http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/News stories from the College of Social Sciences and Humanitiesen-usCopyright 2010, Northeastern University1325666790002Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:46:30 GMThttp://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/news/news_items/story3For three decades, Nicole Rafter has, in her own words, helped “women, people of color and the poor benefit from criminal justice instead of being oppressed by it.http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/news/news_items/story2In a new study of the Internet’s impact on politics, Northeastern professor David Lazer and his colleagues found that online town hall meetings increase constituents’ trust and approval of members of Congress. The groundbreaking study also found that online deliberative forums are likely to sway swing voters in favor of the lawmaker holding the online forum. Read the full study.http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/news/news_items/story1For many of the nation’s roughly 18 million college students, their papers are graded by a professor—and promptly filed into binders, tossed in the trash or simply forgotten.