Project Grant SYE70010GR007

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $105,524 to the University of Illinois to investigate the demographic biases in "social polls" conducted on social media platforms. The key goals of this 2-year project are to: Identify biased social media polls that misrepresent public opinion and evaluate the demographic biases in user engagement with these polls. Examine the prevalence and usage...

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 $287,867 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant is funding research to investigate and mitigate the harmful effects of biased social media polls that can distort public opinion perception. The key goals of the project are to: 1) Identify social media polls that misrepresent public opinion and evaluate the level of demographic bias in those polls, 2) Examine the...

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 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program ($149,426) supports a comparative study of public opinion and elite rhetoric in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from May 2022 through April 2023. Led by researchers at Stony Brook University, the award allows for collection and analysis of survey and social media data to examine concepts like "rally around the flag" and...

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 Project Grant award of $1,086,194 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, aims to study the mechanisms by which adolescents' social media use impacts their risk for internalizing symptoms like depression and anxiety. The primary research objectives are to: 1) Identify specific social media experiences that increase adolescents' risk for subsequent internalizing symptoms using an experimental eye-tracking paradigm;...

This federal Project Grant award of $700,708.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support research to understand the bidirectional relationship between adolescents' online engagement and their mental and behavioral health. The project, titled "Online and Offline Multiverse Spillover: Mapping the Ecology of Youth Mental Health," will recruit 450 adolescents aged 13-15, including an overrepresentation of...

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 federal Project Grant award of $1,937,629.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports a 2-year longitudinal mixed-method study on adolescents' social media management strategies, their impact on actual social media use, and the bidirectional relationship with mental health outcomes. The study will involve a national sample of 400 adolescents aged 13-17, with a preliminary phase of 100 participants and a...