Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Digital Politics: Technology, Communication, and Changing Political Participation

博士论文研究改进补助金：数字政治：技术、传播和不断变化的政治参与

• 批准号: 0961156
• 负责人: Alan Klima
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0961156&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Improvement; Grant

Doctoral student Charles Pearson, under the guidance of Dr. Alan Klima (University of California, Davis), will undertake research on the development and effects of the new social media structures that support contemporary political movement building. Centralized broadcast media models, once a key strength of political movements in many countries, are now in flux. The models emerging to replace them appear to be both more collaborative and more focused on bottom-up, or "grass-roots," communication. The nature and consequences of this important shift in political participation will be the focus of this research. A study of digital politics provides a rich conceptual site for understanding: a) current shifts in communication and political engagement; b) logics of participation and regulation in emerging open systems; and, c) the increasing intertwining of the technical and the social.The research will be carried out in the United States in both online and offline settings. The researcher will employ a mix of qualitative research methods, including ethnographic fieldwork and targeted qualitative interviews with key participants and media experts distributed nationally. He will also track and analyze the movement of specific messages in order to gauge the effectiveness of particular Internet-based distributed structures for managing information flows and alignments. The research is important because it will help social scientists to understand how new technologies are affecting contemporary democratic politics. More generally, the research will contribute to theories of the relation between media and message. Funding this resarch also supports the education of a social scientist.

博士生Charles Pearson将在加州大学戴维斯分校Alan Klima博士的指导下，对支持当代政治运动建设的新型社交媒体结构的发展和影响进行研究。中央广播媒体模式曾经是许多国家政治运动的关键力量，但现在却在不断变化。取代它们的新模式似乎更具有协作性，也更注重自下而上或“草根”交流。政治参与这一重要转变的性质和后果将是本研究的重点。对数字政治的研究提供了一个丰富的概念站点来理解：A)沟通和政治参与的当前转变；B)新兴开放系统中的参与和监管逻辑；c)技术和社会日益交织在一起。这项研究将在美国进行，包括线上和线下两种方式。研究人员将采用多种定性研究方法，包括民族志实地调查和与主要参与者和全国分布的媒体专家进行有针对性的定性访谈。他还将跟踪和分析特定消息的移动，以评估用于管理信息流和对齐的特定基于互联网的分布式结构的有效性。这项研究很重要，因为它将帮助社会科学家了解新技术如何影响当代民主政治。更广泛地说，该研究将有助于媒体与信息关系的理论研究。资助这项研究也支持了社会科学家的教育。