[Bilimsel Haber] Wireless Technologies, Mobile Practices

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

*Canadian Journal of Communication: Special Issue on: Wireless
Technologies, Mobile Practices*
*Call for Papers Deadline:* 	2007-09-01

	

	

Call for Papers: Canadian Journal of Communication

Special Issue on: Wireless Technologies, Mobile Practices

Mobile wireless devices such as handheld pdas, cellular telephones, and
portable computers are part of a changing landscape of communications
and culture. In the last decade alone, for instance, the use of cell
phones has increased fourfold in Canada signaling a remarkable shift in
the telecommunications industry, the convergence of a number of
technologies onto a single platform, and new ways of conducting
person-to-person communication and creating community. In addition to
these devices, Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth, WANS, and GPS comprise
integrated segments of the new infrastructure of the so-called wireless
world as well as an emergent vocabulary for citizens and consumers. The
Canadian Journal of Communication invites submissions, in English or in
French, for a forthcoming special issue on mobile communications and
wireless technologies. We are interested in innovative, critical
approaches that decipher a range of mobile technologies and practices in
wireless contexts. Possible themes include:

# Everyday uses: sharing our lives via the mobile (text, voice, video)
# Civic engagement, activism and mobile technologies
# Wireless services and emergency communication
# Privacy, surveillance and mobile phones
# Community Wireless Networks
# Policy: CRTC regulations and spectrum policy
# Mobility, Labour: new conditions of work
# Shifting notions of space, place and time in a mobile world
# Rhetoric and discourses on mobility and wireless worlds
# Art, design and mobile technologies
# Mobile genres and cellular convergence
# Global and international perspectives on mobile technologies

Full-length papers (@ 7000-9000 words) should be submitted
electronically following the guidelines laid out on the CJC submissions
website ( http://www.cjc-online.ca/submissions.php ). Make sure to write
in all caps "MOBILE" in the Comments to the Editor field, and to include
it on the cover page of your article as well. Do not include your name
on the cover page.

*Deadline for papers is Sept. 1, 2007*. Papers selected by the editors
will then be sent for peer review for final decision.

Comments and queries can be sent to one of the special issue editors:

Dr. Barbara Crow, York University, bacrow at sympatico.ca
Dr. Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University, kim.sawchuk at sympatico.ca
Dr. Richard Smith, Simon Fraser University, smith at sfu.ca

	Dr. Barbara Crow, York University, bacrow at sympatico.ca

Dr. Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University, kim.sawchuk at sympatico.ca

Dr. Richard Smith, Simon Fraser University, smith at sfu.ca
Email: bacrow at sympatico.ca <mailto:bacrow at sympatico.ca>
Visit the website at http://www.cjc-online.ca