Location: IN3, Open University, Barcelona, July, 2011
Guest Prof. Eugène Loos to offer a conference on senior citizens and information accessibility at the IN3-UOC, Barcelona
The Mobile Communication, Economy & Society Research Program (CMES) of the IN3-UOC is hosting for the public talk Prof. Dr. Eugène F. Loos, from the University of Amsterdam, will give next April 11th in Barcelona, Spain (one of the places where the Ageing Communication Media network has presence). The title of the conference is “Senior […]
SENIORS AND CELLS
How do Canadians, sixty-five years and older, use the cellular telephone? Why to they use it? What are their observations on the shifting landscape of mobile media from their perspective? These questions are at the heart of “seniors and cells”, an interrogation into the way that older Canadians tactically negotiate a variety of barriers to access and make decisions about their media use.
‘It’s my choice’
‘It’s my choice” : exploring adoption and non-adoption of mobile telephony among seniors’ explores the adoption and non-adoption of mobile telephony amongst seniors. While the majority of participants are located in Barcelona, Catalonia, the study has since expanded to bring in comparisons with older adults in the United States. In the next, experimental phase of the project, the team has use the methods first developed for this study and adapted them for a small pilot study of Canadian seniors in Toronto (May- June 2012).
‘Extraordinary Lives’
Extraordinary Lives addresses the absence of the voices of seniors from public discourse and counters the myth of the unified ageing subject.
Étoile des aînés
Ageing Musics/Ageing Musicians s’agit d’un projet pilote visant à explorer la spécificité de ces enjeux à travers le champ des études sur la musique populaire où les “jeunes” demeurent souvent conçus à la fois comme les sujets, les acteurs et les auditoires privilégiés.
Active Ageing, Mobile Technologies- and the A-C-M
Active Ageing, Mobile Technologies is the title of the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant that is funding the development of this nascent international, multidisciplinary partnership. The grant brings together a team of researchers and community partners from Malaysia, Catalonia, Canada and Quebec whose goal is to better understand the intersections between communications, ageing and mobility. The […]
Nostalgia
Music mash-ups have the capacity to revive sounds from the past by giving them a new twist. In this kind of practice where the old meets the new (or becomes new), how does the selection of music occur?