Project Grant FA86552017031

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...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $2,373,651 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the Regents of the University of Michigan - Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division (University of Michigan) to conduct research on "Understanding Social Network-Transcendent Online/Offline Behavioral Dynamics: From Data to Models to Prediction." The key objectives are to develop new network alignment models, semi-supervised...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $300,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The grant funds research to develop design principles for network-scale applications by analyzing how application design impacts user behavior and societal outcomes. Specifically,...

This federal Project Grant award of $400,000.00 from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) is supporting research to investigate the language of parasocial influence and the emergence of extremism. The lead grantee is The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, partnering with Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on this 5-year research project. The key activities under this award include...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $350,000 is funding a research project at the University of Chicago to investigate the role of networks in influencing the outcomes of interventions across various domains, such as education, marketing, and tax decisions. The project will focus on developing new randomized experimental methods and open-source software to enable robust inference of network effects and quantify...

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 $447,116 supports research into network formation and function within and between cultural groups from 2023 to 2025. Funded under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the grant to Trustees of Boston University will study the development of social relationships between culturally distinct populations and how individuals leverage relationships to access supportive resources. Using multilevel network models...

The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded Trustees of Boston University a $449,985 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant period is from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 and will support the development of new coevolving latent space network with attractors models to study social dynamics. Specifically, the awardee will develop modeling and statistical inference methodologies for this new class of...

This Project Grant award 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 $358,156 to the California Institute of Technology to examine how genuine beliefs respond to information provided by knowledgeable sources. The research will develop a new mechanism to deliver information that allows testing for persuasion without needing to know participants' initial beliefs....

This National Science Foundation project grant of $360,000 awarded on August 1, 2022 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (47.049) program will fund the development of novel models and statistical methods for analyzing dynamic social networks and sentiment patterns. Led by Principal Investigator Dr. Jun Yan of the University of Connecticut in collaboration with subrecipient Texas A&M University, the three-year project aims to create two new models accounting for heterogeneous...