Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communications


The Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication (SSSMC) is intended to facilitate the international advancement of cross-disciplinary mobile communication studies. It is intended to serve as a resource and to support a network of scholarly research as to the social consequences of mobile communication.




Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Mobile Communication, Community, and Locative Media Practices: From the Everyday to the Revolutionary (International Communication Association Preconference 2012)

Phoenix, AZ, USA
May 23 – 24, 2012

This preconference will provide a venue for innovative scholars from around the world who are doing research in exploring how we experience our locally-rooted mobile networked interactions and mobile communication's impact on community. It will give them a chance to gather and discuss the challenges that this shift in the use of both mobile phones and the Internet poses not only for the users but for those doing research on mobile communication. We welcome abstracts that will focus on the following areas: 

  • Mobile communication and location awareness in everyday life practices; 
  • New urban spatialities developed with mobile gaming and locative social media; 
  • definitions of "community" in a mobile mediated context; 
  • Privacy and surveillance issues as they relate to location-based social networks; 
  • Identity and spatial construction through locative media art / performance design and its impact on communities; 
  • Civic engagement and political participation through mobile social media, new mapping practices and location-aware technologies; 
  • Learning and education potentials of mobile and location-based media