Politics and the impact of online social networks and new media
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View on F&T portalExpected Outcome:
Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Understand the changes wrought on democratic processes by new technologies.
- Produce evidence-based recommendations to address the opportunities and challenges for political behaviour and democratic engagement presented by social platforms and new media.
- Enhance capacities for digital citizenship.
Scope:
Social media and other internet-based platforms are intertwined with political life. They play an important role in allowing people to design, consume and share political news, seek political information and discuss, make decisions, donate money, or engage with political parties and other organisations. Furthermore, these platforms and media are supposed to open new avenues to political engagement and democratic participation. However, developments in the recent past have created anxieties about their capacity to protect citizens from disinformation and to serve as balanced and open public fora for democratic debates. Social platforms and new media are increasingly perceived as conducive to the creation of ideological “echo-chambers” eroding the space for public dialogue. They are seen as fostering polarisation, radicalisation, depoliticisation, spreading misinformation and subject to manipulation. At the same time, they have been used in attempts to covertly influence the political choices of citizens, thus sapping their democratic credentials.
Proposals are expected to address some of the following: they should build Europe-wide evidence on the extent to which political opportunities and information offered by platforms and new media – and resulting impacts, such as the “echo-chambers” effect – affects political attitudes in European states and at the level of the EU and its neighbourhood. Whether and how new media functions as a new level of news selection and study the resulting perception biases with citizens should be assessed. Research should examine the extent to which platforms and new media actually help democratise political systems and offer avenues of active engagement, or hinder participation for some. The effects of the replacement of media consumption with content consumption should also be examined. Proposals should investigate how audiences of different ages, different genders and different socio-economic and ethnolinguistic groups receive and assess information on digital platforms, and how political actors use these platforms to shape political behaviour. They should propose and design regulatory innovations in response to the covert use of social platforms for political goals. Evidence-based approaches and methods for enhancing capacities for digital citizenship, including media education, media competences, and digital literacy should be developed. Insight about the effects of social media on social behaviour should be attained. Citizen science and other innovative and participatory forms of research could be appropriate for this action.[1]
[1] Synergies with successful proposals from topic “Disinformation and fake news are combated and trust in the digital world is raised” of Cluster 3 is encouraged. (HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01-03)
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The Call HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01 (Reshaping democracies) has closed on the 20th April 2022.
241 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-01: 34 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-02: 50 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-03: 19 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-04: 51 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-05: 20 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-06: 14 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-07: 17 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-08: 12 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-09: 24 proposals
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in July 2022.
The Call HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01 (Reshaping democracies) has closed on the 20th April 2022.
241 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-01: 34 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-02: 50 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-03: 19 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-04: 51 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-05: 20 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-06: 14 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-07: 17 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-08: 12 proposals
- HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-09: 24 proposals
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in July 2022.
Opening date: 2022-01-20 (4 years ago)
Closing date: 2022-04-20 (4 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage
Budget: 9,000,000
Expected grants: 3
Contribution: 2,000,000 - 3,000,000
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