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C*Sci 2023 and the new name of the (US) Citizen Science Association

Posted on Friday 9 June 2023 by mukih

At the end of May, the Citizen Science Association (CSA) celebrated its 10th year anniversary in its conference – C*Sci 2023, held at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. The conference (22-26 May) provided the opportunity to meet face-to-face colleagues in the area of citizen science, which I haven’t had a chance to talk … Continue reading C*Sci 2023 and the new name of the (US) Citizen Science Association →

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Citizen Science 2019: Engagement, Participation, and Research session

Posted on Thursday 14 March 2019 by mukih

The session on engagement, participation and research was made of several talks. Here is the summary of some of the talks in the session, Bridging the research-practice gap: Highlights and lessons learned from integrating citizen science practice and educational research » Lucy Robinson1, Heidi Ballard2, Rebecca Johnson3, Alison Young3, Lila Higgins4, Christothea Herodotou5, Julia Lorke1, Annie Miller3, … Continue reading Citizen Science 2019: Engagement, Participation, and Research session

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New publication: Participatory citizen science

Posted on Tuesday 13 November 2018 by mukih

I’ve mentioned in the previous posts about the introduction and conclusions chapters in the book “Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy” and the chapter about citizen science in universities. The final chapter in the book that I would like to highlight is my chapter “participatory citizen science“. As Rick Bonney pointed to me, on the face … Continue reading New publication: Participatory citizen science

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Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 3 – Participation inequality

Posted on Friday 26 January 2018 by mukih

One of the aspects that fascinates me about the nature of participation in citizen science and crowdsourcing is the nature of participation and in particular participation inequality. As I’ve noted last week, when you look at large scale systems, you expected to see it in them (so Google Local Guides is exhibiting 95:5:0.005 ratio). I knew … Continue reading Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 3 – Participation inequality

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Participatory [Citizen] Science

Posted on Friday 20 May 2016 by mukih

‘Citizen Science as Participatory Science‘ is one of the most popular posts that I have published here. The post is the core section of a chapter that was published in 2013 (the post itself was written in 2011). For the first European Citizen Science Association conference I was asked to give a keynote on the second … Continue reading Participatory [Citizen] Science

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