New study published by David Lazer, NULab co-director, in PNAS
August 15, 2018David Lazer, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Sciences and Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, has published a new ...
Read more...Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCCS)
July 30, 2018Register at pacss.brownpapertickets.com. The early-bird registration fee of $50 will be available until August 15, after which registration will be $100. Contact us with any questions at pacss2018@gmail.com. Schedule ...
Read more...Five NULab Faculty Members Awarded Tenure
July 11, 2018The NULab is delighted to announce that five NULab faculty members received tenure this year. These promotions demonstrate the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to digital ...
Read more...Boston Research Center featured in Boston Magazine
May 21, 2018The Boston Research Center was recently featured in Boston Magazine: “Boston has a long and complicated past, and its many archives and databases each tell little pieces ...
Read more...Research by NULab faculty members Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles featured in News@Northeastern
May 10, 2018From News@Northeastern: In April 2014, the New York Police Department started a social media campaign, asking its Twitter followers to use the hashtag #MyNYPD and tweet ...
Read more...NULab Core Faculty Member Moya Bailey named to Essence Magazine’s Woke 100 Women of 2018
May 3, 2018From News@Northeastern: Moya Bailey has always known that a black woman in America has to navigate a compounded, specific kind of discrimination. There just wasn’t a ...
Read more...Northeastern University Receives Mellon Grant for Boston Research Center
May 3, 2018From News@Northeastern: Northeastern University has received a $200,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the humanities in the United States, to ...
Read more...Our Marathon Featured in News@Northeastern
April 14, 2018In a recent News@Northeastern article, the Our Marathon project reflects on their work curating and preserving the artifacts and oral histories from the events surrounding ...
Read more...New study, co-authored by William Hobbs, published in American Political Science Review
April 5, 2018William Hobbs, Network Science Institute Postdoctoral Fellow and NULab-affiliated researcher, has published a new study “How Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to Information,” co-authored with Margaret ...
Read more...New Tier 1 Grants Awarded to NULab Faculty and Co-Directors
April 3, 2018We are pleased to announce that several NULab core faculty members and co-directors have been awarded TIER 1 grants for FY2019. TIER 1 awards are provided ...
Read more...New Article on Fake News, Co-authored by David Lazer, Published in Science Magazine
March 9, 2018“The Science of Fake News” by David M. J. Lazer, Matthew A. Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam J. Berinsky, Kelly M. Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam J. ...
Read more...Local – Global Transcribe-a-thon Honors History of Black Freedom Struggles on Douglass Day 2018
February 14, 2018The NULab, in partnership with the Women Writers Project, Open Access at Snell, and the Digital Scholarship Group will participate in a massive, international online ...
Read more...NULab Faculty on Government Shutdown
January 22, 2018Costas Panagopoulos and Nick Beauchamp were featured in News@Northeastern’s article, “Government Shutdown: What Can Break the Impasse in Washington.” The NULab faculty discusses the possible ...
Read more...NULab Spring Calendar of Events
January 11, 2018The NULab is delighted to announce our spring calendar of events. We have some very exciting talks, workshops, and other events planned for the semester, ...
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Creating the Intertextual Networks Genre Taxonomy
By Kenny Oravetz, NULab Fellow As part of my work as a NULab fellow during the first year of the PhD program, I was given Continue Reading »
Viral Advertising: NULab Project
Attentive readers flipping through magazines and newspapers around the turn of the twentieth century would have noticed gradual cosmetic transformations. In newspapers, bold, large fonts Continue Reading »
Digital Decolonization: Research as a NULab Fellow
As a NULab Fellow during the 2017-2018 academic year, I devoted a portion of my hours each week to working with the Early Caribbean Digital Continue Reading »