DigiPlay 2: Mobile Leisure and the Technological Mediascape

26th April 2004
Oak Suite, Dept of Sociology,
University of Surrey,
Guildford
GU2 7XH

Seminar Convenor: Nicola Green

The emergence and uptake of mobile media technologies over the past five years has generated widespread transformations in how everyday life is enacted. Not only have mobile information, communication and media transformed our working lives in myriad ways, but have also deeply altered our home and family life. This seminar will bring together key scholars researching the social, cultural, economic and political aspects of mobile leisure technologies – their design, production, distribution and consumption. One central aim of the seminar will be to explore the current state of multidisciplinary research addressing mobile leisure technologies, and identify emerging themes and questions guiding social research into the future.

Details of how to reach the venue are available on the University of Surrey web site. The department is about a 15 minute walk from the train station or £5 in a taxi.

Monday 26^th April 2004

9.30	Coffee and Registration

10.00 - 10.15	Nicola Green Welcome

10.15 - 11.00	Karenza Moore “Sort Drugs, Make Mates”: The use and meanings of mobiles in club culture" Abstract \| Presentation

11.00 - 11.45	Jennie Germann Molz "On the road and on-line: redefining leisure travel in the age of mobile media technologies" Abstract \| Presentation

11:45 - 12.00	Discussion

12.00 - 13.00	Lunch

13.00 - 13.45	Nils Lindahl-Elliot "The Transmediation of Leisure: Some methodological problems" Abstract

13.45 - 14.30	Christian Licoppe "ICTs and the engineering of encounters: A case study of the development of a mobile game based on the geolocation of terminals" Abstract

14.30 - 14.45	Discussion
14.45 - 15.15	Coffee/Tea
15.15 - 16.00	Michael Bull "iPod Culture" Abstract

16.00 - 16.45	Katrina Jungnickel "Urban Tapestries; Sensing the City and other stories" Abstract
16.45 - 17.15	Discussion and roundup
From 17.15	Wine reception in Department of Sociology

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