Crowdfunding Conservation Science

Tracing the Participatory Dynamics of Native Parrot Genome Sequencing

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5407938
AutoresC Addison (0000-0003-4371-9341, Victoria University of Wellington, autor correspondente), Hallam Stevens (0000-0002-9083-3131, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Ano2022
Volume47
Fascículo3
Páginas568-596
Data de publicação2022-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/01622439211005021
OpenAlexW3155806320
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas48

Who gets to practice and participate in science? Research teams in Puerto Rico and New Zealand have each sequenced the genomes of parrot populations native to these locales: the iguaca and kākāpō, respectively. In both cases, crowdfunding and social media were instrumental in garnering public interest and funding. These forms of Internet-mediated participation impacted how conservation science was practiced in these cases and shaped emergent social roles and relations. As citizens "follow," fund, and "like" the labor of conservation, they create new relational possibilities for and with science. For example, the researchers became newly engaged and engaging by narrating and displaying the parrots via an Internet-inflected aesthetic. The visibility of online modalities shifted accountabilities as researchers considered whom this crowdfunded work answered to and how to communicate their progress and results. The affordances of the Internet allowed researchers from the peripheries of the scientific establishment to produce genomic knowledge for globally dispersed audiences. The convergence of genomic and Internet technology here shaped scientific practice by facilitating new modes of participation-for laypeople in science but also for scientists in society

Affordance · Best practice · Biology · Citizen journalism · Citizen science · Modalities · Political science · Public relations · Science communication · Science education · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology