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Mundane Media Moments: Ageing, The Ordinary, and Everyday Life
On Wednesday June 26 ACT and the Socio-gerontology Network…
Perpetuating exclusion in Wikipedia
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, ACTipedia, In focus /by ACTWikipedia has become an indispensable source of online information for students and researchers because of its ease of use as well as its reputation as a user-generated encyclopaedia of shared knowledge. But is it? Our research suggests a much more complicated and twisted tale. Wikipedia is a space of negotiation, contestation and struggles over inclusion and exclusion into “encyclopedic” knowledge.
“Old in the Game: Age and Aging in Hip-Hop” Video of Murray Forman speaking at the University of Graz
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, News /by Constance LafontaineMurray Forman, ACT researcher and Associate Professor in Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern University presented on his research on March 17 at ACT partner institution the University of Graz. While hip-hop is commonly associated in many mainstream contexts with youth practices and tastes, it has been a long time indeed since it could easily be […]
WAM summer school welcomes applicants
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, CFP, Events, News /by Constance LafontaineThe 2016 edition of the Centre for Women, Ageing, Media (WAM) Summer School will be held at the University of Gloucestershire on June 23rd and 24th. ACT co-applicant Barbara Marshall will lead the keynote presentation/workshop. The School welcomes applications from new researchers and from PhD students. ACT is sponsoring the School and will offer some funding […]
ACT connects to new COST-Action project on Ageism
/1 Comment/in ACT Scroll, Events, News /by Constance LafontaineThe COST-Action project on ageism, funded by the EU and led by Liat Ayalon, held its first meeting on April 27 and 28 in Dublin, Ireland. ACT members Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Eugène Loos, Loredana Ivan and Maria Soubati are part of the COST-Action and Eugène Loos leads, with his colleague Monika Wilinska, the subgroup on Ageism […]
Groupe Harmonie joins ACT as Community Partner
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, News, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineWe are delighted to announce the inclusion of Groupe Harmonie as an official partner in the ACT project. Groupe Harmonie is a non-profit organization that works with elders with addiction issues in Montreal. ACT has been working with Groupe Harmonie since 2014 and together we have been organizing digital literacy workshops in local low-income housing buildings for seniors as part […]
Article on ACTipedia by Concordia University News
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, ACTipedia, Media watch, News, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineConcordia University News has published an article asking “Does academia have a place on Wikipedia?” which features a discussion on the uses of Wikipedia as a learning tool, and on the interventions that researchers can make. The article engages with research from the ACT project “ACTipedia.”
Gender, “notability” and perpetuating exclusion in Wikipedia: The case of WAM or the Centre for Women, Ageing and Medi
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, ACTipedia, News, Project updates /by Constance LafontaineBy Maude Gauthier and Kim Sawchuk Wikipedia has become an indispensable source of online information for students and researchers because of its ease of use as well as its reputation as a user-generated encyclopaedia of shared knowledge. Is it? The representation of women in Wikipedia reveals how Wikipedia remains a space of contestation […]
Silver Gaming Intergenerational Summer School
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, CFP, Events, News, Sliver Gaming Intergenerational Summer School /by Constance LafontaineThe ACT Silver Gaming Intergenerational Summer School (SGISS), organized by Margarida Romero, will be held from August 21-22 2015 at the Université Laval in Québec City, Québec. SGISS will bring together students, elders and scholars in activities that aim to explore intergenerational digital creation activities as well as to exchange on the conception, the development […]