COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The Mobile Information Society

Call for papers 

Submissions are invited for a conference on

Seeing, Understanding, Learning
in the Mobile Age

which is to take place in Budapest, April 28–30

Contributions are invited from philosophers, psychologists, education theorists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics:

• epistemology of the mobile phone
• from seeing to understanding
• visual communication and pictorial meaning
• from static pictures to dynamic images
• writing, speaking, messaging
• collective thinking and the network individual
• mobile communication and scientific change
• technology, media and the dissemination of knowledge
• ubiquitous learning and the transformation of education

Target dates:

Submission of abstracts (max. 300 words) and short biographical statements (max. 150 words) by Dec. 10, 2004. Early submissions are strongly encouraged. Please send your submissions to Kristóf Nyíri, knyiri@t-email.hu.  

Those submitting abstracts will be notified of the decision concerning acceptance by January 5, 2005.

Deadline for receipt of draft full-length (max. 2500 words) versions of papers: March 15. Receipt of draft papers by this deadline is a condition for inclusion in the program. The papers will be compiled and distributed to all participants at the time of the conference.

Deadline for receipt of invited final manuscripts for inclusion in the published conference proceedings: Sept. 1, 2005.

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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 December 23, 2004