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September 16^th 2019
The Media & Democracy program invites submissions of abstracts for a research workshop on “Extreme Right Radicalization Online: Platforms, Processes, Prevention,” to be held in New York City, May 14-15, 2020.
September 1^st 2019
The Media & Democracy program invites submissions of abstracts for a research workshop on “News Coverage of US Elections,” to be held on April 23–24, 2020.
August 27^th 2019
An update from SSRC President Alondra Nelson on the Social Media and Democracy Research Grants program, an effort to make privacy-protected data available to social researchers to examine Facebook’s impact on elections and democracy.
August 15^th 2019
The Humane Metrics in Humanities and Social Sciences (HuMetricsHSS) initiative, of which SSRC is a proud partner, receives a $695,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue innovating the approach and expanding the breadth of what counts as a “scholarly contribution.”
April 24^th 2019
EVENT | Join us for “An Objective Media—Fact or Fiction?,” 7pm at the Brooklyn Historical Society. RSVP: