Call for Papers: Canadian Journal of Communication Special Issue on: Wireless Technologies, Mobile Practices Mobile wireless devices such as handheld pdas, cellular telephones, and portable computers are part of a changing landscape of communications and culture. In the last decade alone, for instance, the use of cell phones has increased fourfold in Canada signaling a remarkable shift in the telecommunications industry, the convergence of a number of technologies onto a single platform, and new ways of conducting person-to-person communication and creating community. In addition to these devices, Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth, WANS, and GPS comprise integrated segments of the new infrastructure of the so- called wireless world as well as an emergent vocabulary for citizens and consumers. The Canadian Journal of Communication invites submissions, in English or in French, for a forthcoming special issue on mobile communications and wireless technologies. We are interested in innovative, critical approaches that decipher a range of mobile technologies and practices in wireless contexts. Possible themes include: Everyday uses: sharing our lives via the mobile (text, voice, video) Civic engagement, activism and mobile technologies Wireless services and emergency communication Privacy, surveillance and mobile phones Community Wireless Networks Policy: CRTC regulations and spectrum policy Mobility, Labour: new conditions of work Shifting notions of space, place and time in a mobile world Rhetoric and discourses on mobility and wireless worlds Art, design and mobile technologies Mobile genres and cellular convergence Global and international perspectives on mobile technologies Full-length papers (@ 7000-9000 words) should be submitted electronically following the guidelines laid out on the CJC submissions website ( http://www.cjc-online.ca/submissions.php ). Make sure to write in all caps "MOBILE" in the Comments to the Editor field, and to include it on the cover page of your article as well. Do not include your name on the cover page. Deadline for papers is Sept. 1, 2007. Papers selected by the editors will then be sent for peer review for final decision. Comments and queries can be sent to one of the special issue editors: Dr. Barbara Crow, York University, [send email to bacrow@sympatico.ca via gmail] bacrow@sympatico.ca Dr. Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University, [send email to kim.sawchuk@simpatico.ca via gmail] kim.sawchuk@sympatico.ca Dr. Richard Smith, Simon Fraser University, [send email to smith@sfu.ca via gmail] smith@sfu.ca