Increasing Learning and Efficacy about Emerging Technologies through Transmedia Engagement by the Public in Science-in-Society Activities

对社会（经济、社会、伦理等）具有深远影响的当代“新兴”技术的范围它涵盖了生物工程、机器人和人工智能、遗传学、神经和认知科学以及合成生物学等领域。这些技术的发展步伐正在全速前进，在决策过程中非常需要公众的理解、参与和积极参与。这个为期四年的项目的主要目标是创建，分发和研究一套三个综合活动，涉及当前和持久的社会科学主题，建立在这些主题的基础上，这些主题首次出现在玛丽雪莱的小说《弗兰肯斯坦》中，该小说将于2018年庆祝其出版200周年。三个公共交付品是：1）一个在线数字博物馆，由公众积极共同创作和管理其内容; 2）桌面编程的活动包;以及3）一套制作活动。 该项目还将产生专业发展的交付成果：讲习班和相关材料，以提高从业人员的能力，使多种多样的公众参与社会科学问题。 该倡议由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径来扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验，推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，以及发展参与者对更深入学习的理解。亚利桑那州立大学及其全国各地的博物馆和图书馆合作者的这个项目将研究一个假设，即让公众接触到互动的、创造性的、在一个综合的跨媒体环境中的广泛参与将培养他们对科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的兴趣，开发他们的世纪技能与数字化工具，并增加他们的理解，能力和对社会科学问题的有效性的感觉。 这三种不同但又相互关联的互动模式为跨媒体环境的潜力提供了定性和定量、混合方法研究的机会，以提高公众单独和集体工作的能力，使其对社会科学问题感兴趣并参与其中。

The range of contemporary "emerging" technologies with far-reaching implications for society (economic, social, ethical, etc.) is vast, encompassing such areas as bioengineering, robotics and artificial intelligence, genetics, neuro and cognitive sciences, and synthetic biology. The pace of development of these technologies is in full gear, where the need for public understanding, engagement and active participation in decision-making is great. The primary goal of this four-year project is to create, distribute and study a set of three integrated activities that involve current and enduring science-in-society themes, building on these themes as first presented in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, which will be celebrating in 2018 the 200th anniversary of its publication in 1818. The three public deliverables are: 1) an online digital museum with active co-creation and curation of its content by the public; 2) activities kits for table-top programming; and 3) a set of Making activities. The project will also produce professional development deliverables: workshops and associated materials to increase practitioners' capacity to engage multiple and diverse publics in science-in-society issues. The initiative is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants.This project by Arizona State University and their museum and library collaborators around the country will examine the hypothesis that exposing publics to opportunities for interactive, creative, and extensive engagement within an integrated transmedia environment will foster their interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), develop their 21st century skills with digital tools, and increase their understanding, ability, and feelings of efficacy around issues in science-in-society. These three distinct yet interlocking modes of interaction provide opportunities for qualitative and quantitative, mixed-methods research on the potential of transmedia environments to increase the ability of publics to work individually and collectively to become interested in and involved with science-in-society issues.