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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span class="TitleChar"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri"><font color="#17365d" face="Cambria">‘Social, Casual, Mobile: Changing Games’</font></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font face="Calibri">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span class="TitleChar"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri"><font color="#17365d"><font face="Cambria">ANZCA 2013 PreConference, 2 July 2013.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></span></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">Keynote Speaker: Mia Consalvo, Concordia University in Montreal
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Plenary Speaker: John Banks, Queensland University of Technology
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<font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Social, casual and mobile games – primarily experienced on smartphones and online social networks – are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and in the process, changing the ways in which games are designed, understood and,
most importantly, played. This preconference will explore this rapidly changing gaming landscape and discuss the ludic, methodological, theoretical, economic, social and cultural challenges that these changes invoke.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Importantly, social, casual and mobile games do not exist in a vacuum, so the challenges, changes and continuities in relation to previous digital and physical games and gaming practices are also open for analysis.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Topics might include, but are by no means limited to:<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Design and industry shifts from traditional games to mobile and networked games<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">New user demographics<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Virtual currencies, in-game purchases, the .99c price-point and other economic issues<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Games as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>surveillance and the exchange of user information for game progress<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Zynga: The Rise and (partial) Fall of Facebook’s Biggest Gaming Friend<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Mobile Franchises:
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Angry Birds, Plants V Zombies, and so on.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">South-East Asian and other non-Western gaming cultures<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Gaming communities<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Gamification - the good, the bad, and the scoreboard<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Convergence and social, casual and mobile games
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Edutainment<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The sociality or otherwise of social games<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Shifting landscape from PC and console games to social, casual and mobile games<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Locative games: place and mobility<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Paper abstracts of no more than 500 words, or full papers of no more than 5000 words, including a brief biographic
statement, using APA 6<sup>th</sup> referencing style, are due Friday, 29 March 2013 (accepted papers and abstracts will be notified by 15April 2013), emailed to
</font><a href="mailto:socialcasualmobile@gmail.com"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">socialcasualmobile@gmail.com</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Pre-conference papers and abstracts will not appear in the ANZCA proceedings; rather they will automatically
be considered for inclusion in an edited collection on the topic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
Social, Casual, Mobile: Changing Games</i> being organised concurrently with the preconference. If you do NOT want your paper or abstract considered for inclusion in this collection, please note this when emailing your submission.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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