Project Grant 2318460
- 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 $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) 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 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 National Science Foundation project grant of $571,005 will fund research on the prevalence and effects of populist rhetoric on social media in democracies globally. Awarded on July 15, 2022 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the grant will support the creation of a large cross-national dataset on political communication by major democratic parties on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram across approximately 80 countries. Researchers at Washington...
- 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 $286,178 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research on how changes in information dissemination and consumption can impact strategic decision-making and the achievement of common goals. The project aims to develop new methodological tools to measure information similarity across individuals and analyze its effects on collective action problems, coordination games, and policy...
- This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support the University of California, Irvine in developing new techniques for analyzing complex social network data. The research aims to advance methodologies for exploratory, comparative, and semiparametric network analysis, combining innovations in machine learning and statistical theory. Key deliverables include the creation of didactic materials and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded Cornell University a $103,149 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant, awarded September 1, 2021 and concluding August 31, 2024, will support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HOW ONLINE FOCI SHAPE CONVERSATION." Through this funding, Cornell University researchers in Ithaca, New York will examine how the topics and issues...
- 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 $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 behavior, such as transparency, responsiveness, and accessibility, and use experimental methods to examine how factors like elections and emergencies impact leaders' online communication and engagement. The resulting database, analysis tools, and illustrative research findings will be made available to support researchers, journalists, and others studying public leadership and communication.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $649.4k | 8/11/23 |