NetSE: Small: A Framework to Identify Relationships Among Students in School Bullying Resulting from using Digital Communication Media

NetSE：小型：识别因使用数字通信媒体而导致校园欺凌的学生之间关系的框架

• 批准号: 0917059
• 负责人: Tatsuya Suda
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917059&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NetSE; Small; Framework; Identify; Relationships

Bullying among students at a school has become a serious social problem. In the project, researchers at University of California, Irvine and at KDDI Research and Development Laboratories study school bullying using digital communication media (such as cell phones, short messaging systems, emails, blogs) and create a sociological based network framework to help teachers and parents identify whether school bullying may exist among students. The project models interactions among students as a relationship network, constructs a relationship network from usage statistics of digital communication media, and identifies whether unique structural features exist in a relationship network that may indicate bullying among students. The framework is designed based on two key hypotheses: (1) school bullying imposes distinct structural features in a relationship network, and (2) a relationship network is constructed with some degree of accuracy from usage statistics of digital communication media without examining privacy-violating information. The framework only uses usage statistics that maintain privacy of communication, and it extracts such usage statistics from those publicly available, those collected by and traditionally made only available internally to a service provider, and those that the framework directly monitors. The PIs collaborate with researchers in sociology and social psychology to empirically verify the hypotheses used in the framework, design the framework and empirically examine the framework. The intellectual merit of the project includes considering privacy of communication and applying sociology and social psychology knowledge in framework design. The broader impact of the project includes advancing understanding of school bullying, creating a framework that helps teachers and parents, and sharing of the project findings and artifacts with a large segment of the research community.

校园欺凌已成为一个严重的社会问题。在该项目中，加州大学欧文分校和KDDI研究与发展实验室的研究人员使用数字通信媒体（如手机，短信系统，电子邮件，博客）研究校园欺凌，并创建一个基于社会学的网络框架，以帮助教师和家长识别学生中是否存在校园欺凌。该项目将学生之间的互动建模为关系网络，从数字通信媒体的使用统计数据构建关系网络，并确定关系网络中是否存在可能表明学生之间欺凌的独特结构特征。 该框架的设计基于两个关键假设：（1）学校欺凌在关系网络中施加了独特的结构特征，（2）关系网络是在不检查侵犯隐私的信息的情况下，从数字通信媒体的使用统计数据中以一定程度的准确性构建的。该框架仅使用维护通信隐私的使用统计数据，并且它从那些公开可用的使用统计数据、那些由服务提供商收集并且传统上仅在内部提供给服务提供商的使用统计数据以及那些框架直接监视的使用统计数据中提取这样的使用统计数据。PI与社会学和社会心理学的研究人员合作，以实证方式验证框架中使用的假设，设计框架并实证检验框架。该项目的智力价值包括考虑通信的隐私和在框架设计中应用社会学和社会心理学知识。 该项目更广泛的影响包括促进对校园欺凌的理解，创建一个帮助教师和家长的框架，并与研究界的大部分人分享项目发现和文物。