KUAR | By Talk Business & Politics Staff
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) has received a multi-year grant from a Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to study covert online information campaigns in the Indo-Pacific region, the school said.
The school will partner with Carnegie Mellon University, University of Regina, and The Atlantic Council on the five-year project, “Multi-Level Models of Covert Online Information Campaigns.”
Total funding for the project, which is headed by Dr. Kathleen Carley of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), is about $5 million.
Lonnie Timmons III/UA Little Rock
Dr. Nitin Agarwal, founding director of the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies, will serve as principal investigator for UA Little Rock.