Re-presenting population science data in the context of shifting demographic dynamics, climate change and alternative epistemologies

在不断变化的人口动态、气候变化和替代认识论的背景下重新呈现人口科学数据

• 批准号: 2341434
• 负责人: Rajani Bhatia
• 金额: $ 41.99万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Albany
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-06-01 至 2027-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2341434&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Re; presenting; population; science; data

This award supports a study that centers on the data that is being used to support alternative theories, such as a theory about changing population demographics and political gains. Recent polls have documented the increasing popularization of such theories in the US. The results of this project will contribute to the development of a scholarly book, and to the production of curricular materials for undergraduate classrooms. These outputs are intended to help scientists and others to understand, and for some to address, the use and misuse of scientific data and to counter population misperceptions and increase public scientific literacy and awareness of alternative interpretations of demographic trends. The teaching tools will be slated for use in university courses in multiple disciplines, as well as in non-profit workshops and trainings.Through a cross-sector partnership between a university and a national non-profit organization this qualitative study will look at how population science is translated into popular notions of population trends in the US. Messages about current population trends that appear in social, popular, news, and think tank media account for slowing birth rates, population aging, changing racial and ethnic population composition, and immigration rates among other data. The messages express anxieties about changes in population that contribute to climate change, a changing national electorate, or negative impacts on labor and economies. The study will analyze alternative theories and the science they re-interpret as well as debates among scientists who produce and use that data about its meaning. By convening a multi-disciplinary, cross-sector advisory board to provide expert feedback on project research and piloting resulting materials with students as end-users, the study will contribute to informed dialogue about what it means to be American in the context of the shifting racial, ethnic and age composition of the national population.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.

该奖项支持一项研究，该研究集中在用于支持替代理论的数据上，例如关于改变人口人群和政治收益的理论。最近的民意调查记录了美国这种理论的普及。该项目的结果将有助于开发一本学术书籍，并为本科教室的课程材料生产。这些输出旨在帮助科学家和其他人理解，并以某些方式解决科学数据的使用和滥用，以抵消人口误解，并提高公共科学素养以及对人口统计学趋势的替代解释的认识。该教学工具将计划在多个学科的大学课程以及非营利的研讨会和培训中使用。通过大学与国家非营利组织之间的跨部门伙伴关系，这项定性研究将如何将人口科学转化为美国流行趋势的人口概念。有关当前人口趋势的信息，这些趋势出现在社会，流行，新闻和智囊团媒体中，以减慢出生率，人口老龄化，种族和种族人口组成的变化以及移民率，以及其他数据。这些信息表达了人们对有助于气候变化，民族选民变化或对劳动力和经济的负面影响的人口变化的焦虑。该研究将分析他们重新解释的替代理论和科学，以及在生产和使用有关其含义的数据的科学家中的辩论。 By convening a multi-disciplinary, cross-sector advisory board to provide expert feedback on project research and piloting resulting materials with students as end-users, the study will contribute to informed dialogue about what it means to be American in the context of the shifting racial, ethnic and age composition of the national population.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审查标准。