Beating terrorists online. Culture and creativity.
Concordia in the news
Posted on February 11, 2015
Researchers in the news
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- Deutsche Welle writes about the participation of Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at the 2015 Global Media Forum on online terrorist and hate propaganda. The article refers to an earlier news report (Montreal Gazette) about Matthews planning to present MIGS research and projects about countering terrorism in general and ISIS in particular. Matthews is quoted and links are provided to the MIGS website and to that of the Digital Mass Atrocity Prevention (DMAP) Lab, founded by Matthews. Matthews' participation in the media conference is also reported in an online Radio Canada International (RCI) article. Additionally, Matthews is interviewed on RCI about ISIS and online terrorist propaganda. Listen to the interview. Matthews also did a series of interviews on the subject on CBC stations across the country yesterday (no links available).The 2015 Global Media Forum is being held in Bonn, in June.
- HRNetwerk.nl links to an earlier article on Express.be, in Dutch, on a study of how culture impacts creativity. The research was conducted by marketing professor Gad Saad, graduate student Louis Ho and Mark Cleveland from the University of Western Ontario.
