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Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, Associate Professor of Political Science

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David Lazer In the Media

David Lazer for Northeastern

Fake news

To stop fake news, researchers call for internet platforms to choose quality over quantity

In a perspective paper published Thursday in Science, Northeastern professor David Lazer and his colleagues explained what research is still needed to understand the spread…
- by Allie Nicodemo March 9, 2018
Community resilience

Scholars’ ‘flash talks’ explore resilience, from health to media innovation

More than a dozen faculty members, doctoral students, and visiting scholars gave lighting-fast overviews of their community resilience research on Monday afternoon as part of…
- by Jason Kornwitz November 9, 2017
Journalism

Study finds 'modest correlation' between journalists’ social networks and ideology of their news content

In a new study, an interdisciplinary team of Northeastern University researchers has found a “modest correlation” between a journalist’s Twitter network and the ideological…
- by Greg St. Martin August 18, 2017
Social media

Social media spotlight: David Lazer

Professor David Lazer shares how he approaches social media from a professional perspective and who he considers his “must follows” on Twitter. One of his…
- by Greg St. Martin March 7, 2017
Society & Culture

New web tool helps online shoppers detect price discrimination on e-commerce sites

Northeastern researchers created a web tool, launched on Monday, designed for desktop users searching on Google Chrome and meant to help people “better understand the…
- by Greg St. Martin December 12, 2016
Science & Technology

Study: Using Big Data to monitor societal events shows promise, but the coding tech needs work

Distinguished Professor David Lazer and his colleagues analyzed global-scale databases of news events and found them wanting. Their recommendations for improvements would enable researchers to…
- by Thea Singer September 29, 2016
Campus & Community

PhD student to study water access and control in Uganda through interviews—and equations

Matt Simonson got his undergraduate degree in math and international studies, but wasn’t sure they could be used together. That was until he found Northeastern’s…
- by Greg St. Martin June 2, 2016
Science & Technology

World-renowned scholars launch Northeastern’s Network Science Institute

The Network Science Institute, home of the nation’s first doctoral program in network science, brings together an interdisciplinary team of renowned Northeastern scholars to plumb…
- by Thea Singer November 6, 2015
Science & Technology

Researchers use mobile phone data to predict employment shocks

Northeastern computational social scientist David Lazer and his interdisciplinary research team have demonstrated that mobile phone data can be used to predict future unemployment rates…
- by Jason Kornwitz May 27, 2015
Society & Culture

Study: Political persuasion cuts across party lines

Findings reported in a new paper co-authored by Northeastern Distinguished Professor David Lazer challenge conventional wisdom that politics is all about targeting your base and…
- by Greg St. Martin March 16, 2015