28.827, FYI: Call for Chapters for an Edited Volume

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:50:57
From: Piotr Romanowski [p.romanowski3 at uw.edu.pl]
Subject: Call for Chapters for an Edited Volume

 
Call for Chapters for an Edited Volume:
 
Mobile Communication: From Digital to Post-digital Era 

>From the appearance of the first personal computer in 1980s there have been
tremendous changes in different spheres of society’s functioning, starting
from economy through science and ending up with culture as well as an
individual’s life starting from work through educa-tion and ending up with
entertainment. Media communication is not just an expression of an achieved
state of development, but also an incredibly essential determinant of its
future. New forms, behaviours and communication practices grounded in digital
technologies, which are characterized by multimedia attention (media
convergence), multimodality (directing a message towards the many senses) and
multicodability (polysemioticity, the application of different signs and
semiotic objects).  Digitalization of further data, information, texts and
objects has taken place and it is still in progress and desktop computers are
being substituted with mobile devices (portable ones such as laptops,
notebooks, netbooks and touch screen devices) with common access to the
Internet. Digital and real worlds co-exist. People live in a symbiosis with a
computer, tablet or a smartphone, which slowly trespass the border of their
freedom. Not so long ago media and digital technologies, labeled as new,
became something obvious, often existing for a young user and integrated with
contemporary culture. Digital media can be defined as programmable data files
available only through expanded graphic interfaces and the digital data
universe is accessible mainly through digital visual media of different types.
We entered the new era imperceptibly – it is called the post-digital era where
a technological and civilizational revolution has become the fact of life.
This is a popular subject of interest among researchers representing various
fields and disciplines who submit for a critical analysis the many phenomena
related to digitalization. The effect of this reflection is some knowledge of
theoretical nature, which can, on the other hand, take on the applicative
character at the time when it serves as the grounds for developing an array of
communication tools and educational services as well as specific didactic
tools offered as applications for mobile devices.

The present volume is the first attempt to reflect upon the state of research
into the application of the existing equipment based on digital media, with a
particular consideration of mobile technologies in a communication and
education reality. The digital media can be labelled today as programmable
data sets available through extensive graphic interfaces. The digital data
universe is, above all, achievable thanks to digital visual media of various
nature.

The following thematic spectrum is to be proposed:

- a description of behaviours and communication practices resulting from
permanent contact with a laptop computer, tablet or smartphone, hence mobile
communication  (among others, due to the accumulation of information,
selective and superficial reading, a new writing practice, the so-called
writing by the way, accompanying the user all the time; the ability to receive
multimodal and multi-codable messages mainly through the visual channel); 
- the influence of habit in using electronic media on everyday lives,
including the educational sphere in general (among others, dehumanizing of
young peoples’ behaviours , unwillingness to natural communication with
another person, i.e. another student , teacher or expert, etc.); 
- communication and education in the era of present and future technological
solutions: communication/education using desktop computers vs.
communication/education through mobile devices
- directions of development of mobile communication in the future; 
- practical possibilities of using mobile devices and at the same time
applications for mobile teaching and learning, including the process of
learning foreign languages (using it in an optional place and time without the
need for the prior preparation of materials by the learner);
- optimization of access to educational contexts through mobile applications;
- specifying the criteria for didactic solutions which will fit into the new
era of mobile communication and the perpetual development of telecommunication
technolo-gies mainly with regards to the operational systems of mobile devices
(as the easiest manner of application, a simple interface, a graphic design
adjusted to a touch screen of small size); 
- developing theoretical frames in the field of glottodidactics as well as
methodological and didactic conceptualization, which would guarantee effective
use of mobile devices and didactic applications; 
- the development of fully autonomous applications (functioning independently
of the existing educational frames); 
- the use of application for the development of multiple linguistic and
communication abilities (not only for practising some habits in a
communication act, e.g. in the field of lexical or structural development).

Chapters of up to 20,000  characters (approx. 12 pages) should be sent until
30 September 2017 to the following email address:
mobile_communication at uw.edu.pl. You can submit your manuscripts in either
English or German. The volume will be published with Cambridge Scholars in
2018.

On behalf of Research Center for Mobile Communication
/Professor Ewa Żebrowska, PhD/
/Dr. Paweł Szerszeń, Associate Professor/
/Dr. Piotr Romanowski, Assistant Professor/
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 



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