THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 14:30 - 18:30 

Parallel sessions
 

Room: "Felolvasóterem" New Social Relationships  and the Sense of Self	Room: "Kis elõadóterem" Consequences of New Mobile Communications Technologies for Democracy
Chair: Gábor Palló, Director of Research,  Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences	Chair: László Z. Karvalics, Associate Professor, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Ronald E. Rice and James Katz: Social Interaction and Mobile Phone Use. National Survey Results on Episodes of Convergent Public and Private Spheres	Leopoldina Fortunati:  The Mobile Phone and Democracy: An Ambivalent Relationship
Satomi Sugiyama and James Katz: Social Conduct, Social Capital and the Mobile Phone in the US and Japan: A preliminary exploration via student surveys	On-Kwok Lai: Mobile Communicating for (E-)Democracy beyond Sovereign Territorial Boundaries. Transnational Advocacies versus E-Government Initiatives in Comparative Perspectives
Rich Ling: Mobile Communication and Social Capital in Europe	Shin Dong Kim: The Shaping of New Politics in the Era of Mobile and Cyber Communication: The Internet, Mobile Phone and Political Participation in Korea
Maria Heller: Social and Political Effects of ICTs	Fernando Paragas: Dramatextism. Mobile Telephony and People Power in the Philippines
Chair: Prof. András Benedek, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Employment Policy and Labour	Chair: Klára Sándor, Professor of Linguistics, University of Szeged
Bella Ellwood-Clayton: Virtual Strangers: Young Love and Texting in  the Filipino Archipelago of Cyberspace	Miklós Sükösd and Endre Dányi: Who’s in Control? Viral Political Marketing and Virus Control in Mobile Election Campaigns
Kenton O’Hara, Barry Brown  and Mark Perry: Mobile Work, Technology and Place	Csaba Szabó: Communication Order in the Hungarian Society: Networks in a Hungarian City
Heidi Schumacher and Karin Drda-Kühn:  Culture & ICT: Mobile Communications to Support Employment	Bruno von Niman: Universal Access to Mobile Communication - Ensuring Social Inclusion
Jonathan C. Donner: What Mobile Phones Mean to Rwandan Entrepreneurs	Dan Jarnerö, Daniel Folkesson and Per Flensburg: Can Mobile Communication Make Democracy More Available?