Sound check: Hip-hop drawing academic interest in Boston and beyond “There are so many dimensions to the culture,” said Murray Forman, a media studies professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “It’s really rich for analysis in all kinds of contexts.” Some scholars still question whether hip-hop has a place in academia, but its acceptance is growing, said Forman, who was a Nasir Jones fellow last […]
Metro In the digital age, retailers’ use of dynamic pricing skyrocketing It’s just a matter of time, perhaps as little as five years, before more retailers take up the practice, said Christo Wilson, an assistant professor and researcher in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. His recent academic research found some retailers offering consumers different products depending on whether they were shopping […]
Mother Jones Hate Crimes Are Rising But Don’t Expect Them to be Prosecuted Jack Levin explained why it’s important to prosecute hate crimes with the full force of the law in an interview with Mother Jones: “The perpetrator is sending a message when he commits the hate crime,” Levin said, noting that hate crimes send ripples throughout the targeted community. “We need to send the message back that […]
Asia outbreaks prompt question – Is all Zika dangerous? Experts believe Zika moved explosively in the Americas because there was no prior exposure. It’s not clear how widely Zika has circulated in Africa and Asia, whether there could be pockets of natural immunity – and, importantly, whether immunity to one strain would confer immunity to another. One recent review of studies suggests 15 to […]
A killer disease might be nearing the end of its deadly run “This drug seems likely to be approved for sleeping sickness, and is an excellent example of drug discovery scientists ‘rescuing’ a compound that was otherwise in the dustbin of a large drug company,” Michael Pollastri, an associate professor at Northeastern University, told HuffPost.
Long before ‘Hamilton’ brouhaha, theater was anything but polite Attending the theater before 1850 or so in the United States was far more akin to attending a football game today than to attending contemporary theater. The audience was expected to make some noise, and as the scene at “Richard III” shows, it exercised the right to influence what happened on the stage as well […]
Studies show racial and gender discrimination throughout the gig economy The problem isn’t that technology companies have designed systems that are explicitly discriminatory but that they enable people to act on their biases, said Christo Wilson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University and an author of the new study. “There are limits to what you can do to make your users act differently,” he said. But […]
Google search results can lean liberal, study finds That system has helped insulate Google from the controversy over fake news because, unlike Facebook, Google’s search engine rarely surfaces fringe websites that distribute propaganda. But academics say the search algorithm’s opacity is still a concern, given Google’s dominant role. “No one really knows what (Google’s search engine) is doing,” said Christo Wilson, a Northeastern […]
Japan probes nuclear cooling system shutdown after earthquake “The fact that today’s earthquake caused the pumps at the Fukushima nuclear plant to shut down temporarily will certainly not help the government in its goal to restart the reactors,” Daniel Aldrich, a professor and director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University in Boston, said by e-mail. “Perhaps one interesting change […]
WGBH Fake news versus false news: Why they’re different, and why it matters And here is the dilemma in dealing with fake news: not all fake news is created equal. Some of it is produced in sweatshops by people who couldn’t care less about what they’re doing as long as they can get clicks and make money. And some of it is produced by ideologically motivated activists who […]
At UMass and beyond, hip-hop draws growing academic interest “There are so many dimensions to the culture,” said Murray Forman, a media studies professor at Northeastern University. “It’s really rich for analysis in all kinds of contexts.” Some scholars still question whether hip-hop has a place in academia, but its acceptance is growing, said Forman, who was a Nasir Jones fellow last year. University […]
TCT Magazine Northeastern University are working with 3D bioprinting to advance vascular disease treatment Northeastern University’s Department of Bioengineering are working on the advancement of 3D bioprinting which could revolutionise vascular disease treatment. A new faculty member at the university is pioneering a technology which will bring bioengineering solutions to challenges in vascular biology. Specifically, Associate Professor Guohao Dai is 3D bioprinting live tissue with vascular perfusion.