Dear colleagues, Please consider submitting an abstract (no more than 250 words) to “Sociology of communication and new media” session at the 27th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association - Exploring Blind Spots, Lund University, Sweden, August 14-16, 2014. Registration and abstract submission for the conference are open now and can be accessed at http://nsa2014.se. The abstract submission is open until April 15. Notifications of accepted abstracts will be sent to authors no later than April 30. The pdf of the conference poster is available at: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39577023/Poster.pdf Best wishes, Dr Sakari Taipale Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy Street address: Ylistönmäentie 33 Room: 459b PO Box 35 40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland Mobile (work) +358 400 728 852 https://staff.jyu.fi/Members/saktaipa New and forthcoming publications: Fortunati, Leopoldina & Taipale, Sakari (accepted) The advanced use of mobile phones in five European countries. British Journal of Sociology. Taipale, S. (2014) The Affordances of Reading/Writing on Paper and Digitally in Finland. Telematics and Informatics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2013.11.003 Taipale, S. & Fortunati, L. (2014) Capturing Methodological Trends in Mobile Communication Studies. Information, Communication and Society. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2013.862562 Taipale, S. (2014) The dimensions of mobilities: The spatial relationships between corporeal and digital mobilities. Social Science Research 43C, 157-167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.10.003