<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV align=center><FONT face=times color=#808080 size=2>University of New South
Wales Media, Film & Theatre Seminars<BR>5 p.m. Wednesday 27 April
2005<BR>Webster Building 327<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=times size=7>Gerard
Goggin</FONT><FONT face=times color=#ff0000 size=7> <BR>Mobile Phone
Culture</FONT><FONT face=times size=7> <BR></FONT></DIV><FONT color=#808080
size=2>More people in the world now have mobile phones than fixed phones. With
the advent of text messaging, ringtones, downloads (wallpapers, games, video),
mobile advertising, the mobile's role in televisual interactivity, camera
phones, video communications, not to mention the blandishments of m-learning,
m-commerce, m-government, and m-almost-everything-else, mobiles are a central
cultural technology. In this seminar Gerard Goggin discusses mobile phone
culture, identifying what is distinctive about this networked technology.
He reflects upon the history of the mobile, and looks at the case of text
messaging. In the context oft developments in mobile services that build on text
messaging, such as premium rate SMS and MMS (multimedia messaging services), he
discusses the attempts to regulate (and censor) these. Only now becoming
visible, but little debated still, are the implications for cultural citizenship
of these industrial, commercial and governmental formations, especially
questions of digital commons and peer-to-peer (p2p) for wireless and mobile
networks.<BR><BR>Dr Gerard Goggin is an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the
Centre for Critical & Cultural Studies, University of Queensland (<A
href="mailto:g.goggin@uq.edu.au">g.goggin@uq.edu.au</A>; <A
href="http://www.gerardgoggin.net//%A0" eudora="autourl">www.gerardgoggin.net//
</A><A href="http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au">www.cccs.uq.edu.au</A>; research blog:
<A
href="http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/%7Eblogs/gerardgoggin/">http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~blogs/gerardgoggin/</A>).
He is editor of ''Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (UNSW Press, 2004),
co-author of 'Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New
Media' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and working on a book on mobile phone
culture (Routledge, 2006). Gerard is a Public Member on the Telephone
Information Services Standards Council, which has been working with industry on
a code on premium mobile services.<BR><BR></FONT></BODY></HTML>