Scaling Up: Citizen Science Engagement and Impacts Beyond the Individual

Hano, Mary Clare; Wei, Linda; Hubbell, Bryan; Rappold, Ana G.

doi:10.5334/cstp.244

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“…Studies about the attitudes of volunteers helping environmental research have so far been made for various general groups and highly specialized interest groups in environmental monitoring. These studies included volunteers involved in surface water quality (Alender 2016 ; Blake et al 2020 ), hobby ornithologists (Evans et al 2005 ), people helping research online (Raddick et al 2009 ; Nov et al 2014 ) and conservationists (Ryan et al 2001 ; Bruyere and Rappe 2007 ; Asah and Blahna 2012 ; Maund et al 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We did not compare formal education levels to the demography of the countries where the citizen scientists lived, but a study on Illinois’ RiverWatch citizen scientists suggested an education bias towards higher education (Blake et al 2020 ). Toomey and Domroese ( 2013 ) further found that mostly citizens with higher education and moderate to higher income volunteered as “Bee Watchers” in the “Great Pollinator Project” in New York City.…”

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How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project

Gratzer

Brodschneider

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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In the “contributory” citizen science project INSIGNIA, beekeepers carried out non-invasive sampling of their own honey bee colonies for an environmental investigation of pesticide residues and pollen plant origin. We surveyed several traits and attitudes of 69 of the volunteering beekeepers from ten countries. We found that their motivation was similar to that found in previous studies of environmental volunteer motivation, with helping the environment and contributing to scientific knowledge being strong motivators. Our results suggest that receiving laboratory analysis results of the samples from their colonies is the most meaningful way of appreciation for beekeepers, but is not their primary reason for participation. A citizen scientist beekeeper in this study spent on average 10.4 working hours on the project during a sampling season. Our study indicates that most of our volunteers would participate in similar future investigations, or would recommend participation to other beekeepers, underlining the potential of beekeepers as citizen scientists in honey bee research.

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How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project

Gratzer

Brodschneider

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Each study season provides an opportunity to reflect and revise the reporting instrument based on collective gain in knowledge. For example, based on feedback (16) the Smoke Sense app was translated to Spanish to increase accessibility among Latino Americans. As the initiative grows, we expect that the sample representativeness may increase in all demographic groups.…”

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“…While public health guidelines for risk communication recommend becoming familiar with the intended audience (13)(14)(15), that can be a challenging endeavor in the context of wildfire smoke given this audience may encompass entire communities or regions with diverse populations representing a range of experiences and perspectives. Further, challenges related to crafting messages may be compounded by the need to incorporate complex information about wildfires, smoke, air quality, known health risks of exposure, and effectiveness of recommended exposure-reducing behaviors (16). Little research has been conducted on the contexts that may influence health risk communication strategies about wildfire smoke.…”

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Knowing Your Audience: A Typology of Smoke Sense Participants to Inform Wildfire Smoke Health Risk Communication

Hano

Prince

Wei

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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Central to public health risk communication is understanding the perspectives and shared values among individuals who need the information. Using the responses from a Smoke Sense citizen science project, we examined perspectives on the issue of wildfire smoke as a health risk in relation to an individual's preparedness to adopt recommended health behaviors. The Smoke Sense smartphone application provides wildfire-related health risk resources and invites participants to record their perspectives on the issue of wildfire smoke. Within the app, participants can explore current and forecasted daily air quality, maps of fire locations, satellite images of smoke plumes, and learn about health consequences of wildfire smoke. We used cluster analysis to identify perspective trait-clusters based on health status, experience with fire smoke, risk perception, self-efficacy, access to exposure-reducing resources, health information needs, and openness to health risk messaging. Differences between traits were examined based on demographics, health status, activity level and engagement with the app. We mapped these traits to the Precaution Adoption Process Model (PAPM) to indicate where each trait lies in adopting recommended health behaviors. Finally, we suggest messaging strategies that may be suitable for each trait. We determined five distinct perspective traits which included individuals who were Protectors and have decided to engage on the issue by adopting new behaviors to protect their health; Cautious, Proactive, and Susceptible individuals who were at a Deciding stage but differed based on risk perceptions and information needs; and the Unengaged who did not perceive smoke as a health issue and were unlikely to change behavior in response to messaging. Across all five traits, the level of engagement and information needs differed substantially, but were not defined by demographics. Individuals in the Susceptible trait had the highest level of engagement and the highest information needs. Messaging that emphasizes self-efficacy and benefits of reducing exposure may be effective in motivating individuals from the deciding stage to taking health protective action. Shared perspectives define an individual's propensity for acting on recommended health behaviors, therefore, health risk message content should be tailored based on these perspectives.

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“…For example, Sternberg and Lantz [3], collected data on truck positions in Scandinavia to study the relation between under-paid drivers and trucking crime. In other domains, crowdsourcing (defined as the acquisition of information or services from users at low or zero economic cost) has leveraged mobile technology and a large group of participants to gather unique data related to critical topics such as air quality [4], crime and public safety [5], and poaching and illegal logging [6,7]. It should be noted that crowdsourcing frequently refers to gig work, such as Uber [8], but this manuscript focus on crowdsourcing of research data.…”

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Propositions on Motivating Supply Chain Frontline Workers in Research Crowdsourcing

Liñan-Jimenez¹,

Sternberg²,

Summer³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Crowdsourcing projects that engage intrinsically motivated volunteers and are aimed at endeavors such as policy making, research, and social activism, need to understand how to create sustained engagement in their initiatives. We explore what happens when a group of homogeneous volunteers are exposed to heterogeneous beneficiaries. Previous research has presented anecdotal evidence suggesting that truck drivers have strong opinions against foreigners. However, our study finds no support for such notion, as it appears that truck drivers' view their profession as a stronger group in line with social identity theory.

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Scaling Up: Citizen Science Engagement and Impacts Beyond the Individual

Cited by 26 publications

References 32 publications

How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project

How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project

Knowing Your Audience: A Typology of Smoke Sense Participants to Inform Wildfire Smoke Health Risk Communication

Propositions on Motivating Supply Chain Frontline Workers in Research Crowdsourcing

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