The business of crowdsourcing. Online scams. Niemandslandhymnen. Digital Spring. Your brain on dopamine. Requiem. Anger and anxiety.

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• The Globe and Mail (reprised by Newscaf) features the recent work of Zeynep Arsel, associate professor of marketing in the John Molson School of Business, on crowdsourcing and how it impacts the way business is conducted. The paper, published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, was based on the 2012 master's thesis of Eric Martineau, supervised by Arsel, for the John Molson School of Business Master of Science Program.
• CBC.ca/BritishColumbia, reporting on an online scam that cost a 90-year old B.C. man his savings, quotes Mourad Debbabi, professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE). The story references Debbabi's work as leader of the research centre, focusing on cyber security, cyber forensics and privacy.
• Sors-tu writes about 'Niemandslandhymnen', an immersive multidisciplinary concert event created by Sandeep Bhagwati, associate professor of music and Canada Research Chair in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory in the Faculty of Fine Arts, presented last Thursday at Montreal's Usine C.
• City Montreal's Breakfast Television assembles a group of Montreal tech experts and entrepreneurs to discuss Montreal Digital Spring. The group includes Valérie Lamontagne, part-time faculty in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, who talks about the city's growing smartwear research and production sector.  
• Hello Giggles (reprised by Yahoo! Lifestyle) references research by Jim  Pfaus, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, that describes how the dopamine produced through masturbation can strengthen the part of the brain associated with decision-making.
• Feu à volonté posts an excerpt from 'Requiem' — a digital album by Georges Dimitrov, composition lecturer in the Department of Music. 
• The Statesman, writing about the health hazards of anger, references a study conducted by Sonya Deschênes for her PhD thesis in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Deschênes found that anger can exacerbate symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).

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