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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bolder;">Cosmopolitan Intimacies & Transforming Mobile Technologies:
</span><span style="font-weight: bolder;">New Social Realities Under Construction’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Call for papers for Special Issue for
<i>Mobile Media & Communication </i>(abstracts due 31 Aug 2025)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Co-Editors: Heather Horst (Sydney), Gerard Goggin (Western Sydney U.), Larissa Hjorth (RMIT Melbourne), and Jozon A. Lorenzana (Ateneo de Manila)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Mobile media and communication have grown enormously since their early days being offered to the public in the 1980s. Their challenges to research and
theory have also expanded significantly, yet among the still thorny questions to be answered revolve around what can be broadly termed intimacies – and the individual, collective, sociocultural, and political implications they raise. There are high stakes
in such intimacies, which subtend the relations among different kinds of communities, nations, states, regions, diasporas, and transnational geographies and networks.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In this special issue, we call for contributions that imaginatively and critically explore, study, and reflect upon historical, contemporary, and emerging
intimacies associated with transforming mobile technologies—and the new social realities they shape, embody, and project. Our framing of this problematic is inspired and oriented by the precious, rich, and multilayered work of one of the first generation of
mobile communication scholars, Filipino-Australian anthropologist Raul Pertierra (1941-2024).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Pertierra’s work played a pivotal role in understanding the complex and dynamic socio-cultural dimensions of mobile technologies in everyday life. While
much of the early scholarship was drew from empirical realities in Europe, Pertierra and his colleagues sought to demonstrate the distinctive significance of mobile cultures in Asia—and explore their social and cultural implications. Notably his signature
work offered insightful and deep reflections on the Philippines—a location in which migration, activism and transnational intimacy was shaped in and through the mobile phone’s communicative, expressive, and political capacity.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Pertierra’s research offered deep and far-reaching questions around how the mobile phone recalibrates old and new media. It also explored transformations
everyday life in rituals and intimacies across domestic and public space, highlighting the ways in which the mobile phone--and functionalities such as SMS––became a seminal cultural-social artefact. Pertierra was also a pioneer in bringing anthropology to
bear on the mobile phone, opening up a rich current of research, theory, ethnography practice that has been highly influential on how we grapple with and understand mobile technologies.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">As a thinker who challenged dominant ways of looking at technology and its social worlds, one of the legacies of his work is to provoke researchers to
consider what do you learn from looking from the other side of things, from the non-dominant perspective and histories of technologies and cultures. He was a leading figure in work that took up the challenges of ‘glocalism’, considering the relationships between
specific locations and localities and the global.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Accordingly, we invite original research papers that draw upon key themes and concepts in Pertierra’s work such as:</span></p>
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Discursive and other kinds of intimacy</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Cosmopolitanism and culture</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Migration and diaspora</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Localizing, regionalising, and globalising mobile media and technology</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Mobiles and mobilisation</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
The power of media in politics (old and ‘new’ media)</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Mobile activism</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Who participates in social construction in mobile-intensive, digital societies</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Mobile media in everyday cultures</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Affordances, formats, specifics of mobile technologies in transforming cultures, communities, and selves</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Relevance of contemporary research (mobile media and communication, social science, humanities and arts) to understanding mobile technology</li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We are especially interested in contributions that engage with, reflect upon, or are in dialogue with Pertierra’s work, concepts, and methods.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We invite submissions of abstracts of 500 words by 31 August 2025</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Potential contributors will be contacted by 15 September 2025 and will be invited to submit articles of 8,000 words to review on/before 15 March 2026.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Important dates:</span></p>
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Abstract submission date: 31 August 2025</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Acceptance/rejection feedback: 15 September 2025</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Authors submit full papers: 15 March 2026</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Peer reviews completed/expected resubmission: 31 September 2026</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Final acceptance expected: January 2027</li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Please submit an extended abstract of 500 words (including references) that states the paper’s main argument, theoretical and empirical starting points,
and proposed contribution. The abstract should also clearly explain how the full submission will contribute to the aims of this special issue. Please email abstracts to Professor Gerard Goggin (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 106, 204);"><u><a href="mailto:g.goggin@westernsydney.edu.au" data-outlook-id="f868a46e-7ca5-4de5-9c5a-d284f0aa248a" style="color: rgb(0, 106, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">g.goggin@westernsydney.edu.au</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">)
and Professor Heather Horst (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 106, 204);"><u><a href="mailto:heather.horst@sydney.edu.au" data-outlook-id="d151573e-e9ea-4fbe-bc8e-45ac53aa4cd3" style="color: rgb(0, 106, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">heather.horst@sydney.edu.au</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Invited submissions should be original, unpublished works. These will undergo a blind peer-review process following the usual procedures of
<i>Mobile Media & Communication</i>. Please note that manuscripts must conform to the guidelines for Mobile Media & Communication.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In case of further questions, please contact the guest editors:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bolder;">Key contact(s) for guest editors</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Professor Gerard Goggin (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 106, 204);"><u><a href="mailto:g.goggin@westernsydney.edu.au" data-outlook-id="d16abd9f-df66-42e8-b230-451b10954136" style="color: rgb(0, 106, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">g.goggin@westernsydney.edu.au</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">)
and Professor Heather Horst (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 106, 204);"><u><a href="mailto:heather.horst@sydney.edu.au" data-outlook-id="5d22b544-1cef-41a0-b5e4-37180366fccf" style="color: rgb(0, 106, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">heather.horst@sydney.edu.au</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bolder;">References</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Pertierra, Raul. 2005. “Mobile Phones, Identity and Discursive Intimacy.”
<i>Human Technology</i> 1(1):23-44. doi: 10.17011/ht/urn.2005124.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Pertierra, Raul. 2006.
<i>Transforming Technologies: Altered Selves – Mobile Phone and Internet Use in the Philippines</i>. Manila: De La Salle UP, 2006.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Pertierra, Raul. 2011. “Afterword: Special Issue Mediated Diasporas: Material Translations of the Philippines In a Globalized World.” <i>South East Asia
Research</i> 19(2):343-348. doi: 10.5367/sear.2011.0048.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Raul, Pertierra. 2013. “We Reveal Ourselves to Ourselves: The New Communication Media in the Philippines.”
<i>Social Science Diliman</i> 9(1):20-40.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Pertierra, Raul. 2014. “Localizing Mobile Media: A Philippine Perspective.” In
<i>Routledge Companion to Mobile Media</i>, edited by Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth, 42-52. 1</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 0;">st</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> edition.
Routledge.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Pertierra, Raul. 2014. “Reflections on the Relevance of the Social Sciences in the Philippines.” <i>Philippine Sociological Review</i> 62:159-178.</span></p>
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