Line Grenier is Associate Professor at the Département de communication at Université de Montréal in Montréal, Québec (Canada).  Director of the research group Popular Culture, Knowledge and Critique (CPCC), she teaches predominantly in the areas of research methodology, social discourse, memory and media, and popular culture. A popular music studies scholar, her work on the history and politics of “chanson,” local music industries, broadcasting and cultural policies related to French-language vocal music, rites and processes of popularization and valorization in Québec, as well as the Céline Dion phenomenon and the figures of fame and celebrity it embodies, has been published in several journals, including Popular Music, Cultural Studies, Recherches féministes, Ethnomusicology, Recherches sociographiques, and Musicultures. Her current research focuses on the business and politics of live music, especially on the role of small venues in Montreal, and the regimes of circulation of music. Her most recent project deals with ageing musics and musicians in Québec. It involves a conjectural analysis of the normativities of public discourse on “active” and “successful ageing,” and a multi-site ethnography of a music contest for seniors called Étoile des aînés/Senior Stars.

CV – Line Grenier

Chui Yin Wong is Senior Lecturer in the Interface Design (ID) Department, Faculty of Creative Multimedia (FCM), Multimedia University (MMU) Malaysia. She also plays a role as an Industrial R&D Liaison for ID. Her research interests are interface design, usability, user experience, interaction design, user and design research, inclusive design, mobile technologies, and Human-Computer Interaction.

Chui Yin is the Malaysia country representative for IFIP TC13: Human-Computer Interaction. In addition, she also serves as the Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Currently, she is leading a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Universal Usability and Interaction Design (UUID) at MMU.

In 2008, she was the conference secretary for Human Factors in Telecommunication (HFT2008). She has been serving as a Program Committee and/or reviewer for many journals and international conferences in these areas. Her previous project on ‘mobile social network application: MOM-i’, funded by Malaysian Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), won a Silver award under Multimedia category at an international exhibition ITEX 2009. Currently, she is leading several government and industry funded projects. Some of her current projects are ‘Usability of Mobile User Interface for Older Adults in Malaysia’, ‘Senior Grid: Portraying extraordinary lives’. She can be reached at cywong@mmu.edu.my.

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 mobile technologies. Dr. Crow has also edited collections on mobile technologies, including The Wireless Spectrum: The Politics, Practices and Poetics of Mobile Communication, co-edited with Michael Longford and Kim Sawchuk, University of Toronto Press, in press, Wireless Technologies, Mobile Practices, co-edited with Kim Sawchuk and Richard Smith, Canadian Journal of Communication, 2008 and “Digital Feminisms,” co-edited with Sheila Petty, Atlantis, 2008. She is co-director of the Mobile Media Lab- Toronto.

CV – Barbara Crow

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 and in developing countries.

Project: Mobile Communications and Old Age

Publications:
-Mobile Communication and Society. A Global Perspective (2006)
Castells, Manuel;Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia; Qiu, Jack L.; Sey, Araba
MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.(translated into Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese among others)

-Comunicación móvil y desarrollo social y económico en América Latina (2011)
(Mobile communication and social and economic development in Latin America)
Fernández-Ardèvo, Mireia; Galperin, Hernan; Castells, Manuel (dirs.)
Ed. Ariel and Fundacion Telefónica, Barcelona.

Personal website: http://www.femrecerca.cat/mireia/

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 York University, is conducting SSHRC funded research on senior citizens and cellular phones. She is also directing an international project Active Aging Mobile Technologies on the intersections of aging and the promises of mobile technology. Sawchuk is a co-founder of the Mobile Media Lab (York-Concordia) and director of the Mobilities Research Centre located in Concordia’s Department of Communication Studies. She has just completed a six-year term as the editor of the Canadian Journal of Communications (www.cjc-online.ca) and she is the co-editor of Wi: journal of mobile media (www.wi-not.ca). In addition to her academic research, in 1996 Sawchuk co-founded of StudioXX,  a feminist research and media arts centre in Montréal.