This $375,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an Integrative Cyberinfrastructure for Online Abuse Research (ICOAR) at Clemson University from September 2022 through August 2025. Funded through the agency's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), this award aims to strengthen the nation's infrastructure for understanding and addressing online abuse. Specifically, Clemson University will develop a scalable, customizable, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $399,988 to Arizona State University (ASU) supports research to better understand and address problematic online behaviors on social media that impact user well-being. The key components of the project include: Developing predictive models for early detection of problematic online behaviors and assessing their severity through annotated social media data...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $220,000 Project Grant to the Research Foundation For The State University Of New York under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research to develop techniques for detecting accounts involved in influence campaigns on social media platforms. Leveraging its expertise in computational social science, the State University of New York at Binghamton will collaborate with other...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems will fund $196,892 for research into understanding online-to-offline sexual violence through data donation from online dating app users. The award, made under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of a data donation app and longitudinal study of consent practices between online and offline sexual encounters among online...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will provide $214,617 to the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) to conduct research and educational activities focused on enhancing the safety and user experience of online activities. The project will collect and analyze physiological data from subjects engaged in various online tasks, using machine learning and other advanced techniques to model the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program provides $150,000 in funding to Georgetown University to conduct research on improving transparency between social media platforms and users regarding the handling of reported harmful content. The key objectives are to: Understand what information users want to receive from social media platforms about reported harmful content through user interviews....
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $150,000 to the University of Southern California from December 15, 2022 to November 30, 2023. The grant funds an interdisciplinary research project investigating the role of online communication and offline violence in non-Western social media settings. Specifically, the University will collect a...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $389,385 to the University of California, San Diego to facilitate audience interaction and engagement in real-time social media. The research aims to develop tools that help community leaders in real-time social media platforms identify and guide participant behaviors to align with community norms. The project also plans to create auditing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $200,000, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will fund research conducted by the University of Southern California (USC) to understand the evolution of hate language use in online communities. The project will analyze large social media datasets using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to identify factors influencing participation in...
The University of Iowa received a $262,806 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to study group processes underlying deviance in online public spaces. Funded under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), this two-year award will support research examining how group dynamics influence deviant behavior in digital forums. The grant aims to contribute scientific insights on how public resources are used to advance knowledge in the social and...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $375,000 will fund the development of an Integrative Cyberinfrastructure for Online Abuse Research (ICOAR) from September 2022 through August 2025. The funding is provided through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in the social sciences.
The award recipient, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York, will create a scalable and customizable software infrastructure to advance machine learning-based research on online abuse detection. The open-source ICOAR platform will integrate capabilities for automated social media data collection, access to benchmark datasets, and modularized machine learning algorithms. It will also allow researchers to easily develop applications informed by their priorities. In addition to supporting future investigations, the infrastructure seeks to be sustainable through enhancements and provide an online learning platform for curriculum development and workforce training.