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Composable Hybrid Approach to Recognizing bots and their Influence in Social Media Analysis (CHARISMA)

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00014-15-P-1185
Agency Tracking Number: N15A-020-0020
Amount: $149,882.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: N15A-T020
Solicitation Number: 2015.0
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2015
Award Year: 2015
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2015-07-06
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2016-11-06
Small Business Information
625 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
DUNS: 115243701
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Corey Lofdahl
 (617) 491-3474
 clofdahl@cra.com
Business Contact
 Mark Felix
Title: Technical Point of Contact
Phone: (617) 491-3474
Email: mfelix@cra.com
Research Institution
 Univ. of Arizona
 Huan Liu
 
Office of Research Contract An 888 North Euclid Avenue, #515
Tucson, AZ 85719
United States

 (480) 727-7349
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

Social media is transforming the way people around the world share messages, receive information, and come together to act. Unlike most traditional media, social media is built on a technical foundation that enables messages to spread quickly and widely, can be used to disguise the true source of messages, and can be used to produce automated messages that may have influential and manipulative effects on users. The use of automated social media accountssocial botstakes advantage of these properties of social media to spread messages with the intent of influencing or motivating audiences toward particular opinions or behavior, or flooding the discourse to prevent the true voices from being heard. The use of social bots presents a challenge to a wide range of analysts and social media researchers as they attempt to recognize these bots, evaluate the impact the bots have on public opinion and real-world activity, and understand how the bots operate. To provide an automated means for detecting social bots, evaluating their impact, and understanding how they operate, we propose to design and demonstrate the feasibility of a Composable Hybrid Approach to Recognizing bots and their Influence in Social Media Analysis (CHARISMA).

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