How are social media users from diverse backgrounds, neighborhoods, and communities interacting about issues of race? Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt and computer scientist Dan Jurafsky will examine the nature of online interactions about race on the neighborhood-based social networking platform Nextdoor, specifically around the issues of crime and safety, the treatment of African Americans who post about experiences of discrimination, and the impact of these posts on readers.

Although studies of job postings and the skills and knowledge needed for occupations have described the supply and demand side of the job market, few studies have assessed what skills are taught to college students and how they impact job market outcomes. Computational social scientist Morgan Frank and economist Sarah Bana will use a novel dataset of three million university course syllabi to examine skills taught in courses over the last decade.