Fellowships | Social Science Research Council (SSRC) | Brooklyn, NY, USA

First Recipients of the Social Media and Democracy Research Grants

Meet the research teams who will gain unprecedented access to privacy-protected Facebook data to study the platform’s impact on democracy worldwide.

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News

July 3^rd 2019
Seventy junior scholars awarded International Dissertation Research Fellowships. The 2019 cohort is indicative of the wide range of research projects, academic disciplines, and regional diversity that characterize the SSRC.
July 3^rd 2019
READ | 2006 Abe Fellow Sheila Smith writes on the deterioration of Seoul-Tokyo relations and what that means for the US.
June 3^rd 2019
READ | 2018 Abe Journalism Fellow Peg Tyre pens new piece in Forbes “Japanese Teachers On Curiosity: ‘All This Time, They Have Kept It Inside. Now It Is Pouring Out’”
May 1^st 2019
LISTEN | Brigid Schulte, a 2017 Abe Journalism Fellow and author of the New York Times bestseller “Overwhelmed: Love, Work, and Play When No One has the Time,” discusses the Japanese (over)work culture in a new podcast.
April 29^th 2019
Introducing the inaugural recipients of the Social Media and Democracy Research Grants, the first opportunity for systematic scholarly access to privacy-protected Facebook data to study the platform’s impact on democracy worldwide.