Sense and Influence: Environmental Monitoring Tools and the Power of Citizen Science

Jalbert, Kirk; Kinchy, Abby

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2015.1100985

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“…Credited with strengthening decisionmaking and having an empowering effect on populations, the tradition of participatory research has deeply impacted the way development is conceptualized and managed (Brosius et al, 1998;Campbell and Vainio-Mattila, 2003). Citizen science builds on this tradition but, due to the enabling role of technology (mainly, information and communication technology, ICT4D), allows to bring both participatory monitoring and scientific modeling to scale (Bonney et al, 2009;Jalbert and Kinchy, 2015).…”

Section: Local Knowledge Integration and The Promise Of Citizen Scienmentioning

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Building Resilience to Chronic Landslide Hazard Through Citizen Science

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Building Resilience to Chronic Landslide Hazard Through Citizen Science

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“…Others, using sensors to accurately track changes in water quality on a continuous basis, hope that their data will stand up to scrutiny in a court of law. It remains unclear, however, how much these efforts have improved the enforcement of environmental law (Jalbert and Kinchy 2015).…”

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Citizen Science: Probing the Virtues and Contexts of Participatory Research

2016

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Citizen science is an increasingly popular activity, from bird counts to amateur water sample collection to air quality monitoring. Researchers and theorists in the field of science and technology studies (STS) have typically applauded these efforts because they make science more participatory, providing an example of the democratization of science, or, at least, more equitable engagement between experts and the lay public. However, a broader review of the literature on citizen science suggests that participation is but one of many virtues that practitioners and observers find in the practices of citizen science. This literature review makes two interventions. First, we discuss the dimensions of citizen science that do not easily fit in a typology or spectrum of participatory practices. We identify seven different virtues claimed of citizen science: increasing scientific data; increasing citizens' scientific literacy and awareness; building community capacity for environmental protection; building more equal relationship between scientists and citizens; filling knowledge gaps and challenging official accounts; driving policy change; and catching polluters. Second, we consider the social and political contexts that often create contradictory situations or dilemmas for citizen scientists. Going forward, a robust framework for the analysis of citizen science would not only address the ways scientific data is collected and put to a particular use, but also situate the project in relation to broader structural forces of scientization, neocolonialism, globalization, and neoliberalization.

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“…The rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing activity close to US communities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Colorado prompted scholars to track the environmental and social risks and harms, along with forms of community and political organization to mitigate them (Kroepsch 2016;Perry 2012;Espig and de Rijke 2016;Willow et al 2014;Eaton and Kinchy 2016;Partridge et al 2017;Smith 2017a, 2017b). Citizen science and other forms of public engagement 7 Other recent STS contributions to making sense of the underground have addressed topics ranging from the interpretation of remote data sources in petroleum reservoir geology to decision making about geothermal energy to conspiracy stories about the definition of geological boundaries around protected sites, among other subjects with public relevance (Almklov 2008;Almklov and Hepsø 2011;Raman 2013;Gilbert 2015;Rahder 2015;Barandiaran 2015;Gross 2015;Pijpers 2016;Bleicher and Gross 2016;Sareen 2016;Oskarsson 2017). in science have been key features of these controversies, as activists and concerned communities aim to fill the gaps in "undone science" (Kinchy 2017;Kinchy, Parks, and Jalbert 2016;Malone et al 2015;Jalbert and Kinchy 2016;Wylie et al 2016;Vera 2016;Zilliox and Smith 2018).…”

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<b>Engaging the Underground: An STS Field in Formation</b>

2018

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Rather than existing a priori, the underground comes to be through interlinked political, economic, cultural, and technoscientific practices and processes. Underlying each of these are issues of knowledge, expertise and power that STS is uniquely positioned to explore. In this thematic collection, our focus on the underground draws attention to the work, knowledge, and placemaking activities of those engaged in mining and energy development. We focus on how questions about extraction and burial are posed and deliberated through maps and models. More generally, we highlight the contributions of STS Underground, a network that in its nascent stage is helping to connect the many STS scholars who seek to use the underground as a source, site, and symbol for thinking of the future of the field, as well as their personal interventions as engaged scholars.

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Sense and Influence: Environmental Monitoring Tools and the Power of Citizen Science

Cited by 50 publications

References 40 publications

Building Resilience to Chronic Landslide Hazard Through Citizen Science

Building Resilience to Chronic Landslide Hazard Through Citizen Science

Citizen Science: Probing the Virtues and Contexts of Participatory Research

<b>Engaging the Underground: An STS Field in Formation</b>

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