{"id":5347,"date":"2022-10-11T09:27:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2022-10-11T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:27:59","slug":"technology-and-the-public-bridging-the-gap-of-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/2022\/10\/11\/technology-and-the-public-bridging-the-gap-of-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology and the Public: Bridging the Gap of Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The students of The Academic Conference: a class in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University, are delighted to invite submissions to its conference \u201cTechnology and the Public: Bridging the Gap of Knowledge.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background description of theme and suggestions<\/strong><br>Technology in the digital age has become an evermore integral part of societal function. As innovation<br>accelerates in its applications and power, an inevitable gap between public knowledge and technology emerges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With new research comes new responsibilities, and we need to address how these advances have impacted<br>society. The topic of our conference: \u2018Technology and the Public: Bridging the Gap of Knowledge\u2019, aims to explore the gap of knowledge between technology and the public from several angles, including but not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Discussing the newest advances in STEM, or other research, and their impact on the public and the environment<\/li><li>Misinformation and disinformation about tech<\/li><li>How public interests drive tech innovation<\/li><li>Discussing different strategies to accurately inform the public of new technologies<\/li><li>How tech can be used to spread mis\/disinformation<\/li><li>Discussing educational inequity caused by the distribution of new technologies and allocation of resources domestic and abroad<\/li><li>Discussing how information available on new research and technology affects consumer behavior<\/li><li>Addressing misuse\/abuse of technology<\/li><li>Novel applications of existing technologies<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We invite submissions from any academic discipline, including but not limited to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Engineering<\/li><li>Psychology<\/li><li>Sociology<\/li><li>Economics<\/li><li>Media Studies<\/li><li>Mathematics<\/li><li>Public Health &amp; Medicine<\/li><li>Biology<\/li><li>Computer Science<\/li><li>Philosophy and Ethics<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Types of Submissions:<\/strong><br>We welcome submissions of one of two types of papers\/presentation styles;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Short Conference Paper<br>a. Approximately 1500 words<br>b. Abstract maximum of 300 words<br>c. Structured as 10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for Q&amp;A<\/li><li>Poster Presentation<br>a. Submit an abstract of maximum 300 words, as well as a visual sketch or short description of<br>your poster layout.<\/li><li>\u25cf With either type of submission, you are also required to submit a short description (maximum of 3<br>sentences) of your presentation\u2019s relevance to the conference theme.<br>\u25cf Submissions will be reviewed and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the end of October.<br>\u25cf For the purposes of anonymous review please omit personal information from documents uploaded to the application.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dates &amp; Deadline:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Material Submission Deadline: October 16, 2022 11:59 pm est.<\/li><li>Acceptance Notifications: by October 30, 2022 via email<\/li><li>Conference Date: November 27, 2022 (First Sunday after Thanksgiving)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Submission link<\/strong>: https:\/\/forms.gle\/og8bxtpxBtYaf5hi8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The students of The Academic Conference: a class in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University, are delighted to invite submissions to its conference \u201cTechnology and the Public: Bridging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5349,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions\/5349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}