[eccr] CFP: Cell phone: History, Technology, Culture

>CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EDITED BOOK
>
>THE CELL PHONE:
>HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE
>
>Edited by Anandam P. Kavoori and Noah Arceneaux
>Dept of Telecommunications
>Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
>The University of Georgia, Athens, Ga 30602
>
>The Cell phone presents itself at the periphery of contemporary discourse 
>about
>media and culture.  TV cops use it as they rush to crime scenes, teenagers 
>use it to
>connect with their peers, terrorists are traced through calls made on 
>their cell
>phones, extra-marital affairs draw sustenance from them.  Such images, 
>however, do
>not do justice to the central role that cell phones have begun to play in 
>contemporary
>society. Cell phones lack the hype of the Internet but are fast 
>approaching the
>cultural impact of a mass medium. They have begun to shape how we communicate;
>their use has created new forms of media-centered relations; and in the 
>marketplace
>they have begun  to influence patterns of media ownership and acquisition. 
>In the
>developing worldthe cell phone is often the first phone for the urban 
>poor.  In their
>intersection with other technologiestext messaging, the World Wide Web and
>digital photography/videoCell phones have changed how we look at an
>omnipresent cultural technologythe telephone.
>
>This edited book seeks papers that examines three overarching issuesHistory,
>Technology and Culture-- as they relate to the Cell Phone. Papers from all
>theoretical (social scientific, cultural, critical, ethnographic, 
>historical) perspectives
>are welcome.  Of special interest are papers dealing with the impact of 
>the Cell
>Phone in the developing world and with issues of identity politicsrace, 
>gender,
>ethnicity  and sexuality.
>
>Papers  may address one or more of these questions. These are suggested
>research questions, not a complete template. You may wish to add to these.
>
>History:
>When did Cell Phones develop into a mass medium? What are the economic,
>political and institutional factors that have had a major impact on the 
>Cell phone
>industry? What has been the relation between the history of the Internet 
>and the Cell
>Phone? What is the future of the Cell Phone as compared to the history of 
>other
>media technologies? What has been the trajectory of Cell Phone use in the
>developing world as compared to the West?
>
>Technology:
>What is the technology of the Cell Phone? How did it evolve and intersect 
>with other
>media technologies (Internet, Phone, Web, Texting)? How have the design and
>architecture of Cell phones (size, texture, features, color) influenced 
>their growth?
>What are the current technological limits and possibilities of the Cell 
>Phone? How
>might Cell Phone technologies grow and change in the next decade? How has it
>impacted minority cultures and the developing world?
>
>Culture:
>What are the shifts in cultural sensibility that the Cell phone 
>represents? What kinds
>of normative and interactive models for communication does the Cell phone
>represent? What forms of mass mediated relationships and Identity politics 
>does the
>Cell Phone configure? How do the aesthetics of Cell phones impact behavior--
>especially youth and business culture? How have Cell phones changed the
>structuring of daily life? How do cell phones intersect with issues with 
>issues of
>identity-politics, especially those of race, gender and sexuality. What 
>future impact
>can the Cell phone have as it merges with web and other technologies? What 
>is the
>impact of the cell phone in developing countries? With changing Geo-politics?
>
>The deadline for paper abstracts is September 1, 2004.
>
>Please send your queries via email to the corresponding editor, Noah 
>Arceneaux at
>(noahax /at/ uga.edu) or via mail to Dr. Anandam P. Kavoori, Associate Professor, 
>Dept
>of Telecommunications, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication,
>University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.

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