RAPID: Science and Social Networks: COVID-19 in an Urban Epicenter

RAPID：科学和社交网络：城市震中的 COVID-19

• 批准号: 2029336
• 负责人: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029336&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Science; Social; Networks; COVID

The primary objective of this RAPID research project is to further our understanding of the influences that shape policy making concerning public health during the COVID 19 pandemic with a focus on New York City as a global epicenter. The researchers plan to provide a time sensitive, living record and analysis that documents the unfolding of social and political aspects of the present crisis. They will study relational encounters in social and political realms during the pandemic that shape multiple interpretations of events, images, and broadcasts in a networked world; and how they in turn affect public responses, programmatic decisions, and policies that relate to public health in an urban context. The results of the project will be disseminated to policy makers, community members, media spokespersons, public health and medical experts in New York City, and global health stakeholders through publications in policy journals, newspapers, access to radio and news programs, and online platforms. This project aims to integrate insights from STS studies, history of global public health, and cultural and media studies to analyze political responses, public health communications, and policy decisions concerning COVID-19. It will contribute to STS frameworks by arguing that COVID-19 needs to be understood not only in terms of epidemiological and biological evidence-building regarding its contagiousness and virulence; it also needs to be understood in terms of social and political virality and transmissibility of social modes of thought that shape its interpretations. To achieve these ends, the researchers will draw from media studies of social susceptibility, diffusion, and differential impact. They will engage in content analysis of traditional media and social media, and they will conduct interviews with 50 key actors. They will produce an initial account of policymaking in a time of health and social crisis while generating critical material for future scholars of COVID-19. Their interview materials are to be donated to the Columbia University Center for Oral History Research; their print/digital materials are to be donated to the Special Collections division at the University’s Health Sciences Library.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RAPID研究项目的主要目标是进一步了解COVID 19大流行期间影响公共卫生政策制定的影响，重点关注作为全球震中的纽约市。研究人员计划提供一个具有时间敏感性的、活生生的记录和分析，记录当前危机的社会和政治方面的演变。他们将研究大流行期间社会和政治领域的关系遭遇，这些遭遇塑造了网络世界中事件，图像和广播的多种解释;以及它们如何反过来影响公共反应，方案决策和与城市环境中公共卫生相关的政策。该项目的成果将通过在政策期刊、报纸、广播和新闻节目以及在线平台上的出版物传播给纽约市的决策者、社区成员、媒体发言人、公共卫生和医学专家以及全球卫生利益攸关方。该项目旨在整合STS研究、全球公共卫生史以及文化和媒体研究的见解，以分析有关COVID-19的政治反应、公共卫生传播和政策决策。它将有助于STS框架，认为COVID-19不仅需要从流行病学和生物学证据的角度来理解其传染性和毒性;还需要从社会和政治病毒性以及塑造其解释的社会思维模式的可传播性来理解。为了实现这些目标，研究人员将从媒体的社会敏感性，扩散和差异影响的研究。他们将参与传统媒体和社交媒体的内容分析，并将与50名关键参与者进行访谈。他们将对健康和社会危机时期的政策制定进行初步阐述，同时为未来的COVID-19学者提供关键材料。他们的采访材料将捐赠给哥伦比亚大学口述历史研究中心;他们的印刷/数字材料将捐赠给该大学健康科学图书馆的特别收藏部。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。