NULab Core Faculty Member Ryan Cordell Goes Viral with “Vaccine,” Cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”
November 24, 2020On November 16, 2020, NULab core faculty member Ryan Cordell, associate professor of English at Northeastern University, went viral on Twitter for singing “Vaccine,” a ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer Finds In New Survey That Indoor Gatherings With Greatest Risks For COVID-19 Are Rising in MA
November 24, 2020David Lazer, NULab co-director and University Distinguished Professor of political science and computer and information sciences at Northeastern, is the lead author on a November ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer Finds Age and Demographics Linked To Sharing Fake News About COVID-19 On Twitter
October 22, 2020Reposted from News@Northeastern by Peter Ramjug and Eunice Esomonu Women over 50 are most likely to share pandemic-related stories on Twitter from websites that share fake news, and Republicans are ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer’s Survey Estimates That Mail Ballots Favor Joe Biden
October 10, 2020Reposted from News@Northeastern by Peter Ramjug President Donald Trump may have a lead in the popular vote and Electoral College as the early returns come in on election ...
Read more...DITI Spring 2021 Call for Partnerships
October 8, 2020The Digital Integration Teaching Initiative (DITI) is now accepting new faculty partnerships for the Spring 2021 semester. Northeastern has committed to better teaching our undergraduates ...
Read more...NULab Fall 2020 Calendar of Events
October 5, 2020The NULab is delighted to announce our fall 2020 calendar of events. We have some very exciting panels, workshops, and other events planned for the ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer Finds Messaging Apps Largest Source of COVID-19 Misinformation
September 29, 2020Reposted from News@Northeastern by Khalida Sarwari Minorities and younger people are more susceptible to fake news and misinformation about COVID-19, and younger generations are also more likely to ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer Receives 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
September 18, 2020NULab co-director David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, was recently awarded the 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize from the editorial ...
Read more...NULab Core Faculty Member Brooke Foucault Welles Awarded Social Science Research Council Fellowship
September 17, 2020NULab core faculty member Brooke Foucault Welles, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, was recently awarded a Social Data Research Fellowship grant from ...
Read more...NULab Fall 2020 Call for Proposals
September 16, 2020The 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 is November ...
Read more...NULab Faculty, Staff, and Students Interviewed In New Article in Digital Humanities Quarterly
August 30, 2020NULab core faculty Ryan Cordell (associate professor of English), NULab assistant director Sarah Connell, and NULab alum Caroline Klibanoff (a DH certificate recipient who created ...
Read more...Digital Integration Teaching Initiative Featured in News@Northeastern
August 19, 2020Reposted from News @ Northeastern by Irvin Zhang and Kaitlyn Budion The Cacodemon Shakespeare Project is a lot more than just an online copy of William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” Within each ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer Co-Authors Latest COVID-19 Survey, Finds Racial Justice Protests Did Not Drive Spike In Infection Rates
August 11, 2020Reposted from News @ Northeastern by Peter Ramjug The racial justice protests earlier this summer were not the driving force behind a spike in U.S. COVID-19 infections ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer Co-Authors New National COVID Survey: Only 66% Will Seek A Vaccine
August 7, 2020Reposted from News@Northeastern by Peter Ramjug If a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, as promising reports suggest could be the case by winter, 66 percent of U.S. residents say they will ...
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NULab Grant Recipients Lightning Talks
On October 28, at a special session of DH Open Office Hours, recipients of NULab Seedling and Travel Grants shared their exciting projects in a Continue Reading »
“Data, Activism, and Intersectionality”: Panel Re-cap
Image credit: A screenshot from the Black Living Data Booklet, discussed by panelist Faithe Day. On Thursday, October 19, 2020, the NULab hosted a virtual panel, Continue Reading »
Social Dimensions of the Pandemic
Image credit: Screenshot showing results for “masks” and “reopen” from the COVID-19 Tweets Project, developed in collaboration between the Lazer Lab and Aleszu Bajak. On Continue Reading »
NULab and DSG Host Fall Scholarship Celebration
By Caroline Grand and Julianna Wessels The NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks and the Digital Scholarship Group hosted a Fall Scholarship Celebration on October Continue Reading »