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Report on Communication in Aftermath of Boston Marathon Bombing

This recently released report is based on survey data from communication on the day of the Boston Marathon Bombing.

Facebook tips news balance 'less than users do"

POSTDOC 2016

Two postdoctoral positions in computational social science are available with dual appointments at Northeastern and Harvard Universities, to work in the lab of David Lazer. Candidates will be expected to work on a combination of their own research and collaborative proj

NetSi PhD Student, Matt Simonson selected for National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

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David Lazer

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Northeastern University

Jason Radford Senior Research Scientist	Briony Swire Thompson Senior Research Scientist
Janette M. Briceno Project Manager	Luke Horgan Research Programmer
Stefan McCabe PhD Student	Ronald Robertson PhD Student
Navid Dianati Lab Alumnus	Samuel Fraiberger Lab Alumnus
Ryan P. Kennedy Lab Alumnus	Katherine Ognyanova Lab Alumnus

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Journal Article

Fostering reproducibility in industry-academia research

08/2017

Authors: B.R. Jasny, N. Wigginton, M. McNutt, T. Bubela, S. Buck, R. Cook-Deegan, T. Gardner, B. Hanson, C. Hustad, V. Kiermer, David Lazer, A. Lupier, A. Manrai, L. McConnell, K. Noonan

Journal Article

Communication in the Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing

08/2013

Authors: David Lazer, Ryan P. Kennedy, Drew Margolin

Researchers at Northeastern University conducted a survey June 27 to July 5, 2013 to see how people found out about the Boston Marathon bombing, how they attempted to get information about those they feared were...

Journal Article

The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis

03/2014

Authors: David Lazer, Ryan Patrick Kennedy, Gary King, Alessandro Vespignani

In February 2013, Google Flu Trends (GFT) made headlines but not for a reason that Google executives or the creators of the flu tracking system would have hoped.

Recent Publications

COVID-19

Identifying and Measuring Conditional Policy Preferences: The Case of Opening Schools During A Pandemic

Publication date: 12/2020
Authors: Jonathan Green, Matthew A. Baum, James Druckman, David Lazer, Katherine Ognyanova, Matthew Simonson, Roy H. Perlis, Mauricio Santillana

An individual’s issue preferences are non-separable when they depend on other issue outcomes (Lacy...

Misinformation

Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data

Publication date: 12/2020
Authors: Irene V. Pasquetto, Briony Swire Thompson, Michelle A. Amazeen, Fabricio Benevenuto, Nadia M. Brashier, Robert M. Bond, Lia C. Bozarth, Ceren Budak, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Lisa K. Fazio, Emilio Ferrara, Andrew J. Flanagin, Alessandro Flammini, Deen Freelon, Nir Grinberg, Ralph Hertwig, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Kenny Joseph, Jason J. Jones, R. Kelly Garrett, Daniel Kreiss, Shannon McGregor, Jasmine McNealy, Drew Margolin, Alice Marwick, Filippo Menczer, Miriam J. Metzger, Seungahn Nah, Stephan Lewandowsky, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Pablo Ortellado, Gordon Pennycook, Ethan Porter, David G. Rand, Ronald Robertson, Francesca Tripodi, Soroush Vosoughi, Chris Vargo, Onur Varul, Brian E. Weeks, John Wihbey, Thomas J. Wood, Kai-Cheng Yang

Social media platforms rarely provide data to misinformation researchers. This is problematic as platforms play a major role in the...

COVID-19

The State of The Nation: A 50-State COVID-19 Survey

Publication date: 11/2020
Authors: David Lazer, Mauricio Santillana, Roy H. Perlis, Matthew A. Baum, Katherine Ognyanova, James Druckman, Alexi Quintana Mathé, Matthew Simonson, Adina Gitomer, Jonathan Green, Hanyu Chwe, Jennifer Lin

This report is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under grants SES2029292 and SES-2029297. Any opinions, findings, and...

Journal Article

Searching for the backfire effect: Measurement and design considerations

Publication date: 09/2020
Authors: Briony Swire Thompson, Joe DeGutis, David Lazer

One of the most concerning notions for science communicators, fact-checkers, and advocates of truth, is the backfire...

Journal Article

Good Decisions or Bad Outcomes? A Model for Group Deliberation on Value-Laden Topics

Publication date: 06/2020
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Agent-based models present an ideal tool for interrogating the dynamics of communication and...

Journal Article

Theory In, Theory Out: The Uses of Social Theory in Machine Learning for Social Science

Publication date: 05/2020
Authors: Jason Radford, Kenny Joseph

Research at the intersection of machine learning and the social sciences has provided critical new...

Misinformation

Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations

Publication date: 12/2019
Authors: Briony Swire Thompson, David Lazer

The internet has become a popular resource to learn about health and to investigate one's own health...

Journal Article

Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations

Publication date: 12/2019
Authors: Briony Swire Thompson, David Lazer

The internet has become a popular resource to learn about health and to investigate one's own health...