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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $100,000 to Tulane University to conduct collaborative research on understanding the long-term dynamics of news engagement in online media. The research aims to develop computational models to identify news engagement behaviors and progression stages, establish a framework for estimating causal relationships between engagement behaviors, and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports research and narrative discovery activities at The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology from October 2021 through September 2024 with $535,950 in funding. The award is made under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which aims to advance computing, communications, and information sciences through investigator-initiated research and cyberinfrastructure development. Specifically,...
This $313,805 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund the University of Wisconsin-Madison to compare news coverage of public events across different news sources from 1994 to 2010. The university will develop catalogs of public events from that period and corresponding news stories to demonstrate how perceptions based on mainstream national media differed from those in more local specialty newspapers. Relational databases...
This $139,660 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant supports research at the College of William and Mary to develop novel online data mining algorithms that can provide transparent and interpretable machine learning models for real-time applications such as crowd movement prediction, disaster monitoring, and pandemic response. Key objectives include: 1)...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $175,000 to the Regents of the University of Michigan - Flint will support research to understand how the framing of news stories changes as they are shared on social media. The research team will develop a dataset of news stories and social media posts, then use machine learning models to analyze how the framing of events evolves as content is...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $329,183 Project Grant to the College of William & Mary under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will fund the development of a framework and methodology to enable researchers and software engineers to better interpret the behavior of AI-powered developer tools that leverage neural language models for source code. The project aims to generate global and local...
The National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $721,700 project grant to Syracuse University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year grant will support collaborative research on the future of news work through human-technology collaboration in journalistic research and narrative discovery. The grant aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,474 Project Grant to Code For Science And Society, Inc., a non-profit organization, under the NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The 2-year grant, awarded on August 1, 2023, supports a research project to examine social movements on university campuses in the U.S. and Canada during 2012-2018. The project will construct a quantitative dataset of higher education social movements and university responses, using...
This $243,695 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support a collaborative research project led by the University of California, Santa Barbara. The project aims to conduct rigorous measurements and analysis to assess the network connectivity, reliability, and performance of anchor institutions (such as public libraries, schools, and hospitals) that rely on high-quality broadband...