ACT Scroll

The journal Organization Studies has issued a call for papers for a special issue entitled “At a Critical Age: The Social and Political Organization of Age and Ageing.”  The guest editors include Susan Ainsworth (University of Melbourne), Leanne Cutcher (University of Sydney), Cynthia Hardy (University of Melbourne), and Robyn Thomas (University of Cardiff).  The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2013.  For the full call for papers and more information, click here.

The Centre for Material Digital Culture is hosting a symposium at the University of Sussex entitled “The Table Symposium: Examining New Media Objects.”  The one-day symposium will take place April 10th, 2013 and abstracts are due by January 15th, 2013.  For a full call for papers, click here.

The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) recently issued a call for comments  about the creation of “a mandatory code for mobile wireless service providers to address the clarity and content of mobile wireless service contracts and related issues for consumers” (call for comments, p.1).  Dr. Catherine Middleton, Dr. Tamara Shepherd, Dr. Leslie Regan Shade, Dr. Kim Sawchuk, and Dr. Barbara Crow collaborated on an Intervention that can be found on the website.  The Intervention can be found under the name Middleton, Catherine and number 1063.

For a full list of interventions, click here.

 

The Mobile Communications 10th Anniversary Pre-Conference Workshop has issued a call for papers for their workshop to be held from June 16th-17th, 2013 at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Media and Communications Department.

A 250-500 word abstract and 50 word bio are due by November 16th, 2012 and should be sent to j.vincent@surrey.ac.uk.

For a full call for papers and more information, click here.

Giuliana Cucinelli, a member of the Active Ageing team, will present her research on the Park Extension project, entitled “AddressKnown: Working with Geolocation Based Storytelling,” at the International Institute for Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Leadership Annual Conference.  The conference will take place in Noto, Sicily (Italy) from October 14th-18th, 2012.