Rules for submitting abstracts:

1. Title
2. Names and affiliation of all authors must be included along with their contact details.
3. Key words (max. 4)
4. Summary (300-500 words)

When?

By 8 May 2009. (CLOSED)

How?

1) Documents must be sent in a digital format, preferably MS Word (*.doc) or OpenOffice (*.odt). They must be emailed to jornadesitd.in3@uoc.edu. Please write "JDTIC-BCN: submissions" in the subject field.

2) Please indicate the subject area of your paper.

Thematic areas

1. Migrations, interconnection and interdependence
2. New communicative habits: family and interpersonal relationships
3. Technologies and entrepreneurship
4. Communications at the bottom of the pyramid: access strategies
5. Mobile communications and development: microeconomic perspectives
6. E-banking, access to financial services,...: local use and remittances

Acceptance

Authors will be informed as to the acceptance of their papers by 29 May 2009. (15 May 2009)

Rules for submitting papers

Papers may take the form of empirical research studies and must be 5000-7000 words (in English). Priority shall be given to submissions that present empirical evidence based on the actual situation in the selected regions of Latin America and Africa.

Full text must be sent by 10 September 2009.

1) Documents must be sent in a digital format, preferably MS Word (*.doc) or OpenOffice (*.odt). They must be emailed to jornadesitd.in3@uoc.edu. Please write "JDTIC-BCN: Final Paper" in the subject field.

2) Please indicate the subject area of your paper.

Rules

Submissions must comply with the following requirements:

The document must include: Authorship, affiliation of authors, their contact details, and the full title and a summary of the paper.
Font: Arial, 11
Notes: Footnotes

Bibliographic citations:

Bibliographical references within the text shall follow this format:
(Author's surname/s, year [: page/s])

Examples:
(Paetsch, 1993)
(Ito y Okabe, 2003)
(Saunders et al., 1994)

To refer to a specific page, or pages, and/or to insert a comment:
(Lacohée et al., 2003: 208)

Bibliography:

At the end of the document, in alphabetical order.

Books

Examples:
Volti, R. (2005): Society and Technological Change, 5 ed. New York: Pitzer College.
Graham, S., (ed.) (2004): The Cybercities Reader. Londres: Routledge.

Book title

Example:
Caporael, L. R., Xie, B. (2003): Breaking time and space: mobile technologies and reconstituted identities. J. E. Katz (ed.), The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology: Machines that Become Us: 219-231. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

Magazine article

Example:
Lacohée, H., Wakeford, N., Pearson, I. (2003): A social history of the mobile telephone with a view of its future. BT Technology Journal, 21 (3): 203-211.