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| Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking |
Budapest, Hungary, September 25–27, 2008
Conference organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and T-Mobile Hungary.
http://www.socialscience.t-mobile.hu/2008/
Contributions are invited from philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, media theorists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics:
- Ethical implications of mediated relationships
- The mobile internet
- Exploring the self through social networking
- Mutual respect und acknowledgement
- Gossip and social cohesion
- The re-interpretation of privacy
- Geobrowsing, privacy, and GPS-equipped phones
- Real and virtual identities
- Inclusion of elderly people
- Exclusion and the network effect
- Social networking and big business
- Netocracy
- Fraud and secrecy
- Surveillance
- Informatics challenging bioethics (genomics and the new bioloy)
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| The global and globalizing dimensions of mobile communication: Developing or developed? (International Communication Association Preconference 2008) |
Montreal, Canada. May 21-22, 2008
Organized by the University of Michigan Department of Communication Studies, Telenor Research, and Temple University.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~parkyo/conference/
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| Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence |
Budapest, Hungary, September 27-29, 2007
Organized by Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and WESTEL Mobile Telecommunications (Hungary)
http://www.socialscience.t-mobile.hu/call_en.htm
Contributions are invited from philosophers, media theorists, psychologists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics:
1. metaphors of telecommunications convergence
2. convergence and/or interaction?
3. entertainment, advertisement, convergence
4. the internet, cell phones, and social networking
5. WiFi and urban planning
6. VoIP and its conseqences
7. texting, chat, and networking in an environment of convergence
8. varieties of blogging
9. the wiki principle
10. microlearning
11. mobile computing
12. touchscreens and handwriting
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| Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? (International Communication Association Preconference 2007) |
San Francisco, USA, May 23-24, 2007
Organized by the University of Michigan Department of Communication Studies, Temple University, Microsoft Research and Telenor Research.
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/comm/ica_mobile_preconference/
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| After the Mobile Phone? Social Change and the Development of Mobile Communication (International Communication Association Preconference 2006) |
Erfurt, Germany, June 18, 2006
Organized by University of Erfurt, Germany.
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| Beyond Phones: Mobility and the Future of Media |
Seoul, Korea, November 1-2, 2005
Organized by Institute for Communication Arts and Technology.
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| Mobile Communication and Asian Modernities II |
Peking, China, October 20-21, 2005
Organized by France Telecom R&D Beijing, in association with the Research Center for Social Theory, Peking University.
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| Mobile Communication and Asian Modernities |
Hong Kong, China, June 7-8, 2005
Organized by the Department of English and Communication, The City University of Hong Kong, China.
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| Mobile Communication: Current Research and Future Directions (International Communication Association Preconference 2005) |
New York, USA, May 26, 2005
Organized by Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University, USA.
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| Seeing, Understanding, Learning in the Mobile Age |
Budapest, Hungary, April 28-30, 2005
Organized by Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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| Mobile Communication and Social Change |
Seoul, Korea, October 18-19, 2004
Organized by Institute for Communication Arts and Technology.
This conference was meant to be a checking station to report what have happened in different societies in the East and West. Mapping and charting the current and future development/application of mobile media will help people understanding how societies are living with this new technological invention.
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The Global and the Local
in Mobile Communication
Budapest, Hungary |
Budapest, Hungary, 10-11 Jun 2004
Organized by Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and WESTEL Mobile Telecommunications (Hungary)
Five areas of mobile communications were covered:
1. Globalization and mobile communication
2. Mobile communication and local life
3. MMS and video in mobile communication
4. Mobile communication and the new intimacy
5. Networks, links, and connections
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Mobile Technologies and Health:
Risks and Benefits
Udine, Italy |
Udine, Italy, 7-8 Jun 2004
Organized by the University of Udine's Department of Economy, Society and Territory and Department of Mathematics and Information Technology
An interdisciplinary workshop which discussed the state of the art of research in the field of mobile technologies and health.
This workshop was an opportunity for researchers interested in the field of mobile communication & health to exchange findings and ideas with other scholars. Its aim was to begin drawing a general picture of available information and an overview of research being conducted in various countries. At the same time, the workshop discussions also sought to identify issues that were ripe for further exploration or that seemed to act as barriers to further positive development of mobile communication technology for health advancement and emergency medical services.
Researchers, scholars, students, private and public sector managers and policy-makers interested in the area attended the conference.
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Front Stage - Backstage: Mobile communication
and the renegotiation of the social sphere |
Grimstad, Norway, 22-24 Jun 2003
Organized by Telenor, the Agder University College and the Institute for Research on Economics and Business Administration
Following in the footsteps of successful conferences on the role of mobile telephony at Rutgers University in the US (1999, 2001), the Triennale in Milan (2001), Italy and at the International Communications Association pre-conference in Chunchon, Korea (2002), scholars, policy makers and industry representatives met at a conference on the social and economic meanings of mobile communication in Grimstad Norway in June 2003.
Mobile communication in its various forms, has arrived on the scene in a dramatic fashion. SMS, voice telephony, mobile Internet, WLAN technology, Bluetooth, PDAs and many other technologies and services are being used by broader and broader sections of society. Their general social acceptance and the increasing economic accessibility of mobile technologies have meant that they have been adopted and used by ever more groups in society. The use of these technologies has altered the way we interact, the way we present ourselves in both public and mediated communication and how we use our telecomm budgets. Taking a page from Goffman, we framed the conference around mobile communication's impact on our front stage facades, our back stage interactions – as well as the blurring of these two. Our goal was to provide a forum wherein social scientists, economists, policy makers and industry representatives could meet to examine the ways in which social practises and routines related to mobile communication have and will influence the way that we go about our everyday lives.
Approximately 25 papers were accepted for the conference. The papers examined how:
New forms of mobile technologies are providing new forms of communication
Psychological and economic considerations play into the acceptance or rejection of new mobile technologies
Mobile communication is affecting the way social situations play themselves out
The seminar provided the possibility to present papers that had been reviewed by a peer review group. Through a cycle of positive critique we helped to insure the quality of the material presented and also to facilitated its further dissemination to a broader audience in the form of a book of readings that is now being prepared.
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| The social and cultural impact/meaning of mobile communication, (International Communication Association Preconference 2002) |
Chunchon, Korea, July 13-15, 2002
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