April 24th, 2019 | RESEARCH
Who speaks for “citizen science” on Twitter? Which territory of citizen science have they made visible so far? This paper offers the first description of the community of users who dedicate their online social media identity to citizen science. It shows that Twitter users who identify with the term “citizen science” are mostly U.S. science professionals in environmental sciences, and rarely projects' participants. In contrast to the original concept of “citizen science”, defined as a direct relationship between scientists and lay participants, this paper makes visible a third category of individual actors, mostly women, who connect these lay participants and scientists: the “citizen science broker”.
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Elise Tancoigne, Author, University of GenevaCitation
Identifier Type: ISSN
Identifier: 1824-2049
Identifier Type: DOI
Identifier: 10.22323/2.18060205
Publication: Journal of Science Communication
Volume: 18
Number: 6
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Audience: General Public | Scientists
Discipline: General STEM
Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article | Research Products
Environment Type: Citizen Science Programs | Media and Technology | Public Programs | Websites | Mobile Apps | Online Media