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Mundane Media Moments: Ageing, The Ordinary, and Everyday Life
On Wednesday June 26 ACT and the Socio-gerontology Network…
October 13: Bridging Research and Public Policy: Matters of Ageing and Technology
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events /by Constance LafontaineAs part of the ACT annual meeting, we are holding a public keynote address and round table discussion at the University of Ottawa. This event will take place on October 13, 2017 in Simard Hall (SMD) 125, located at 60 University Street in Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Marcel Mérette, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at […]
ACT panel selected as a “divisional symposium” at CAG2017
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, News /by Constance LafontaineThe ACT Panel titled “Ageing, Communication, Technologies : Experiencing a Digital World in Later Life” has been selected as the divisional symposium for Social Sciences at the Canadian Association of Gerontology Conference (CAG), to be held from October 19 to 21 in Winnipeg, Canada. The panel will take place on October 21 from 11am to […]
Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellow Symposium: Emerging Research on Later Life
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, News /by Constance LafontaineOn October 5, ACT is hosting its first ever graduate student and postdoctoral fellow symposium at the Loyola campus of Concordia University, specifically in the Department of Communication Studies. With the exception of the public keynote by Josephine Dolan, this is a closed event. SCHEDULE 9:30-10:00 (CJ 2.130) – Welcome and Introductions Josephine Dolan and […]
An Update from WAM Summer School
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Étoile des aînés, In focus, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineThe Centre for Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) celebrated its ten year anniversary at its sixth international summer school in June this year. This took place in Gloucestershire in England. WAM2017 took ‘Noisy Women’ as its theme and the summer school lived up to the promise.
Kelly Leonard defending MA thesis on “Exploring Community Inclusion in Older Adulthood through the use of Computers and Tablets”
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Bringing the Community to You!, News, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineKelly Leonard, a Research Assistant who has been working with ACT for two years, will soon defend her MA thesis titled “Exploring Community Inclusion in Older Adulthood through the use of Computers and Tablets” on August 21 at Concordia University. Her project was supervised by ACT co-applicant Shannon Hebblethwaite. Exploring Community Inclusion in Older Adulthood through […]
Josephine Dolan on ‘Old age’, gender and the silvering of contemporary Hollywood cinema
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, News /by Constance LafontaineKeep Calm and Reboot: Older Adults’ Experiences of Technostress
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Grannies on the Net, In focus, Technophobia and Technostress among Older ICT Users /by Constance LafontaineWhile the manifestation of technostress is common across age, gender and cultural contexts, older adults have very specific challenges. Older adults, despite being the fastest growing segment of ICT users, are often ignored in technostress research, thus very little is known about how they experience and cope with it.
IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics
/in ACT Scroll, Meetings /by Kendra BesangerThe ACT partnership was very well represented at one of the largest ever conferences in ageing studies: the IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, a joint conference hosted by the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) and the Gerontological Association of America (GSA), that took place in San Francisco in July 2017. ACT […]