Mobile Histories CFP

Mobile Histories
A special issue of Southern Review

Call for papers

Southern Review is publishing a special issue on histories of mobile communication in July 2005.

We are calling for papers which aim to provide longer-term perspectives on the emergence of mobile communications, or which describe and explain the cultural, economic and political dimensions of mobile communications
through specific historical contexts.

We encourage proposals for papers concerned with:

* The emergence of mobile telephony as a new medium;
* The development of legal, regulatory, ethical systems and software
for managing mobile content and applications;
* The evolving relations between mobile telephony and other media,
including fixed line telephony, television, and the Internet;
* Comparative studies of mobile communications in different cultural
and social contexts;
* Longer-term social, political and cultural consequences of mobile
telephony
* History of mobile telephony design, software and system architecture


Further information
1. The deadline for paper proposals will be 31 October 2004. Please
email a brief outline of your paper to either jthomas@swin.edu.au or
g.goggin@uq.edu.au
2. The deadline for submitted articles will be 15 April 2005. Please
email your paper to either jthomas@swin.edu.au or g.goggin@uq.edu.au
3. The maximum length of articles will be 6,000 words. Please follow
the style guide at http://www.informit.com.au/library

About Southern Review
Southern Review is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on the
connections between communication and politics. Since its inception in
1963, Southern Review has been interested in communication and cultural
technologies - their histories, producers, policies and texts. It
welcomes articles that connect these areas either to arenas of
legislative or parliamentary politics or to broader negotiations of
power.

Sample articles from the current volume of Southern Review can be
viewed
at http://www.informit.com.au/library

Gerard Goggin and Julian Thomas