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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><b><u>SAM Seminar Series 2013</u></b></span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span lang="en-US">‘Software piracy, digital literacy, and social inclusion: A case study of a Venezuelan cybercafé’</span></font></div>
<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span lang="en-US">Tom Apperley, JMRC, UNSW</span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3" color="#3D3D3D"><span lang="en-US">Tuesday, 10 September, 4.30-6pm</span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span lang="en-US">This talk examines the situated development and sharing of new, dynamic literacies, through an ethnographic account of digital gameplay in a cybercafé
in Caracas, Venezuela.</span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span lang="en-US">In Cybercafé Avila, social inclusion through use of digital game platforms and software and inclusion in digital game culture, was underpinned
by a reliance on an ‘unofficial’ knowledge of software piracy.</span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span lang="en-US">Through the pursuit of playing digital games, shared literacies emerged – which, while focused on how to most effectively play digital games, also
included the mastery of techniques that made playing the games a possibility.</span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span lang="en-US">Dr. Tom Apperley is an ethnographer that specializes in researching digital media technologies. His previous writing has covered broadband policy,
digital games, digital literacies and pedagogies, mobile media, and social inclusion. His book, </span></font><font face="Times" size="3"><span lang="en-US"><i>Gaming Rhythms: Play and Counterplay from the Situated to the Global</i></span></font><font face="Times" size="3"><span lang="en-US">,
was published by The Institute of Network Cultures in 2010. </span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="3"><span lang="en-US">Dr. Brigid Costello, UNSW, will be the discussant for this talk.</span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 14px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#3D3D3D"><span lang="en-US">The School’s Seminar Series provides a showcase for local
as well as international scholars, researchers, industry practitioners and creative artists to present their work. All are welcome to attend. Contact Collin Chua (</span></font><a href="mailto:C.Chua@unsw.edu.au" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="2"><span lang="en-US">C.Chua@unsw.edu.au</span></font></span></font></a><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#3D3D3D"><span lang="en-US">)
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