Program

• ‘Mobile phones are just like our hands and legs’– the use of mobile phones by disabled persons in China, Lin Jin, National University of Singapore
• Connection vs. Control: Mobile phone usage of foreign domestic workers in Singapore, Trisha Lin, Shirley Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Mobile Phone and Impact on Status of Women in Rural India, Balwant Singh Mehta, SIRCA Grant Awardee
• Freedom of Expression in Mobile 2.0 Content: Pakistan, Hina Sarfaraz, LIRNEasia

Introduction to SIRCA by Arul Chib (Assistant Director, SiRC).

• Mobile people, mobile societies, mobile cultures not just mobile learning, John Traxler, University of Wolverhampton / Learning Lab
• An m-learning reflexivity: Learning about the mobile and using the mobile for learning, Fernando Paragas, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Texting among like aged persons, Richard Ling, Telenor Research and Innovation
• The Media Convergence Lifestyle Profile in Thailand, Parichart Saithanoo, Thammasat University

• Are We Evolved to Live with Mobiles? An Evolutionary View of Mobile Communication, Chih-Hui Lai, James E. Katz, Rutgers University
• Redefining Mobile Society: Emerging Concepts and Theories of Wireless Communication, Deb Aikat, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• ‘Movable Type: Findings from the Young, Mobile, Networked Study’, Kate Crawford, Gerard Goggin, University of New South Wales
• The skillful management of mobile phones’ ring in institutional social performances, Christian Licoppe, Telecom Paristech

• Out of touch? On the lack of emotional support over the mobile phone, Orit Ben Harush, Queensland University of Technology
• A World More Intimate: Exploring the Role of Mobile Phones in Maintaining and Extending Social Networks, Rhonda McEwen, University of Toronto
• Does mobile phone make egalitarian couples? The Effect of Mobile Phone Use on Perceived Behavioral Control in Romantic Relationships by Ban-ya kim, Seoul National University
• Constant Connections: Piloting a mobile phone based peer support program for Nuer (southern Sudanese) women, Dennis Wollersheim, La Trobe University

• Mobile Communications and the Public Sphere in South Korea: Possibilities and Limitations, Hyun-Chin Lim, Seoul National University; Joonkoo Lee, Duke University
• Mobile Internet Uses in Everyday Life and a Sense of Place: A Korean Case Study, Dong-Hoo Lee, University of Incheon
• “Simply leaving my house would even be scarier”: How mobile phones alter women’s perception of safety and experiences of public places, Kathleen M. Cumiskey, College of Staten Island – City University of New York
• United States’ Rural Poor: Emerging Mobile Markets in Appalachia, Emil Bakke, Meghan Peirce, Ohio University

• The Future of the Public Phone: Findings from a six-country Asian study on telecom use at the BOP, Nirmali Sivapragasam, LIRNEasia
• Mobile Internet in France: between innovation and social contexts of media reception, Corrine Martin, Université Paul Verlaine
• Users’ perspectives on an evolving mobile media ecology. Uses and conceptualizations of the mobile Internet by American and German college students, Lee Humphreys, Cornell University; Veronika Karnowski, LMU München; Thilo Von Pape, Universit?t Hohenheim
• The Mobile Music Device Uses and Gratifications: The Interactions of the Mobile Music Device Uses and Motivations, Yi-Fan Chen, Old Dominion University