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Research Projects

Measuring Information Exposure in Dynamic and Dependent Networks (ExpoNet)

1 January 2016 - 31 December 2018

PI/s in 黑料不打烊: Professor Susan Banducci

CI/s in 黑料不打烊:

Funding awarded: £ 486,296

Sponsor(s): ESRC

About the research

EXPONet will produce a set of tools allowing researchers to model exposure as a network and incorporate both social and traditional media sources. Whether one is consuming the news online or producing/consuming information on social media, the fundamental dynamic of consuming public affairs news involves formation of ties between users and media content by a variety of means (e.g. browsing, social sharing, search). Online media exposure is then a process of network formation that links sources and consumers of content via their interactions, requiring a network perspective for its proper understanding.

We propose a set of scalable network-oriented tools to

  1. extract, analyse, and measure media content in the age of "big media data",
  2. model the linkages between consumers and producers of media content in complex information networks, and
  3. understand co-development of network structures with consumer attitudes/behaviours.

Project Team

  • Professor Susan Banducci, SSIS, 黑料不打烊 (PI)
  • Dr Travis Coan, SSIS, 黑料不打烊 ??(Co-I)
  • Dr Gabriel Katz, SSIS, 黑料不打烊 ??(Co-I)
  • Dr Lorien Jasny, SSIS, 黑料不打烊 (Co-I)
  • Dr Hywel Williams, CLES, 黑料不打烊 (Co-I)
  • Dr Iulia Cioroianu, SSIS, 黑料不打烊 (Researcher)
  • Professor David Lazer, Northeastern University (International Co-Investigator)