Titel
Citizen science in the social sciences and humanities: the power of interdisciplinarity
Autor*in
Loreta Tauginienė
Office of the Ombudsperson for Academic Ethics and Procedures, Lithuania
Autor*in
Eglė Butkevičienė
Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology
Autor*in
Katrin Vohland
Research Department Museum and Society, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
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Abstract
Citizen science evolved through multiple disciplinary manifestations into a new field of study and a participatory method of enquiry. While most citizen science projects take place within problem-focused natural sciences, social sciences and humanities help understanding the human dimension and open a broad methodological spectrum for enriching scientific research with new approaches and for boosting public participation. In this paper, we use a meta-synthesis approach to explore how citizen science is practised in the so far less addressed social sciences and humanities by focusing on the role of the citizens, the goals and approaches of the projects, the tasks in which citizens are engaged and their gains across projects of diverse disciplinary background. Our findings indicate that social sciences are gaining more acknowledgment within interdisciplinary citizen science projects by addressing ‘wicked’ problems of human behaviour and agency, while humanities are in quest of a better-defined locus in citizen science. We conclude that social sciences and humanities still face considerable barriers to infiltrate citizen science; the payoffs are substantial and already rewarding for several subfields in social sciences and humanities.
Stichwort
Business and managementEnvironmental studiesGeographyScience, technology and societySociology
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
Erschienen in
Titel
Palgrave Communications
Band
6
ISSN
2055-1045
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Publication
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Projekt
Kod / Identifikator
CA 15212
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
© The Author(s) 2020

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