[Commlist] CFP: IAMCR Post-Conference on Mobile Socialities

**Reminder** / ABSTRACTS DUE MARCH 21
IAMCR Post Conference on "Mobile Socialities"
Friday 12th July 2019 at the Segovia Campus of the University of 
Valladolid, Spain (about 2 hours from Madrid by train).

The Audiences Section of IAMCR is organising a one day post-conference 
on the concept of Mobile Socialities (Organizers: Annette Hill, Peter 
Lunt, Miguel Vicente, Asta Zelenkauskaite, Erika Polson). The 
post-conference critically examines the bridging concept of mobile 
socialities across international perspectives, ensuring dialogue on the 
connections between audience studies, mobilities and mobile 
communication research. Key questions include:

1) What forms of socialities do we find in mobile times?
2) In what ways are time and place critical to mobile socialities?
3) How do we research the mobile nature of screen content for 
transnational audiences, users and publics?

Mobile socialities is a bridging concept that links the phenomena of 
people on the move and the role of mobile media in everyday life. People 
are on the move across national borders through, for example, economic 
and forced migration or tourism; people are on the move from rural 
contexts to urban centres and transitions in social class. There are 
opportunities and barriers to mobility within working and living 
conditions and people transition between public and private spheres, 
home and workspaces through media. These movements question, and 
sometimes reinforce, existing notions of boundaries, differences and 
power relations. In such mobile contexts, we find media entangled in 
audiences’ lived realities, for example in mobile media and place, 
knowledge work and mobile spaces, or mobile media and time. We encourage 
multi-method and theoretical approaches to audience research that 
explores the concept of mobile socialities as something concerned with 
not only fluidity and movement, or place and scale, but also the 
possibilities and barriers to being mobile. In such a way, the 
post-conference addresses the flow and stillness of digital technologies 
and our lived realities, and the power dynamics of emerging forms of the 
social in mobile times.  Keynote speakers include Professor Maren 
Hartmann (Berlin University of the Arts), Professor Peter Lunt 
(Leicester University) and Erika Polson (University of Denver). The 
schedule will include a combination of keynote panels, workshops and 
panel presentations.

A fee of 20-50 Euros for participants and IAMCR members covers food and 
beverages for the day. There are regular high speed trains and buses 
from Madrid to Segovia; and local hotels ranging from 30-70 Euros per 
night. There are scholarships of 150 US dollars per person to cover the 
costs of registration, transportation and/or accommodation to support 
early-stage scholars from middle or low income countries.

Please send abstracts of 300 to 500 words by 21st March 2019 to 
(Miguel.vicente /at/ uva.es) <mailto:(Miguel.vicente /at/ uva.es)>. This section is 
only able to receive proposals and schedule sessions in English for the 
post-conference. For more information: 
https://iamcr.org/madrid2019/mobile-socialities



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