Academic publisher SAGE has announced the January 2013 launch of the journal Mobile Media & Communication. The journal will be co-edited by Rich Ling of the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Veronika Karnowski of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, Thilo von Pape of the University of Hohenheim, Germany and Steve Jones of University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Mobile Media & Communication will seek to be a peer-reviewed forum for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication. The journal will focus on research with a technical, economic, and design aspect that will help to enlighten the social dimensions of mobile communication.
Embracing both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of mobility in communication, the journal will explore topics such as the use of mobile communication in local cultures; mobile communication in developing countries; the cultural differences in mobile communication; how gender affects mobile communication; specific methodologies that address the mobile character of the phenomenon: ethnography, observation, network analysis, experience sampling, and other emerging methods; and persuasion through mobile media in various domains.
Mobile Media Communications will launch with SAGE in January 2013, publishing three issues each year. The new website will be http://mmc.sagepub.com
