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Mundane Media Moments: Ageing, The Ordinary, and Everyday Life
On Wednesday June 26 ACT and the Socio-gerontology Network…
Barbara Crow and Kim Sawchuk publish “New and Old, Young and Old: Aging the Mobile Imaginary”
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, News /by Constance LafontaineACT co-applicant Barbara Crow and Director Kim Sawchuk co-authored an article titled “New and Old, Young and Old: Aging the Mobile Imaginary” for the new edited collection Theories of the Mobile Internet: Materialities and Imaginaries. The collection is edited by Andrew Herman, Jan Hadlaw and Thom Swiss and part of the series Routledge Studies in […]
Online Communication, Discourse and Context, July 16th – 17th 2015
/0 Comments/in CFP /by Constance Lafontaine3rd international Symposium: Micro-Analysis of Online Data (MOOD-Z) University of Zurich, Switzerland | July 16th – 17th 2015
Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol to present in workshop at University of Eastern Finland
/0 Comments/in News /by Constance LafontaineMireia Fernández-Ardèvol from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya will participate in a workshop titled “Humanities look at technology, ageing, well-being and agency” organized by ACT partner University of Eastern Finland. She will present on “The ACT project and the COST Action on Ageing” on December 5, 2014. The organizing committee from the University of Eastern Finland […]
CFP – European heritages, realities and utopias: the elderly’s consumption of coffee, tea and “leisure” time
/0 Comments/in CFP /by ACTSIEF 2015 12th Congress, in Zagreb Croatia (June 21-25, 2015).
Eric Craven presents on Digital Culture and Community
/0 Comments/in News /by Constance LafontaineEric Craven, who works as a Project Coordinator for the Atwater Library and Computer Centre in Montreal, presented on his work in a talk titled “Digital Culture and Community” at the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute in Portugal on November 12, 2014. More information is available here.
ACT members organize panel at ECREA
/0 Comments/in News /by Constance LafontaineOn November 15, 2014, ACT Director Kim Sawchuk, co-applicants Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Line Grenier, Loredana Ivan and Eugène Loos, Collaborator Eric Craven and Associate Director Constance Carrier-Lafontaine organized a panel titled “New Media and Older People: Age, Narratives and Normativities” at the 5th annual European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. Sawchuk […]
Kim Sawchuk presents at Orbicom/UNESCO Chair on Social Media Conference
/0 Comments/in News /by Constance LafontaineDr. Kim Sawchuk of Concordia University presented a paper titled “Digital Ageism and Social Media” during the Orbicom/UNESCO Chair on Social Media Conference held on November 6th and 7th at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne. More information on the conference is available here.
Fannie Valois-Nadeau on Digitizing and Biographizing Léo Gravelle
/0 Comments/in News /by Constance LafontaineFannie Valois-Nadeau, a Queen’s University Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with ACT, has recently presented in Dr. Line Grenier’s Master’s seminar Mémoire, médias et pouvoir (Memory, Media and Power). Her presentation was titled “Numériser et biographiser Léo Gravelle” (Digitizing and Biographing Léo Gravelle). More information on Valois-Nadeau’s research on the former Montreal Canadiens hockey player is available […]