ACT Project held two special panels at the TrentAging 2019 Conference, which took place in Peterborough, Ontario, May 28th – 31st. The first one was on older audiences in the digital media environment based on the first wave of the ACT cross-national longitudinal study. The second one was on grandmothers’ social participation and their relationship with ICTs based on the cross-national qualitative study Grannies on the Net.
ACT researchers presented the following four papers as part of the first panel.
- How loyal is the most loyal audience of traditional media?
Professor Galit Nimrod, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - Media use by Romanian and Dutch older audiences: Do technology generations matter?
Professor Loredana Ivan, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania
Professor Eugène Loos, Utrecht School of Governance, The Netherlands
Post Doc researcher Ioana Schiau, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania - Media-based leisure styles and wellbeing among older Internet users
Ph.D. Candidate Vera Gallistl, University of Vienna, Austria
Professor Galit Nimrod, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - Online surveys targeting older people: Some methodological reflections
Senior Researcher Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Open University of Catalonia, Catalonia, Spain
Post Doc researcher Andrea Rosales, Open University of Catalonia, Catalonia, Spain
ACT researchers also presented the following three papers as part of the second panel.
- Negotiating an evolving digital world: Grandmothers’ leisure experiences
Professor Shannon Hebblethwaite, Concordia University, Canada - Strategies of grandmothers in learning to use digital technologies
Post Doc Andrea Rosales, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Ph.D. Candidate Daniel Blanche, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain - “We are like children, we need to be guided in this world”: Internet barriers in grandmothers that connect to Internet and how they overcome them
Professor Roxana Barrantes, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
Ph.D. Candidate Daniela Ugarte, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
More about TrentAging 2019:
Take Back Aging: Power, Critique, Imagination
May 28 – 31, 2019, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada
About the Second Joint Conference of NANAS and ENAS
Held at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, Take Back Aging: Power, Critique, Imagination is the second joint conference organized by NANAS and ENAS that invites researchers, writers, and scholars from all disciplines and at every career stage to share their diverse approaches to conventional fields of gerontology and critical aging studies. We wish to encourage new insights into assumed styles of life and thought, imaginative reflections on the meanings and representations of aging, challenging perspectives from cross-cultural and global experience, and activist strategies to take back aging from those powers and practices that relegate it to the margins of social existence and citizenship.
Organized over four days in May, 2019, we welcome you to explore our beautiful campus, enjoy the vibrancy of our city and forge lasting connections with colleagues from all corners of the academy.
About NANAS and ENAS
The North American Network in Aging Studies (NANAS) was established in January, 2013 by a small group of humanities and social science scholars who were interested in critical examinations of older age that moved away from the experimental sciences and instead spoke to fundamental questions of human existence.
The European Network in Aging Studies (ENAS) was first established in 2010 within the framework of the project “Live to be a Hundred: The Cultural Fascination with Longevity,” funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) in the program Internationalization in the Humanities. When the NWO-funded project came to an end in 2013, the European Network in Aging Studies was re-launched as a formal international association located in Graz, Austria.
