NULab Core Faculty Alicia Sasser Modestino Responds to May Unemployment Data
June 19, 2020NULab core faculty Alicia Sasser Modestino, associate director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, was recently quoted by the ...
Read more...“Hashtag Activism” Featured In News@Northeastern’s Recommended Reading
June 13, 2020As part of its list of recommendations for “What to Read, Listen To, and Watch to Better Understand Racism Against Black People In The US,” ...
Read more...NULab Core Faculty Member Meg Heckman Releases New Book
June 1, 2020Potomac Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press, has just published the latest book by NULab core faculty member Meg Heckman, an Assistant Professor ...
Read more...NULab Affiliate Faculty Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles Win ICA Award for “#Hashtag Activism”
May 28, 2020Congratulations to NULab core faculty members Moya Bailey, Assistant Professor of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Brooke Foucault ...
Read more...New Tier 1 Grants Awarded to NULab Faculty for 2020-21
May 21, 2020We are pleased to announce that for fiscal year 2021, multiple NULab core faculty members, including interim co-director Julia Flanders, were awarded competitive TIER 1 ...
Read more...Molly Nebiolo, History PhD Candidate, Receives 2020 Humanics Award
May 20, 2020Molly Nebiolo, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Northeastern University, received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Humanics this year. Nebiolo’s research ...
Read more...NULab Faculty Affiliate Aleszu Bajak Featured in NYT: COVID-19 Studies Politicized Through Twitter Networks
May 16, 2020NULab faculty affiliate Aleszu Bajak, from Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, co-authored a New York Times op-ed with Jeff Howe, also from the School of ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer Co-Authors National COVID-19 Survey: 93% Oppose Re-Opening Immediately
May 14, 2020David Lazer, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Sciences and Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, recently co-authored a national ...
Read more...NULab Core Faculty Member Alicia Sasser Modestino on the Economic Fallout of COVID-19
May 11, 2020Reposted from News@Northeastern by Molly Callahan The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havoc on the United States economy, where stay-at-home measures have brought certain industries—such as restaurants, hotels, ...
Read more...Bailey’s Concept of “Misogynoir” discussed and championed in Mashable Article
April 22, 2020NULab Faculty Moya Bailey‘s (Assistant Professor of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) concept of “Misogynoir” was discussed and championed ...
Read more...#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, 2020The Digital Integration Teaching Initiative (DITI) is now accepting new faculty partnerships for the Summer and Fall 2020 semesters. Northeastern has committed to better teaching ...
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 ...
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If it Bleeds, it Leads: Disaster Information Dissemination and Media Usage
When disasters strike, media responses serve multiple functions. Media can focus the general public’s attention on a disruptive event, disseminate potentially lifesaving information to those Continue Reading »
Day of DH 2020: Snapshots of our daily lives
Day of DH 2020 was organized by CenterNet as a way to encourage digital humanists “to communicate what they do on Twitter, what they are Continue Reading »
Tackling 3D Modelling in the context of “Visualizing Colonial Philadelphia”
Courtesy of the Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress By Molly Nebiolo, PhD Candidate, History 3D modelling as a digital humanities tool has Continue Reading »
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 »