RCN: Democracy in the Networked Era

该项目是一个研究协调网络(RCN)，其目的是将跨学科的专家聚集在一起，分享与网络信息时代围绕民主的研究主题有关的信息、见解和技术能力。这些活动促进了知识交流和新的合作，产出将综合关键的见解，并将其转化为学术界内外的利益攸关方。区域网络还支持发展信息生态系统研究所需的数据基础设施，并促进研究人员之间的跨学科思想、信息和资源交流。该RCN通过由政治学、计算机科学和传播等不同领域的学者组成的指导委员会领导的会议和研讨会，促进新的互动。这些活动旨在帮助建立一个可公开访问的在线中心，其中包括与学术和非学术利益攸关方有关的论文、数据集和工具、教学材料和其他资源。RCN支持所有群体的学者和工程师领域的多样性，并就与网络时代民主有关的关键问题向政策制定者和其他利益攸关方提供信息。RCN可以作为为政策社区翻译研究成果的渠道。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is a Research Coordination Network (RCN) whose purpose is to bring experts together across disciplines to share information, insights, and technological capabilities that bear on research topics surrounding democracy in the era of networked information. The activities enable knowledge exchange and new collaborations, and the outputs will synthesize key insights and translate them for stakeholders within and outside of academia. The RCN also supports the development of data infrastructure necessary for research on the information ecosystem and facilitates the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, information, and resources among researchers. This RCN facilitates new interactions through meetings and workshops led by a steering committee of scholars in diverse fields that include political science, computer science, and communication. These engagements are designed to contribute to a publicly accessible online hub that includes papers, data sets and tools, teaching materials, and other resources that relevant to academic and non-academic stakeholders. The RCN supports the diversity of the field of scholars and engineers all groups and informs policymakers and other stakeholders on key issues related to democracy in the networked era. The RCN can serve as a conduit for translating research findings for the policy community.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.