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<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">This talk reports on a study of the use of mobile phones and the Internet by youth, adults and families experiencing
homelessness. The research, </span><span style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">supported by a grant
from the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) and carried out in early 2014, included 95 surveys and interviews with clients of specialist homelessness services located in Sydney and Melbourne. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">The
study revealed that despite many possessing mobile phones and smartphones, users go for lengthy periods with limited access due to credit shortages, service restrictions, handset loss and damage, and high call and data costs. The <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">talk </span>examines
the digital challenges encountered by participants and the strategies and innovations used to manage daily information and communication needs. It <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">argues
for a need to recognise the cost of contact as essential support and government services move online, and the differential power relations and life circumstances that shape digital access and use.</span></span></span></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana">Date:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana"> Friday 22nd August, 2014</span></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana">Location: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana">S226<b> </b>Seminar Room, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, <a href="http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,239); text-decoration:none">John
Woolley Building (A20)</span></b></a><b><span style="color:blue"> </span></b>level 2, entry off Manning Road.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family:Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Register at </font></span></b><font color="#0000ee" face="Verdana" size="3"><u><a href="http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-cost-of-contact-mobile-phones-and-the-internet-in-the-lives-of-people-experiencing-homelessness-tickets-12039334975">http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-cost-of-contact-mobile-phones-and-the-internet-in-the-lives-of-people-experiencing-homelessness-tickets-12039334975</a></u></font></p>
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<div><font><font><font face="Verdana"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; text-align:left; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Justine
Humphry</span></strong><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:normal; text-align:left; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Verdana">is
a Lecturer of Cultural and Social Analysis as the University of Western Sydney and previously was a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Digital Cultures Program in the Department of Media and Communication, University of Sydney. She has also taught media and
communications, cultural studies and sociology of media at the University of Technology and Macquarie University. She researches and writes about mobile media and professional cultures, and issues of digital inclusion, participatory networks and service delivery.
Her current ACCAN-funded research project, </span><em><span style="font-family:Verdana">Homeless and Connected, </span></em><span style="font-family:Verdana">examines mobile phones and mobile Internet in the lives of homeless families and young people.</span></span></b></font></font></font></div>
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