Measuring social media speed and the acceleration of informational crisis

衡量社交媒体速度和信息危机的加速

• 批准号: DE220100500
• 负责人: Dr Philip Pond
• 金额: $ 30.54万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE220100500
• 关键词: Measuring; social; media; speed; acceleration

The project aims to investigate the role that time plays in the production of misinformation on social media. The speed of digital communication is frequently implicated in destabilising the reasoned discussion upon which democracy depends. However, the temporal study of the internet is hampered by a contradiction in time theory between mathematical-scientific time and intuitive-social time. This project advances a theoretical solution to this problem and aims to measure the production of time online, developing digital methods to fulfil this purpose. A better understanding of the relationship between time and communication could support strategies to counter misinformation and promote better informed and more consensual discourse.

该项目旨在调查时间在社交媒体上产生错误信息方面所起的作用。数字通信的速度经常牵涉到破坏民主所依赖的理性讨论的稳定。然而，互联网的时间研究受到时间理论中数学-科学时间和直觉-社交时间之间的矛盾的阻碍。该项目为这个问题提出了一个理论解决方案，旨在衡量在线时间的产生，开发数字方法来实现这一目的。更好地理解时间和交流之间的关系可以支持打击错误信息的战略，并促进更知情和更具共识的讨论。