To support the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies’s project on Racial Targeting and Digital Marketing, which will research and disseminate findings related to the ways online environments target and potentially discriminate against non-white users.
Grant Type: Project
New York University
Cybersecurity for Democracy is researching and iterating on Ad Observer and the Ad Observatory, as well as exploring the creation of new tools to better help researchers, advocates, and journalists track digital disinformation.
New York University
The Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies (CR+DS) is a network of prominent, public scholars of color who produce research, distribute knowledge, and convene stakeholders at the intersections of race and technology.
New York University
The Dutch news site, De Correspondent – which has solved the sustainability problem by becoming a world leader in member-supported journalism — wants to bring its formula to the US. This grant would fund a year of research and incubation at NYU and would create a laboratory to test De Correspondent’s models and lessons in the American context and focus on sharing those lessons throughout nonprofit news in the United States.
New York University
To support the Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) laboratory in conducting research around the role of misinformation on social media platforms during the 2018 election.
New York University
The Membership Puzzle Project is a research and field lab designed to help journalism in America rebuild its social contract with communities through membership and reader revenue strategies.
New York University
This grant will support a project of GovLab, a program within the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University, to develop a handbook for congressional offices with techniques for increasing citizen voice in the policymaking process and improving constituent engagement through new technologies. The grant also will allow GovLab to pilot projects with several congressional offices for using open source software to test some of the techniques outlined in the handbook.
New York University
To support the NYU Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue (IACD) as it organizes a convening entitled, “Radical Hospitality: Imagining Home for a Generation Displaced and Discarded – A Global Convening of Artists, Scholars, and Activists.” The convening will take place at La Pietra, the NYU academic center in Florence, Italy in 2020.
New York University
Planning grant for comprehensive bipartisan research on the current state of money in politics.
New York University
To support New York University in their work to organize data to hold platforms accountable to the American public and to advance America’s democratic promise. This grant will fund research and scholarship into how best to collect and publish data regarding political advertising on platforms, with a focus to ads that involve race and gender.