Cooperative Agreement CB20ADR0160002

This Project Grant award, valued at $200,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Federal Grant Program for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075). The project, conducted by New York University (NYU), is examining the causal impact of social media usage on individual well-being and out-group animosity across multiple countries through a global field experiment. The research team is incentivizing a large sample of people to temporarily reduce...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $319,908 to the University of Pittsburgh to construct a database containing information on how public leaders at the national, state, and local levels communicate through social media and other public online forums. The database will capture measures of public figures' online transparency, responsiveness, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $200,000 to Duke University to conduct a cross-national study using generative artificial intelligence, social simulation models, and online experiments. The goal is to identify how social media algorithms can be redesigned to promote mutual understanding, increase trust, and reduce polarization. The research design involves training large language models...

This $649,380 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports the creation of a database containing information about how public figures and leaders at the national, state, and local levels in the U.S. communicate and engage on social media and other online public forums. The project will develop measures to assess aspects of public figures' online...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $606,480.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research examining the impact of social media use on the mental health and academic achievements of adolescents. The research team at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) will conduct an experimental study, randomly assigning adolescents to a treatment group that receives incentives to reduce social...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $105,524 to the University of Illinois to investigate the demographic biases in "social polls" conducted on social media platforms. The key goals of this 2-year project are to: Identify biased social media polls that misrepresent public opinion and evaluate the demographic biases in user engagement with these polls. Examine the prevalence and usage...

This National Science Foundation project grant awarded $100,000 to Arizona State University to fund research into opinion formation and graph dynamics on social media platforms from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The award aims to develop mathematical models of the interplay between social networks and opinion dynamics to better understand the rise of polarization and echo chambers in online discourse. A subaward of $25,000 was provided to Artis Research & Risk Modeling Corporation to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program ($149,426) supports a comparative study of public opinion and elite rhetoric in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from May 2022 through April 2023. Led by researchers at Stony Brook University, the award allows for collection and analysis of survey and social media data to examine concepts like "rally around the flag" and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a total funding amount of $389,385, is aimed at helping communities better support the facilitation of audience engagement and information sharing in real-time social media. The primary goals of the project are to: Develop tools that support hosts of real-time social media in facilitating audience participation, including modeling audience behaviors and...

This $322,812 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), supports research to advance the understanding of how people engage with news online and how their behaviors evolve over time. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing computational models to identify different types of news engagement behaviors and their progression stages, using advanced language and user modeling...