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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**

New Book: (Re)inventing the Internet: Critical Case Studies, Edited by Andrew Feenberg and Norm Friesen, Sense Publishers, 2011

Dr. Tina Sikka has been selected as the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the area of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses by The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. Read more here.

Read new research on cinema and social networks [Link] and globalization, humanitarian crises, and gender [Link] by Neil Narine

Read new research on film sound by Neil Narine [Link]