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Welcome to the ACT Lab’s new Website!
The Applied Communication and Technology Laboratory (ACT Lab) is part of the Simon Fraser University School of Communication. The ACT Lab is engaged in research on the intersection between communication technology and cultural creation. It brings together graduate students, practitioners and researchers to study a wide variety of applications of advanced technology to education, community, entertainment, and the arts. ACT researchers have studied issues in philosophy of technology, public participation in design, revolutionary propaganda, photography, online games and online community, learning objects and online education, surveillance studies, media art, and human communication on computer networks.
**NEW**
Read new research on cinema and social networks [Link]
and globalization, humanitarian crises, and gender [Link] by Neil Narine
Listen to Andrew Feenberg’s recent lecture, "Ten Paradoxes of Technology," for the Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series. [You Tube Video]
Read an interview with Andrew Feenberg in Spanish by Buenos Aires-based newspaper Pagina/12. [Link]
Read new research on film sound by Neil Narine [Link]
Listen to Andrew Feenberg’s recent interview with Science Progress on the democratic power of online communities. [Link]
Listen to an audio of The Age of Immersion by Dr. Andrew Feenberg, Matthew Robbins and Walter Murch [Link]
Watch a UCSD-TV and D.G. Wills Books presentation, The Essential Marcuse (Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic, Herbert Marcuse) featuring Dr. Andrew Feenberg (Please Note: The QuickTime Video has a larger image but takes longer to load — the You Tube Video has a much smaller image, but loads quicker). [Quick Time Video] [You Tube Video]
You can now listen to Florence Chee’s interview on the Christy Clark Show CKNW 980 (Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 — 1:00PM-1:40PM PST) on addiction to online games. [Part I , Part II , Part III ]
You can now listen to all presentations from(Re)Inventing the Interneta one-day workshop featuring cutting-edge research from the upcoming Applied Communication Technology (ACT) Lab book. The workshop took place on Friday, February 23, 2007. [abstracts, audio and video]