Hi Mobile Soc-ers, Rowan and I hope that a number of you will consider this call - and look forward to hearing from you.
Otherwise, since Barry raised the publisher issue on the list, we'll respond. (Though, first, we can't resist taking this as a comment on the substance of the proposal - i.e. that it is a worthwhile project!). We have already approached an international publisher (Routledge) who has expressed interest in the project, so they will be our first port of call. Cheers, Gerard Goggin On 24/08/09 10:44 PM, "Barry Wellman" <[email protected]> wrote: 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 & Mobiles' 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 > > > > > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 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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