COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The Mobile Information Society



Conference 

Budapest

June 10–12, 2004

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The Global and the Local
in Mobile Communication

Places, Images, People, Connections

Program

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Conference site:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences main building

 

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

        
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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

 


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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