<div dir="ltr">Hi All, <div><br></div><div>Please find below the details of our forthcoming Open Literacy symposium on Sept 30 & Oct 1 at Curtin in Perth, Western Australia.</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:16pt">‘OPEN LITERACY’</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:16pt">Digital Games, Social
Responsibility and Social Innovation</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14pt">An international Research
Symposium at Curtin University, Western Australia</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-AU">Background</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> “We cannot stress highly enough the importance
of greater public understanding </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">of digital information—its use,
scale, importance and influence ... </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Digital literacy should be a fourth
pillar of education, </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">alongside reading, writing and maths.</span></b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-AU">Curtin
University’s Centre for Culture & Technology (CCAT) and Tencent are proud
to launch the Curtin-Tencent Research Centre</span></b><span lang="EN-AU"> at
this international research symposium, focusing on digital media and the
creative economy, with a special emphasis on digital online games. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">The event also marks the 20<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of <b>Internet Studies at
Curtin University</b>. We invite you to join our researchers, including <b>John Hartley,</b> <b>Katie Ellis, Tama Leaver, Crystal Abidin</b> and others, and share your
work with visitors from China and the world. Alternatively, save the date and
simply attend the event to participate on the day.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-AU">International
Keynote Speakers</span></b><span lang="EN-AU">: </span></p>
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</span></span><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:16pt">Henry Jenkins</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:16pt"> (University of Southern California); </span></p>
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</span></span><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:16pt">Zizi Papacharissi</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:16pt"> (Illinois-Chicago);</span></p>
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</span></span><b><span lang="EN-AU">Tencent </span></b><span lang="EN-AU">games executive/developer VP
(tba); </span></p>
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</span></span><b><span lang="EN-AU">Mathew Allen<i> </i></span></b><span lang="EN-AU">(Deakin University)––Matt launched Internet Studies at Curtin in
1999.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Date: <b>September
30-October 1, 2019</b>, prior to the Annual Conference of the Association of
Internet Researchers (AoIR). We are offering this event as a <b>‘satellite conference’ of AoIR</b>.
Scholars will be able to break their journey in Perth before heading to
Brisbane in time for AoIR’s pre-conference day.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">With Tencent’s support, we can offer a
limited number of <b>bursaries to international
and Australian doctoral students and early career researchers</b>. Selected
applicants will be offered $500 towards the PER-BNE leg of their travel costs,
and we will waive our Registration fee for presenters.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-AU">We
invite proposals for papers and presentations on what we are calling ‘Open
Literacy’.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU"> ‘Open’ literacy links the domain of
digital popular culture and entertainment, including video and online games,
with that of formal knowledge. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">At a time when there is increasing tension
between large-scale, global connectivity on the one hand, and a population
marked by division, difference and asymmetries of access on the other, it is
more urgent than ever to extend participation in knowledge and social
responsibility––science and civics––beyond exclusive institutions and
restricted professions. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Recent developments in ‘open access’
scholarship, ‘open science’ initiatives and ‘open source’ software offer new
ways to update Karl Popper’s vision of ‘the open society’ for the connected
age. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Focusing on the extension of digital
capabilities among a broad global population via smart devices, apps and
digital entertainment to smart users, groups and enterprises, we want to
explore how opening digital knowledge systems to popular participation may boost
innovation and social inclusion and responsibility. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Many media scholars are sceptical of the
‘mass media effects’ tradition of research, inherited from anxiety about
earlier forms of popular media, from print to broadcasting. At the same time they
are mindful that public debate about this topic still depends on outmoded
industrial and individualist theories. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">We want to go beyond that paradigm, to
understand the challenges of digital, online media and the possibilities for
renewing knowledge systems and social groups in times of technological change
and geopolitical uncertainty. In short, what do entertainment systems and
knowledge systems––and their users––have in common?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">In this context, <i>‘Open Literacy’ refers to the dynamic combination of (i) individual
skills, capabilities and creative imagination (developed through ‘purposeless’ play-practice)
with (ii) the social networks, teamwork, conflict management and difference needed
in public/media environments, to (iii) build new social groups––‘knowledge
clubs’ and ‘knowledge commons’––for social innovation under uncertainty. </i>Open
literacy is user-centred and system-wide, producing unforeseen network effects
that in turn change the rules of the game. Navigating newness raises new
questions:</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Of what does ‘open literacy’
comprise in the global-digital-connected era? </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">How do citizens in different
contexts, places and opportunity-spaces practice it? </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Open knowledge, open science,
open access: what should policymakers, educators, arts/literature agencies,
sport/exercise bodies and commercial entertainment/ leisure providers do about
it?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">To reflect on these developments and to
report on cutting edge research linking games, social innovation and social
responsibility, the ‘Open Literacy’ Research Symposium will be held over two
days. Papers and presentations––including work by postgraduate and early-career
researchers––may address (but is not confined to) the following themes. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">In the context of pervasive computational
and communicational literacy in the digital age, presenters will think through
the relationships among <i>games, social
innovation </i>and<i> social responsibility:</i></span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">‘Games’ include digital games and
analogue play; </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">main focus is on video games,
internet and online games; </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">but also branded play
(Lego/Barbie);</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">competitive games
(sport/health); </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">childhood games (indoor/outdoor
play).</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Responsibility includes
corporate and individual. </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Corporate: what are the social
responsibilities of games developers and publishers? What are they doing right
or wrong, according to whose criteria? </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Individual: rights and duties
of players and gamers themselves; how parents and young people achieve and
maintain social responsibility through play.</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Responsibility and control: </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">how games work in the
production of what Michele Willson calls “the ideal child” (<i>Media Culture Society</i>, 2018); </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">how can games and other online
changes be historicised meaningfully;</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">political, moral, religious, authoritarian
crackdowns on games/popular media.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">The event will also consider a
counter-narrative to the rhetoric of responsibility and social innovation
through games. </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">‘Serious Games’ in medical,
health, teaching/learning and development contexts.</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Games and innovation: </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Expansion of the creative
economy</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Games as a mass spectacle (e.g.
Korea).</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">What does gaming teach the next
generation? </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Lessons from China.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">The event will include presentations from
global thought-leaders, scholars and practitioners from the USA, Australia,
China and elsewhere. Selected postgraduate students will be eligible for
financial assistance (bursaries) for travel and for the preparation of their
papers and presentations. The intention is to produce a <b>published</b> <b>report from the proceedings</b>
of the day, including selected keynote, specialist and early-career (HDR+ECR)
contributions.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Potential presenters, please send your </span><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">abstract, of between 250-500 words in length </span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">or <b>a short paper (1000-3000 words in length)</b></span><b><span lang="EN-AU">, to Dr. Huan WU,</span></b><span lang="EN-AU"> <b>by April 5, 2019</b>: <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="mailto:huan.wu@curtin.edu.au" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">huan.wu@curtin.edu.au</a></span>.
Queries and correspondence may be addressed to the symposium convener, John
Hartley. We will confirm acceptance during May. For those with institutional
support for their research outreach, there will be a registration fee to cover
venue costs and catering. If you wish to attend without presenting a paper,
just let Huan know.</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">“See you in September!”</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoFootnoteText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="gmail-MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="gmail-MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10pt">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-AU"> Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (14 February 2019) <i>Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report.
</i>UK: House of Commons, pp. 85; 87 (<span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/1791/1791.pdf" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/1791/1791.pdf</a></span>). </span></p>
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</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Associate Professor Tama Leaver<br>Discipline Lead, Internet Studies,</div><div dir="ltr">School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI)<br>Curtin University<br>GPO Box U1987 Perth WA Australia 6845<br>Ph: (+61 8) 9266 1258<br>Email: <a href="mailto:t.leaver@curtin.edu.au" target="_blank">t.leaver@curtin.edu.au</a><br>Web: <a href="http://www.tamaleaver.net" target="_blank">www.tamaleaver.net</a><div>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/tamaleaver" target="_blank">@tamaleaver</a><br>CRICOS Provider Code: 00301J (WA)</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>