Teen smoking. Poetry for Excitable [Mobile] Media. Consuming Food, Producing Culture.

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• Graduate student and Individualized Program (INDI) researcher Erin O'Loughlin is featured in a continuing round of media reports about new research conducted in part at Concordia that describes how teenagers who smoke struggle with feelings of guilt and poor body-image: Science World Report, Psych Central, University Herald, Microfinance Monitor,  Med India, The Siasat Daily  and Can-India News. The study was published inPreventive Medicine Reports.
• Rhizome writes about mobile apps designed for artistic creation. The article includes a description of Poetry for Excitable [Mobile] Media (P.o.E.M.M.), a series of poetry reading and writing apps created by Jason Edward Lewis, an associate professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts. The online article includes a video capture of Lewis' 2011 iPhone app Migration. 
• Anya Zilberstein, associate professor in the Department of History, is quoted in an article from the news service of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about "Consuming Food, Producing Culture," a symposium, held recently at MIT, that looked at immigration, gender, ethnicity and politics through food. The article mentions that Zilberstein is working on a book about scientists' efforts to counter food shortages in late-18th-century Britain.

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