[ecrea] CFP: edited volume on 'Mobile Media and Asian Social Intimacies’

REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS (CHAPTER PROPOSALS DUE 15 SEPTEMBER 2017)

Edited volume: ‘Mobile Media and Asian Social Intimacies’

Editors: Jason Vincent A. Cabañes (University of Leeds, UK) and Cecilia 
S. Uy-Tioco (California State University San Marcos, USA)

*Overview*

‘Mobile Media and Asian Social Intimacies’ brings together contemporary 
studies from emerging scholars on the place of mobile media technologies 
in the East/Southeast Asian experience of intimacies across diverse 
social contexts. These range from intimate relationships and friendships 
to family ties and extended kinships to neighbourly and community 
solidarities. By providing a regional and transnational overview of such 
studies, the edited collection affords new insights to the longstanding 
project of de-Westernising the scholarship on ICTs and everyday life. It 
allows for a mapping out of the different levels of impact that mobile 
media might have on social intimacies in the region, which contains some 
of the most technologically advanced as well as the most technologically 
behind societies in the world. It also enables a mapping out of the 
differing ways in which mobile media might be embedded in the region’s 
divergent articulations of social intimacies, which reflect the ongoing 
tensions between Western and Asian imaginaries of modernity. All in all, 
this book allows us to take a comparative approach to understanding the 
ways in which mobile technologies amplify and challenge existing ideas 
and practices of East/Southeast Asian social intimacies.

*Key Topics*

We are seeking original works from contributors whose research fit into 
the following areas of this volume:

Section I  focuses on mobile media in relation to East/Southeast Asian 
dynamics of intimate relationships and friendships. It pays attention to 
how these technologies might map onto traditional divides of gender, 
sexuality, ethnicity, and class.

Section II is an examination of mobile media vis-à-vis the changing 
definitions of East/Southeast Asian families.  It looks at how these 
technologies matter to developments such as the growing tension between 
nuclear and extended families, the stretching of families across 
multiple rural and urban sites, and the rise of transnational families.

Section III is about mobile media and the East/Southeast Asian 
experience of neighbourliness and community. It attends to how mobile 
media allow for a sense of belongingness amongst civic groups, 
grassroots organisations, and the marginalised as well as individuals in 
single households such as the elderly and the unmarried.

*Publishing Information*

This volume will be part of the Springer series ‘Mobile Communication in 
Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications’ (series editor: Sun Sun Lim) 
which aims to systematically and thoroughly canvas the research 
community that studies the social impact of mobile communication in 
Asia, in order to highlight research that has not yet attained a 
sufficiently international profile.

*Chapter Proposal Submission*

Authors should submit chapter proposals by 15 September 2017 to Jason 
Vincent A. Cabañes, ((j.v.a.cabanes /at/ leeds.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(j.v.a.cabanes /at/ leeds.ac.uk)>) and Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco 
((cuytioco /at/ csusm.edu) <mailto:(cuytioco /at/ csusm.edu)>) that include the following:

- Chapter title
- Authors' titles, affiliations, and contact information
- Abstract of 500 words
- Brief biography of 100 words

Authors will be notified by 1 December 2017.

Full chapters should be 6500-8000 words, due on 30 June 2018.

See the official page for this CFP here: 
http://www.springer.com/series/13350?detailsPage=press

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