Political bots and democracy. Averting Mégantic. Roy Alfred Wise. Name your own price. It is as if you were doing work.
Concordia in the news
Posted on July 10, 2017
Researchers in the news
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- Beta Kit reports on a study led by Fenwick McKelvey, assistant professor of communication studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Elizabeth Dubois of the University of Ottawa, of political bots and what they mean for the future of western democracies. McKelvey and Dubois wrote about the study — Computational Propaganda in Canada: The Use of Political Bots — in a recent opinion piece in The Toronto Star.
- The Stopru picks up a Canadian Press story focusing on a Concordia research project to develop a mathematical model that could help prevent rail accidents such as the one that occurred in Lac Mégantic four years ago. The project is led by PhD student Omar Abuobidalla and Mingyuan Chen, professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering.
- Addiction specialist Doctor Stanton Peele, writing in Psychology Today, references the Concordia research work on addiction of former psychology professor Roy Alfred Wise.
- The Suburban writes about a new study from the John Molson School of Business that finds “name-your-own-price” selling strategies rarely benefit competing suppliers, especially when demand for a particular good or service is low or inventory levels are high. The research was led by Xiao Huang, associate professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Supply Change Management, and Gregory Kersten, Senior Concordia University Research Chair in Decision and Negotiation Systems.
- US Story reprises an article about the browser game, 'It is as if you were doing work', designed by Pippin Barr, assistant professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts and associate director of the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) Lab within the Milieux Institute.