Submission deadline for the "Mobile Telephony in the Developing World" conference has been extended to January 10. Only abstracts are required at this point. See below for details. Happy holidays! araba -----Original Message----- From: Stark Laura [mailto:laura.stark@jyu.fi] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 12:48 AM To: rili@itu.dk; adriana@souzaesilva.com; mm577@cam.ac.uk; Araba Sey; antonypalackal@yahoo.com; arulchib@ntu.edu.sg; cwallis@tamu.edu; k.v.lexander@ikos.uio.no Subject: Conference on Mobile Telephony in the Developing World in May 2013 Dear authors of the volume "Global Communication in the Global South", I wish to take this opportunity to thank you for your interesting articles in the special issue of New Media and Society, and to inform you that on May 24 - 25, 2013 we are organizing a conference on "Mobile Telephony in the Developing World" in the city of Jyväskylä, in Finland. The call for papers has been extended to January 10th, 2013. The conference aims to generate a lively discussion and to give special attention to how mobile technologies intersect with, and are involved in, social and cultural processes. Keynote speakers will be Jonathan Donner, John Postill and Julie Soleil Archambault. Panel topics thus far (to which more papers are welcome) include: 1. Mobile technology in the health sector in developing countries 2. Mobile phones for enhancing economic and business transactions 3. Mobile phones and gender 4. Mobile telephony, politics and governance 5. Mobile phones, social networks and social knowledge 6. Mobile phones and agriculture in Africa 7. Mobile telephony and technological development 8. Calling to Arms: Communication Circuits and War in Africa Please find the call for papers by following this link: http://mobiletelephony-developingworld.blogspot.fi/ We would warmly appreciate it if you could spread the word of the conference to any colleagues which might be interested. Best wishes for the New Year, Laura ************ Laura Stark, Professor of Ethnology Department of History and Ethnology P.O. Box 35 40014 University of Jyväskylä Finland