{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT250100503"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"FT250100503","attributes":{"code":"FT250100503","administering-organisation":"Macquarie University","announcement-administering-organisation":"Macquarie University","scheme-name":"ARC Future Fellowships","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2025,"years-funded":4,"project-start-date":"2026-02-23","anticipated-end-date":"2030-02-22","grant-summary":"Building robust networks of trust in the Anthropocene. This project aims to inform an evaluation of discourse about global warming. Social media data will be collected to construct an international network that discusses global warming. Using both social network analysis (clustering, identification of central nodes) and natural language processing to identify climate skeptics and anti-immigrant sentiment, the project examines trust-related language in the network, enabling tracking of changes in discourse, identification of vectors of mistrust, and collocations of terms, hashtags, and emoji. From this empirical basis, interventions to foster better patterns of trust will be proposed. This will result in better policies and regulations for social media communication about controversial topics.","funding-current":1285994.00,"funding-at-announcement":1258732,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Prof","firstName":"Mark","familyName":"Alfano","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-5879-8033 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Prof","firstName":"Mark","familyName":"Alfano","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-5879-8033 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"Macquarie University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"NSW"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"Macquarie University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"NSW"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"5003","name":"Philosophy","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"500305","name":"Epistemology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"500311","name":"Philosophical Psychology (Incl. Moral Psychology and Philosophy of Action)","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"280119","name":"Expanding Knowledge In Philosophy and Religious Studies","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["England","Germany","Netherlands"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Democracy is under threat in Australia and worldwide. One challenge democracies face is the spread of misinformation, disinformation, and unwarranted conspiracy theories by domestic and foreign actors, who undermine civic trust and interfere with efforts to address global problems like climate change, terrorism, and armed conflict. If Australians lack a shared reality, it will be difficult to reach consensus on how to respond to these generation-defining challenges. To help shield Australian and global democracy, this project aims to deliver reproducible results and open-source tools to enable Australian individuals, organisations, and regulators to assess the capacity of a social network to produce and disseminate knowledge and understanding. The national benefit is the improvement of national resilience to attacks such as the spread of misinformation by those hostile to the existence of Australia as a well-functioning, orderly democracy. The project operates at the level of the individual (including their character traits such as closed-mindedness and attitudes such as distrust) and the society (including geometries of trust and distrust)."}}}