Aging in data is a research project that explores how an era of unprecedented digital data-gathering impacts and governs how we grow in our communities.
Period: 01/04/2021 – 31/03/2028
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Program and call: SSHRC – Partnership Grants
Partners: The complete list of collaborators and co-investigators can be consulted here
Project coordinator: Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University)
Description:
Aging in Data (AiD) is a research project housed in the ACT Lab at Concordia University in Montreal. It brings together an interdisciplinary network of scholars from ten countries, community-based activists and organizations. We research how age studies intersect with communications, media studies and critical data studies, and explore how an era of unprecedented digital data-gathering impacts and governs how we grow old in our communities. Our shared commitment to social justice brings us to articulate an impactful, innovative, multi-methodological and collaborative agenda with communities of older adults that respond to pressing societal needs.
The AiD team have devised five interrelated clusters to investigate aging in data:
- aging, statistics and public policies
- data ethics, data harms and data justice
- datafied care and sensoring age
- digital technology practices, impositions and appropriations
- intersectional aging and community-driven data
Links: Project link