Premiere of Madhu’s Saris
Join us for the premiere of the short documentary film Madhu’s Saris, which will be screened during the AGM for Respecting Elders: Communities Against Abuse on September 20, 2018. The film is the outcome of a collaborative research creation pro...
GUSEGG 2018: Module on Ageing, Communication and Technologies
The 2018 edition of the Graz University Summer School Seggau will take place in Austria from July 1 to July 14. ACT Director, Kim Sawchuk, will teach the ACT-sponsored module on Ageing, Communication and Technologies.
IASPM: Time is of the Essence: Popular Music, Ageing, and Memory
ACT panel at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Canada conference in Regina
“Simpler Than Ever? Online Grocery Shopping With Seniors” by Nora Lamontagne
ACT research assistant, Nora Lamontagne’s article, “Simpler Than Ever? Online Grocery Shopping With Seniors” was published in the September issue of Milieux’s Pause Button, on online publication about technology and culture.
Martine Lagacé named to the National Seniors Council
ACT co-applicant Martine Lagacé, a professor at the University of Ottawa was recently named to the National Seniors Council (NSC). The NSC’s mission is to consult with Canadian seniors, experts and other stakeholders so as to advise the federal government and inform public policy on matters related to the health and well-being of older adults. Lagacé […]
CRTC opens inquiry into misleading or aggressive practices of telecommunication services providers
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has recently opened an official inquiry into the “use of misleading or aggressive telecommunications services providers.” And, as of August 2018, we are actively encouraging Canadians – especially older adults – to participate in this important consultation process.
Coding old age in social imaginaries
This month’s In Focus article comes to us from Dr. Sakari Taipale at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Taipale is a research group leader for the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoEAgeCare), which studies the transformations in ageing in a digital age through analyses of everyday life and societal and policy change. In his paper, Taipale considers the ways in which digitalization of everyday life has shifted the ways we think about age and ageing.
ACT releases the report on the first wave of its cross-country longitudinal study
ACT is pleased to announce the release of the report of the first wave of its cross-country longitudinal study. The report, which is titled Older audiences in the digital media environment: A cross-national longitudinal study, provides an overview of some key findings about seniors’ uses of media from a 2016 wave of quantitative data collection, undertaken in seven […]
RECAA’s activism and World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
une 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). It was initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations in 2006, and serves as a day for the world to voice its opposition to the mistreatment of seniors. In Montreal, ACT’s community partner Respecting Elders: Communities Against Abuse (RECAA) uses the day to inclusively raise awareness of elder mistreatment and elder abuse, by way of theatre practices, creative interventions and hand-to-hand leafleting in the streets.
Sarit Okun and Karine Bellerive are awarded ACT doctoral student bursaries
ACT is pleased to announce the recipients of the ACT Student Bursaries, which are awarded annually to students enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs in ACT partner universities, and who are conducting research on the intersections of ageing, communication and technologies as part of their thesis projects. Sarit Okun is a doctoral student in the […]
Ageing, the Digital and Everyday Life
/in ACT scroll, Conference, featured /by Constance LafontaineAgeing, the Digital and Everyday Life: One Day Seminar Brunel University London, UK. Friday 26th October 2018. Brunel University and ACT are delighted to co-host a one day seminar entitled ‘Ageing, the Digital and Everyday Life’. The speakers are an interdisciplinary group of academics and researchers from the arts, the social sciences and Science and […]
Symposium on Popular Music and Ageing: Brunel University
/in ACT scroll /by Constance LafontaineFollowing the Annual ACT meeting, the members of the Popular Music and Ageing working group will hold a one-day symposium on October 30, 2018 at Brunel University in Uxbridge, UK. More details coming soon!