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Citizen Science Primer

An Introductory "landscape survey" for getting acquainted with citizen science.

Videos

Journals

Books

Orgs

People

  • Anne Bowser - Board Member for Citizen Science, working the metadata track
  • Caren Cooper
  • Darlene Cavalier
  • Lucy Fortson
  • Gwen Ottinger writes about technoscience and environmental justice
  • The Fortuns originated the term civic science, to describe science “that questions the state of things, rather than a science that simply serves the state” (Fortun and Fortun 2005: 50)
  • Philip Silva - articulates differences in purpose for knowledge production as part of teasing out differences between "c" sciences (2017, forthcoming).

Events

Tools

Terms & Topics

  • participatory action research
  • "C" science as an umbrella term, because the term "citizen" is problemmatic, also see civic science, community science, and the most general "public participation in science". Also notable "street science" (Coburn)

History

Criticism

  • Why SciStarter Is Bad for Citizen Science - Note that Chris Lintott, one of the founders of Zooniverse and the author of this post, has since changed his opinion after SciStarter addressed some of these concerns.