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Mundane Media Moments: Ageing, The Ordinary, and Everyday Life
On Wednesday June 26 ACT and the Socio-gerontology Network…
Ageing, the Digital and Everyday Life
/in ACT Scroll, Events /by Kendra BesangerThis short piece, written by Dr. Wendy Martin, serves as a follow-up to a one day seminar held at Brunel University on October 26, 2018. The seminar was organized by Wendy Martin and Paul Higgs (University College London) and was funded by ACT. Digital devices, information technologies and mediated systems of communication increasingly shape the […]
Vibrations
/in Events /by Kendra BesangerACT is supporting a unique, three-day symposium at Concordia. The symposium will bring together disabled artists from East London and Montreal to co-produce a suite of new digital artworks that explore sensorial relationships to the world through “vibrational” tactility. Learn more about the event here.
ACT attends CRTC public hearing on telecom sales practices
/in ACT Scroll, In focus /by Kendra BesangerOn October 23, 2018, Kim Sawchuk, Anne Caines, and Kendra Besanger attended the CRTC’s public hearing. Kim and Anne gave an important testimony to the CRTC commissioners about the impact aggressive, misleading, and abusive sales tactics have on seniors.
October 26: Live stream of “Ageing, the digital and everyday life”
/in Events, Uncategorized /by Constance LafontaineOn Friday, October 26th 2018 join us for the live stream of Ageing, the Digital and Everyday Life, a one day seminar held at Brunel University London in the United Kingdom. The stream begins at 10:30am BST. The speakers are an interdisciplinary group of academics and researchers from the arts, the social sciences and Science […]
ACT members will appear at CRTC hearings on October 23, 2018
/in ACT Scroll, News, Uncategorized /by Kendra BesangerKim Sawchuk, Anne Caines, and Kendra Besanger will travel to Gatineau, QC to participate in the CRTC’s public hearing on Canadian telecommunication companies’ aggressive and misleading sales tactics. ACT will present findings from their recent report, Experiences of Older Adults with Abusive Sales Practices of Canadian Telecommunication Providers. Read more about the full intervention here.
ACT network members’ recent publications
/in ACT Scroll, News /by Kendra BesangerWe are happy to share a list of ACT network members’ publications that have been released within the past few months. May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin, and Patricia Evans (2018) – Unsettling Activisms: Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change. Women’s Press/ Canadian Scholars’ Press. The book launch will take place on October 27 in Peterborough, ON. […]
Expanding our understanding of activism(s) by sharing stories of older activists
/in In focus, Uncategorized /by Kendra BesangerIn their recently released book, Unsettling Activisms: Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change (Women’s Press, 2018), editors May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin, and Patricia Evans present compelling reasons why our common perceptions of activisms and activists need to be expanded; specifically, expanded to include the work of older women activists.
“Simpler Than Ever? Online Grocery Shopping With Seniors” by Nora Lamontagne
/in ACT Scroll, News /by Kendra BesangerACT research assistant, Nora Lamontagne’s article, “Simpler Than Ever? Online Grocery Shopping With Seniors” was published in the September issue of Milieux’s Pause Button, on online publication about technology and culture.