Botswana, #GamerGate, Asylum seekers
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 28, 2014
Expert commentators
Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:
- An opinion piece about the political situation in Botswana by Amy Poteete, professor in the Department of Political Science, is carried in The Washington Post. Elements of Poteete’s op-ed are quoted in an editorial in The Nigeria Guardian and reprised in The Globe and Mail, Independent Online and Reuters UK.
- An article in Newsweek about “GamerGate”, the recent campaign of attacks via social media against journalist Leigh Alexander for her negative critique of video gaming culture, quotes Mia Consalvo, professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Canada Research Chair in Digital Games Studies and Design.
- An article in The Irish Times about the working group on direct provision names Susan Cahill, professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, as a member of the group examining the treatment of asylum seekers.