The Mobile Information Society
Conference
Budapest
April 24-25, 2003
Mobile Communication:
Social and Political Effects
THURSDAY, APRIL 24
10:00 Coffee and registration
10:30 Opening session
Kálmán Kovács
Minister of Informatics and
Communications
Opening Address
András Sugár
CEO, Westel Mobile Telecommunications
Westel and Research: The
Connection
Kristóf Nyíri
Director, Institute for
Philosophical Research
Hungarian Academy of
Sciences
"Communications in
the 21st Century": An Introduction
11:00 Keynote address by James E. Katz (Rutgers
University): "A Nation of Ghosts:
Choreography of Mobile Communication in Public Spaces"
Chair: Miklós Sükösd, Professor of Political Science,
Central European University, Budapest
12:00 Lunch break
13:15 Feature talk by Kenneth J. Gergen (Swarthmore
College): "Self and Community in the New Floating Worlds"
Chair: Csaba Pléh, Professor of Psychology, Center for Cognitive
Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
14:15 Coffee break
14:30 - 18:30 Parallel sessions
FRIDAY, APRIL 25
09:30 Plenary talk by Mark Poster (University of
California at Irvine): "Everyday Life and Mobile Phones"
Chair: Prof. György Csepeli, Parliamentary State Secretary,
Ministry of Informatics and Communications
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Plenary talk by Joachim Höflich (Universität
Erfurt): "Part of Two Frames:
Mobile Communication and the Situational Arrangement
of Communicative Behavior"
Chair: Anna Wessely, Professor of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd
University, Budapest
12:00 Lunch break
14:00 Plenary talk by Richard Harper (Appliance
Studio, Bristol / Digital World Research Centre, University of Surrey):
"Are Mobiles Good or Bad for Society?"
Chair: Dr. Ferenc Tompa, Executive Director for Telecom Policy,
Westel Mobile Telecommunications
15:00 Coffee break
15:15 Parallel sessions
16:45 Coffee break
17:00 Concluding plenary address by Joshua Meyrowitz
(University of New Hampshire): "Global Nomads in the Digital Veldt"
Chair: Kristóf Nyíri, Director, Institute for Philosophical
Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
19:00 Farewell party
Conference organized by the
Institute for Philosophical Research
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
and
WESTEL Mobile
Telecommunications (Hungary)
Please note that the conference will be a strictly non-smoking event.