Call for presentations: Preconference on Politics and Computational Social Science, Aug 29 @ Northeastern University
June 4, 2018The data and methodologies available to social scientists have exploded with the emergence of vast archives of passive data collection, large scale online experimentation, and ...
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, ...
Read more...NULab Professor on Fake News
January 2, 2018John Wihbey, NULab core faculty, was recently featured in a News@Northeastern article on fake news in 2018. Wihbey was interviewed about the continued relevance of ...
Read more...NuLab Faculty Member Dietmar Offenhuber Receives 2017 ASciNA Award
November 18, 2017NuLab and Art + Design Assistant Professor Dietmar Offenhuber, the Program Coordinator for the Information Design and Visualization graduate offerings, has received the Austrian Scientists in ...
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Black Collectives, Black Data, and Public Imperatives
Jim Casey and Sarah Lynn Patterson discuss the Colored Conventions Project On Friday, April 13, the NULab welcomed Sarah Lynn Patterson and Jim Casey, national Continue Reading »
2018 Spring Conference: “Fake News/Real Knowledge.”
On March 16, the NULab hosted its second annual conference on the theme “Fake News/Real Knowledge: Histories, Structures, and Futures.” The interdisciplinary conference highlighted work Continue Reading »
The Jesuit Plantation Project Redux: Activating Derived Historical Data in a Digital Environment (Or, Death by Hand-Processed Data)
In this early spring talk, Sharon Leon outlined how her archival research has brought to light information about 1,000 enslaved persons who resided on or Continue Reading »
Computational Poetry Workshop
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (left) and Mindy Seu provide an overview of computational poetry. On February 23rd, the NULab hosted a workshop on computational poetry led by Continue Reading »