[apologies for x-posting] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Air-L colleagues, We are happy to announce the latest issue of the Australian Journal of Communication: ‘Placing Mobile Communications’. The ‘Placing Mobile Communication’ special issue brings together researchers undertaking work on mobiles in Australian and New Zealand. Please find the Table of Contents below. We would like to thank all authors who responded to the call for papers and the reviewers. Sincerely, Guest Editors: Clare Lloyd, Scott Rickard, and Gerard Goggin. Table of Contents ‘Synchronous asynchronicity: The use of mobiles to pattern face-to-face encounters in chaotic environments’ – Jason Noble & Lelia Green ‘Everyday Friendship Networks: mobile phones and social networking in New Zealand’ – Stephanie Broege ‘The waiting game: Complicating notions of (tele)presence and gendered distraction in casual mobile gaming’ – Larissa Hjorth & Ingrid Richardson ‘Reflexivity and reflection in an Australian mobile phone study: A methodological discussion’ – Clare Lloyd ‘Portable music device use on trains: A ‘splendid isolation’?’ – Michael J. Walsh ‘The portable shrine: Remembrance, memorial, and the mobile phone’ – Dean Keep ‘Mobile media and the socio-technical protocols of the supermarket’ – Iain Sutherland ‘Contests of power and place in mobile media advertising’ – Rowan Wilken & John Sinclair ‘Geomobile web: Locative technologies and mobile media’ – Alice Crawford & Gerard Goggin Australian Journal of Communication is a refereed international journal that publishes original papers on human communication research, theory, and practice. Interdisciplinary or specialist papers are welcomed. For copies or subscription contact the AJC General Editor Dr Roslyn Petelin: r.petelin@uq.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Clare Lloyd, BA (Comm Stud) (Hons) Associate Lecturer Communication School of Design, Communication and Information Technology The University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW 2308 Email: Clare.Lloyd@newcastle.edu.au http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/design-communication-it/ Location: McMullin Building, MCG08 -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-