location' (Morse) - adequate for understanding contemporary mobile > media use? > * Are conceptual revisions to our understanding of place necessary in order > to capture the particular experiences of mobile media use? > * Do the shaping of mobile technology, and the particularities of mobile use, > lead to altered understandings of place and place experience? > * What do different philosophical and disciplinary traditions bring to our > understandings of place, especially in relation to mobile media use? > * What theoretical and methodological questions and considerations should be > driving place-based mobiles research? > * What relevance (if any) does Augé's notion of 'non-place' have for the way > we encounter urban space via mobiles? > * How are new location-based, mapping and sensing technologies reconfiguring > place and how we experience and relate to it? For instance, how does > location-aware mobile gaming draw upon or change our experiences of space and > place? How do GPS, mapping, geoweb, and annotation technologies and cultural > practices produce new notions and instantiations of place? > * How do the relationships between place and mobiles vary across different > cultures, societies, and contexts? What are the emerging international, > cosmopolitan perspectives on place and mobiles? How do these help us make > sense of the cross-cultural placement of mobiles? > > Please send proposals of up to 500 words to both editors -- Rowan Wilken > ([email protected]) and Gerard Goggin ([email protected]) -- by 1 > November 2009. > > About the editors: > > Rowan Wilken ([email protected]) is a lecturer in the Cinema & Cultural > Studies program at the University of Melbourne. He is author of a number of > essays on place and mobile media, and is presently working on a book entitled > 'Teletechnologies, Place and Community'. > > Gerard Goggin ([email protected]) is Professor of Digital Communication > and deputy-director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre, University > of New South Wales, Sydney. His books include 'Global Mobile Media' > (forthcoming, 2010) and 'Cell Phone Culture' (2006). > > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ > Gerard Goggin > Professor of Digital Communication > & Deputy Director > Journalism and Media Research Centre > University of New South Wales > Sydney 2052 NSW Australia > http://jmrc.arts.unsw.edu.au/ > e: [email protected] > w: +61 2 9385 8532 > f: +61 2 9385 8528 > m: +61 428 66 88 24 > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. 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