Collaborative Research: How online foci shape conversation

合作研究：在线焦点如何塑造对话

• 批准号: 2116936
• 负责人: Byungkyu Lee
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 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: 2021-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2116936&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; How; online; foci

This project investigates the characteristics of online communities that shape the quality of their conversations. Social media sites are not homogeneous; they are made up of online “foci” of interaction -- online communities like groups, blogs, and discussion forums characterized by their stability and bounded nature. In certain foci, conversations are friendly and constructive, in others, hostile and unproductive. The goal of this study is to understand how the different characteristics of online foci — their cultures, moderation policies, attitudes towards outsiders, and social relationships — influence the quality of their conversations. Findings will advance scientific knowledge to improve a democratic society and help scholars and practitioners imagine and design a more inclusive and democratic online public sphere.This study leverages a large-scale multilevel dataset that covers all public conversations that unfolded during a major campaign across 1,058 topical forums on a popular platform. The data consist of 1.2 billion comments, 8.2 billion reactions to posts, and 2.6 billion reactions to comments among three hundred million users across 7.5 million posts. In addition, the project collects labeled comments to train machine learning models that measure and predict whether comments are deliberative according to two core dimensions: the civility of conversations and meaningful cross-ideological interactions. These data, in conjunction with recent methodological advances in the analysis of quasi-experimental designs, social network analysis, natural language processing, and multilevel modeling strategies, are used to identify the characteristics of online foci that foster cross-ideological interaction and civil discourse and to understand the role online foci play in moderating the impact of divisive, exogenous social events. This project is supported jointly by the Sociology, Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics, Human Networks and Data Science-Research, and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Programs.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.

该项目调查了在线社区的特征，这些特征塑造了他们的对话质量。社交媒体网站不是同质的；它们由互动的在线“焦点”组成 - 在线社区，例如群体，博客和讨论论坛，其特征是其稳定性和有限性。在某些焦点中，对话是友好和建设性的，在其他情况下，对话是敌对的和无效的。这项研究的目的是了解在线焦点的不同特征如何（他们的文化，节制政策，参与者对局外人和社会关系）如何影响他们的对话质量。调查结果将促进科学知识，以改善民主社会，并帮助学者和实践者的想象力，并设计一个更具包容性和民主的在线公共领域。这项研究利用了一个大规模的多级数据集，涵盖了在普通平台上1,058个主题论坛上进行的所有大型活动中进行的所有公众对话。数据包括12亿条评论，对职位的82亿个反应，以及在750万个职位的3亿用户中对评论的26亿个反应。此外，该项目还收集了标记的评论，以训练机器学习模型，以衡量和预测根据两个核心维度进行审议的评论：对话的文明和有意义的跨意识互动。这些数据以及在准实验设计，社交网络分析，自然语言处理和多层次建模策略的分析中的最新方法学进步，用于确定在线焦点的特征，从而促进跨意识互动和民间话语，并了解在线焦点在线焦点在在线焦点中扮演的作用在调节分裂，外来社交事件的影响中起着作用。该项目得到了社会学，方法论，测量和统计，人类网络和数据科学研究以及可靠和可信赖的网络空间计划的共同支持。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来通过评估来获得的支持。