#Hashtag Activism is Out Now in Print
March 26, 2020Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles‘ book #Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Justice, which started as a NULab project, is out now ...
Read more...Eliassi-Rad Discusses Artificial Intelligence and Bias on Litmus Podcast
March 26, 2020NULab-affiliated Faculty Member Tina Eliassi-Rad, Associate Professor of Computer Science, appeared on the News@Northeastern Litmus Podcast on March 17th, 2020. Appearing on the episode “Invasion ...
Read more...Digital Integration Teaching Initiative Fall 2020 Call For Partnerships
February 18, 2020New deadline for CFP responses: April 17, 2020. The Digital Integration Teaching Initiative (DITI) is now accepting new faculty partnerships for the Summer and Fall 2020 ...
Read more...Mislove’s Research Reveals Persisting Bias in Facebook Ad Tools
February 11, 2020Reposted from News@Northeastern by Molly Callahan In settling five different lawsuits at once, Facebook earlier this year promised to change the way it manages the advertisements for ...
Read more...Riedl and Foucault Welles ask “Could a Smart Device Catch Implicit Bias in the Workplace?”
February 5, 2020Reposted from News@Northeastern by Khalida Sarwari Studies have shown that implicit bias—the automatic, and often unintentional, associations people have in their minds about groups of people—is ubiquitous ...
Read more...Do Women in Economics Face Extra Scrutiny?
January 29, 2020Reposted from News@Northeastern by Molly Callahan In the field of economics, seminars serve as the platform through which researchers disseminate new work, practitioners test out new theories, ...
Read more...2019 NULab Annual Report Released
January 16, 2020We are delighted to share the NULab’s 2019 annual report, which is available here. 2019 was a busy year for the NULab and this report highlights ...
Read more...NULab Spring 2020 Call for Proposals
January 10, 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 ...
Read more...NULab Spring Calendar of Events
January 8, 2020The NULab is delighted to announce our 2020 spring calendar of events. We have some very exciting talks, workshops, and other events planned for the ...
Read more...NULab Faculty Member John Wihbey Weighs in on Mitt Romney’s Secret Twitter Account
November 7, 2019Reposted from News@Northeastern By Molly Callahan This week Mitt Romney—a former Republican candidate for president and current U.S. senator—revealed that he has a secret “lurker” Twitter account. ...
Read more...Digital Integration Teaching Initiative Spring 2020 Call For Partnerships
October 2, 2019The Digital Integration Teaching Initiative (DITI) is now accepting new faculty partnerships for the Spring 2020 academic year. Northeastern has committed to better teaching our ...
Read more...Making Sense of the Democratic Presidential Race in Real Time with NULab Faculty Nick Beauchamp
September 26, 2019Reposted from News@Northeastern by Ian Thomsen Who will challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 election? The 10 Democrats who participated in the latest debate Thursday in Houston revealed ...
Read more...Women Writers Project Featured in News@Northeastern
September 24, 2019Reposted from News@Northeastern By Emily Arntsen English anthologies make it seem like Jane Austen was the only woman who published anything worth reading before the nineteenth century. ...
Read more...New Study Published this Summer by NULab Affiliated Faculty Member Alicia Sasser Modestino
September 23, 2019A new study “The Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2019: Supply, Demand and the Challenge of Local Control” authored by Northeastern University Professor and NULab ...
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Data Feminism with Visiting Speaker Catherine D’Ignazio
Catherine D’Ignazio presented on Data Feminism, the new book she co-authored with Lauren Klein, on Wednesday, March 11th in Snell Library. D’Ignazio’s talk was Continue Reading »
Collaborative Society with Dariusz Jemielniak
We live in an age of technological disruption where sharing economy firms like Uber, AirBnB, and WeWork are trying to transform our everyday services and Continue Reading »
Suffrage Transcribe-a-thon with DH Hub and National Parks of Boston
This post is written by Katie and Megan Woods, recent Northeastern graduates of the Masters of Arts in History with a Concentration in Public History Continue Reading »
Viral Texts at ACH2019: The Reprinting of Fiction in American Periodicals
The Association for Computers and the Humanities conference that was held in Pittsburgh last July was an incredible event. Having the opportunity to present the Continue Reading »