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[ecrea] 'Place & Mobiles¹ cfp (due 1 Nov 2009)
Mon Aug 24 09:07:36 GMT 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
(<(rwilken /at/ unimelb.edu.htm)>(rwilken /at/ unimelb.edu.au))
and Gerard Goggin
(<(g.goggin /at/ unsw.edu.htm)>(g.goggin /at/ unsw.edu.au)) -- by 1 November 2009.
About the editors:
Rowan Wilken
(<(rwilken /at/ unimelb.edu.htm)>(rwilken /at/ unimelb.edu.au))
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
(<(g.goggin /at/ unsw.edu.htm)>(g.goggin /at/ unsw.edu.au)) 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).
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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/>http://jmrc.arts.unsw.edu.au/
e: <(g.goggin /at/ unsw.edu.htm)>(g.goggin /at/ unsw.edu.au)
w: +61 2 9385 8532
f: +61 2 9385 8528
m: +61 428 66 88 24
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