Ethnographic data will be used to explore emerging mobile temporalities. Three inter-connected domains in mobile time are proposed: 1. rhythms of mobile use; 2. rhythms of mobile use in everyday life; 3.rhythms of mobility and institutional change (discourses, representations, schemas). Each entails a relational ontology of the constitution of social actors, spaces and meanings. Theoretical as well as empirical presentations are welcome, especially work relating to micro-interactional research on the sociology of embodiment. Specifically, papers. power point presentations, and work in progress are invited on the following topics:
1. Embodied Spaces and Locative Technologies;
2. The Sensory Inscribed Body;
3. Mobility Capital and Performed Movement-Space;
4. Synchronous and Asynchronous Maps of the Mobile Interface;
5. The Rhythms of Mobile Use;
6. The Rhythms of Mobile Use in Everyday Life;
7. The Rhythms of Mobility and Institutional Change;
8. The Contours of Contemporary Media and Culture.
Abstract–Paper Format and Language: The organizers invite papers on the above topics.
Please send them to:
biancamaria.pirani@uniroma1.it
roberto.cipriani@tlc.uniroma3.it.
A special consideration will be given to empirically grounded papers, either comparative or area–based. The language of the Conference will be English, French, and Italian. Abstracts should be about 250 words, specifying the name(s) of the Author(s), his/her/their affiliation(s) and e-mail.
