Constance Carrier-Lafontaine is a doctoral candidate in the Joint PhD Program in Communication Studies offered by Concordia University, l’Université de Montréal, and l’Université du Québec à Montréal. She has completed undergraduate degrees in Communication and Political Science and, more recently, a Master of Arts in Communication at the University of Ottawa. Constance’s work explores visual culture, human-animal encounters and contemporary practices of displaying animals. Her dissertation examines the ways animals are represented and viewed within discourses of precarity.

April 11-12 IN3 will host a virtual seminar with Professor Loos that will be publicly ”broadcast”. For details on the seminar, click here.

The virtual seminar will begin at 4pm in Barcelona and 10am in Montreal.  For the agenda, click here.

Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montreal,  Jan 12- Jan 19, 2012. As a follow-up to the research conducted in Toronto in May 2012, Mireia was a researcher in residence at the Mobile Media Lab, Montreal for one week. Her visit was oriented towards the production of a jointly authored paper.

Line Grenier, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, and Kim Sawchuk working on the article during the Montreal Network Meeting.

Barbara Crow and Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol working on the article during the Montreal Network Meeting.

Zotero workshop day, oganized by
Daniel Blanche Tarragó, during the Barcelona Network Meeting.

Daniel Blanche Tarragó leading the Zotero workshop for the ACM team.

Daniel Blanche Tarragó leading the Zotero workshop for the ACM team.

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol during the Barcelona Network Meeting.

Kim Sawchuk giving an introduction before the symposium during the Barcelona Network Meeting.

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol giving opening remarks during the symposium at the Barcelona Network Meeting.

Kim presenting at the symposium during the Barcelona Network Meeting.

Line Grenier presenting at the symposium during the Barcelona Network Meeting.

Barbara Crow presenting at the symposium during the Barcelona Network Meeting.

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol presenting at the symposium, May 29th, 2012, during the Toronto Network Meeting.

Line Grenier presenting at the symposium, May 29th, 2012, during the Toronto Network Meeting.

Chui Yin Wong presenting at the Symposium, May 29th, 2012, during the Toronto Network Meeting.

Chui Yin Wong listening during the Symposium, May 29th, 2012, during the Toronto Network Meeting.

Barbara Crow listening during the symposium, May 29th, 2012, during the Toronto Network Meeting.

Sophie Guérin presenting at the Symposium, May 29th, 2012, during the Toronto Network Meeting.

Kim Sawchuk introducing the ACM panel at the CCA.

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol presenting at the CCA.

Barbara Crow presenting at the CCA.

Chui Yin Wong presenting at the CCA.

Line Grenier presenting at the CCA.

Kim Sawchuk after the CCA panel.

Symposium 2, Montreal Oct 27 2011

Meeting 2, Montreal. Oct. 2011

Concordia University
Contact: sofieguerin@gmail.com

As a part of her work for her Masters Degree in Media Studies, Sophie is working on a documentary research-creation project called Transitions: From home to residency that speaks about the migration of elderly people into residential homes. Sophie is working with Kim on PAR, a series of collaborative digital media projects exploring the potential of new media tools for use by community-based groups that are headed by elders. She has been most involved with , RECAA: New Media Methods and Ethnocultural Resources Against Elder Abuse, a Participatory action research initiative that demonstrates the social, political and community-based potential of new media and design. Apart these projects, she loves to meet great people and work within community-settings.