EAGER: News and Public Affairs Information

Information

  • NSF Award
  • 2427809
Owner
  • Award Id
    2427809
  • Award Effective Date
    10/1/2024 - 3 months from now
  • Award Expiration Date
    9/30/2026 - 2 years from now
  • Award Amount
    $ 299,959.00
  • Award Instrument
    Standard Grant

EAGER: News and Public Affairs Information

This project tests theories of reinforcement to view high-quality balanced news and public affairs information. This project develops two robust and principled interventions that nudge social media algorithms to influence news and public affairs recommendations. This project is supported under the EAGER program to encourage high risk, high reward research.<br/><br/>The project team is designing, developing, and testing a personalized reinforcement learning based intervention that considers a user’s past watch history and incorporates explicit user feedback to further adapt intervention to user preferences. The project team is comparing this tool with is a generic “one size fits all” intervention, which obfuscates the watch history. The system design includes a method for identifying quality news (using validated expert metrics). The effectiveness of each tool is being evaluated in systematic, controlled sock puppet-based experiments.<br/><br/>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.

  • Program Officer
    Sara Kieslerskiesler@nsf.gov7032928643
  • Min Amd Letter Date
    6/25/2024 - 6 days ago
  • Max Amd Letter Date
    6/25/2024 - 6 days ago
  • ARRA Amount

Institutions

  • Name
    University of California-Davis
  • City
    DAVIS
  • State
    CA
  • Country
    United States
  • Address
    1850 RESEARCH PARK DR STE 300
  • Postal Code
    956186153
  • Phone Number
    5307547700

Investigators

  • First Name
    Magdalena
  • Last Name
    Wojcieszak
  • Email Address
    mwojcieszak@ucdavis.edu
  • Start Date
    6/25/2024 12:00:00 AM
  • First Name
    Zubair
  • Last Name
    Shafiq
  • Email Address
    zubair@ucdavis.edu
  • Start Date
    6/25/2024 12:00:00 AM

Program Element

  • Text
    Secure &Trustworthy Cyberspace
  • Code
    806000

Program Reference

  • Text
    SaTC: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace
  • Text
    Voting/election security research
  • Text
    Human factors for security research
  • Text
    CNCI
  • Code
    7434
  • Text
    EAGER
  • Code
    7916
  • Text
    WOMEN, MINORITY, DISABLED, NEC
  • Code
    9102