BBVA Foundation has announced the winning projects for its 2017 call for Scientific Research Teams in Economy and Digital Society. Among the five projects chosen is "Digital Technology, Ideological Polarization, and Intolerance," which will be conducted by principal investigator Ruben Enikolopov (ICREA-UPF and BSE) and his team: Ruben Durante (UPF and BSE), Maria Petrova (ICREA-UPF and BSE), and Aina Gallego Dobon (IBEI).
Projects are evaluated and selected by an independent commission for their originality and scientific quality, and for their potential contributions to our understanding of digital society from an economic, sociologic, or psychological perspective.