Project Grant N000142212604

The National Science Foundation awarded a $217,000 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The grant supports a collaborative research project to enhance information integrity and combat misinformation in the digital age. The key products and services to be delivered include: Analyzing and identifying social norm emergence and tipping points in public dialogue on controversial issues. Uncovering...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $125,000 to the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College to develop robust artificial intelligence techniques for identifying narratives used by inauthentic online accounts. The research aims to improve the state-of-the-art in automated detection of fraudulent and harmful online content. Specifically, the project will leverage...

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 award of $175,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to understand how the framing of news stories changes as they are shared on social media. The project will develop a new dataset of news stories and associated social media posts, with student researchers labeling the posts to indicate sentiment, issues, and framing. The research team will then build AI models to analyze a...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award to Trustees of Boston University totaling $225,669 supports the development of a production-ready, open-source software suite to enable rapid collection, management, and analysis of social media data for identifying and mitigating information manipulation (misinformation and disinformation) on social media. The key products and services to be delivered through this 4-year...

This three-year $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at Purdue University to develop robust learning and inference protocols for mitigating information pollution on social computing platforms. The investigators will define novel natural language processing and algorithmic inference tasks to characterize the similarities and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totaling $336,644 will support research into the dynamics and mechanisms of information spread via social media. The grant to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from August 2022 to July 2025 aims to develop new approaches for analyzing how information flows on social media platforms and to understand the factors that influence its adoption. Researchers will analyze large datasets to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $269,376 to the University of Michigan from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The grant supports research to develop computational models and algorithms that promote truth discovery and robust social learning on social media platforms. Specifically, the university researchers...

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 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...