Crowds, citizens, and science: a multi-dimensional framework and agenda for future research

Franzoni, Chiara; Poetz, Marion; Sauermann, Henry

doi:10.1080/13662716.2021.1976627

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“…We do not discuss these tools further in the present study, which mainly focuses on social media analysis. 4 https://decidim4cs.ml/ When applying the proposed pipeline to the different analysis envisioned, some critical issues emerge. They come from the experience of projects such as Crowd4SDG 5 and E2mC [5]), as well as from the literature (see Section II):…”

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“…In the literature, social media is considered a form of crowdsourcing and not necessarily an activity of CS [3]. However, the effect of combining the two approaches in a multi-dimensional framework has been studied in different research communities [4]. Also, the combination of automatic analysis of images contained in posts and the collaboration of human-based computing has been discussed by several authors in the literature [5]- [7].…”

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A Citizen Science Approach for Analyzing Social Media With Crowdsourcing

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Social media have the potential to provide timely information about emergency situations and sudden events. However, finding relevant information among the millions of posts being added every day can be difficult, and in current approaches developing an automatic data analysis project requires time and technical skills. This work presents a new approach for the analysis of social media posts, based on configurable automatic classification combined with Citizen Science methodologies. The process is facilitated by a set of flexible, automatic and open-source data processing tools called the Citizen Science Solution Kit. The kit provides a comprehensive set of tools that can be used and personalized in different situations, particularly during natural emergencies, starting from images and text contained in the posts. The tools can be employed by citizen scientists for filtering, classifying, and geolocating the content with a human-in-the-loop approach to support the data analyst, including feedback and suggestions on how to configure the automated tools, and techniques to gather inputs from citizens. Using flooding scenario as a guiding example, this paper illustrates the structure and functioning of the different tools proposed to support citizens scientists in their projects, and a methodological approach to their use. The process is then validated by discussing three case studies based on the Albania earthquake of 2019, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the Thailand floods of 2021. The results suggest that a flexible approach to tools composition and configuration can support a timely setup of an analysis project by citizen scientists, especially in case of emergencies in unexpected locations.

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“…The CSPB implementation is based on the open-source crowdsourcing framework PyBossa and its code is publicly available under the 'CitizenScienceCenter' organization on GitHub. PyBossa 15 is an ongoing open-source development project. It is an extremely flexible and versatile technology used for the development of platforms and for data collection within collaborative environments, analysis and data enrichment.…”

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“…Crowdsourcing (or crowd science) and Citizen Science are often studied in separate research communities. The potential of combining their approaches in a multi-dimensional framework was discussed in [15]. Within Crowd4SDG, the potential of social media was discussed in [36], considering lessons learned from case studies for SDG monitoring, to provide key statistics and discuss also the role of local indicators.…”

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Analyzing social media with crowdsourcing in Crowd4SDG

Bono¹,

Mülâyim²,

Cappiello³

et al. 2022

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Social media have the potential to provide timely information about emergency situations and sudden events. However, finding relevant information among millions of posts being posted every day can be difficult, and developing a data analysis project usually requires time and technical skills. This study presents an approach that provides flexible support for analyzing social media, particularly during emergencies. Different use cases in which social media analysis can be adopted are introduced, and the challenges of retrieving information from large sets of posts are discussed. The focus is on analyzing images and text contained in social media posts and a set of automatic data processing tools for filtering, classification, and geolocation of content with a human-in-the-loop approach to support the data analyst. Such support includes both feedback and suggestions to configure automated tools, and crowdsourcing to gather inputs from citizens. The results are validated by discussing three case studies developed within the Crowd4SDG H2020 European project.

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“…Citizen science bridges the gap between research, science, and surrounding community by involving the public in studies and experiments [3]. One citizen science perspective is to increase knowledge production, while another perspective considers both scientific and non-scientifc goals, such as citizen empowerment, education, awareness, and advocacy [4,5]. Scientific literacy can be an outcome of both citizen science and science education, and entails understanding of science which is important for everyday challenges.…”

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The Cre@tive Expedition for science literacy

Andersen¹,

Elbæk²,

Thomsen³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022 — PoS(CitSci2022)

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Students experience the natural science subjects as lacking relevance in relation to their everyday lives. New solutions are needed to maintain students' interest in science subjects. Students' interests are closely linked to the experience of relevance and meaningfulness, which can be promoted by experiential learning with a high degree of student involvement. Students acquire knowledge and skills through practical experiments and scientific data collection and analyses, which can increase their interest in science and increase their science literacy. Citizen science projects involve the public in research, including the problem-definition and development phases. The current project is embedded in education science with the purpose of designing, testing, and evaluating innovative learning activities with the active involvement of students and teachers. These learning activities involve experiential learning and integrate participants' bodies, senses and physical activities, with the goal of increasing participants interest in science and developing their scientific literacy. By an exploratory and emerging process, which involved researchers, practitioner, and students, we created The Cre@tive Expedition. In The Cre@tive Expedition participants use their bodies and senses to solve tasks at the outdoor Active Living Laboratory. The concept is structured as an educational Escape Room designed for participants to problem-solve, collaborate, and be active and experimental. Until now, the concept has been tested in three settings, which has fueled the vision of the development of the Active Living Laboratory as a place where children, teens, and other citizens can engage with science, as well as scientists, and participate in experimenting through inspiring and physically active STEM learning activities. With a citizen science approach, we will explore and develop the involvement of students in all phases of the research project, which is currently in the initial development phase. Based on our participation in CitSci2022, we will further develop our involvement of the public in the research process and in the development of new ways of integrating the body, senses and physical activities through fun, inspiring, and challenging learning.

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Crowds, citizens, and science: a multi-dimensional framework and agenda for future research

Cited by 31 publications

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A Citizen Science Approach for Analyzing Social Media With Crowdsourcing

A Citizen Science Approach for Analyzing Social Media With Crowdsourcing

Analyzing social media with crowdsourcing in Crowd4SDG

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