American Ethnologist Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation This article explores the links between social media and public space within the #Occupy Everywhere movements. Whereas listservs and websites helped give rise to a widespread logic of networking within the movements for global justice of the 1990s–2000s, I argue that social media have contributed to an emerging logic of aggregation in the more recent […]
Massachusetts fares well in factory jobs study Factory jobs in Massachusetts, once confined to a museum display, are not only alive and well, but quite profitable for the workers holding them.
US conservatives gain upper hand in Twitter politics Following his successful use of Twitter in the 2008 US presidential election campaign, Barack Obama is seen by many political pundits as the king of social media. But according to a new analysis of the Twitterverse, US conservatives have fought back and may now possess an online network that is better organised to spread their […]
A Shirt That Can Tell You If You’re Slacking Off Instead of Getting Buff Constantinos Mavroidis and Mark Sivak supervise Northeastern students and assign them with one “very broad” task every fall semester. This past year, it was to create a medical device that could be used to monitor users’ activities at home, that could also be interfaceable with a smartphone. Little did they know, their students would create […]
CBS Boston New College Grads Face Slightly Brighter Job Search The good news for emerging job graduates is hiring is on the upswing. But a brighter employment picture isn’t lessening the anxiety of newly minted grads, who face the real-world lesson that good job opportunities still remain elusive.
How The iPhone-Android War Keeps Your Phone Virus Free Albert-László Barabási is one of the world’s top experts in network theory. Here’s his take on mobile phone viruses and how a changing smartphone ecosystem could spell doom.
Health group attacks Gatorade’s Michael Jordan ad A health group is asking the U.S. government to yank a Gatorade ad that it says deceptively implies that basketball great Michael Jordan prevailed over the flu during a memorable 1997 game because he fueled with Gatorade.
Poptent’s amateurs sell cheap commercials to big brands A ‘crowdsourced’ video production studio, Poptent has gathered 50,000 writers, directors, cinematographers and animators to make ads for American Airlines, Intel, Jaguar, General Mills and others.
Mass High Tech Student-run accelerator adds funds, another pitch round Student-run venture accelerator IDEA has added another pitch round over the summer, and more funding to its program.
Metro Race to Space: We’ve just begun Justin Dowd, a student at Northeastern University, defeated hundreds of thousands of other Metro readers around the world to win a trip into space in 2014. In the coming weeks Justin will be writing a new popular science column for Metro — and here he recalls a week to remember.
The Boston Herald NU grads take steps to ease North End gridlock A group of recent Northeastern University engineering graduates has proposed an innovative way of easing pedestrian gridlock on Hanover Street in the North End: portable sidewalks.
Powell tells NU graduates world needs them Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell urged graduating Northeastern University students Friday to follow their passion in everything they do and to become active participants in a world that sorely needs their talents.
