scholarly journals Bringing Breakthroughs in Science to the Public Through Webcasting

2004 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
pp. 549-552
Author(s):  
Carol A. Christian
Keyword(s):  
Video Streaming ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Space Science ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Internet Video ◽  
Technical Personnel ◽  
Use Of Internet

In the rapidly changing milieu of space science, keeping the public informed and engaged in the progress of science is challenging. Beautiful images, scientific artifacts, and exciting space launches can be a compelling hook but the challenge for scientists and educators is to provide context and basic information that is equally exciting. For the past 5 years, the use of Internet video streaming (webcast) technology has grown in popularity. We have used this technology to bring together scientists, educators and the public to provide virtual access to the research environment for the audience. The growth of new technologies will provide new opportunities for the public to “get behind the scenes” of observatories and laboratories to better appreciate the texture of scientific research as well as the scientists and technical personnel engaged in investigative endeavors.

scholarly journals Exploring serendipitous dialogue

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. E ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Weitkamp
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Areas

Over the past decades there has been an increasing recognition of the need to promote dialogue between science and society. Often this takes the form of formal processes, such as citizen’s juries, that are designed to allow the public to contribute their views on particular scientific research areas. But there are also many less formal mechanisms that promote a dialogue between science and society. This editorial considers science festivals and citizen science in this context and argues that we need a greater understanding of the potential impacts of these projects on the individuals involved, both scientists and the public.

From the Museums of Objects to the Virtual Museums

2015 ◽  
pp. 255-272
Author(s):  
Sonia Ferrari ◽  
Monica Gilli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Virtual Museums ◽  
The Past ◽  
Multimedia Technologies

This paper analyses the role played by the new multimedia technologies for the development of the offer of museums. The role of museums is changing: while in the past the goal of mere cataloguing and preservation prevailed, today these institutions are making efforts to increase the number of visitors and attract new segments of demand, as well as qualify their offer. It emerges, for all these reasons, the need to modify the positioning and the offering of cultural attractions, strengthening them in experiential terms. Therefore, in terms of management of cultural heritage it is necessary to focus on the ability to get closer to the public and to create richer and striking experiences for visitors through new technologies. The paper presents some of the most interesting cases of Italian audience-driven museums (Hopper-Greenhill, 1994) focused on innovative ITC support.

A Bridge to the Present

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Westfahl
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
William Gibson ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Computer Hackers ◽  
New Directions

This chapter examines three William Gibson novels: Virtual Light, Idoru, and All Tomorrow's Parties. Virtual Light confirms Gibson's desire to break with the past and move in new directions. More specifically, Gibson wanted readers to enter and appreciate a different sort of Gibsonian world. Accordingly, Virtual Light was set in 2005, only twelve years after its publication, and its imagined new technologies were not far removed from actual technologies of the early 1990s. While computer hackers eventually play a small role in the story, there is only one fleeting glimpse of a virtual realm recalling cyberspace, and the two protagonists have almost no interactions with computers. While Gibson remained interested in futuristic science, this novel devotes more attention to speculative sociology. Idoru examines the mechanisms that promote celebrities and keep them in the public eye. It seems to repudiate Virtual Light, whereas All Tomorrow's Parties seems to repudiate Idoru.

scholarly journals Archaeology, Politics, Entertainment and Dialogue: Polish (Digital) Public Archaeology

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicja Piślewska
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Economic

The following article addresses notions of communication of archaeology and communication between archaeology and society in Poland—past and present. The examination of these two issues begins with a presentation of their historical background, rooted in a political, economic and sociological context. Through reaching back to the past of the Polish state some trends in presenting archaeology to the public can be easily traced. Particular ways of communicating archaeology to the general public are deeply connected with tradition and the wider social and political context, all of which have an undoubtful impact on the reception and perception of archaeology—as a science and as a profession. New technologies, through which communication between archaeologists and society takes place, are definitely used in Poland nowadays, however, the ways in which information is constructed should refer to the existing experience. What should be found is some common ground on which new technologies and traditional ideas of presentation of archaeology could work together and create the most efficient presentation.

scholarly journals Crowdfunding Astronomy Research With Google Sky

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Travis S. Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Space Telescope ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Team ◽  
Kepler Mission ◽  
Star Program ◽  
Economic Austerity

<p>For nearly four years, NASA's Kepler space telescope searched for planets like Earth around more than 150,000 stars similar to the Sun. In 2008 with in-kind support from several technology companies, our non-profit organization established the Pale Blue Dot Project, an adopt-a-star program that supports scientific research on the stars observed by the Kepler mission.  To help other astronomy educators conduct successful fundraising efforts, I describe how this innovative crowdfunding program successfully engaged the public over the past seven years to help support an international team in an era of economic austerity. </p>

scholarly journals Essential for Safety

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (11) ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
Dave Dewees ◽  
Craig Jones ◽  
Megan Slater ◽  
Paul Weitzel ◽  
Steve Scavuaao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Vessel ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Knowledge ◽  
New Challenges

This article discusses how ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) has continued to evolve in the past 100 years to meet the needs of the engineers using the most advanced technology. The first edition of what has now become the ASME BPVC was published in 1914. The Code has continued to expand and adapt over the years to meet the needs of new technologies, many unimagined 100 years ago. The Code continues to meet new challenges and to extend its influence in the cause of safety around the globe. The volunteers who meet four times a year to maintain and extend the Code are completely dedicated to translating sometimes painfully gained experience into rules that strive to protect people. It's why competitors come together and share critical knowledge with one another and the public, and why volunteers dedicate time that almost universally extends well beyond the traditional 40-hour work week.

scholarly journals Knowledge and Technology as Public Goods

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (46) ◽  
pp. 273-278
Author(s):  
Y. V. Dubiei ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Information Leakage ◽  
Domestic Economy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Diffusion Phase ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Modern Economic

The features of knowledge and technology as factors of modern economic development have been analyzed, as well as their essential characteristics in the public goods theory. It has been proven that knowledge and the results of fundamental scientific research are characterized by the properties of non-competitiveness and indivisibility in consumption, as their consumption by one subject does not reduce their consumption by others. It is substantiated that knowledge of applied nature and the results of applied research lose the properties of public goods due to the recording of intellectual property rights. The expenditure budget on scientific research in some countries has been analyzed. It has been found out that constant reduction of the R&D expenditures share in the GDP and significant reduction of fundamental research funding preserves Ukraine’s scientific and technological lag behind the world’s leading countries and makes rapid technological renewal of the domestic economy impossible. It has been found out that economic entities receive the innovation rent at the first lifecycle phase of the technology, given the existence of a mechanism for patenting research and development results and the monopoly rights of the owners of new technologies for their exclusive use. However, the monopoly on new technologies is not an absolute one due to the threat of information leakage in the process of interaction with potential buyers and copying or imitation of new products or new processes at the stage of getting them into actual practical use. It has also been proven that at the accelerated diffusion phase, such technologies acquire the features of a mixed public good.

The Selling of Virtual Reality: Novelty and Continuity in the Cultural Integration of Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Nagy ◽  
Fred Turner
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Living Room ◽  
End User ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Integration Of Technology

Abstract Since the spring of 2014, the consumer virtual reality (VR) industry has once again been racing to reach the public, providing an opportunity to track an emerging medium’s cultural integration in real time. We examined three sites on the sales chain that stretches from the laboratory to the living room: industry developer conferences, industrial prototypes, and end-user experiences. At each of these sites, marketers renegotiate VR’s novelty in order to sell it to specific constituencies. Paradoxically, these negotiations reveal how VR, typically presented as a disruptive innovation, has been called upon to stabilize and ensure the continuity of the past: that is, of particular cultural forms and of the industrial and technological infrastructures that sustain them. We argue that the enculturation of VR demonstrates that the processes that summon new technologies and construct them as novel also reinforce existing—and often unspoken—agreements about the ways that culture should be organized.

scholarly journals Popularizing Astronomy at Public Observatories in West Germany

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 347-349
Author(s):  
Hans L. Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Sharp Increase ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Space Science ◽  
West Germany ◽  
General Interest ◽  
The Public ◽  
Astronomical Research ◽  
Regional Associations

Based on the pedagogical ideas of A. Diesterweg, a number of science associations have been founded since about 1880 under the name of URANIA; astronomy has been one of their subjects. In the 1920–1930’s, the works of Bruno H. Bürgel and Robert Henseling initiated the founding of many more local and regional associations and of public observatories all over the country. But most of the currently active associations were founded to answer the sharp increase of general interest that followed the early successes and spectacular results of space science.- Aims of the associations always have been manyfold:- to share a fine hobby with like-minded people;- to participate theoretically or practically in scientific research as far as technical and local circumstances allow;- to offer to the public means and advice for celestial observations, and to share the joy of deep-sky wonders with guests;- to mediate the progress, and the results of astronomical research to the public.

Setting Limits

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pekka Sulkunen ◽  
Thomas F. Babor ◽  
Jenny Cisneros Ornberg ◽  
Michael Egerer ◽  
Matilda Hellman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Probability Of Success ◽  
Collective Harm ◽  
Harmful Behavior ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
Related Harm

Commercial gambling has developed in the past few decades into a complex enterprise that is at once a recreational activity, a global profit-making industry, and a potentially harmful behavior. New technologies, large for-profit corporations, and extended legalization, have changed the contexts and traditional roles of gambling. Using a public interest framework, this book discusses gambling policies that will best serve the public good. The book critically evaluates the scientific research on regulations designed to prevent or reduce the individual and collective harm from the activity. Efficient methods have a high probability of success if adequate consideration is given to the complexity of the problems. The difficulty is political: the use of these methods most likely conflicts with financial considerations. Problem users bring in the largest share of the money to the trade. Preventing gambling-related harm is rarely possible without limiting the overall volume of the activity.

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