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民主相关的研究课题有关的信息，见解和技术能力。这些活动促进了知识交流和新的合作，产出将综合关键见解，并将其翻译给学术界内外的利益攸关方。RCN还支持信息生态系统研究所需的数据基础设施的开发，并促进研究人员之间跨学科的思想，信息和资源交流。该RCN通过由包括政治学，计算机科学和通信在内的不同领域的学者指导委员会领导的会议和研讨会促进新的互动。 这些活动旨在为一个可公开访问的在线中心做出贡献，该中心包括论文，数据集和工具，教材以及与学术和非学术利益相关者相关的其他资源。RCN支持学者和工程师领域的多样性，所有群体，并向决策者和其他利益攸关方通报与网络时代民主有关的关键问题。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。

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.