Citizen Science as Participatory Science Communication
Over the last 20 years, citizen science has been understood as either democratized citizen science (Irwin, 1995) or contributory citizen science (Bonney, 1996).The present paper will argue for a third understanding—citizen science as participatory science communication (Metcalfe et al., 2008).This paper will shortly presents some results from three case studies studying citizen science (CS).Three conclusions became apparent: (1) Three main science communication styles can be identified when scientists address general, pure, partisan, and affected publics,and the importance of dialogue is common to all three styles.Notably, the scientists perceived these dialogues as invisible to institutions and society at large.(2) Boundary infrastructures like Species Observations (SO;a digital infrastructure for citizen science) success depends on its ability to reciprocate to its contributors.(3) Validation and quality assurance of contributed data are crucial for successful participatory science communication.This short presentation will only presents some important elements of participatory science communication, while the later full paper will present both the data and the discussion in a more structured manner.
Per Hetland
Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway
国际会议
北京
英文
143-147
2018-01-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）