The Social Life of Mobile Media: An International View
We would like to invite you to a symposium at Keio University's Mita Campus,
featuring three prominent researchers in the study of mobile communication.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
November 4, 2005
9:00-12:00
Location:
Faculty Research Building@1F (#10 on map)
Conference Room A
timetable:
9:00-
Rich Ling
Telenor Research
Mediated Communication in Norway
10:00-
Christian Licoppe
Ecole Nationale Superieure des telecommunications
Emergent Uses of a Multiplayer Location-Aware Mobile Game
11:00-
Ilpo Koskinen
University of Art and Design, Helsinki
What Classic Ethnomethodology Can Tell Us About Mobile Multimedia?
bio sketch:
Rich Ling is a sociologist at Telenor's research institute located near Oslo, Norway and he is also the Pohs visiting professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He also the author of the recently published book on the social consequences of mobile telephony entitled The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society and along with Per E. Pederson the editor of the book Mobile Communications: Renegotiation of the Social Sphere.
He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in his native US. Upon completion of his doctorate, he taught at the University of Wyoming in Laramie before coming to Norway on a Marshall Foundation grant. Since that time he has worked at the Gruppen for Ressursstudier (The resource study group) and he has been a partner in a consulting firm, Ressurskonsult, which focused on studies of energy, technology and society. For the past ten years, he has worked at Telenor R&D and has been active in researching issues associated with new information communication technology and society with a particular focus on mobile telephony. He has led projects in Norway and participated in projects at the European level.
Ling has published numerous articles, held posts at and lectured at Universities in Europe and the US and has participated in academic conferences in Europe, Asia and in the US. He has been responsible for organizing scholarly meetings and editing both academic journals and proceedings from academic conferences. He is an associate editor for The Information Society. He has received recognition as an outstanding scholar from Rutgers University. His analysis has appeared in Norwegian newspapers and on Norwegian TV as well as in periodicals such as the New York Times, Der Speigel, Newsweek Epoca (Brazil) and the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Christian Licoppe is a professor in the sociology of technology at the Departement Economie, Gestion, Sciences Humaines, Ecole Nationale Superieure des telecommunications. His PhD and speciality is in the history and sociology of science and technology. His current research focused on the relationships between the uses of ICT and i) the interactional order and the management of the social bond ii) mobilities iii) service relationships and mediated consumption, and iv) activity in organizations.
Ilpo Koskinen works as Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki. Trained in sociology and in conversation analysis, his present interests lie in studying mobile and ubiquitous communication technologies. In his opinion, studying these technologies requires that we understand them as human action, which happens to be mediated by technology. His other interests lie in studying how design changes cityscapes, and in interpretive design methodology which (he thinks) provides a useful, though underdeveloped, approach to bridge the gap between design and the social sciences. At present, he is writing a book on mobile multimedia, hopefully finished in 2006.
Organizers:
Fumitoshi Kato and Daisuke Okabe
Keio University
Moderator:
Mimi Ito
Keio University and the University of Southern California