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<p>What does it mean to age within "networked societies" (Castells, 2000)? What might be learned if we take the Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) and media experiences of older adults into account in our research? These questions are core to this special issue on <em>Aging, Communication and Media Technologies</em>. Comprised of six papers from authors working in five cultural contexts in Europe and North America, <em>Aging, Communication and Media Technologies </em>offers insights into demographic transformations towards 'ageing societies' in the industrialized world, changes in the media and technological landscape, and the variegated practices of communication in different cultural contexts.</p>

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 economic agendas that exert pressure and provide incentives for organizations "to mediatize" in order to survive in the current Canadian context. 'Tactical mediatization' is used to understand RECAA's very deliberate and considered response to these pressures. This distinction provides a framework for conceptualizing how activist organizations such as RECAA struggle to exert agency within meta-processes that place mounting and insistent pressure on the organization to incorporate digital media technologies into its mandate and system of values.

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 systemic approach (dividing the body into its systems) to a regional anatomy (dividing the body into areas containing interlocking systems). The contextually contingent reasons for this shift in medical training are represented in the production of this textbook. What is crucial is that anatomy is thus conceived as directly applicable to surgical practice, which intervenes on the bodies of the living, rather than the dead. The second important dimension of Grant's Atlas was his rigorous, yet invisible, incorporation of photography into the practice of medical illustration. Grant's Atlas systematically deployed hand-drawn tracings of photographic images in the production of his bestselling textbook to affirm an indexical connection to a 'real body'. At the same time, this use of photography is erased within the visuals, which rely instead on hand-drawn illustrations (line-drawings and carbon-dusting) to produce this particular pedagogy of the anatomical body. The production of 'textbook anatomy' is thus articulated to changes in technical modes of representation (photography) and to the new techniques in print-technologies from the late 19th until the mid 20th century.

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 entre la masculinité et le génie, permettent de mieux connaître le contexte social dans lequel se déroulait son travail intellectuel. Lorsqu'on analyse le mythe de C. Wright Mills sous l'angle des études de réception féministes, l'attention se fixe sur les réponses qu'ont données ses lecteurs et ses lectrices à ses textes plutôt que sur les textes mêmes. De cette façon, la voix autoritaire de Mills est d'une certaine manière décentrée et déstabilisée, permettant ainsi que la qualité « relationnelle » de sa pratique soit mise en relief.

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 nombre et la présence des sujets vieillissants, que sa relative invisibilité en communication et dans les études médiatiques encore résolument tournées vers la jeunesse et les jeunes comme leur sujet de prédilection. Nous proposons de porter un tel regard croisé inspiré d'une mobilisation éclair ayant fait l'objet d'une recherche-action. Notre réflexion à propos de cette mobilisation éclair vise à en comprendre la pertinence et l'opportunité au moment où elle a eu lieu, de même qu'à saisir les enjeux historiques plus larges qui l'animent et dont elle participe. Elle en questionnel'à-propos, approximativement ce qu'en anglais on qualifie detimeliness.

This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies is a result of the activity surrounding VIBE: Challenging ableism and audism through the arts, a 3-day international symposium exploring the existing and potential contributions of the Deaf/disability arts to aesthetic innovations, research-creation and cultural change in attitudes towards the capacities of the Deaf/disabled. The symposium, which took place at Concordia University from November 30 - December 2, 2018, brought together Deaf/disabled academics, emerging scholars, post-doctoral researchers, activists, artists, and students – and their allies – for vibrant exchanges on the relationship between disability arts research and disability arts practice.

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 exhibition in Montreal, which launched in parallel with the VIBE symposium.