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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">At Home with Digital Media </span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A symposium hosted by QUT Digital Media Research Centre (<a href="http://twitter.com/qutdmrc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 67, 124); text-decoration-line: none;">@qutdmrc</a>)</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">2-3 November 2017</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><a href="http://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 67, 124); text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">http://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/</span></a></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Background</span></h4>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Television: Technology and Cultural Form</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (1974),
Raymond Williams coined the term ‘mobile privatisation’ to describe the experience of the private home as an increasingly technologised space. Since the 1920s, he argued, new technological ‘gadgets’ that improved domestic efficiency, new options in private
transport to take people to and from their homes, and new media, such as the radio, which brought news and entertainment into the home have fostered an ‘at-once mobile and home-centred way of living’. Throughout the late twentieth century, family television
consumption practices and the domestication of new media technologies were regular topics for media, communication and cultural studies. In the early 21st century, the rise of smartphones and the turn to mobile media led to a focus on the convergence of intimate
forms of communication with the presence of digital media in more public spaces, such as the city and the street.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">There is a resurgence of interest in the home in digital media research, and for good reason: the digitally mediated home is the site of household politics including
intergenerational conflict and anxiety; it is a key factor in the economics of digital inclusion; and it is at the centre of a significant intensification of digital media technologies in everyday life. Taking the concept of ‘home’ less literally, domestication–the
process of bringing new technologies home, making sense of them, and finding new uses for them–is a key part of the innovation and embedding process; it is also how new the cultural logics of new technologies become normalised and entangled with our work,
our leisure, our intimate relationships, and our daily routines.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mobile technologies create complex flows of social relationships, personal and public communication, across the boundaries of work and home, private and public
space. At the same time, the particularities of material spaces within homes offer diverse geographies of media production, consumption, and entrepreneurship: teenage bedrooms, kitchens and garages are the sites of cultural innovation, from new forms of storytelling
to games and software development. And intertwined with the metaphors of comfort and enclosure, are less pleasant realities – homes are not always safe; and digital media can be implicated in household conflict and domestic violence. </span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; ">This symposium will feature a range of national and international scholarship on the changing relationships between digital media technologies and the home – as space, as place, and as a troubled metaphor
for belonging.</p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Possible Themes</span></h4>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Smart homes and digital living: assistive technologies; the internet of things (aka </span><a href="https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 67, 124); text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">the
internet of shit</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">); AIs and automation; pet wearables; contemporary and retro-futuristic representations of the digitally enabled home; new frontiers for direct marketing (e.g. Unruly and News Corp’s </span><a href="http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/campaign-tv-unruly-launches-2000-sq-ft-connected-home/1433520" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 67, 124); text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The
Home</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Digital inclusion: digital technologies in the household economy; digital ability, agency and control in the household; digital media use in rural and remote homes.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Place, space and mobilities: the domestic and mobile geographies of media use and production; the mediatization of family spaces; digital media as a tool for regulating and governing household space and time</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media consumption, production and audience practices: kids and the ‘screen time’ debate; connected and multi-screen family viewing; work-life balance; </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">the internet of toys; ‘let’s
play’ and unboxing videos</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">; vernacular creativity and mundane media.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Learning at home through digital media: early literacies and digital media; learning technologies; </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">the home as a node in connected learning ecologies; social media entertainment,
digital games and learning; maker culture</span></li></ul>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Submission process and key dates</span></h4>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Please submit paper proposals to Michael Dezuanni </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><</span><a href="mailto:m.dezuanni@qut.edu.au" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 67, 124); text-decoration-line: none;">m.dezuanni@qut.edu.au</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> by <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">30
June 2017</span>.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Proposals should include an abstract of 250–400 words along with a brief bio of no more than 100 words.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 10 July 2017.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Draft papers (3000–4000 words) of accepted presentations are to be submitted by 13 October 2017 for sharing and discussion among symposium participants.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Please note that there will be no registration fees for this event, and daytime catering will be provided; however participants will be responsible for funding
and arranging travel and accommodation if required.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Organisers</span></h4>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><a href="https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/people/michael-dezuanni/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 67, 124); text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Michael
Dezuanni</span></a></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 67, 124); text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/people/jean-burgess/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 67, 124); text-decoration-line: none;">Jean
Burgess</a></span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; "><a href="https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/people/peta-mitchell/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 67, 124); text-decoration-line: none;">Peta Mitchell</a></p>
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