New research by NULab Co-Director David Lazer covered in the Economist, Boston Globe, Time, and Forbes
September 9, 2018A new paper “How intermittent breaks in interaction improve collective intelligence,” by Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer has recently been published in PNAS. The paper examines the results ...
Read more...NULab core faculty member Donghee Jo’s research featured in Washington Post
September 9, 2018A recent article in the Washington Post “Bursting people’s political bubbles could make them even more partisan” discusses how new research explores how “despite decades of psychology ...
Read more...CFP: NULab Fall 2018 Grants
September 7, 2018NULab 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 ...
Read more...Digital Storytelling at the NULab in 2018–2019
September 2, 2018The NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks is delighted to announce that our calendar of events for the 2018–2019 academic year will be focused around ...
Read more...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 ...
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The DHSI Experience and the Ingenuity of Stylometry
By Molly Nebiolo, PhD Student in History, Northeastern University. I was able to fly to Canada to immerse myself in digital humanities for five days Continue Reading »
Analyzing the Editorials of Newspaper Publisher Nackey Scripps Loeb
By Meg Heckman, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University. Tales of New Hampshire’s first-in-the nation presidential primary almost always mention the Union Leader, a newspaper that’s Continue Reading »
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 »