CREW: Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work

Outlines research on ways new technologies better enable organizations.
Research on how new technologies enable new ways of organizing work is of vital interest to organizations, both as providers and users of this technology. CREW has performed large-scale field studies of how people work with new technologies in both academic and business environments. And both commercial and academic organizations have become partners with us, learning from our research results and helping guide our research agenda. Individual members at remote sites have also become partners, including corporate executives and researchers, and academics.
CREW itself is an example of what it studies -- a "collaboratory," a distributed organization made possible by new technologies. Our locations at the University of Michigan include West Hall on Central CampusHALIFAX -- A man pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of uttering threats and criminal harassment in a case involving the father of Rehtaeh Parsons.

Two days were scheduled for the man's trial in Halifax starting on June 2, 2015.

Police have not publicly disclosed the name of the alleged victim, but Glen Canning, Parsons' father, says the charges relate to online threats he alleges were made against him last year.

The RCMP have said they began investigating last Aug. 2 after receiving a complaint from a 49-year-old man.

The 19-year-old man was arrested in April.

Parsons' parents say their daughter was cyberbullied and died after a suicide attempt.