There is strong evidence of the positive role that youth engagement programs and policies play in creating resiliency and producing positive outcomes among youth populations, such as delaying or avoiding the onset of risk-taking behaviors. Research also suggests that achieving positive outcomes ideally includes influence from the individual, the family, the school, the community, and the field ...

Among professionals in public health, the political system is commonly viewed as a subway’s third rail: avoid touching it, lest you get burned. Yet it is this third rail that provides power to the train, and achieving public health goals depends on a sustained, constructive engagement between public health and political systems. This commentary outlines the importance of such engagement, and su...

This paper sets out some challenges for Ireland’s contribution to nanotechnology public engagement in the context of current STS and science communication theoreticalpractice approaches. I report on a pilot set of public engagement activities and accompanying ‘multi-sited ethnographic’ and frame analysis methodologies. I reflect on how the theoretical context of these methods and findings prese...

We study the tradeoff between user engagement and misinformation faced by an online social networking platform. The content available on the platform is possibly erroneous. Agents decide whether to engage with the content based on their direct satisfaction from engaging, the disutility from engaging with erroneous content, and the positive externality that they derive from engaging with the sam...