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CITIZEN SCIENCETodd Suomela
University of Tennessee
@tsuomela
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Situating myself• Early obsession with weather and astronomy• College education
• Planned to be an astronomer• But transferred into the humanities: philosophy and English
• “Real world” experience in business technology (MIS)• Back to the academy
• HCI -> STS
• Currently• Science communication• Philosophy of technology and science• Science/social informatics
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Problem• Citizen science
• “Citizen science [is the] participation of the general public in scientific research”
• RQ: How is citizen science framed in different discourse communities?
• RQ: How does information travel from experts to non-experts?
• RQ: How does citizen science alter the relationship between public(s) and science(s)?
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Methods
• Research journal papers• Press releases• Media reports
Content analysis
• Scientists• Press officers• Journalists• Volunteers
Interviews
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Significance• STS –
• Public understanding of science• Expert and non-expert divides
• Science communication• Frame creation and diffusion
• Information science• Everyday information creation• Amateur information seeking (?)
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ToC• Science Communication• Citizen Science• The Critical Challenge• Problems
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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
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How/Why to communicate science?• The world is becoming more complex
• Increasing levels of technology and scientific knowledge• Easier to share across wide areas
• Grand challenges for science• How do scientists communicate large-scale issues like global
warming among themselves?• How do scientists communicate to the public?• Examples: global warming, nuclear power, genetically modified
organisms, vaccine use
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Science Communication
• Laypeople just need more education to understand the issues and concepts
Deficit model
• Laypeople have local expertise that can be harnessed to help understand a problem
Lay expertise
Brossard & Lewenstein, 2009
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Science communication
• Laypeople understand based on their contextual experiences
Contextual model
• Laypeople should be integrated into science and technical discussions
Public understanding
Brossard & Lewenstein, 2009
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Public understanding• A more sophisticated understanding of science
communication
• Framing effects are present• Emotion, class, and other background factors effect the
transmission of scientific knowledge to the public
• Brings in democratic theory and practice• Builds a forum for communication between scientists and laypeople• Does not put one group above the other
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Framing Science
Social progressEconomic
development/competitiveness
Morality/ethics
Scientific/technical
uncertainty
Pandora’s box/Frankenstein
’s monster/runaway
science
Public accountability/go
vernance
Third way/alternative
pathsConflict/strategy
Nisbet & Scheufele, 2007
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CITIZEN SCIENCE
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Citizen science – an opportunityTo bring public and science together.
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History of Citizen Science• Introduced in the 1990s
• But earlier antecedents exist• National Weather Service, Audubon Society Christmas bird count,
AAVSO
• Two traditions• Critical-emancipatory• Pragmatic-instrumental
• Factors for growth• Improvements in technology• Public is a potential labor source• Funding requirements for public outreach
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Projects, Papers
• Recent project counts• 280 projects from
Cornell lab mailing list (Wiggins & Crowston, 2010)
• 500 projects currently listed at SciStarter.org
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Typologies
Wiggins & Crowston, 2012
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Where is the internet?• Recruitment: Mediator for connecting scientists to non-
scientists• Data collection and analysis: project websites provide an
interface for the collection and analysis of data• Data sharing: collected data may be shared with other
scientists or the public via internet data stores or reports• Infrastructure: wires, routers, mobile, GPS, standards• Paradigms: 4th paradigm of data intensive science
• But does it create a community, a crowd, or a public?
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THE CRITICAL CHALLENGE
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How critical do I go? • Balancing act between disciplines and traditions
• Science communication• STS• Information science
• Two traditions• Critical-emancipatory• Pragmatic-instrumental
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To be critical =? theory• Currently working with Habermas
• Communication and rationality• Technical, practical, and emancipatory inquiry
• Can there be communicative action between citizen scientists and professional scientists?
• Other options• ANT, sociotechnical imaginaries, trading zones, social epistemology,
leisure science, participatory culture, user generated content, sociology of professions, informal learning, common-pool resources, feminism, rhetoric of science communication
• What other options might work?
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PROBLEMS
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Problems• How critical do I go?
• The problem of online crowd labor.• Other critical problems you may notice?
• How much theory should I include?• The problem of scale:
• Micro, meso, or macro?• What scale do you think would you be interested in hearing about
at a conference or in a reading about in a journal paper?
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References• Brossard, D. & Lewenstein, B.V., 2009. A Critical
Appraisal of Models of Public Understanding of Science: Using Practice to Inform Theory. In L. Kahlor & P. A. Stout, eds. Communicating Science: New Agendas in Communication. London: Routledge.
• Nisbet, M. & Scheufele, D.A., 2007. The future of public engagement. The Scientist, 21, pp.38–44.
• Wiggins, A. & Crowston, K., 2012. Goals and tasks: Two typologies of citizen science projects. In Forty-fifth Hawai’i International Conference on System Science (HICSS-45). Wailea, HI.