EAGER: SaTC: Early-Stage Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Understanding group digital security practices

基层组织寻求保护他们的数字安全，但也要透明和开放，并确认他们的合法性和权威。这项研究将探讨组织和团体如何塑造他们平衡可能相互冲突的需求的方式，以避免谴责和骚扰，同时保持足够的开放性，以鼓励信任和参与。 该研究将研究组织结构和数字安全实践的作用，并揭示增加或减少在线群体安全威胁的流程，实践或行为。 该项目在研究过程中招募计算机科学和社会科学的研究生。 该研究还将为非营利组织和社区团体制定安全培训计划。 该项目的研究方法包括与小型和非正式的活动家集体以及大型官僚非政府组织的半结构化访谈。 这些数据将用于制定基层团体和社区组织安全做法的原则和方法。研究结果将有助于基本知识的组织特征如何与安全保护的选择和新的方法，以打击骚扰的威胁，隐私侵犯和监视，而不影响开放和合法的宣传。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准的支持。

Grassroots groups seek to protect their digital security but also to be transparent and open, and to affirm their legitimacy and authority. This research will examine how organizations and groups shape the ways they balance what may be conflicting needs to avoid censure and harassment while being open enough to encourage trust and participation. The research will examine the role of organizational structure and digital security practices, and to uncover processes, practices, or behaviors that increase or reduce security threats to online groups. This project enlists graduate students in computer science and social sciences in the research process. The research will also develop security training programs for nonprofit and community groups. The research methods for this project include semi-structured interviews with small and informal activist collectives as well as larger, bureaucratic NGO organizations. The data will be used to develop principles and methods for secure practices in grassroots groups and community organizations. The findings will contribute to fundamental knowledge of how organizational characteristics intersect with security protection choices and new ways to counter threats of harassment, privacy violations, and surveillance without impinging on openness and legitimate advocacy.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.