Dr. Barbara Crow is the Interim Dean, Graduate Studies and Associate Vice-President, Graduate. Dr. Crow’s current research interests relate to the social, cultural, political and economic implications of digital technologies. Her most recent project, undertaken in collaboration with Professor Kim Sawchuk of Concordia University and funded with a SSHRC Standard Grant, focuses on senior citizens and […]
Dr. Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol
Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol is a researcher at the IN3, the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (UOC, Open University of Catalonia) and Co-director of the Research Program “Mobile Communication, Economy & Society”. Mobile communication has been one of her main areas of study since 2003, with a combined sociological and economic focus. Her interests are set both in developed […]
Dr. Kim Sawchuk
Kim Sawchuk is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. A feminist media studies scholar, Sawchuk’s current research-creation work traverses two major areas: wireless, mobile communications and the legacy of biomedical imaging, or biotourism. While distinct in content, they intersect via the thread of mobility. Sawchuk, together with Dr. Barbara Crow of […]
Un jour ou l’autre
Abstract The aim of this documentary film-based research-creation project is to explore the processes of an elderly couple making the life-altering transition from their home into a retirement residence. This research-creation project poses a series of questions: What does ageing mean for elderly people living in rural Québec? How do they experience the transition from […]
Mapping Québec on Media Ageing
Ageing and/as Enduring
Media and Telecommunications
Participatory Media Research
Activist Ageing
For over twelve years RECCA (Respecting Elders: Communities Against elder Abuse/Ressources Ethnoculturelles Contre l’Abus envers les Ainé(e)s) have been using participatory theatre to combat elder abuse and to make elders within Montreal’s ethnocultural communities aware of their rights.