Stories can change the world – citizen science communication in practice

Hecker, Susanne; Luckas, Monique; Brandt, Miriam; Kikillus, Heidy; Marenbach, Ilona; Schiele, Bernard; Sieber, Andrea; Vliet, A.J.H. van; Walz, Ulrich; Wende, Wolfgang

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“…Adapted from Pettibone et al 2016;Hecker et al 2018;Veeckman et al 2019 Further Reading Bubela, T., Nisbet, M. C., Borchelt, R., Brunger, F., Critchley, C., Einsiedel, E., et al (2009). Science communication reconsidered.…”

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“…Stories can be personal, historical, or educational (Veeckman et al 2019), and a narrative is created when they are linked together, which can provide people with a connection point for their own experiences. Stories can depict the immediate context, providing meaning to participants and reflecting their experiences, thereby providing a means to generate, analyse, and pass on actions, experiences, and biographical knowledge for citizen science projects in creative ways (Hecker et al 2018;Richter et al 2019). Good stories are memorable, often feature a 'hero' and describe a conflict, have a specific aim, and awaken emotions in your audience (Hecker et al 2017).…”

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“…Policymakers are a key target audience for citizen science projects that want to contribute to evidence-based policy, but bridging the gap between research and policy is notoriously difficult. One major challenge is bridging the differing values, expectations, and needs of the research system and policymakers (Hecker et al 2018). Policymakers deal in facts and look for a high degree of certainty (Durham et al 2014), whilst scientists (usually) deal in terms of probability and uncertainty.…”

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“…Further, collaborations with similar projects can increase the chance of reaching policymakers and provide a stronger evidence base for the policy advocated. Furthermore, projects that explicitly include efforts to communicate with the general public, especially through media channels, are often better received and taken more seriously by policymakers (Hecker et al 2018).…”

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“…through reports and media coverage); to inform them of the project's aims and scientific processes; and for exchanging information about the project's results and outcomes (Fig. 24.1;Hecker et al 2018;de Vries et al 2019;Veeckman et al 2019).…”

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Citizen science projects rely on public involvement, making a communication and dissemination strategy essential to their success and impact. This needs to include many aspects, such as identifying the audience, selecting the communication channel(s), and establishing the right language to use. Importantly, citizen science projects must expand beyond traditional top-down monologue interactions and embrace two-way dialogue approaches, especially when communicating with project participants. Further, to be effective, communication activities require good planning and dedicated resources. This chapter highlights the importance of communication and dissemination in citizen science; provides examples of successful strategies and identifies the factors that determine success; and describes some of the challenges that can arise and how to overcome these.

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Climate change versus the water–energy–food nexus: the oldness or newness of the scientific issues as a factor in the deficit model and the hierarchy of response model

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Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment

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In this paper, we bring together the literature on citizen science and on deliberative democracy and epistemic injustice. We argue that citizen science can be seen as one element of “deliberative systems,” as described by Mansbridge et al. But in order to fulfil its democratic potential, citizen science needs to be attentive to various forms of exclusion and epistemic injustice, as analyzed by Fricker, Medina and others. Moreover, to tap the potentials of citizen science from the perspective of deliberative democracy, it needs to move towards a more empowered approach, in which citizens do not only deliver data points, but also, in invited or uninvited settings, participate in discussions about the goals and implications of research. Integrating citizen science into the deliberative systems approach embeds it in a broader framework of democratic theory and suggests the transmission of certain practical strategies (e.g., randomized sampling). It can also contribute to realism about both the potentials and the limits of citizen science. As part of a deliberative system, citizen science cannot, and need not, be the only place in which reforms are necessary for creating stronger ties between science and society and for aligning science with democratic values.

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Stories can change the world – citizen science communication in practice

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Communication and Dissemination in Citizen Science

Communication and Dissemination in Citizen Science

Climate change versus the water–energy–food nexus: the oldness or newness of the scientific issues as a factor in the deficit model and the hierarchy of response model

Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment

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