CAREER: Explorations of Complex Social and Psychological Phenomena through Multiscale Online Sociological Experiments, Empirical Studies, and Theoretical Models

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该职业生涯项目旨在提高我们对人们通过基于网络的技术进行互动时出现的复杂社会现象的理解。研究项目探讨：（1）通过多尺度、基于游戏的在线社会学实验进行协作创造、解决问题和决策;（2）通过在线实验和研究包括博客、微博和在线论坛在内的大量文本，研究人类交流中情感内容的动态;（3）复杂网络中的集体社会现象（例如，传染现象）通过理论模型和实证工作。实验设计包括严格限制的样本和较少限制的基于网络的样本，这将使研究者能够探索一些开放的，有争议的问题，基于网络的与更传统的抽样。该项目的实验将围绕一个先进的在线实验平台的开发，这将有助于实验的快速构建，也将有助于教育活动。一旦准备就绪，该平台将供研究社会现象的研究人员广泛使用。实验和实证工作也将产生丰富的，广泛的数据集，将保持为其他研究人员探索。该项目将包括一系列相互关联的，跨学科的复杂系统课程的开发，将成为佛蒙特大学复杂系统中心的研究生课程的核心部分。课程材料，包括超文本讲座，将开放许可，并在网上提供给其他人在研究生和本科生设置使用。材料将涵盖广泛的领域，包括财富，成功和受欢迎程度的分配;疾病和思想的传播;搜索信息;系统的效率，鲁棒性和脆弱性;以及人员和材料的大规模移动。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This CAREER project aims to improve our understanding of complex social phenomena that emerge when people interact via web-based technologies. The research projects explore: (1) Collaborative creativity, problem solving, and decision making via multiscale, game-based, online sociological experiments; (2) The dynamics of emotional content in human communication through online experiments and by studying a wide body of texts including blogs, microblogs, and online discussion forums; and (3) Collective social phenomena in complex networks (e.g., contagion phenomena) via theoretical models and empirical work. The experimental designs include both tightly constrained samples and less constrained web-based samples, which will enable the researcher to explore some open, controversial questions about web-based vs. more conventional sampling.The project's experiments will center around the development of a sophisticated online experiment platform, which will both facilitate the rapid construction of experiments and will also be useful for educational activities. Once prepared, the platform is intended to be available for wide use by researchers studying social phenomena. The experimental and empirical work will also generate rich, extensive data sets that will be maintained for other researchers to explore.The project will include development of a series of interrelated, transdisciplinary courses on complex systems which will form a core part of the graduate curriculum of the University of Vermont's Complex Systems Center. Course material, including hypertext lectures, will be open-licensed and made available online for others to use in graduate and undergratduate settings. Material will cover a broad spectrum of areas including the distribution of wealth, success, and popularity; the spread of diseases and ideas; search for information; system efficiency, robustness, and fragility; and the large-scale movement of people and materials.