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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Call for papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">From SMS to Smartphones: Tracing the Impact of the Mobile Phone in Asia</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Publication date: October 2013</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The mobile phone has had a discernible impact on Asia, given its affordability, versatility and ubiquity as the key platform for computer-mediated communication. It has been widely deployed in virtually
every aspect of everyday life, be it in commerce, politics, governance, education, religion, entertainment or recreation. The diversity and complexity of this fast-growing region has birthed innovative and ground-breaking applications of the mobile phone.
While basic feature phones are already a mainstay in both rural and urban Asia, the smartphone is now rapidly diffusing through the region at a rate exceeding the rest of the world. Bringing the idea of the ubiquitous web to fruition, the smartphone's heightened
connectivity and thriving app market are enabling yet more revolutionary uses of the mobile phone. While the rising adoption of the smartphone burgeons with potential for civic action, commercial enterprise, employment and educational opportunities and social
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">provision, challenges are also emerging for consumers, industries and governments alike.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The early phase of mobile communication research was influenced by studies and theorization from North America and Europe. Spurred on by the wide diffusion of mobiles globally, research is now very much
seeking to understand the international underpinnings of this form of mediated communication, especially as it increasingly blurs the lines between computers, Internet, and phones. Over the past decade, Asian research has been important in addressing the rapid
diffusion, transformation, and shift in mobiles. Such research is growing, but is still relatively incipient. Against this backdrop, this special issue seeks to bring together the latest research findings, regional understandings, conceptualizations, and theories
of the mobile in Asia. Article proposals are sought for topics including but not limited to the following:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* does a digital divide exist in Asia with regard to mobile phone penetration and usage trends and if so, how can and should they be remedied?</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* what are the implications of the development of mobiles - especially smartphones and mobile Internet - for contemporary media in Asia?</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* how is the growing proliferation of the smartphone facilitating unprecedented forms and scales of communication?</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* how do issues of broad infrastructure provisions and market pricing influence the behaviour of mobile phone users?</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* how are the location based services offered by smartphones altering user behaviour and lifestyles?</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* how does mobile Internet use complement and possibly complicate fixed location Internet use?</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* what implications does the growth of smartphone apps have for the cultural complexion of Asian countries?</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* how is the mobile phone serving the needs of marginalised communities in Asia?</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* to what extent do smartphones and the behaviour which they enable test the boundaries of existing regulatory frameworks?</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* how does the rising ubiquity of the smartphone and by implication, that of always-on, always-available Internet access challenge prevailing theoretical frameworks relating to inter alia, technology
acceptance, mobility, communication, social influence and identity?</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Please submit an 800 word abstract and a 100 word biographical note to both special issue editors as an e-mail attachment no later than 30 June 2012. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by
15 July 2012 and invited to submit a full paper. Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references, conform to APA style, and submitted by 30 October, 2012. All papers will be subject to anonymous peer review following submission.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Important dates</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Deadline for abstracts 30 June 2012</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Decisions to authors 15 July 2012</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Full paper submission 30 October 2012</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Decisions 30 January 2013</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Revised paper submission 30 April 2013</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Final proofs 30 June 2013</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Issue publication October 2013</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Special issue editors:</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Sun Sun LIM, National University of Singapore, <a href="mailto:sunlim@nus.edu.sg">sunlim@nus.edu.sg</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, <a href="mailto:gerard.goggin@usyd.edu.au">gerard.goggin@</a>sydney.edu.au</div>
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<div>w: <a href="http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/ggoggin">http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/ggoggin</a></div>
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