Mega mall. Fighting online terrorists. Subliminal ads.
Concordia in the news
Posted on February 6, 2015
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:
- Robert Soroka, instructor at the Centre for Continuing Education, appears in a CTV Montreal news story about plans for a large shopping mall in Town of Mount Royal. Soroka's segment begins at the 1:55 mark. He is also quoted in the text version of the story at the same link.
- The Montreal Gazette joins other media that have reported on the Digital Mass Atrocity Prevention (DMAP) Lab, founded by Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS). The article touches on the crowdfunding campaign Matthews has launched to raise money to send the DMAP Lab team to a conference in Germany this June that will explore the issue of online hate propaganda.
- Communication Studies professor Charles Acland appears in a BBC Radio 4 documentary on subliminal advertising. He is first heard at the 2:10 mark.