Extreme Citizen Science Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities for a Human-Centred Design Approach

Skarlatidou, Artemis; Fraisl, Dilek; Wu, Yaqian; See, Linda; Haklay, Muki

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-98388-8_3

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“… 62 Similarly, as practitioners seek to grow IAS citizen science in the Global South, it is likely to reveal further challenges in terms of data ownership, ethics, data infrastructure limitations, access to technology, and taxonomic knowledge. 158 , 159 These will need to be addressed in collaboration with local people and through co-design of projects, protocols, and tools. 158 , 160 …”

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Citizen science is a vital partnership for invasive alien species management and research

Pocock,

Adriaens,

Bertolino

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iScience

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“… 158 , 159 These will need to be addressed in collaboration with local people and through co-design of projects, protocols, and tools. 158 , 160 …”

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Citizen science is a vital partnership for invasive alien species management and research

Pocock,

Adriaens,

Bertolino

et al. 2024

iScience

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“…AutSPACEs can be understood as a case of "extreme citizen science", a practice in which participants not only contribute data but also control the design & implementation of the research (Skarlatidou et al 2022). As such, AutSPACEs is facilitated with the help of a wide range of institutional partners (The Alan Turing Institute; Autistica; Open Humans) as well as a growing community of autistic contributors, open source developers and organisations -such as Fujitsu and the UK Civil Service -that have made contributions.…”

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How to co-create content moderation policies: The case of the AutSPACEs project

Aitkenhead¹,

Fantoni²,

Scott³

et al. 2023

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The moderation of user-generated content on online platforms remains a key solution to protecting people online, but also remains a perpetual challenge as the appropriateness of content moderation guidelines depends on the online community that they aim to govern. This challenge affects marginalised groups in particular, as they more frequently experience online abuse but also end up falsely being the target of content-moderation guidelines. While there have been calls for democratic, community-moderation, there has so far been little research into how to implement such approaches. Here, we present the co-creation of content moderation strategies with the users of an online platform to address some of these challenges. Within the context of AutSPACEs – an online citizen science platform that aims to allow autistic people to share their own sensory processing experiences publicly – we used a community-based and participatory approach to co-design a content moderation solution that would fit the preferences, priorities and needs of its autistic user community. We outline how this approach helped us discover context-specific moderation dilemmas around participant safety and wellbeing and how we addressed those. These trade-offs have resulted in a moderation design that differs from more general social networks in aspects such as how to contribute, when to moderate, and what to moderate. While these dilemmas, processes and solutions are specific to the context of AutSPACEs, we highlight how the co-design approach itself could be applied and useful for other communities to uncover challenges and help other online spaces to embed safety and empowerment.

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“…AutSPACEs can be understood as a case of "extreme citizen science," a practice in which participants not only contribute data but also control the design and implementation of the research (Skarlatidou et al, 2022). As such, AutSPACEs is facilitated with the help of a wide range of institutional partners (The Alan Turing Institute; Autistica; Open Humans) as well as a growing community of autistic contributors, open source developers, and organizations-such as Fujitsu and the UK Civil Service-that have made contributions.…”

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How to co-create content moderation policies: the case of the AutSPACEs project

Aitkenhead,

Fantoni,

Scott

et al. 2024

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The moderation of user-generated content on online platforms remains a key solution to protecting people online, but also remains a perpetual challenge as the appropriateness of content moderation guidelines depends on the online community that they aim to govern. This challenge affects marginalized groups in particular, as they more frequently experience online abuse but also end up falsely being the target of content-moderation guidelines. While there have been calls for democratic, community-moderation, there has so far been little research into how to implement such approaches. Here, we present the co-creation of content moderation strategies with the users of an online platform to address some of these challenges. Within the context of AutSPACEs—an online citizen science platform that aims to allow autistic people to share their own sensory processing experiences publicly—we used a community-based and participatory approach to co-design a content moderation solution that would fit the preferences, priorities, and needs of its autistic user community. We outline how this approach helped us discover context-specific moderation dilemmas around participant safety and well-being and how we addressed those. These trade-offs have resulted in a moderation design that differs from more general social networks in aspects such as how to contribute, when to moderate, and what to moderate. While these dilemmas, processes, and solutions are specific to the context of AutSPACEs, we highlight how the co-design approach itself could be applied and useful for other communities to uncover challenges and help other online spaces to embed safety and empowerment.

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Extreme Citizen Science Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities for a Human-Centred Design Approach

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Citizen science is a vital partnership for invasive alien species management and research

Citizen science is a vital partnership for invasive alien species management and research

How to co-create content moderation policies: The case of the AutSPACEs project

How to co-create content moderation policies: the case of the AutSPACEs project

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