NULab Faculty Members and Co-Director to Study Fake News with Facebook Data
May 16, 2019By Molly Callahan, Republished from News@Northeastern The persistence of fake news and misinformation is creating chaos across the globe. It’s affecting elections in the United States and ...
Read more...It’s Time to Study Machines the Way We Study Humans
April 26, 2019Republished from News@Northeastern by Molly Callahan Artificial intelligence and machine learning models can be found in almost every aspect of modern life. News-ranking algorithms determine which information ...
Read more...NULab Professor John Wihbey’s The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World
April 17, 2019NULab Professor John Whibey’s new book came out April 16, from MIT Press: “While the public believes that journalism remains crucial for democracy, there is a ...
Read more...NULab Professor Christo Wilson Wins Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award
April 1, 2019Republished from News@Northeastern by Khalida Sarwari Northeastern computer science professor Christo Wilson wants to make people aware of how algorithms work, while getting the companies that use them to be ...
Read more...Social Media Has Come Under Scrutiny After the New Zealand Mosque Shooting. But What About the News Media?
April 1, 2019Republished from News@Northeastern by Molly Callahan The role that social media played in the lead-up and execution of a deadly attack on two mosques in New Zealand is being ...
Read more...How to Fix Democracy in the United States
March 24, 2019Republished from News@Northeastern by Molly Callahan To find ways to fix U.S. democracy, Northeastern professor David Lazer “did Democracy like a drug,” he said. At the 55th annual Robert D. Klein ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer selected as Robert D. Klein University Lecturer
February 15, 2019NULab Co-Director David Lazer has been selected to give the 55th Robert D Klein Lecture. The Klein University Lecturer Award, established in 1964, distinguishes a ...
Read more...New research by NULab Co-Director David Lazer published in Science
January 25, 2019A new paper “Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election” by Nir Grinberg, Kenneth Joseph, Lisa Friedland, Briony Swire-Thompson, and David Lazer has ...
Read more...NULab Seedling and Travel Grants: Spring 2019 CFP
January 23, 2019Call for Proposals: The NULab is once again inviting proposals for seedling grants, travel, and co-sponsorship of events related to digital humanities and computational social science. The deadline ...
Read more...NULab Spring Calendar of Events
January 11, 2019The NULab is delighted to announce our spring calendar of events. We have some very exciting talks, conferences, workshops, and other events planned for the ...
Read more...David Smith Awarded NEH Grant for OCR Project
December 18, 2018NULab core faculty member David Smith has been awarded an $82,019 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for the project “Improving Optical Character Recognition for Handwritten Marginalia.” ...
Read more...NULab Professor Pedro Cruz Wins Two Kantar Information Is Beautiful Awards
December 15, 2018Pedro M. Cruz, a NULab core faculty member, recently won two awards at the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, which celebrate excellence and beauty in data ...
Read more...Representing Is Hard. Online Town Halls Can Help
November 30, 2018Republished from Roll Call By Michael A. Neblo, Kevin M. Esterling, and David M.J. Lazer OPINION — At the end of the movie “The Candidate,” Robert Redford’s character wins a ...
Read more...Two Postdoctoral Positions in Computational Social Science
September 28, 2018Two postdoctoral positions in computational social science are available at the Network Science Institute, to work with David Lazer and Christoph Riedl. Candidates will be ...
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Digital Public Humanities Panel
On March 21, the NULab and Humanities Center co-sponsored a panel, “Digital Public Humanities”, featuring presentations by four scholars who work in the digital public Continue Reading »
The Emotional Arcs of Television: NULab Project
Stories are a vital part of the human experience. Narratives and tales communicate comedy, mystery, and drama to inform and entertain readers, listeners, or viewers. Continue Reading »
DH Projects at the National Council on Public History
Katie and Megan Woods recently graduated with their Master of Arts in History with a Concentration in Public History. They also obtained a Certificate Continue Reading »
Visualizing French Muslims: NULab Project
France has the largest populations of Muslims in the Western world, making up an estimated 7.5% of the population. The Muslim population has been steadily Continue Reading »