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<div><font color="#000000">Call for papers<br>
special 'Mobile Phone Culture' issue of<br>
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (20.3,
2006)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">edited by Dr Gerard Goggin
(g.goggin@uq.edu.au), Centre for Critical and Cultural
Studies</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">University of Queensland, Australia<br>
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In barely two decades since their commercial launch in the early
1980s, mobile telecommunications have now outstripped their
fixed-phone counterparts, being used by over a billion people
worldwide. Mobile phones play an indispensable and distinctive role in
contemporary societies, woven into the transformation of work,
leisure, relationships, family, sexualities, glocalization, identity
formation, embodiment, and fashion and implicated in class, race,
gender, and disability relations. There is now widespread interest in
mobile phones among media producers, policy makers, industry, user
groups, artists, and educators. And a vibrant, interdisciplinary body
of work on social aspects of mobiles is now also emerging.<br>
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Against this backdrop this special collection aims to focus attention
on inquiry into mobile phone culture, and to promote systematic
consideration of this important topic by cultural and media studies
scholars.<br>
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We welcome submissions on topics such as (but not restricted to):<br>
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* theories of mobile phone culture<br>
* the relationship of mobile phone culture to general accounts of
culture and media;<br>
* mobile phone culture and the question of technology<br>
* the domestication and cultural shaping of mobile in different
countries, cultures, and regions;<br>
* cross-cultural approaches to understanding mobile phone culture;<br>
* the language of mobile phone culture;<br>
* cultural representation of mobiles;<br>
* case studies of use and consumption of mobile devices;<br>
* mobiles and/in bodies;<br>
* exploration of new cultural forms in mobiles (ringtones, text
messaging, soap opera, short video and film, art, television)<br>
* licit and illicit customising and modification of mobiles<br>
* mobiles and cultural politics;<br>
* mobiles and cultural policy;<br>
* cultural histories of mobiles;<br>
* new mobile technologies (such as camera and video phones, phones as
audio devices, Blackberries and PDAs, third-generation and
fourth-generation mobiles, mobile Internet) and identities;<br>
* mobile commons<br>
* the implications of mobiles for concepts and methods in cultural and
media studies.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Deadline for abstracts is 31 August,
2005.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Deadline for final submission of full
papers is 31 December 2005.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Potential contributors are encouraged to
familiarize themselves with previous issues of the Continuum: Journal
of Media and Cultural Studies and to discuss their ideas with the
special issue editor:</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Dr Gerard Goggin<br>
ARC Australian Research Fellow, Centre for Critical and Cultural
Studies<br>
University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072 Qld Australia</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">e: g.goggin@uq.edu.au //
www.cccs.uq.edu.au</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">'Continuum' is an academic journal of media
and cultural studies. For over a decade it has contributed to the
formation of these disciplines by identifying new areas for
investigation and developing new agendas for enquiry in the fields.
The journal has consistently provided a space for important new voices
in media and cultural studies, while also featuring the work of
internationally renowned scholars. Continuum is now one of the
most highly regarded and most cited journals in media and cultural
studies. Continuum is edited from Australia, with an international
scope. It is affiliated with the Cultural Studies Association of
Australia. Information on Continuum and instructions for authors may
be found at:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10304312.asp</font></div>
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Dr Gerard Goggin<br>
ARC Australian Research Fellow<br>
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies<br>
University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072 Qld Australia<br>
e: g.goggin@uq.edu.au m: 0428 66 88 24 </div>
<div>www.gerardgoggin.net// www.cccs.uq.edu.au</div>
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