SaTC: CORE: Medium: Testing the causal influence of social media on well-being and animosity

SaTC：核心：中：测试社交媒体对幸福感和敌意的因果影响

• 批准号: 2334148
• 负责人: Jay Van Bavel
• 金额: $ 119.98万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2334148&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SaTC; CORE; Medium; Testing; causal

A recurring question of scientists, policy makers, and the public is how online social media use is affecting the welfare of people and society. This project examines the global influence of social media on individuals’ well-being and social attitudes. The project aims to extend well beyond trends in specific countries. The research team is conducting a global field experiment across multiple countries to test the causal impact of social media. The experiment provides incentives to a large sample of people to temporarily reduce their usage of their social media platforms for two weeks. The project team is studying how this social media reduction influences a number of important variables, such as personal well-being and out-group animosity, as compared with changes in a control sample.This project involves multiple collaborators across the globe to translate survey items, aid in sample selection, and help administer the experiment. In addition to analyses of the main effects of the experimental treatment, the project is investigating whether the effects of social media reduction are moderated by a number of country-level variables such as the country’s democratic strength. The dataset produced by this project will be made publicly available to researchers, to allow for numerous secondary papers and alternative analyses. This project will contribute rigorous empirical evidence to important debates about how social media is influencing societies around the world, including out-group animosity and well-being among their citizens. It will inform theoretical accounts of how social media impacts people in different cultural or political contexts, and also inform practical solutions for improving social media and the impact it has on society.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.

科学家，政策制定者和公众反复出现的问题是在线社交媒体使用如何影响人们和社会的福利。该项目研究了社交媒体对个人福祉和社交与会者的全球影响。该项目旨在远远超出特定国家的趋势。研究团队正在多个国家进行全球实地实验，以测试社交媒体的因果影响。该实验为大量人员提供了激励措施，以暂时减少他们对社交媒体平台的使用两个星期。与对照样本的变化相比，该项目团队正在研究这种社交媒体如何影响许多重要的变量，例如个人福祉和群体外的仇恨。该项目涉及全球多个合作者，以翻译调查项目，帮助样本选择，并帮助进行实验。除了分析实验治疗的主要影响外，该项目还调查了社交媒体减少的影响是否受到许多国家级变量（例如该国民主实力）的调节。该项目生产的数据集将公开向研究人员公开使用，以允许许多次要论文和替代分析。该项目将为有关社交媒体如何影响世界各地社会的重要辩论提供严格的经验证据，包括集体外的仇恨和福祉。它将为社交媒体如何影响不同文化或政治背景下的人们如何影响理论上的说明，并为改善社交媒体及其对社会的影响提供了实践解决方案。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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通过评估来评估的。