[csaa-forum] The Social Lives of Locative Media - Public Symposium Swinburne University

[Anthony McCosker]

A free public one-day symposium. Places are strictly limited. Registration is required at http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com<http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com/>

The Social Lives of Locative Media

Date: Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Time: 8.30am - 5.00pm

Venue: EW 301 (Entry via Building EN Level 3), Hawthorn  Campus, Swinburne University

Registration: http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com<http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com/>

A free public one-day symposium. Places are strictly limited. Registration is required.


The Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology is proud to present a one-day public symposium on locative mobile media, featuring leading international and Australian researchers.

Speakers and topics include:

Jason Farman (University of Maryland College Park):
'Locative Media and the Poverty of the Screen'

Jordan Frith (University of North Texas):
'Filter Bubbles and Physical Space: Examining the Social Consequences of Spatial Search'

Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney): 'Disability and Locative Media'

Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University): 'Visualising Ambient Play: Camera Phone Practices and Cartographies of Co-presence'

Christian Licoppe (Télécom Paristech): 'Location Awareness and the Social-interactional Dynamics of Mobile Sexual Encounters between Strangers. The Uses of Grindr in the Gay Male Community.'

Ben Light (QUT):
'Social Networking Sites and Geographies of Disconnection'

Kane Race (University of Sydney): '"Looking to Play?" Online Hook-up Devices in Gay Life'

Ingrid Richardson (Murdoch):
'Medium and Mediation: Locative Mobile Media as Thing and Process'

Raz Schwartz (Cornell Tech):
'The Social Media Pulse of the City'

Rowan Wilken (Swinburne University of Technology) &
Lee Humphreys (Cornell):
'Social Media, Commercialisation, and the Control of Information:
Foursquare and Small Business'


Registration: http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com<http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com/>

For full program, speaker biographies and abstracts: http://www.sisr.net/flagships/communications/symposium.html

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