Identity construction in digital communication for public engagement in science

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5965411
AutoresCarmen Pérez-Llantada (0000-0003-4052-1321, Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, Spain, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume27
Fascículo1
Páginas128-145
Data de publicação2025-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14614456241255267
OpenAlexW4401145451
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas27

This article explores identity construction in citizen science web texts. Keyness and concordance analyses show that these texts reflect, construct and negotiate identity construction in various ways to ultimately support citizen participation in scientific processes. Scientists primarily construct a professional identity through self-representation markers (‘we’ pronouns). They present themselves as credible professionals, aligned with the socially established values and ideologies of the scientific community. In addition, they appear to create a collective identity to promote empathy and to encourage and maintain citizen engagement in scientific processes. However, processes of indexicality and relationality - that is positioning and dialogism - reveal that the construction of a professional identity is consistently made more relevant than a collective expert-crowd identity, thus exposing overt power asymmetries. Even when dialogue between experts and nonexperts is encouraged, all the monologic and dialogic interactions established by the hypertext structure of the project sites reflect power imbalances

Aesthetics · Collective identity · Dialogic · Dialogical self · Digital identity · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Identity negotiation · Indexicality · Linguistics · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology · Wikis in Education and Collaboration