Implicit and Explicit Attitudes towards America in Socio-Digital Influence: Trust and Social Identity in Cyberspace
Abstract
1) To develop measures of institutional trust, social identity, and mass media (including digital) usage that will enable classification of different socio-digital ecologies (or informational niches) for digital and non-digital influence between and within at least 30 countries around the world, based on survey data collected from at least 10,000 people. 2) To develop a suite of on-line experimental paradigms (using game theory and implicit psychology) enabling global measures of a) implicit and explicit attitudes and b) attitudinal and behavioral trust towards America and Americans compared to other states and people in the world. 3) To analyse the power of different ideologies within different social ecologies for predicting attitudes and trust towards America and Americans, and participation and support for competing global social movements. 4) develop a new theory of socio-digital influence that will explain why America and Americans are loved/hated (sometimes by the same person) as a function of the prevalence of different socio-digital ecologies in different parts of the world; demonstrate the theory s effectiveness in creating power and prosperity through the suite of on-line experimental games described previously.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 22, 2016
- Source ID
- FA23861510003
Entities
People
- Colleen Ward
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Massey University
- United States Air Force