Preconferences

Through the first decade of the millennium, there were a series of small research seminars that focused on mobile communication. In 2002, there was what can be seen as the first Mobile Communication Pre-conference associated with the ICA meeting in Seoul that year. There were other independent seminars held in the following years (e.g., at Rutgers and in Budapest). The alignment between the Mobile Communication pre-conference and the general ICA conference truly came at the pre-conference in Erfurt, Germany, before the ICA conference in Dresden in 2006. Along the way, the mobile communication preconference provided a synergy between mobile communication researchers and the wider communication studies community. The Call for Proposals for the mobile preconference is typically released at the end of the year.

Previous preconferences:

2025 - Denver

2024 - Gold Coast