About Us

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: 

  1. aging, statistics and public policies
  2. data ethics, data harms and data justice
  3. datafied care and sensor-ing age
  4. digital technology practices, impositions and appropriations; and
  5. intersectional aging and community-driven data. In addition to conducting academic research

Mandate

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: 

  1. aging, statistics and public policies
  2. data ethics, data harms and data justice
  3. datafied care and sensor-ing age
  4. digital technology practices, impositions and appropriations; and
  5. intersectional aging and community-driven data. In addition to conducting academic research

Principles and Values

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