CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Catalyzing Youth Civic Engagement Through Innovations in Social Computing

CHS：小型：合作研究：通过社会计算创新促进青年公民参与

• 批准号: 2054741
• 负责人: Andrea Parker
• 金额: $ 31.69万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2054741&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CHS; Small; Collaborative; Research; Catalyzing

This research will design, develop, and evaluate novel smartphone applications that help youth explore and leverage their social networks to engage in collective action, and assess the impact of this action. From affiliation with social movements through the use of Twitter hashtags, to collective organizing through Facebook, social computing tools have catalyzed new and exciting forms of civic engagement (efforts taken by individuals and collectives to address issues of societal concern). While historically it has been challenging to engage youth in civic action, social computing platforms offer a media-relevant way for youth to address issues that matter to them. However, despite increased opportunities for civic engagement online, youth can have difficulty navigating their social networks, which creates challenges for understanding and putting to use the social capital within networks, that is, the beneficial resources that can support collective action. This research examines how interactive visualizations of youth's social networks can help youth more effectively understand and put to use the social capital within their networks. Such visualizations may support civic engagement by easing access to the rich and complex information about social ties, helping youth evaluate the impact they have through online civic action, preparing them to make effective decisions about future activities. The work will include the design, development, and evaluation of two novel smartphone applications. Although there is a large literature on how best to visualize these networks from an algorithmic perspective, very little is known about how people, especially young people, interpret network visualizations, nor whether or when network visualizations may enhance access to and utilization of social capital. This project will contribute new empirical findings and novel software tools to fill this research gap. Additionally, although complex network data is increasingly packaged for public consumption, there are few standards for how to do so effectively, particularly in the context of mobile visualizations where small screen real estate dramatically amplifies the visualization challenge. The research will contribute new knowledge regarding how best to visualize network data for lay audiences, on the mobile platforms that people are increasingly using to interact with data. This work will yield empirical assessments of how designed interfaces can best manage the complexities of networked data in order to amplify cognition, action, and feelings of empowerment. This work will culminate in a conceptual framework to guide the design of social computing tools for youth civic engagement.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.

这项研究将设计、开发和评估新颖的智能手机应用程序，帮助年轻人探索和利用他们的社交网络参与集体行动，并评估这一行动的影响。 从通过使用 Twitter 标签加入社会运动，到通过 Facebook 进行集体组织，社交计算工具催生了新的、令人兴奋的公民参与形式（个人和集体为解决社会关注的问题而做出的努力）。虽然从历史上看，让年轻人参与公民行动一直是一项挑战，但社交计算平台为年轻人提供了一种与媒体相关的方式来解决对他们来说重要的问题。然而，尽管在线公民参与的机会有所增加，但青年人在社交网络中导航可能会遇到困难，这给理解和利用网络内的社会资本（即可以支持集体行动的有益资源）带来了挑战。这项研究探讨了青年社交网络的交互式可视化如何帮助青年更有效地理解和利用其网络中的社会资本。这种可视化可以通过方便地访问有关社会关系的丰富而复杂的信息来支持公民参与，帮助年轻人评估他们通过在线公民行动所产生的影响，为他们对未来的活动做出有效的决定做好准备。这项工作将包括设计、开发和评估两种新颖的智能手机应用程序。尽管有大量文献讨论如何从算法的角度最好地可视化这些网络，但人们，尤其是年轻人，如何解释网络可视化，以及网络可视化是否或何时可以增强社会资本的获取和利用，人们知之甚少。该项目将贡献新的实证研究结果和新颖的软件工具来填补这一研究空白。此外，尽管复杂的网络数据越来越多地打包供公众使用，但如何有效地做到这一点却几乎没有标准，特别是在移动可视化的背景下，小屏幕空间极大地放大了可视化挑战。该研究将提供有关如何在人们越来越多地使用移动平台与数据交互的移动平台上最好地为非专业受众可视化网络数据的新知识。这项工作将对设计的界面如何最好地管理网络数据的复杂性进行实证评估，以增强认知、行动和赋权感。这项工作最终将形成一个概念框架，以指导青年公民参与的社会计算工具的设计。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Social Media as a Critical Pedagogical Tool: Examining the Relationship between Youths’ Online Sociopolitical Engagements and Their Critical Consciousness

社交媒体作为重要的教学工具：审视青少年在线社会政治参与与其批判意识之间的关系

• DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3580823
• 发表时间: 2023-04
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23
• 作者: Choi, Adrian;D'Ignazio, Catherine;Foucault Welles, Brooke;Parker, Andrea G
• 通讯作者: Parker, Andrea G