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 *** ::: 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/