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How to think about the Research Data Agreement with Facebook

Gary King and Nathaniel Persily, Co-chairs
Social Science One

 


The ambition and importance of what was initially known as the Facebook Election Commission, now Social Science One, is only equaled by the challenges we have faced to establish the legal, privacy, and partnership frameworks needed to get this fully off the ground. Yet, progress is now coming at a much faster clip. We are encouraged by this progress and are excited about the monumental consequences to... Read more about How to think about the Research Data Agreement with Facebook

First Grants Announced for Independent Research on Social Media’s Impact on Democracy Using Facebook Data

Gary King and Nathaniel Persily

A year ago, we developed a new model of industry-academic partnerships and began a collaboration with Facebook to embark on an unprecedented effort to enlist the world’s research community to study social media’s effect on elections and democracy. Today, we are announcing our approval of the first group of over sixty researchers from around the world to use Facebook data for this purpose in a safe, secure, and privacy-protected manner. We have more work to do and...

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Update from Gary King and Nate Persily

When we created Social Science One to facilitate access for the world’s social scientific community to social media data, we promised to release periodic updates noting our progress and describing the challenges we confront.  In this post, we describe the substantial work accomplished over the past several months and highlight the remaining obstacles we face. We describe additional datasets to be made available in the coming months, and plans to announce the first group of researchers who will be granted (privacy-preserving) access to Facebook data and foundation funding through our...

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Social Science One: Public Launch

Today, we are launching Social Science One with the rollout of this website and the issuing of our first RFP; academics can now apply for data access and funding to study the role of social media in elections and democracy.

Our news release:

Independent Research Commission Partnering with Facebook and 7 Nonprofit Foundations to Study Role of Social Media in Elections and Democracy Reveals New Name and Announces First Data Set is Available for Academic Research

Social Science One will foster academic-industry partnerships around...

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Introducing “Social Science One: Building Industry-Academic Partnerships”

On April 9, 2018, we released a paper, A New Model for Industry-Academic Partnerships. By providing incentive-compatible ways to share data and expertise, the paper offers an organizational model to advance the goals of social science in understanding and ameliorating society’s greatest challenges, and to help those in industry and academia to pursue their individual goals. We also reported on an implementation of our idea -- in the area of “the effects of social media on...

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