3 Days after being back from Indonesia, I moved on to Budapest for the conference “Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence” organized by Kristof Nyiri, where I presented a paper in the small session on locative media. Here’s the draft version:
From Always-On to Always-There (PDF - 412 KB).
The last three days I have been at the Mobile Media 2007 conference, organized by Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth. The conference was held at the University of Sydney from 2 - 4 July 2007. Some 120 people attended the conference, many of them belonging to the well-known researchers in the field of mobile media.
A wide range of papers were presented. Most of them empirical, focussing mostly on the modern Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea) and Australia. Also quite some theoretical work, e.g. about changes in time and place, locative media, mobile phone anxieties. Almost all empirical work was about teenagers. Most papers were also at the level of devices, not infrastructure.
I presented a paper about the mobile phone and changes in identity. You can download it here. That session was one of the few with enough time for some substantial debate after the presentation (someone had cancelled) Got some useful feedback on it.
I’ll try and write some more substantial things about the conference soon.
Some pics:
This is the poster presentation I gave a while ago at the conference Virtual Ethnography in Contemporary Social Science, organized by The Virtual Knowledge Studio. I forgot to put it online earlier… It’s about the problems that may occur when doing and writing ethnography about the mobile phone.
060925_mobile_phone_ethnography.pdf (2.5 MB)
