Mobile Media Lab

Check out this new podcast series about design + diverse abilities. Adaptive was created by Concordia University Mobile Media Lab Research Assistant, Michelle Macklem. It is part of her Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) MA research.

Nuit blanche à Montréal is this Saturday. We'll be at the Moving Pictures exhibit with ACT Project Concordia and Digital Literacy Project of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre

The editorial team at Wi: Journal of Mobile Media is pleased to announce the publication of Mobile Trash, co-edited by Mél Hogan and Andrea Zeffiro. http://wi.mobilities.ca/ Mobile Trash brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines who reconfigure the concepts of ‘mobile’ and ‘mobilities’ in relation to trash. The issue contains short pieces that engage the politics of trash and speak to its borders, transitions, movements, permutations and invisible transferences.

Look what LEGO created: http://www.psfk.com//lego-wheelchair-set-diversity-nurembe

A reminder that the ACT Postdoctoral application is due on February 6th. An ACT Postdoctoral Fellowship will be awarded to an emerging researcher working within one or more core areas of the SSHRC-funded research project Ageing, communication, technologies: experiencing a digital world in later life. The ACT Postdoctoral Fellowship entails a yearly salary of $45,000 and can begin as early as April 2016. Applications for one-year projects will be considered and there may be ...an opportunity for re-application for a second year. The ACT Postdoctoral Fellowship will be housed at Concordia University in Montreal, but can be undertaken in collaboration with a partner institution of ACT (see our website for the full list of partners). A central goal of ACT is to train a new generation of Canadian scholars in the study of ageing from the perspective of the social sciences, the arts and/or the humanities. For full post, see here: http://actproject.ca/call-for-applications-ageing-communic/ Questions pertaining to this position should be sent to Constance Lafontaine ([email protected]).

We are co-hosting an intergenerational game design workshop on February 13th and 14th at Concordia University. Game designer and gerontoludics researcher Bob D...e Schutter will share creative design strategies and lead participants through the creation of video game prototypes. If you'd like to attend, send us an email by February 8th: [email protected] No prior gaming experience necessary.