An Update from WAM Summer School
The Centre for Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) celebrated its ten year anniversary at its sixth international summer school in June this year. This took place in Gloucestershire in England. WAM2017 took ‘Noisy Women’ as its theme and the summer school lived up to the promise.
An Update from WAM Summer School
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Étoile des aînés, In focus, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineThe Centre for Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) celebrated its ten year anniversary at its sixth international summer school in June this year. This took place in Gloucestershire in England. WAM2017 took ‘Noisy Women’ as its theme and the summer school lived up to the promise.
Kelly Leonard defending MA thesis on “Exploring Community Inclusion in Older Adulthood through the use of Computers and Tablets”
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Bringing the Community to You!, News, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineKelly Leonard, a Research Assistant who has been working with ACT for two years, will soon defend her MA thesis titled “Exploring Community Inclusion in Older Adulthood through the use of Computers and Tablets” on August 21 at Concordia University. Her project was supervised by ACT co-applicant Shannon Hebblethwaite. Exploring Community Inclusion in Older Adulthood through […]
Josephine Dolan on ‘Old age’, gender and the silvering of contemporary Hollywood cinema
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, News /by Constance LafontaineKeep Calm and Reboot: Older Adults’ Experiences of Technostress
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Grannies on the Net, In focus, Technophobia and Technostress among Older ICT Users /by Constance LafontaineCALL FOR ABSTRACTS: ACT graduate student and postdoctoral fellow symposium
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events /by Constance LafontaineEmerging research on later life ACT Graduate Student / Postdoctoral Fellow Symposium October 5th , Concordia University, Montreal The research project Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT), housed in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, is seeking proposals for its first graduate student and postdoctoral fellow symposium. The one-day symposium, titled “Emerging research […]
ACT panel at the IAGG conference in San Francisco
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Digital self-tracking and ‘quantified aging’, Events, Grannies on the Net, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineThe ACT panel “Ageing, the Digital and Everyday Life” will take place at the World Congress of Gerontology & Geriatrics, to be held from July 23 to 27 in San Francisco, USA. The panel is scheduled for 8am on Thursday, July 27, and brings together research from ACT members Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Loredana Ivan, Barbara Marshall, Wendy Martin, Kim Sawchuk and Andrea […]
ACT represented in three panels at the Human Computer Interaction conference in Vancouver
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, Grannies on the Net, Smart Watches, The impact of exergames /by Constance LafontaineEugène Loos launched the Intergenerational Gaming Platform at the Human Computer Interaction conference held in July in Vancouver, Canada. He also organized three panels: New media in the life of older people, Digital gaming among older populations, Intergenerational use of new media. The panels were presented as part of the stream on Human Aspects […]
Update from ACT at the Graz International Summer School Seggau
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, Graz Summer School Seggau /by Constance LafontaineBy Eva-Maria Trinkaus The Graz International Summer School Seggau (GUSEGG) 2017 has started on July 2nd and through the long-standing cooperation with ACT, this year’s summer school is again host to one ACT module that focuses on aging in the framework of technologies. Line Grenier, who taught the first week of the module, has handed […]
New Concordia University research centre on aging is looking for a coordinator
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, News /by Constance LafontaineThe newly-formed engAGE: Concordia Centre for Research on Aging at Concordia University in Montreal is looking to hire a coordinator to oversee and manage its daily administrative and research operations. The deadline for applications is August 1, 2017. Interested candidates are invited to apply, and can download the complete job posting by clicking here.
Notes on the AgingGraz2017 ENAS & NANAS Conference
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, In focus /by Constance LafontaineElders Make Waves for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2017
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Activist Ageing, Events, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineACT partner RECAA co-organizes public walk for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2017.
Skyping with Grandma: the role of ICTs in everyday family life
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Grannies on the Net, In focus, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineTricia Toso met with Shannon Hebblethwaite to discuss her most recent research and to learn a little more about the complexities of family communications, in particular the challenges grandparents experience.