Meryl Alper

Meryl Alper, an associate professor in communication studies at Northeastern University in the U.S., tells us more about this charming blue heeler dog.

Meryl Alper, assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, said she believes the app could be useful, even for people who are not visually impaired. “What is obvious to one person can be invisible to another,” Alper told […]

Assistive technologies are hailed as a way to “give voice to the voiceless.” But what exactly do we mean by giving voice? Meryl Alper is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University and the author of Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality. The book explores how that concept of ‘giving voice’ can […]

“Even though it’s decades old, the work of Erving Goffman is still super relevant here,” Northeastern University professor Meryl Alper tells TI. Goffman’s work explores human behavior as a theatrical performance, with a front and back stage. A person acts differently depending on the audience, which Goffman refers to as “impression management.” And on Instagram, teens […]