CSPO https://cspo.org/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:53:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Fake News and Disinformation https://cspo.org/fake-news-and-disinformation/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:53:55 +0000 https://cspo.org/?p=20310 Fake news and disinformation in the digital sphere have been trending topics for years, but what do we really know about the public’s relationship to these issues? In partnership with the French organization, Missions Publiques, the Consortium for Science, Policy,…

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Everything You Know About Shark Conservation is Wrong https://cspo.org/shark-conservation/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:30:23 +0000 https://cspo.org/?p=19673 After watching the cinematic masterpiece Deep Blue Sea, a movie about genetically engineered sharks that go on a rampage, I spent nights terrified of traversing my room’s navy blue carpet in the dark to make it to the bathroom. Many…

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Books We’re Reading this Fall https://cspo.org/fall-books/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:39:06 +0000 https://cspo.org/?p=18999 Summer reading is wonderful: the perfect time to find a comfy beach chair, sip a cold iced tea, and settle in with a well-plotted novel that makes the hours skip by in pleasurable escapism…. Who are we kidding? It’s impossible…

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5G: Think Globally, Act Locally? https://cspo.org/5g-think-globally-act-locally/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:23:47 +0000 https://cspo.org/?p=18978 On April 3, 2019, South Korean carrier SK Telecom claimed to have launched the first 5G mobile network by activating the connection to six celebrities representing Korea. The launch was reportedly rushed forward by two days in order to beat…

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Give STAA a Chance https://cspo.org/give-staa-a-chance/ Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:47:03 +0000 https://cspo.org/?p=18677 At the end of February, while many people were intensely following Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress, about 40 people packed a small room in the Cannon House Office Building to discuss the revival of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA).…

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Competing Visions of Privacy on the Internet https://cspo.org/competing-visions-of-privacy-on-the-internet/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:06:36 +0000 http://cspo.org/?p=18005 The most globally significant bilateral trade and investment relationship is between the United States and the European Union. According to a Brookings Institution report, the data flows between these partners are the highest in the world—50 percent higher than data…

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Misreading the Crowd https://cspo.org/misreading-the-crowd/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:55:58 +0000 http://cspo.org/?p=17610 New research suggests that politicians systematically misperceive constituent perspectives on a range of issues. Lawmakers and their legislative priorities are remarkably unpopular with the public as a result. How can politicians and government organizations better understand and represent citizen perspectives?…

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Naming and Framing Citizen Concerns about Emerging Technology https://cspo.org/naming-and-framing-citizen-concerns-about-emerging-technology/ Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:00:03 +0000 http://cspo.org/?p=17566 How can researchers engage the public on complex, profoundly important science and technology issues? First, throw out the deficit model of science communication and listen to the concerns of everyday citizens.
Kettering Foundation research has long found that there is…

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Where Genome Editing and Artificial Intelligence Collide https://cspo.org/where-genome-editing-and-artificial-intelligence-collide/ Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:00:13 +0000 http://cspo.org/?p=17446 New technologies present mind-bending possibilities for human “optimization.” But should we use them?
From self-driving cars to the recent Equifax cyberattacks, headlines about emerging technologies remind us that the world is quickly changing in complex and unpredictable ways.
The biomedical…

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