Tag: public engagement

• July 29, 2025

  Computing, Co-Creation, and the Well-Informed Citizen

  By Besnik Pula, Virginia Tech, bpula@vt.edu In its landmark 2021 report on AI ethics, UNESCO cautions that a “digital and civic literacy deficit” could deepen divides between those who understand and shape computing technologies and those who remain excluded. This concern goes beyond issues of device ownership or software familiarity. It reflects how citizens, policymakers,…
• October 7, 2023

  Agency and Action: Using Project-Based Pedagogy to Give Undergraduates More Control Over their Studies

  This is a post by Dr. Juliette Wilson-Thomas for the Fall 2023 Newsletter Caption: Street art project with children from a local primary school painting a mural on their school wall in Manchester. Picture Source Juliette Wilon-Thomas Since former UK  Prime Minister Tony Blair’s vow to get 50% of young people into university in 1999…
• March 21, 2023

  Program Spotlight: Introducing the Trust Collaboratory

  By Cristian Capotescu and Gil Eyal, Columbia University [For the Spring 2023 SKAT Newsletter] TrustWorkers Project exhibition June 2022 at Columbia University Trust is one of the twenty-first century’s defining social and political issues. Trust, or lack thereof, shapes how citizens interact with media, information technology, and expert systems. Despite, or perhaps precisely because trust…
• November 21, 2016

  Fall 2016 Newsletter out

  Our newest edition of SKATology is out today. I want to thank the members of our communications committee for their fine work. I also want to thank Scott Frickel for his leadership on late-breaking news that changed how we thought about our newsletter content. As readers can see for themselves, there is a lot to think through.
• November 4, 2016

  Presidential Outlook on Science and Technology Issues

  by Joe McCartney Waggle, Communications Committee “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.” So began the worst-case scenario speech sitting in President Richard Nixon’s coat pocket as the Apollo 11 mission prepared to leave the moon in July…
• March 4, 2016

  TECHNOLOGY THAT “WORKS FOR US AND NOT AGAINST US”

  During the 2016 State of the Union address, President Obama proposed that one of the four “big questions” that the United States needs to answer is: “How do we make technology work for us, and not against us–especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges?” For our inaugural blog post, the SKAT Publications Committee invited…