Online data sharing with virtual social interactions favor scientific and educational successes in a biodiversity citizen science project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15735859 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ana-Cristina Torres (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Baptiste Bedessem (0000-0002-9603-6686, University of Namur, corresponding author), Nicolas Deguines (0000-0001-6930-916X, Université de Poitiers), Colin Fontaine (0000-0001-5367-5675, Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Responsible Innovation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2329-9037 • E-ISSN: 2329-9460 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23299460.2021.2019970 |
| OpenAlex | W4213240925 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 46 |
Given the diversity of biodiversity citizen science projects' design and objectives, a major challenge is to better understand the factors influencing their successes. We study an online communication space where participants to a participative biodiversity monitoring program share their data and freely interact. A quantitative analysis of the comments' distribution among participants reveals the multiplicity of epistemic and social roles they endorse: helping collective identification of plants and insects, moderating the respect of the scientific protocol, or maintaining community's life. By building a typology of these comments, we show how this space of discussion favors exchanges and reflections about esthetical, interpersonal, biological and methodological aspects. We argue that the existence of such spaces favors all together the production of high-quality data, science learning, and individual commitment towards environmental issues. Maybe more importantly, they allow citizens to build and strengthen collective epistemic and affective relationships with science
Biology · Citizen science · Diversity (politics · Interpersonal communication · Knowledge management · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Science education · Social science · Sociology · Typology · Animal and Plant Science Education · Computer Science · Species Distribution and Climate Change · Wikis in Education and Collaboration
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |