[eccr] Conference on mobile communication

>Front stage/Back stage:  Mobile communication and the renegotiation of the
>social sphere
>
>Announcing the fourth in a series of international conferences to examine
>the social and economic meanings of mobile communication.  The conference
>will be held in Grimstad, Norway 22 - 24 June.  Deadline for the submission
>of abstracts is 15 November 2002.  A link to the conference web site is
>http://emarkets.grm.hia.no/semoc/
>Purpose of the conference:
>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 wish to frame 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 is to provide a forum wherein social scientists, economists, policy
>makers and industry representatives can 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.
>A limit of approximately 20 papers will be accepted for the conference.
>
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Carpentier Nico
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University Brussels
Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication (SMIT)
Centre for Media Sociology (CeMeSO)
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