ACT Annual Meeting held in Bucharest, Romania

September 26, 2015/1 Comment/in ACT Scroll, Events, News /by Constance Lafontaine

From September 24 to 27, 2015, the Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT) project held its annual meeting in Bucharest, Romania. The meeting was hosted by co-reasearcher Loredana Ivan at the National University of Political and Administrative Studies, College of Communication and Public Relations. The annual meeting provides all ACT members a chance to provide results of their ongoing ACT-funded research, to […]

ACT co-sponsors Qualitative Research Conference in Bucharest

September 26, 2015/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, News /by Constance Lafontaine

ACT has co-sponsored the Qualitative Research in Communication Conference, held in Bucharest from September 23 to 25, 2015. The conference brought together international scholars, including several ACT researchers. There were notably two ACT keynotes: Eugène Loos, Kim Sawchuk. Julia Twigg also presented the “ACT Keynote Address.” More information about the conference, including the full conference programme, […]

CFP: Seniors and Technologies: Issues of inclusion and exclusion

August 31, 2015/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, CFP /by ACT

Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication

‘Not notable enough’: Kim Sawchuk’s lecture at GUSEGG

July 20, 2015/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, ACTipedia, Events, Project updates, Resources /by ACT

Kim Sawchuk on digital ageism, discursive action research, and the case of Wikipedia. Watch the video of her lecture held at the Graz International Summer School Seggau 2015

Seminars: Older people, ICTs and case studies

July 13, 2015/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, News, Resources, Webinar /by ACT

Three seminars offered by ACT member Loredana Ivan at IN3-UOC

‘Grannie’s on Facebook’ presented in Bournemouth, UK

July 9, 2015/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, Grannies on the Net, Project updates /by ACT

Presentation by ACT researchers Loredana Ivan and Shannon Hebblethwaite.

ACT research featured on CBC radio

June 10, 2015/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Media watch, News /by Constance Lafontaine

Shannon Hebblethwaite of Concordia University was interviewed on CBC Homerun. She spoke about “Grannies on the Net,” a research project led by Hebblethwaite and Loredana Ivan of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration.

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol at the 4th Conference on Elderly and New Technologies: Technology on the go

May 20, 2015/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events /by Constance Lafontaine

Miriea Fernández-Ardèvol participated in the 4th Conference on Elderly and New Technologies, organized by Jaume I University, between the 13th and 15th of May 2015 in the city of Castelló, Spain. The special topic of this edition of the conference is Technology on the go, which focuses on gadgets such as tablets, smatphones, wearables …; ubiquitous and personal connectivity; Internet […]