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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Renowned mobiles and technology research Professor Christian Licoppe ( Télécom ParisTech) is coming to Australia for two events in Sydney and Melbourne — supported by the ARC Cultural Research Network.<BR>
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Details below — or contact Gerard Goggin (<a href="g.goggin@unsw.edu.au">g.goggin@unsw.edu.au</a> — for Sydney event), <BR>
and Larissa Hjorth (<a href="larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au">larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au</a> – Melbourne event).<BR>
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<B>‘Mobile Methods’ research workshop featuring <BR>
Professor Christian Licoppe (Télécom ParisTech )<BR>
Tuesday 7 September, 10am-4pm<BR>
Journalism and Media Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney<BR>
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Places are limited and registrations are essential — please contact Gerard Goggin (<a href="g.goggin@unsw.edu.au">g.goggin@unsw.edu.au</a>).<BR>
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<B>About the presenter:</B> Christian Licoppe is professor of sociology of information and communication technologies at the Department of Economic and Social Science, Télécom ParisTech (<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://ses.telecom-paristech.fr/licoppe/">http://ses.telecom-paristech.fr/licoppe/</a></U></FONT>). Trained in Science and Technology Studies he has worked extensively on studies of the uses of communication technologies from an ethnographic perspective. Licoppe’s visit is supported by the ‘Cultural Technologies’ node of the ARC Cultural Research Network (<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/nodes/technologies.html">http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/nodes/technologies.html</a></U></FONT>)<BR>
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<B>The ‘crisis of the summons’: a techno-pragmatic approach to notifications (from phone rings to instant messages)<BR>
Professor Christian Licoppe (Télécom ParisTech )<BR>
Thursday 9th September 2010, 2.30 -4.30pm<BR>
RMIT University, Melbourne, Building 9, Level 3, Room 6a<BR>
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</I>This communication analyzes a class of interactional devices which share the property of being ‘designed-to-occur’ (e.g. alerts, alarms, warnings, calls, rings, 'pop-up' windows, etc.), and which can be more generally categorized as ‘notifications’. It will review performativity theories to get a sense of what a phone ring or more generally a notification "does" when it occurs. It will discuss how this class of devices is directly related to interruptions and to attention management issues, and is crucial to the unfolding of communication events. In a review of the last thirty years of HCI research on this topic, the paper shows the transformation of the meaning of interruptions and notification devices. Initially perceived as disruptions in the accomplishment of tasks, interruptions have gradually acquired a positive value, while ‘notification’ devices are supposed to be more subtle and to embed some degree of ‘intelligence’ of the recipient’s context. On the basis of a case study on phone rings it will show the relevance of an observable "crisis of the summons", a phenomenon which may be more generally characteristic of connected lives in connected worlds.<BR>
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<B>About the presenter: </B>Christian Licoppe is professor of sociology of information and communication technologies at the Department of Economic and Social Science, Télécom ParisTech (<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://ses.telecom-paristech.fr/licoppe/">http://ses.telecom-paristech.fr/licoppe/</a></U></FONT>). Trained in Science and Technology Studies he has worked extensively on studies of the uses of communication technologies from an ethnographic perspective. Licoppe’s visit is supported by the ‘Cultural Technologies’ node of the ARC Cultural Research Network (<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/nodes/technologies.html">http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/nodes/technologies.html</a></U></FONT>)<BR>
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For more details contact: </B>Larissa Hjorth (<a href="larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au">larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au</a>)<BR>
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Gerard Goggin <BR>
Professor of Digital Communication <BR>
& Deputy Director <BR>
Journalism and Media Research Centre <BR>
University of New South Wales <BR>
Sydney 2052 NSW Australia <BR>
<a href="http://jmrc.arts.unsw.edu.au/">http://jmrc.arts.unsw.edu.au/</a> <BR>
e: <a href="g.goggin@unsw.edu.au">g.goggin@unsw.edu.au</a> <BR>
w: +61 2 9385 8532 <BR>
f: +61 2 9385 8528 <BR>
m: +61 428 66 88 24 <BR>
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