Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE220100500

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE220100500

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Measuring social media speed and the acceleration of informational crisis. 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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2022

End Date: 30-06-2025

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $424,652.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies | Communication and Media Studies | Communication Studies | Computer-Human Interaction

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

The Media | Citizenship and National Identity | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |

Other Keywords

Citizenship and National Identity | Communication Studies | Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies | Communication and Media Studies | Computer-Human Interaction | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | The Media

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