9 Apr
2003
9 Apr
'03
3:18 p.m.
Dear Colleague:
Please forgive me for intruding upon you with an unsolicited circular.
But
perhaps this conference might interest you, or someone you know.
Thanking you for your time,
with kind regards,
Kristof Nyiri
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::: C o n f e r e n c e _ i n _ B u d a p e s t , H u n g a r y :::
Mobile Communication: Social and Political Effects
April 24-25, 2003
http://www.fil.hu/mobil/2003/
The conference is organized by the
Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences
and
WESTEL Mobile Telecommunications (Hungary)
::: P r e l i m i n a r y _ p r o g r a m :::
THURSDAY, APRIL 24
10:00 Coffee and registration
10:30 Opening ceremony
11:00 Keynote address by James E. Katz (Rutgers University)
12:00 Lunch break
13:15 Feature talk by Kenneth J. Gergen (Swarthmore College): "Self and
Community in the New Floating Worlds"
14:15 Coffee break
14:30 - 18:30 Parallel sessions
_ New Social Relationships and the Sense of Self _
Ronald E. Rice:
Social Interaction and Mobile Phone Use. National Survey Results on
Episodes
of Convergent Public and Private Spheres
Satomi Sugiyama and James Katz:
Social Conduct, Social Capital and the Mobile Phone in the US and Japan:
A preliminary exploration via student surveys
Rich Ling:
Mobile Communication and Social Capital in Europe
Maria Heller:
Social and Political Effects of ICTs
Bella Ellwood-Clayton:
Virtual Strangers: Young Love and Texting in the Filipino Archipelago of
Cyberspace
Kenton O'Hara:
Mobile Work, Technology and Place
Heidi Schumacher and Karin Drda-Kühn:
Culture & ICT: Mobile Communications to Support Employment
Jonathan C. Donner:
What Mobile Phones Mean to Rwandan Entrepreneurs
_ Consequences of New Mobile Communications Technologies for Democracy _
Leopoldina Fortunati:
The Mobile Phone and Democracy: An Ambivalent Relationship
On-Kwok Lai:
Mobile Communicating for (E-)Democracy beyond Sovereign Territorial
Boundaries. Transnational Advocacies versus E-Government Initiatives in
Comparative Perspectives
Shin Dong Kim:
The Shaping of New Politics in the Era of Mobile and Cyber
Communication:
The Internet, Mobile Phone and Political Participation in Korea
Fernando Paragas:
Dramatextism. Mobile Telephony and People Power in the Philippines
Miklós Sükösd and Endre Dányi:
Who's in Control? Political Marketing and Political Virus Control in
Mobile
Election Campaigns
Csaba Szabó:
Communication Patterns in the Hungarian Society. Urban Sociological
Survey
Bruno von Niman:
Universal access to mobile communication - ensuring social inclusion
Dan Jarnerö, Daniel Folkesson and Per Flensburg:
Can Mobile Communication Make Democracy More Available?
FRIDAY, APRIL 25
09:30 Plenary talk by Mark Poster (University of California at Irvine):
"Everyday Life and Mobile Phones"
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Plenary talk by Joachim Höflich (Universität Erfurt): "Part of Two
Frames: Mobile Communication and the Situational Arrangement of
Communicative Behavior"
12:00 Lunch break
14:00 Plenary talk by Richard Harper on the topic of social connectivity
15:00 Coffee break
15:15 Parallel sessions
_New Social Relationships and the Sense of Self_ (A)
György Csepeli and Klára Benda:
Mediated Communication and Conformity. A Replication of the Asch
Conformity
Experiment in the Online Environment
Jane Vincent:
Emotion and Mobile Phones
Gábor Szécsi:
Language and Community in the Age of Electronic Media
_New Social Relationships and the Sense of Self_ (B)
András Kelen:
Wireless in an Era of Network Cornucopia and Bandwidth Glut
David Robison:
Mobile Privatisation and the Metaphors of Mobile Industries
Wendy Robinson:
Mobile Media Device Convergence. Consuming the Net, Consumer Electronics
and
Cell Phones
16:45 Coffee break
17:00 Concluding plenary address by Joshua Meyrowitz (University of New
Hampshire): "Global Nomads in the Digital Veldt"
19:00 Farewell party
For further information do not hesitate to contact
Kristóf Nyíri
Director, Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy
of
Sciences
nyiri(a)phil-inst.hu
http://www.fil.hu/mobil/2003/