Mobile Devices/SMS/Instant Messaging Social Science Research

updated 7 january 2007
Several people asked me (Nalini P. Kotamraju) to share my bibliography-in-progress on social science research about mobile devices, mobile phone uses, SMS/texting, and instant messaging, so here it is. Please feel free to send me cites (in any language) to include. Thanks.

2006 Mobile-Related Conferences  
Mobile Persuasion, Stanford University, (Palo Alto CA, USA. 10 November) http://mobilepersuasion.org/index.html
2005 URLs
Wireless Communication and Development: A Global Perspective. Annenberg Research Network on International Communication Workshop. (Marina del Ray, California, USA, 7-8 October) http://arnic.info/workshop05.php
Seeing, Understanding, Learning in the Mobile Age (Salzburg, Austria, 19-22 August) www.fil.hu/mobil/2005/
Fourth International Conference on Mobile Business (Sydney, Australia, 11-13 July) www.mbusiness2005.org/
International Conference on Mobile Communication and Asian Modernities (Hong Kong, 7-8 June)  
2004  
The Life of Mobile Data: Technology, Mobility and Data Subjectivity (Guilford, England, UK, 15-16 March) http://risome.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference.htm
International Workshop on Mobile Technologies and Health: Benefits and Risks (Udine, Italy, 7-8 June) http://mitel.dimi.uniud.it/mobile-health-04/
The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: Places, Images, People, Connections Conference (Budapest, Hungary, 10-12 June)  
Fifth Wireless World Conference. Managing Wireless Communications (Guilford, UK, 15-16 July)  
Wireless Communication Policies and Prospects: A Global Perspective (Los Angeles, CA, 8-9 October) http://annenberg.usc.edu/international_communication/WirelessWorkshop/MCS.pdf
Mobile Communication and Social Change International Conference (Seoul, Korea, 18-19 October) http://e3000.hallym.ac.kr/~s992702/index.html
2nd International IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Orlando, FL, USA, March) http://www.cs. helsinki.fi/u/oulasvir/scipubs/33_Kurvinen_E_Oulasvirta_A.pdf
2003  
Fourth Wireless World Conference: The Mobile Revolution A Retrospective (Guildford, UK, 17-18 July) http:www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/ww4/
Front Stage - Back Stage: Mobile Communication  
Mobile Technologies: Social and Political Effects (Budapest, Hungary, 24-25April) http://www.fil.hu/mobil/2003/
Home Oriented Informatics and Telematics (HOIT) (Irvine CA, USA, 6-8 April) http://www.crito.uci.edu/noah/HOIT/index.htm
2002  
Main Issues in Designing Interactive Mobile Services Workshop, Mobile HCI '02 (Pisa, Italy, September 17) http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/mobilehci02.html
Third Wireless World Conference (Guildford, United Kingdom, 17-18 July)  
The Social and Cultural Impact/Meaning of Mobile Communication (Chunchon, Korea, 13-15 July)  
2001  
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Workshop: Mobile Communications: Understanding Users, Adoption & Design (1-2 April)  
e-usages - 3ème Colloque International sur les Usages et Services dans les Télécommunications (Paris, France, 12-14 June)  
Third Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices Conference Proceedings (Lille, France, 10 September) http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/~mdd/mobilehci01/
KTK Seminar om Mobilitet. (Oslo, Norway, 20 November) http://www.intermedia.uio.no/seminarer/mobilitet/index2.html
2000  
Konsekvenser av Mobiltelefoni (Telenor) (Oslo, 16 June)  
1999  
Second Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices Conference Proceeding (Edinburgh, Scotland, 31 August) http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~mark/research/workshops/mobile99/
1998  
First Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices Conference - (Glasgow, Scotland, 21-23 May) http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/papers/mobile/HCIMD1.html
1992  
Les Usages Sociaux de la Telephonie Mobile en Scandinavie, Institut Finlandais (Paris, France, 30 January) (CNET/IDATE seminar)