Monthly Archives: February 2020
Digital Integration Teaching Initiative Fall 2020 Call For Partnerships
Written on February 18, 2020 at 2:43 pm, by Sarah Connell
The Digital Integration Teaching Initiative (DITI) is now accepting new faculty partnerships for the Spring 2020 academic year. Northeastern has committed to better teaching our undergraduates the digital tools, skills, and methods that will enable them to be successful in today’s world. The DITI was established to help CSSH faculty to meet this goal. We Continue Reading »
Visualizing Early Colonial Philadelphia: A Digital Narrative on the Role of Health in Philadelphia’s Early Urbanization
Written on February 18, 2020 at 11:31 am, by Jeff Sternberg
Principle Investigator: Molly Nebiolo, PhD Candidate, History About the project/goals/platforms: Visualizing Early Colonial Philadelphia will be a digital component to my dissertation, “Constructing Health: Concepts of Well-Being in the Creation of Early Atlantic Cities” to highlight some of the urban spaces I will be discussing in my dissertation.* The goal of this digital project is Continue Reading »
Mislove’s Research Reveals Persisting Bias in Facebook Ad Tools
Written on February 11, 2020 at 12:29 pm, by Jeff Sternberg
Reposted 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 housing, employment, and credit that run on its platform. Advertisers would no longer be able to target an audience by gender, race, or age, in order to prevent Continue Reading »
Suffrage Transcribe-a-thon with DH Hub and National Parks of Boston
Written on February 7, 2020 at 10:53 am, by Laura Johnson
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 program. To commemorate the Centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks along with the DH Hub, the Digital Scholarship Group, and the Continue Reading »
Riedl and Foucault Welles ask “Could a Smart Device Catch Implicit Bias in the Workplace?”
Written on February 5, 2020 at 1:02 pm, by Jeff Sternberg
Reposted 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 in the workplace, and can hurt not just employees, but also a company’s bottom line. For example, employees who perceive bias are nearly three times as likely to Continue Reading »