2nd Call for papers for ‘Placing Mobile Communications’
A stream for the Australian & New Zealand Communication Association
(ANZCA) conference 2008

http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/
Convenors/editors: Clare Lloyd, Scott Rickard, and Gerard Goggin.

Papers submitted by April 14 will still be refereed, (however papers submitted by April 14 will not have a 'revise and resubmit' option).

Abstracts (up to 300 words) will also be accepted for the non-refereed stream if submitted by 9 June 2008.

To have an abstract considered for the special issue of Australian Journal of Communication, please submit this to the convenors (Lloyd, Rickard, & Goggin) by 9 June 2008.

Please see full submission details below.

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Call it a mobile, cell phone, or keitai; when an incoming call is heard, both power and place concerns arise. Mobile telephony adoption and usage is about power and place. The power of the mobile is increasing as it integrates with other everyday technologies, objects, and across media platforms. Currently there is significant emerging work on mobiles in various disciplines in Australia and New Zealand, as part of a vibrant
international reckoning of mobiles and online technologies.

In this light, the aim of the Placing Mobile Communication stream, and associated special issue of the Australian Journal of Communication, is to bring together researchers undertaking work on mobiles, with the particular aim of offering an opportunity to present and reflect upon Australian and New Zealand work in progress. We also wish to encourage discussion on where mobiles fit into media and communications traditions, and also on how local work fits into, and reconfigures, various contexts (regional, international, subcultural, national).

Abstracts that examine the subject area from different theoretical and methodological approaches are welcomed. Suggested topics include (but are certainly not limited to):

• Gender politics and the mobile phone
• Locating the local and the global with mobiles
• Theories of the digital divide and the mobile phone
• Mobility and cultural geography
• The integration of mobile phone use into professional and personal life
• Mobile phone use from both mass and interpersonal communication perspectives
• Mobiles as media
• The place of mobiles in media, new media, and communications studies
• Reflections on the mobile, and mobile research, in Australia and New Zealand
• Mobiles policy, regulation, and political economy

Contributions under these topic areas are welcome, as are suggestions of other topics — please email all three convenors: Clare Lloyd (Clare.Lloyd@newcastle.edu.au), Scott Rickard (scott.rickard@arts.monash.edu.au), and Gerard Goggin (g.goggin@unsw.edu.au).

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ANZCA Conference submissions
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Postgraduate students and junior scholars in particular are welcome to get in touch. Please remember that papers and abstracts must be submitted through the central submissions process.

Attention Post Graduate Students:
Any Post Graduate paper submitted in the refereeing round (that is sole-authored by the Post Graduate and the Post Graduate is not a fulltime staff member) is eligible for the Grant Noble Prize, see ANZCA website for details. Also there is now another Post Graduate prize of $300 sponsored by QUT.

Papers for refereed stream of ANZCA conference: submit to Elspeth Tilley (e.tilley@massey.ac.nz) by 14 April 2008. Papers submitted by April 14 will still be refereed, (however papers submitted by April 14 will not have a 'revise and resubmit' option).

Abstracts (up to 300 words) for non-refereed stream: submit to Nicole Patterson (n.v.patterson@massey.ac.nz) by 9 June 2008.

The ANZCA 08 conference will be held in Wellington, New Zealand from 9 –11th July 2008: http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/. More information about ANZCA is at http://www.anzca.net/index.htm

This year to see for yourself please visit the programme page
http://anzca08.massey.ac.nz/massey/depart/cob/conferences/anzca-2008/anzca08-programme/anzca08-programme_home.cfm