[Commlist] CfP – AoIR '21 Panel on The in(ter)dependencies of mobile online and offline spaces: Reflections on methods, practices, ethics

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CfP for AoIR 2021 Panel on
THE IN(TER)DEPENDENCIES OF MOBILE ONLINE AND OFFLINE SPACES: REFLECTIONS 
ON METHODS, PRACTICES, ETHICS
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Organizers: Katja Kaufmann (University of Innsbruck, Austria) & Monika 
Palmberger (University of Vienna, Austria)

Mobile media technologies such as smartphones, now commonplace 
companions in numerous pockets, place users in digital (online) as well 
as physical (offline) spaces in novel ways, thus opening up new 
environments of affordances. In everyday life these mobile online and 
offline spaces are increasingly interdependent and interwoven in 
manifold ways. Practices, experiences, meanings and expectations are 
being negotiated across these spaces, while simultaneously bound by the 
spaces’ respective logics and limitations, leading to new interrelations 
and contradictions. The mobile, interrelating, yet not converging, 
nature of online and offline spaces, however, poses significant 
method(odolog)ical challenges. Researchers are confronted with questions 
such as: What are appropriate designs to study mobile online and offline 
spaces and their intersections? Do interdependent spaces call for 
likewise interdependent methodological approaches? How can researchers 
overcome a potential additivity in their methodical approaches to 
acknowledge that intersecting online and offline spaces are more than 
the sum of their separate parts? In what ways can elaborated mixed and 
multi-method designs capture complexity adequately without the 
researchers losing sight of the specifics? And what are the ethical and 
practical implications for the parties involved?

With this panel at this year’s annual meeting of the Association of 
Internet Researchers (AoIR), we seek to advance the methodological 
scholarship and cross-disciplinary exchange on ICTs and their 
embeddedness in everyday practices across mobile online and offline 
spaces. Submissions of contributions that develop or advance 
methodological approaches are encouraged, as are papers that explore 
epistemological, ethical or practical issues related to doing research 
on/at the intersections of mobile online and offline spaces. 
Contributions by Communication and Media Studies scholars are 
particularly welcome.

The contributions may include, but are by no means limited to, the 
following issues:

  * Creative, innovative and unexpected methods and approaches
  * New applications of established methods
  * Mobile methods
  * Mixed methods, multi-method and multimodal designs
  * Longitudinal and/or comparative approaches
  * Ethnographic approaches
  * Feminist and/or postcolonial approaches
  * Reflections on positionality and/or research ethics


– SUBMISSION INFO –

Interested authors are invited to submit a short abstract (max. 250 
words, with a tentative title, 1-2 key references) to panel chairs Katja 
Kaufmann ((katja.kaufmann /at/ uibk.ac.at) <mailto:(katja.kaufmann /at/ uibk.ac.at)>) 
and Monika Palmberger ((monika.palmberger /at/ univie.ac.at) 
<mailto:(monika.palmberger /at/ univie.ac.at)>) by 30 March 2021. Please be as 
clear as possible as to how your proposed contribution addresses the 
call for papers.

Positively reviewed proposals will be invited for a submission of 
extended abstracts following the AoIR submission guidelines by 10 April 
2021 which will then be compiled for a panel to be proposed to the AoIR 
conference as part of the regular submission process (extended AoIR 
submission deadline for papers and panels: 15 April 2021; 
https://aoir.org/aoir2021cfp/ <https://aoir.org/aoir2021cfp/>). Please 
note that this year’s annual meeting of the Association of Internet 
Researchers taking place from 13-16 October 2021 will be a virtual event.


– TIMELINE –
Submission of short abstracts (max. 250 words) to panel chairs: 30 March 
2021

Submission of extended abstracts to panel chairs based on AoIR 
guidelines (1000-1200 words): 10 April 2021

Deadline for preconstituted panel contributions to AoIR conference 
(submitted by panel chairs): 15 April 2021

AoIR conference (virtual event): 13-16 October 2021




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