Coping through digital technology. Jutras scandal. L'Anse-à-l'Orme. Duff/WhiteFeather research.

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• Several media describe new Concordia research led by Ann-Louise Davidson, associate professor in the Department of Education, that shows how smartphones, tablets and other mobile technologies can help people with an intellectual disability (ID) face the daily challenges related to their condition. Davidson, interested in the impact of digital technology on society, worked with eight people with ID to create testimonial videos, posted to a YouTube channel, which served to show how the participants could inspire themselves and their peers through the production of their own educational resources: The Municipal Information Network and AMEQ en ligne (both behind paywalls), Medical News Today, WN.com and Noodls. The study was recently published in Social Inclusion.
• CBC.ca publishes a piece by Matthew Hays, lecturer in the departments of Cinema and Communication Studies, about all that has transpired since news broke, one week ago, of Quebec filmmaker the late Claude Jutras' alleged pedophilia. Hays references the book The Romance of Transgression in Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press), by Thomas Waugh, professor of film studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In the book, published in 2006, Waugh suggests that Jutra's work had pedophilic overtones. 
• An article in the Montreal Gazette describes an environmental impact study of a residential construction project in western Pierrefonds, co-authored by Jochen Jaeger, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment. The study, commissioned by the Suzuki Foundation, found that the construction project, and the resulting loss of habitat, would threaten ecological biodiversity in Pierrefond's l’Anse-à-l’Orme and Rivière-à-L’Orme corridor.
• The research of Tagny Duff, associate professor in the Department of Communications Studies and FluxMedia Lab artist in residence WhiteFeather, was featured on the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet last night.

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