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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A free public one-day symposium. Places are strictly limited. Registration is required at
</span></strong><a href="http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com/"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The Social Lives of Locative Media</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Date:
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal">Wednesday, 23 July 2014</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Time:
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal">8.30am – 5.00pm
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Venue:
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal">EW 301 (Entry via Building EN Level 3), Hawthorn Campus, Swinburne University</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Registration:
</span></strong><a href="http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A free public one-day symposium. Places are strictly limited. Registration is required.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Speakers and topics include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jason Farman</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (University of Maryland College Park):
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‘Locative Media and the Poverty of the Screen’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jordan Frith
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(University of North Texas):<br>
‘Filter Bubbles and Physical Space: Examining the Social Consequences of Spatial Search’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gerard Goggin</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (University of Sydney): ‘Disability and Locative Media’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Larissa Hjorth</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (RMIT University): ‘Visualising Ambient Play: Camera Phone Practices and Cartographies
of Co-presence’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Christian Licoppe</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (Télécom Paristech): ‘Location Awareness and the Social-interactional Dynamics
of Mobile Sexual Encounters between Strangers. The Uses of Grindr in the Gay Male Community.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ben Light</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (QUT):
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‘Social Networking Sites and Geographies of Disconnection’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kane Race
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(University of Sydney): ‘“Looking to Play?” Online Hook-up Devices in Gay Life’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ingrid Richardson</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (Murdoch):
<br>
‘Medium and Mediation: Locative Mobile Media as Thing and Process’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Raz Schwartz</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (Cornell Tech):
<br>
‘The Social Media Pulse of the City’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Rowan Wilken</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (Swinburne University of Technology) &<br>
<b>Lee Humphreys</b> (Cornell): <br>
‘Social Media, Commercialisation, and the Control of Information:<br>
Foursquare and Small Business’<span style="color:#666666"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Registration:</span></b>
<a href="http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://sociallivesoflocativemedia.eventbrite.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For full program, speaker biographies and abstracts:
</span></b><a href="http://www.sisr.net/flagships/communications/symposium.html"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.sisr.net/flagships/communications/symposium.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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