Project Name: Alternative Discourses: The Alt-Right and Social Media Grantee: Nga Than Discipline: Sociology Funding Cycle: 2019-2020 Project Status: In progress White Paper:   About the Project:   Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have increasingly played an important role in generating and disseminating political discourses. In response to violent and harassing content, mainstream social media platforms have explored...

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Project Name: Predicting Place Attachment with Social Media Posts: An Exploratory Study Grantee: Javier E. Otero Peña Discipline: Environmental Psychology Funding Cycle: 2019-2020 Project Status: In progress White Paper: About the Project: This digital innovative Start-up proposal seeks to shed light in the field of environmental psychology, by studying the potential correlation between place attachment as measured in a...

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Project Name: A Teaching Manual That’s Alive: Making the Cuerpos, Identidades y Discriminación Workshop Available to Social Justice Educators Across Latin America Grantee: Pedro Miguel Monque Lopez Discipline: Philosophy Funding Cycle: 2019-2020 Project Status: In progress White Paper: Click here   About the Project:   We propose to create and digitally publish (via Manifold) a teaching manual of the...

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Project Name: Quantifying Kissinger Grantee: Micki Kaufman Discipline: History Funding Cycle: 2019-2020 Project Status: In progress White Paper:   About the Project:   Since the project’s inception, ‘Quantifying Kissinger’ has explored the use of data, text and network analysis and visualization techniques to analyze and interpret ‘big data’ correspondence, specifically that of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The project has...

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