David Lazer

The fourth event in Northeastern’s year­long edu­ca­tional series on civic sus­tain­ability last Wednesday focused on sus­pect moti­va­tion, the impor­tance of resilience, and the role of social media.

“Are you okay?” Words like these appeared on the screens of mil­lions of Boston res­i­dents’ and vis­i­tors’ mobile phones on April 15, the day two bombs exploded near the Boston Marathon … read more »

At the world’s largest sci­ence con­fer­ence, North­eastern scholars urged inter­dis­ci­pli­nary com­mu­ni­ca­tion to develop solu­tions to the world’s greatest challenges.

A day after the nation went to the polls, we’re talking to North­eastern fac­ulty mem­bers about Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s elec­toral win over Repub­lican Mitt Romney, despite an extremely close pop­ular vote count. Check in throughout the day to see what experts from across the uni­ver­sity are saying about what the results mean for the nation and the world.

A team of North­eastern researchers is probing media output, polit­ical cam­paign lan­guage and finan­cial data to reveal the invis­ible net­works of lan­guage and money in the pres­i­den­tial election.

North­eastern is hosting an exhibit that show­cases how map­makers today are exploring what it means to visu­alize sci­ence: its prin­ci­ples and interconnections.

Net­work sci­en­tists David Lazer and Alessandro Vespig­nani are awarded a major grant for inter­dis­ci­pli­nary work ana­lyzing the inter­de­pen­dence of net­works in dif­ferent kinds of systems.

North­eastern researchers tracked the lan­guage of mil­lions of tweets to cap­ture the nation’s polit­ical mood before today’s elections

Study led by North­eastern pro­fessor finds that many House and Senate mem­bers don’t address tough issues on their websites

Study con­cludes that online Town Halls increase voters’ sup­port for law­makers and par­tic­i­pa­tion in politics

Northeastern’s world-​​renowned net­work sci­ence center wel­comes new scholar to its team. He plans to show how data col­lec­tion can trans­form social sciences.