# Professors Anindya Ghose and Robert Seamans' research on the connection between broadband access and racial hate crimes is featured

1 Faculty News September 29, 2015 ![NDTV logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032457.jpg?itok=IAOY34tZ)>

Excerpt from [NDTV](http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/greater-internet-access-increases-racial-hate-crimes-study-746114) -- "'Technologically-driven solutions fall short in addressing an issue that is inherently social in nature,' said one of the researchers [Anindya Ghose](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/anindya-ghose) from New York University Stern School of Business in the US. 'Instead of engaging in a technological rat race with extremists, we should consider incorporating critical literacies - including digital media, anti-racism and social justice - into school curricula as an alternative strategy,' Ghose noted."

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Additional coverage appeared on [Business Standard](http://http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/greater-internet-access-ups-racial-hate-crimes-study-115092900441_1.html), [Economic Times](http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/internet-access-led-to-racial-hate-crimes-in-early-2000s/articleshow/49152373.cms) and [Times of India](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Internet-access-led-to-racial-crimes-in-early-2000s-Research/articleshow/49153608.cms).