Kim Sawchuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 311904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Sawchuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Sawchuk |
| SIGNATURE | SAWCHUK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1108-4153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Measuring what matters to older persons for active living
Measuring what matters to older persons for active living
An Interview with David Bobier of VibraFusionLab
VibraFusionLab founder and director, David Bobier talks about the genesis of his explorations of vibration and accessibility in art-making, his current collaborations, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on vibrotactile artwork and issues of access, and the future of VibraFusionLab. He was interviewed by special issue editors Kim Sawchuk and Samuel Thulin on 23 November 2020. Bobier was co-curator of, and participating artist in, the Vibrations …
Ageism and Covid-19
The goal of this commentary is to highlight the ageism that has emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 20 international researchers in the field of ageing have contributed to this document. This commentary discusses how older people are misrepresented and undervalued in the current public discourse surrounding the pandemic. It points to issues in documenting the deaths of older adults, the lack of preparation for such a crisis in long-term ca…
Not notable enough
Wikipedia promotes itself as a community that anyone can join as long as they know the rules. In this paper, we reflect on our attempt to join this community and to edit Wikientries on ageing so that they include an intersectional perspective, especially with regard to gender. Our excursion into Wikipedia reveals how certain entries act as sites of contestation between different communities of practice, such as feminist scholars and Wikipedia exp…
Regards croisés sur une mobilisation éclair
Cet article présente une réflexion critique sur la médiatisation, son opportunité et sa pertinence aujourd'hui dans des sociétés contemporaines qui, à l'instar du Québec, se trouvent marquées non seulement par les avancées du numérique mais aussi par un vieillissement sans précédent de leur population. Il porte aussi sur le vieillissement : tant ses configurations hétérogènes dans un monde où l'espérance de vie en hausse contribue à accroitre le …
Comparative mobilities in an unequal world
Mobilities are shaped by social inequalities and spatial unevenness as demonstrated in a range of existing studies across disciplines. These inequalities are manifest at different scales, from the very local spaces of everyday life to global spaces of accelerated mobilities. Mobile spaces, however distant, are connected through common everyday practices and the sociocultural contexts in which they are produced. In this paper, we argue that resear…
Ageing Mobile Media
Tactical mediatization and activist ageing
This case study examines the incorporation of digital media technologies and practices into Respecting Elders: Communities Against elder Abuse (RECAA), an organization of activist elders. By studying RECAA's specific transition and following the work of Michel de Certeau (1988), I distinguish between tactical mediatization and strategic mediatization. Organizations such as RECAA must negotiate with political, ideological, administrative, and econ…
Media Arts Revisited
La grève est étudiant/e, la lutte est populaire
I t is the end of summer in Montral and the city feels empty. The clanging of pots and pans, so prevalent during April and May throughout Qubec, has subsided. Many residents have headed out of town, while a number of the students who attend the plethora of universities, CEGEPs, and system of private colleges have gone home in search of employment or to be with their families. Yet not all is quiet, for as the summer wends its way toward fall, the …
I'm G-Mom on the Phone”
We explore how a diverse group of grandparents, mostly grandmothers, use the cell phone to interact with their grandchildren. Through "remote" grandparenting seniors found ways into relationships with their grandchildren like many of them had experienced as grandchildren and simultaneously provided insightful commentary on changing communication relations
Animating the Anatomical Specimen
In 1943 Dr J.C.B. Grant, of the University of Toronto, published the first anatomical atlas ever fully produced in North America, An Atlas of Anatomy. Within the history of biomedical teaching, the publication of this textbook is remarkable for at least two reasons, both connected to the themes of animation and automation. The visual narrative of the anatomical body found in Grant’s Atlas encapsulated a paradigmatic shift in gross anatomy from a …
The Senses of Technology
Illustrating Medicine
The onset of the Second World War created a temporary crisis in the North American medical community when the supply of medical textbooks from Europe, used to train physicians and surgeons, was threatened. In 1941, Dr J.C.B. Grant of the University of Toronto proposed a new anatomical atlas, comprising both tonal and line drawings, to address this need. In this visual essay, the authors briefly illustrate Grant’s method for creating these drawing…
Culture, Heritage, and Art
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Public Matters
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Le genre, le génie et le mythe de l’intellectuel solitaire
Cet article a pour objet de faire valoir la contribution des analyses féministes de la réception des médias relativement à l'histoire des pratiques intellectuelles dans le champ des études en communication. L'auteure prend à titre d'exemple l'héritage de C. Wright Mills ainsi que les lettres écrites à Mills par ses lecteurs et ses lectrices. Ces lettres, au lieu de dépeindre Mills comme un intellectuel solitaire, mythe soutenant l'adéquation entr…
Wild Science
C. Wright Mills
This paper examines the "fan mail" received by C. Wright Mills from his readership to better understand the reasons for Mills' popularity as a public intellectual in the 1950s. The paper documents Mills' strategic use of magazines and penny press publishers, his deployment of vernacular stylistic forms to express political issues, and the responses of these fans. These writerly readers not only lauded Mills' efforts but offered their constructive…
The cultural apparatus
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I'm G-Mom on the Phone”
We explore how a diverse group of grandparents, mostly grandmothers, use the cell phone to interact with their grandchildren. Through "remote" grandparenting seniors found ways into relationships with their grandchildren like many of them had experienced as grandchildren and simultaneously provided insightful commentary on changing communication relations
Comparative mobilities in an unequal world
Mobilities are shaped by social inequalities and spatial unevenness as demonstrated in a range of existing studies across disciplines. These inequalities are manifest at different scales, from the very local spaces of everyday life to global spaces of accelerated mobilities. Mobile spaces, however distant, are connected through common everyday practices and the sociocultural contexts in which they are produced. In this paper, we argue that resear…
Tactical mediatization and activist ageing
This case study examines the incorporation of digital media technologies and practices into Respecting Elders: Communities Against elder Abuse (RECAA), an organization of activist elders. By studying RECAA's specific transition and following the work of Michel de Certeau (1988), I distinguish between tactical mediatization and strategic mediatization. Organizations such as RECAA must negotiate with political, ideological, administrative, and econ…
Not notable enough
Wikipedia promotes itself as a community that anyone can join as long as they know the rules. In this paper, we reflect on our attempt to join this community and to edit Wikientries on ageing so that they include an intersectional perspective, especially with regard to gender. Our excursion into Wikipedia reveals how certain entries act as sites of contestation between different communities of practice, such as feminist scholars and Wikipedia exp…
The cultural apparatus
Regards croisés sur une mobilisation éclair
Cet article présente une réflexion critique sur la médiatisation, son opportunité et sa pertinence aujourd'hui dans des sociétés contemporaines qui, à l'instar du Québec, se trouvent marquées non seulement par les avancées du numérique mais aussi par un vieillissement sans précédent de leur population. Il porte aussi sur le vieillissement : tant ses configurations hétérogènes dans un monde où l'espérance de vie en hausse contribue à accroitre le …
Animating the Anatomical Specimen
In 1943 Dr J.C.B. Grant, of the University of Toronto, published the first anatomical atlas ever fully produced in North America, An Atlas of Anatomy. Within the history of biomedical teaching, the publication of this textbook is remarkable for at least two reasons, both connected to the themes of animation and automation. The visual narrative of the anatomical body found in Grant’s Atlas encapsulated a paradigmatic shift in gross anatomy from a …
Illustrating Medicine
The onset of the Second World War created a temporary crisis in the North American medical community when the supply of medical textbooks from Europe, used to train physicians and surgeons, was threatened. In 1941, Dr J.C.B. Grant of the University of Toronto proposed a new anatomical atlas, comprising both tonal and line drawings, to address this need. In this visual essay, the authors briefly illustrate Grant’s method for creating these drawing…
No Logo
C. Wright Mills
This paper examines the "fan mail" received by C. Wright Mills from his readership to better understand the reasons for Mills' popularity as a public intellectual in the 1950s. The paper documents Mills' strategic use of magazines and penny press publishers, his deployment of vernacular stylistic forms to express political issues, and the responses of these fans. These writerly readers not only lauded Mills' efforts but offered their constructive…
The cultural apparatus
Wild Science
Le genre, le génie et le mythe de l’intellectuel solitaire
Cet article a pour objet de faire valoir la contribution des analyses féministes de la réception des médias relativement à l'histoire des pratiques intellectuelles dans le champ des études en communication. L'auteure prend à titre d'exemple l'héritage de C. Wright Mills ainsi que les lettres écrites à Mills par ses lecteurs et ses lectrices. Ces lettres, au lieu de dépeindre Mills comme un intellectuel solitaire, mythe soutenant l'adéquation entr…
Culture, Heritage, and Art
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Public Matters
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
The Senses of Technology
Illustrating Medicine
The onset of the Second World War created a temporary crisis in the North American medical community when the supply of medical textbooks from Europe, used to train physicians and surgeons, was threatened. In 1941, Dr J.C.B. Grant of the University of Toronto proposed a new anatomical atlas, comprising both tonal and line drawings, to address this need. In this visual essay, the authors briefly illustrate Grant’s method for creating these drawing…
Media Arts Revisited
La grève est étudiant/e, la lutte est populaire
I t is the end of summer in Montral and the city feels empty. The clanging of pots and pans, so prevalent during April and May throughout Qubec, has subsided. Many residents have headed out of town, while a number of the students who attend the plethora of universities, CEGEPs, and system of private colleges have gone home in search of employment or to be with their families. Yet not all is quiet, for as the summer wends its way toward fall, the …
I'm G-Mom on the Phone”
We explore how a diverse group of grandparents, mostly grandmothers, use the cell phone to interact with their grandchildren. Through "remote" grandparenting seniors found ways into relationships with their grandchildren like many of them had experienced as grandchildren and simultaneously provided insightful commentary on changing communication relations
Animating the Anatomical Specimen
In 1943 Dr J.C.B. Grant, of the University of Toronto, published the first anatomical atlas ever fully produced in North America, An Atlas of Anatomy. Within the history of biomedical teaching, the publication of this textbook is remarkable for at least two reasons, both connected to the themes of animation and automation. The visual narrative of the anatomical body found in Grant’s Atlas encapsulated a paradigmatic shift in gross anatomy from a …
Tactical mediatization and activist ageing
This case study examines the incorporation of digital media technologies and practices into Respecting Elders: Communities Against elder Abuse (RECAA), an organization of activist elders. By studying RECAA's specific transition and following the work of Michel de Certeau (1988), I distinguish between tactical mediatization and strategic mediatization. Organizations such as RECAA must negotiate with political, ideological, administrative, and econ…
Ageing Mobile Media
Comparative mobilities in an unequal world
Mobilities are shaped by social inequalities and spatial unevenness as demonstrated in a range of existing studies across disciplines. These inequalities are manifest at different scales, from the very local spaces of everyday life to global spaces of accelerated mobilities. Mobile spaces, however distant, are connected through common everyday practices and the sociocultural contexts in which they are produced. In this paper, we argue that resear…
Not notable enough
Wikipedia promotes itself as a community that anyone can join as long as they know the rules. In this paper, we reflect on our attempt to join this community and to edit Wikientries on ageing so that they include an intersectional perspective, especially with regard to gender. Our excursion into Wikipedia reveals how certain entries act as sites of contestation between different communities of practice, such as feminist scholars and Wikipedia exp…
Regards croisés sur une mobilisation éclair
Cet article présente une réflexion critique sur la médiatisation, son opportunité et sa pertinence aujourd'hui dans des sociétés contemporaines qui, à l'instar du Québec, se trouvent marquées non seulement par les avancées du numérique mais aussi par un vieillissement sans précédent de leur population. Il porte aussi sur le vieillissement : tant ses configurations hétérogènes dans un monde où l'espérance de vie en hausse contribue à accroitre le …
Ageism and Covid-19
The goal of this commentary is to highlight the ageism that has emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 20 international researchers in the field of ageing have contributed to this document. This commentary discusses how older people are misrepresented and undervalued in the current public discourse surrounding the pandemic. It points to issues in documenting the deaths of older adults, the lack of preparation for such a crisis in long-term ca…
An Interview with David Bobier of VibraFusionLab
VibraFusionLab founder and director, David Bobier talks about the genesis of his explorations of vibration and accessibility in art-making, his current collaborations, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on vibrotactile artwork and issues of access, and the future of VibraFusionLab. He was interviewed by special issue editors Kim Sawchuk and Samuel Thulin on 23 November 2020. Bobier was co-curator of, and participating artist in, the Vibrations …
Measuring what matters to older persons for active living
Measuring what matters to older persons for active living
Sociology (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (3 works)