Doctoral Dissertation Research: New Forms of Sociality and Community Construction within Digital Spaces

博士论文研究：数字空间中的社会性新形式与社区建设

• 批准号: 2049474
• 负责人: Tom Boellstorff
• 金额: $ 1.39万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049474&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; New; Forms; Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; New; Forms

How is the internet changing the ways people create and build connections? By some measures, the internet has hosted platforms that are said to exacerbate social divisions and attenuate the features of daily interaction responsible for reinforcing social ties. By other measures, the internet has increasingly become a key platform for personal expression, fundamentally transforming the way that people communicate, and fostering opportunities for new forms of sociality. This doctoral dissertation project examines how online platforms are being leveraged to create and maintain communities among individuals who are socially marginalized. Because these contexts are relatively new, and by some measure anonymous, the project has the potential of helping scientists better understand what creative processes are necessarily to the formation of new and durable social networks. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, data and findings from the projects with be shared with companies and other organizations to help optimize interaction and communication. The project also broadens the participation of groups traditionally underrepresented in science and technology. This doctoral dissertation research project asks whether there are significant differences in the way that biases and stereotypes emerge and proliferate within virtual spaces, and the ways that forms of community are creatively constructed within contexts of adversity. How is community formed, sociality constructed, and identity curated in digital contexts? Using an online communication and digital distribution platform specifically designed as an application for building communities, the researcher will track the navigational patterns and behaviors of its users. Data collection and analytical strategies include individual and group interviews, nine months participant observation within five different online interactive environments, and narrative and textual analysis of forum and message board archives. The collected data will contribute to theoretical debates about social formation, identity construction, and the science of broadening participation in science and technology.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

互联网如何改变人们创建和建立联系的方式？通过某些措施，互联网托管了据说会加剧社会分裂的平台，并衰减负责加强社会关系的日常互动的特征。通过其他措施，互联网越来越成为个人表达的关键平台，从根本上改变了人们交流的方式，并为新形式的社会性促进了机会。该博士学位论文项目研究了如何利用在线平台来创建和维护社会边缘化的个人之间的社区。由于这些环境相对较新，并且在某种程度上是匿名的，因此该项目具有帮助科学家更好地理解哪些创作过程必然是形成新的耐用社交网络的过程。除了为培训人类学研究生提供资金，以经验，科学数据收集和分析，数据以及与公司和其他组织共享的项目的发现以及发现的结果，以帮助优化互动和交流。该项目还扩大了传统在科学技术中代表性不足的群体的参与。这个博士学位论文研究项目询问，在虚拟空间内出现和增殖的偏见和刻板印象的方式以及在逆境中创造性地构建了社区形式的方式是否存在显着差异。如何在数字环境中形成社区，建立社会性和身份？研究人员使用专门设计的在线通信和数字分销平台，专门设计为建筑社区的应用程序，将跟踪其用户的导航模式和行为。数据收集和分析策略包括个人和小组访谈，在五个不同的在线互动环境中的九个月参与者观察以及论坛和留言板档案的叙事和文本分析。收集到的数据将有助于有关社会形成，身份构建以及扩大参与科学技术的科学的理论辩论。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准的评估来通过评估来支持的。