A professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has been awarded a $99,933 grant to study the connection between social media and real-life behaviors, the university announced Wednesday.
Xuan Shi, an assistant professor of geoinformatics, will work with researchers at Kent State University and San Diego State University as part of a National Science Foundation-supported effort receiving $1 million in grant funding.
His work will involve developing computer and Web tools to analyze social-media communications.
The project involves studying public responses to disaster warnings and political topics as a way to develop a new communication theory for highly reproducible messages.
Metro on 12/05/2014