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Mundane Media Moments: Ageing, The Ordinary, and Everyday Life
On Wednesday June 26 ACT and the Socio-gerontology Network…
Keep 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 […]
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: ACT graduate student and postdoctoral fellow symposium
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events /by Constance LafontaineEmerging research on later life ACT Graduate Student / Postdoctoral Fellow Symposium October 5th , Concordia University, Montreal The research project Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT), housed in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, is seeking proposals for its first graduate student and postdoctoral fellow symposium. The one-day symposium, titled “Emerging research […]
ACT panel at the IAGG conference in San Francisco
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Digital self-tracking and ‘quantified aging’, Events, Grannies on the Net, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineACT represented in three panels at the Human Computer Interaction conference in Vancouver
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, Grannies on the Net, Smart Watches, The impact of exergames /by Constance LafontaineEugène Loos launched the Intergenerational Gaming Platform at the Human Computer Interaction conference held in July in Vancouver, Canada. He also organized three panels: New media in the life of older people, Digital gaming among older populations, Intergenerational use of new media. The panels were presented as part of the stream on Human Aspects […]
CREATIVE METHODS IN HEALTH AND WELLBEING SEMINAR SERIES
/in ACT Scroll, Meetings, News /by Kendra BesangerOver two seminars in May and June 2017, this seminar series brought together inter/national researchers, social scientists, artists, policymakers and practitioners to explore and document the possibilities and limitations of a diverse range of creative methods and key methodological issues when researching health and wellbeing and everyday life. In particular, the seminar series focused on […]
Update from ACT at the Graz International Summer School Seggau
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, Graz Summer School Seggau /by Constance LafontaineBy Eva-Maria Trinkaus The Graz International Summer School Seggau (GUSEGG) 2017 has started on July 2nd and through the long-standing cooperation with ACT, this year’s summer school is again host to one ACT module that focuses on aging in the framework of technologies. Line Grenier, who taught the first week of the module, has handed […]
New Concordia University research centre on aging is looking for a coordinator
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, News /by Constance LafontaineThe newly-formed engAGE: Concordia Centre for Research on Aging at Concordia University in Montreal is looking to hire a coordinator to oversee and manage its daily administrative and research operations. The deadline for applications is August 1, 2017. Interested candidates are invited to apply, and can download the complete job posting by clicking here.