Using Social Networking to Advance Psychological Research and Teaching

该项目旨在加强社会心理学网络（SPN），这是一个活跃的网站，提供可搜索的数据库，社会心理学家和其他专业人员的目录，基于网络的数据收集，在线论坛和广泛的教学资源。拟议的活动将采用Web 2.0技术，以加强其社会网络能力。SPN的重要性很容易得到充分的证明。例如，在24小时内，100多个国家的个人浏览了SPN网页70 000多次，SPN数据库被搜索了1 200多次。事实上，PI与SPN的努力得到了人格与社会心理学学会杰出服务奖的认可。因此，目前的SPN网站不仅极大地增强了社会心理学的基础设施，而且也增强了许多社会和行为科学的基础设施。该项目将使用Web 2.0技术将社会心理学网络转变为专门为研究人员，教育工作者和对社会心理学感兴趣的学生设计的功能齐全的社交网络服务。具体而言，该项目将包括八个组成部分：（1）增加选项，使用户能够按自己的意愿定制SPN的布局;（2）开发SPNeInterview.org伙伴网站www.example.com，以便研究人员能够利用该网站通过互联网收集访谈数据;（3）将SPN简介改为可供使用的格式，使用户能够张贴多媒体内容，上传文件以存储或分享，并增加新的内容类别;（4）给予简档持有者将他们的简档链接到“同事”的选项，并基于共同的研究兴趣、职业水平、地理位置或其他属性建立用户定义的群组;（5）使得网站访问者能够“订阅”SPN简档或请求当感兴趣的内容被张贴在网络中时通知他们的警报;（6）建立社区博客，就对该领域具有普遍重要性的问题进行学科范围的讨论;（7）建立合作论坛，帮助将潜在的研究合作者聚集在一起;以及（8）开发允许其他程序员创建用于网络的软件应用的应用程序接口。为了完成拟议的工作，战略规划网将雇用一名具有社交网络专门知识的副主任，并将任命一个咨询委员会，以确保战略规划网满足外地的需要，并与其他专业组织保持联系。通过这种方式，该项目不仅将通过推进该领域来实现NSF的智力价值标准，而且还将通过加强社会科学研究和教育的基础设施来产生更广泛的影响。

This project is designed to enhance the Social Psychology Network (SPN), an active website that offers searchable databases, a directory of social psychologists and other professionals, web-based data collection, online forums, and extensive teaching resources. The proposed activities will incorporate Web 2.0 technologies to enhance its social networking capabilities. A strong case can easily be made for the importance of SPN. For example, within a 24-hour period, the SPN pages are viewed more than 70,000 times by individuals in over 100 countries, and the SPN databases are searched more than 1200 times. Indeed, the PI's efforts with SPN were recognized with the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's distinguished service award. As such, the current SPN site greatly enhances the infrastructure of not only social psychology but of many social and behavioral sciences as well. The project will use Web 2.0 technologies to transform the Social Psychology Network into a fully featured social networking service designed specifically for researchers, educators, and students interested in social psychology. Specifically, the project will involve eight components: (1) adding options that allow users to customize SPN's layout as they wish; (2) developing SPN's eInterview.org partner site so that researchers can use it to collect interview data via the Internet; (3) changing SPN Profiles to a tabbed format that permits users to post multimedia content, upload files to store or share, and add new categories of content; (4) giving profile holders the option to link their profiles to "colleagues" and establish user-defined groups based on common research interests, career level, geographic location, or other attributes; (5) making it possible for site visitors to "subscribe" to SPN Profiles or request alerts that notify them when content of interest is posted in the Network; (6) setting up a community blog to hold discipline-wide discussions about questions of general importance to the field; (7) establishing a Collaboration Forum to help bring potential research collaborators together; and (8) developing an Application Program Interface that allows other programmers to create software applications for use in the Network. To complete the proposed work, SPN will hire an Associate Director with expertise in social networking, and it will appoint an Advisory Board to ensure that SPN meets the needs of the field and stays connected to other professional organizations. In this way, the project will not only fulfill NSF's intellectual merit criteria by advancing the field, but it will have broader impacts by enhancing the infrastructure for social science research and education.