The Data Fluencies Dissertation Grants Competition supports projects that apply humanist and social science methods to mis- and disinformation, information integrity, public-interest technology, digital culture, big data governance and accountability, and alternative epistemologies stemming from feminist, indigenous, and Black theoretical perspectives.

As part of the Data Fluencies project, the SSRC will host interdisciplinary workshops for scholars in the humanities and social sciences. These workshops afford scholars the opportunity to give and receive intensive feedback, foster innovation and collaboration, and prepare their work to be accessible to wider audiences.

Publications that emerge from our workshops are aimed at building data fluencies for a broad range of audience. We support scholars seeking to share their research across both academic and public-facing platforms. In particular, we will be happy to facilitate publication on the SSRC’s MediaWell platform, which focuses on online mis- and disinformation, and the Just Tech platform, which focuses on discriminatory algorithms and social justice.