The Recent Past and Possible Futures of Citizen Science: Final Remarks

Perelló, Josep Maria Mata; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Land-Zandstra, Anne; Vohland, Katrin; Wagenknecht, Katherin; Narraway, Claire; Lemmens, Rob; Ponti, Marisa

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“…Moreover, the research results presented in the articles of this Research Topic allow the formulation of five directions for further research. These are: 1) dynamics of peer learning and organizational culture in citizen science and social innovation projects; 2) the personal capacity of social entrepreneurs, public managers, citizen scientists, and researchers; 3) design, evaluation, communication, and dissemination of results of the citizen science and social innovation initiatives; 4) digital social innovation and citizen science; and 5) co-creation and co-production processes and their impact on stakeholders (see also Schäfer and Kieslinger 2016 ; Anderson et al, 2020 ; Perelló et al, 2021 ). The editors hope this collection will be an inspiring introduction to studying both identified and yet unnoticed relations between citizen science and social innovation.…”

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Editorial: Citizen Science and Social Innovation: Mutual Relations, Barriers, Needs, and Development Factors

Klimczuk

Butkevičienė

Kerla³

2022

Front. Sociol.

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The presented Research Topic explores the potential of citizen science to contribute to the development of social innovations. It sets the ground for analysis of mutual relations between two strong and embedded in the literature concepts: citizen science and social innovation. Simultaneously, the collection opens a discussion on how these two ideas are intertwined, what are the significant barriers, and the need to use citizen science for social innovation.As described by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Eurostat (2018), social innovation refers to some new idea, new solution, or new design that makes a social impact in terms of conceptual, process, product, or organizational change, which aims to improve the lives of individuals and communities. This conceptual perspective lays a background for this Research Topic. It is possible to consider citizen science as social innovation. As emphasized by Butkeviciene et al. (2021), the relationship between citizen science and social innovation might be two-fold: citizen science as a novel practice might be considered as social innovation in the realm of the traditional research process, and citizen science might be treated as a vehicle to foster social innovation. These two approaches are present in theoretical debates and coherently intertwined in this collection. On the one hand, articles analyze methodological issues and the novelty of such methods as design thinking or action research. On the other hand, papers also investigate the factors such as translation specifics in citizen science, ecosystems of citizen science, or new learning environments that are supporting the development of social innovation.The presented Research Topic includes seven articles prepared in total by 34 authors from the following countries: Australia,

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Editorial: Citizen Science and Social Innovation: Mutual Relations, Barriers, Needs, and Development Factors

Klimczuk

Butkevičienė

Kerla³

2022

Front. Sociol.

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“…For example, the MICS project developed a state-of-the-art tool for assessing impact in five areas: society, the environment, the economy, governance and science and technology (Wehn et al, 2021). In our review, 29% and 8% of the reported projects here were evaluated for their societal and policy impact, respectively, whilst there is a high demand for proof of societal and policy impact of citizen science practices in certain countries, for example, in Germany (Perell o et al, 2021). Those authors expected the demand to expand to other countries in the future.…”

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Participatory soil citizen science: An unexploited resource for European soil research

Mason,

Gascuel‐Odoux,

Aldrian

et al. 2024

European J Soil Science

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Soils are key components of our ecosystems and provide 95%–99% of our food. This importance is reflected by an increase in participatory citizen science projects on soils. Citizen science is a participatory research method that actively involves and engages the public in scientific enquiry to generate new knowledge or understanding. Here, we review past and current citizen science projects on agricultural soils across Europe. We conducted a web‐based survey and described 24 reviewed European citizen science projects in the light of the 10 principles of citizen science and identified success factors for citizen science. Over 66% of the projects generated soil biodiversity data; 54% and 42% of the projects generated data on vegetation cover and soil organic carbon, respectively. Our findings show that soil citizen science projects aligned with the 10 principles of citizen science offer an unexploited resource for European soil health research. We conclude that promoting co‐creation, fostering knowledge‐sharing networks and enabling long‐term communication and commitment with citizens are success factors for further development of citizen science on soils.

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“…Because CS is able to engage heterogeneous actors in knowledge production processes, it is potentially a way to fulfil the goal of the participatory approach within science communication: to engage in a participatory process [Wagenknecht et al, 2021;Magalhães et al, 2022]. Nonetheless, there are some potential dangers that must be considered: indeed, social inequalities can affect the recruitment of participants and thus deepen the gap between those who participate in CS project activities and those who do not [Dopico, Ardura, Borrell, Miralles & García-Vázquez, 2021;Perelló et al, 2021]. Similarly, CS projects' leaders may not be interested in actively engaging with non-scientists [Golumbic et al, 2017] and other limits of public engagement may apply also to CS [Riesch et al, 2013] As should be clear at this point, the communication strategies mentioned as part of CS activities may actively foster or hinder actual engagement of the participants, thereby shaping the outcomes of research through CS.…”

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Citizen science and participatory science communication: an empirically informed discussion connecting research and theory

Giardullo¹,

Neresini²,

Magalhães³

et al. 2023

Journal of Science Communication

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Citizen Science is believed to contribute significantly to the democratisation of science, engaging non-scientists in scientific research. Participatory approaches to science communication share the same interest through public participation and public engagement. In the attempt to connect these two debates both theoretically and empirically, we provide an analysis of the communication tools and strategies used by 157 Citizen Science projects across the EU, UK, and Switzerland. Our analysis reports that the CS projects surveyed tend to interpret communication as a disseminating activity, rather than as a tool to promote appropriate communication-based encounters with both project participants and other potential target audiences.

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The Recent Past and Possible Futures of Citizen Science: Final Remarks

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Editorial: Citizen Science and Social Innovation: Mutual Relations, Barriers, Needs, and Development Factors

Editorial: Citizen Science and Social Innovation: Mutual Relations, Barriers, Needs, and Development Factors

Participatory soil citizen science: An unexploited resource for European soil research

Citizen science and participatory science communication: an empirically informed discussion connecting research and theory

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