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Call for “Blue Sky” workshop proposals


    */From Voice to … ?/*


    *The 15th Annual ICA Mobile Preconference*

May 23, 2018

*Deadline for Workshop Proposals:*Friday, Dec. 8, 2017

*Where to submit proposals:*icamobile2018 
<mailto:(icamobile2018 /at/ gmail.com)>@gmail.com <mailto:(icamobile2018 /at/ gmail.com)>

Research on mobile communication has grown from a niche area into a 
well-established sub-discipline. Since the mid-1990s, the study of 
mobile communication has developed its own research trajectories, 
theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches for 
better understanding of the implications of the technology dominating 
contemporary social life.

We therefore call for “Blue Sky” workshop proposals for the 2018 Mobile 
Preconference that continue to push our understandings of this field. 
The proposals should focus on the discussion of new ideas, theory, and 
empirical results, but also can be more practical-, community- or 
industry-oriented. The preconference will be organized around several 
interactive Blue Sky workshop sessions, with each lasting about 90 
minutes. We invite scholars to present ideas that are at various levels 
of gestation. Research ideas that are just being formed, ideas for 
mobile pedagogy, and notions of mobile applications used by 
practitioners in the field particularly are welcome. This forum is 
designed to cultivate a supportive and integrated community of thinkers.

A Blue Sky workshop session typically will be organized around a 
consortium of four or five main participants who present and discuss 
their work around a coherent theme but also directly will engage and 
involve the audience. Our preconference attendees usually participate in 
multiple workshops in the same day, as a way to further develop our 
community of scholars.

The theme of “voices” at this year’s ICA conference resonates well with 
the history of mobile communication research. Indeed, much of the early 
work focused on just that, person-to-person talk. Mobile communication 
studies, and telephone/telecommunications studies, before it, were 
pioneering in attention paid to mediated voice (as well as listening). 
With time, we have seen the development of ever-more-advanced ways of 
using our mobile handsets to interact with one another, to gather 
information, and to entertain ourselves. In all of this, however, mobile 
voice remains fundamental.

Workshop themes can focus on any of the dimensions of mobile 
communication ranging from mobiles and social cohesion, mobile 
theory/methods, mobile communication and the news, mobile learning, 
entertainment, gaming and/or photography. They can look into mobile 
communication in organizations, mobile communication and development, 
mobile communication for social good, and mobile communication as a 
means for threats to privacy, cyberbullying and/or robotification. 
Workshops could look into mobile romance, parenting mobiles, locative 
gaming, mHealth, and the relationships of mobile technologies to the 
elderly or children. They could focus on mobile communication in the 
Global South, mobile communication and migration, mobile journalism, 
etc. In short, we are open to a wide variety of themes associated with 
the the use of mobile communication and mobile media in society.

Workshop proposals are particularly welcomed from mobile-oriented 
scholars in the early stages of their careers. We also welcome 
established scholars to partner with younger colleagues in the 
development of proposals. Each workshop will be alloted a timeslot of 90 
minutes.

Submissions should include a workshop summary of 500-800 words 
(excluding title and references).

This summary should describe:

(1) the topic and its relation to the preconference theme,

(2) the goal of the workshop,

(3) the scheduled activity, detailing how participants and audience 
members will be involved, and

(4) the participants and their relationship/contribution to the workshop.

Proposals can be submitted via email to: icamobile2018 
<mailto:(icamobile2018 /at/ gmail.com)>@gmail.com 
<mailto:(icamobile2018 /at/ gmail.com)>. The workshop summaries will be 
published online and in the printed program. Submissions will be 
reviewed by a committee of scholars. Proposals will be selected based on 
criteria of relevance, originality, composition of the group, 
theoretical/practical contribution, clarity of presentation, as well as 
fit with the conference theme. Review will be non-blind due to the 
interactive workshop nature. Notifications of acceptance will be emailed 
to contributors by early January 2018.

The 15th annual Mobile Preconference will take place at the National 
Technical Museum that is approximately 1.5 km from the Prague Old Town 
Hilton Hotel.


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