This Project Grant award, valued at $100,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports a collaborative research project titled "SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: TOWARD WELL-BEING BY DESIGN IN SOCIAL MEDIA" at Arizona State University (ASU). The key objectives of this project are to: 1) develop predictive models for early detection of problematic online behaviors on social media, with a focus on assessing...
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) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $400,001 to Loyola University of Chicago to conduct research on identifying and preventing problematic online behaviors, such as cyberbullying, that impact user well-being on social media platforms. The key objectives of the research project are to: 1) develop predictive models for early detection of problematic online behaviors,...
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 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) provides $826,361 to Georgetown University to conduct research that develops novel approaches to support Public Interest Technology (PIT) organizations in deploying data safeguards to build ethical and responsible AI systems. The project will: (1) use ethnographic methods to identify socio-technical challenges at PIT organizations, (2) create and evaluate participatory...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems Project Grant award of $1,132,002 to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), will examine the design of sociotechnical systems that offer user controls for combating non-consensual intimate media (NCIM) and deter perpetrators from sharing it. The research objectives include: 1) understanding victim needs through design...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award to Michigan State University (MSU) in the amount of $252,831 supports the development of guidelines for reporting about network data. The project aims to facilitate the collaborative development of these guidelines, which will enable network researchers to describe their data clearly, consistently, and transparently. This will enhance the value of existing network research by...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, provides $277,496 to the University of Pittsburgh to investigate the impact of social media use on body image among adolescent girls. The multi-method, longitudinal study aims to examine how specific social media experiences affect body image concerns over short-term and longer-term periods, utilizing a combination of eye-tracking, surveys, and ecological...