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• Monika Gagnon, professor of communication studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted throughout an article in Le Devoir that examines the explosion in interest in cinema and multimedia during Montreal's Expo 67. The article references the upcoming exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, "In Search of Expo 67", co-curated by Gagnon, who is co-director of the CinemaExpo67 research team at Concordia. The "Search for Expo 67" project, celebrating the fair's 50th anniversary, will run from June 21 to October 8.
• Gagnon is quoted also in a second, related story in Le Devoir that looks more closely at the "In Search of Expo 67" project.
• Nadia Naffi, PhD candidate in education technology, presents some of her conclusions following an analysis of online comments gleaned from mainstream media coverage of the passage, last month, of the anti-Islamophobia Motion 103 in the House of Commons. Naffi examines the comments for hate-speech content and ponders whether comments that seem hateful might simply be expressions of fear: Le Huffington Post Québec.
• Heather Igloliorte, assistant professor of art history and Concordia University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement, talks about her new book, SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut, in an interview on CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright.
• Le Journal de Montréal references an unidentified Concordia study in a piece about working in large versus small businesses.

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