Retail: click or brick? Sports games vs. eSports. Les midis Ville-Marie.

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• Several media cover or reference a recent study led by Tingyu Zhou, assistant professor of finance in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and John Clapp of the University of Connecticut. The study, published in the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, examines the future of retail, as a growing number of retail chain stores close their doors in favour of online shopping: Wire Service, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall), Public, The Real Deal (New York,Miami), Business Insider (UK, India), Yahoo! News.
• The Score-Esports, writing about the relative popularity of sports video games versus eSports, references a study by Mia Consalvo, professor of communication studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Canada Research Chair In Game Studies & Design, and Abe Stein at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Actualités UQAM, writes about 'Les midis Ville-Marie', a series of open air presentations of work being done by researchers at Concordia, McGill, UQAM, ÉTS and Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). The series includes presentations by Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor of education in the Faculty of Arts and Science, on Concordia's SOMEONE initiative,  Marguerite Mendell, professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Science, on Montreal's social economy (Tuesday, August 29) and Daniel Salée, professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, on diversity and cohabitation.

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