Program
THURSDAY, JUNE 10
09:30 Coffee and registration
10:00 Opening session
András Sugár
CEO, T-Mobile Hungary Co. Ltd.
Kristóf Nyíri
Director, Institute for Philosophical Research
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Introduction
Chair: Kristóf Nyíri
10:30 Keynote address by Joshua
Meyrowitz
(University of New
Hampshire):
The Rise of Glocality:
New Senses of Place and Identity in the Global Village
[magyarul]
11:00 Feature talk by Mark
Poster
(University of California at
Irvine):
Digitally Local
Communications:
Technologies and Space
[magyarul]
11:30 Coffee break
Chair: Csaba Pléh, Professor of Psychology
Center for Cognitive Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
12:00 Plenary talk by Joachim
Höflich
(Universität Erfurt):
A Certain Sense of Place:
Mobile Communication and Orientation
in Local Space
12:30 Plenary talk by Leopoldina
Fortunati (Università
degli Studi di
Udine): The
Mobile Phone: Local and Global Dimensions
13:00 Plenary talk by Richard
Harper
(Microsoft Research,
Cambridge):
The Local and the
Global:
Explorations in the Paradoxes of the Mobile Age
13:30 Lunch break
15:00 – 16:30 Parallel
sessions
16:30 Coffee break
Chair: Péter Bakonyi, PhD
Deputy State Secretary
Ministry of Informatics and Communications
17:00 Plenary talk by Albert-László
Barabási
(University of Notre
Dame): The
Architecture of
Complexity: From
Web-Based Communication to the Cell
Chair: Ádám Török
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Professor of Economics, University of Veszprém
17:30 Plenary talk by Raimondo
Strassoldo
(Università degli Studi di
Udine): The
Meaning of Localism in a Global World
FRIDAY, JUNE 11
Chair: Gabriella Bárány Sülle, PhD
Director of Telecom Policy and Regulatory Affairs
T-Mobile Hungary Co. Ltd.
10:00 Plenary talk by Michael
Bull (University
of Sussex):
The Intimate Sounds of Urban
Experience: An
Auditory Epistemology of Everyday Mobility
[magyarul]
10:30 Plenary talk by Rich
Ling (Telenor
R&D, Oslo):
Genres and the
Development of
Mobile Multimedia Messaging Systems
11:00 Coffee break
Chair: István Maradi
Chief Development Officer, Deputy General Manager
T-Mobile Hungary Co. Ltd.
11:30 Plenary talk by Ilpo
Koskinen
(University of Art and Design,
Helsinki):
Seeing with Mobile
Images: Towards
Perpetual Visual Contact
12:00 Plenary talk by Kristóf
Nyíri (Inst. for
Philos. Res., Hung. Acad. of
Sc.): Images
of Home [magyarul]
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 – 16:30 Parallel
sessions
SATURDAY, JUNE 12
Chair: Gábor Palló, Director of Research
Institute for Philosophical Research
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
09:00 Plenary talk by Miklós
Sükösd (Central
European University,
Budapest):
Virtuality vs.
Locality: An
Ecological Critique of the Information Society
09:30 Plenary talk by Friedrich
Krotz
(Universität
Erfurt):
Mobile Communication, the Internet
and the Net of
Social Relations
10:00 Coffee break
Chair: Dr. János Kóka, President
Hungarian Association of IT Companies
10:30 Plenary talk by György
Csepeli
(Parliamentary State
Secretary,
Ministry of Informatics and
Communications):
Inequality and Communication Networks
11:00 Plenary talk by Peter
Fleissner
(Technische Universität,
Wien):
Welfare and Warfare
– Contrasting
Scenarios of Mobile Communication
11:30 Coffee break
Chair: Kristóf Nyíri
12:00 Concluding plenary address by James E.
Katz (Rutgers
University):
Mobiles in Educational Settings [magyarul]
12:30 General discussion
13:00 Farewell party
[magyar összefoglalók]
Conference organized by the Institute for Philosophical
Research of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences and T-Mobile Hungary Co. Ltd.
Last updated Sept. 21,
2005
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