Call for Papers: Canadian Journal of Communication
Special Issue on: Wireless Technologies, Mobile Practices

Deadline for papers September 1, 2007
Papers selected by the editors will then be sent for peer review for final decision

The Canadian Journal of Communication invites submissions, in English or in French, for a forthcoming special issue on mobile communications and wireless technologies. We are interested in innovative, critical approaches that decipher a range of mobile technologies and practices in wireless contexts.

Possible themes include:
- Everyday uses: sharing our lives via the mobile (text, voice, video)
- Civic engagement, activism and mobile technologies
- Wireless services and emergency communication
- Privacy, surveillance and mobile phones
- Community Wireless Networks
- Policy: CRTC regulations and spectrum policy
- Mobility, Labour: new conditions of work
- Shifting notions of space, place and time in a mobile world
- Rhetoric and discourses on mobility and wireless worlds
- Art, design and mobile technologies
- Mobile genres and cellular convergence
- Global and international perspectives on mobile technologies

Full-length papers (@ 7000-9000 words) should be submitted electronically following the guidelines laid out on the CJC submissions website: http://www.cjc-online.ca/submissions.php. Make sure to write in all caps "MOBILE" in the Comments to the Editor field, and to include it on the cover page of your article as well. Do not include your name on the cover page.

Comments and queries can be sent to one of the special issue editors:

Dr. Barbara Crow, York University, bacrow@sympatico.ca

Dr. Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University, kim.sawchuk@sympatico.ca

Dr. Richard Smith, Simon Fraser University, smith@sfu.ca