The public participation in the field of science and technology is mainly driven by the empower of citizenship and democratic participation (Bucchi, 2006) as well as by the need to address the techno-scientifical controversies. On the base of this assumptions more scholars don’t limit their work to the knowledge dissemination by media, but instead avail of new approaches as the Citizen Science (CS) intended as the contemporary frontier of science and society framework. CS, framed as a critical factor for the science democratization, concerns the innovation project aimed to involve citizens in scientific research activities: an expanding field addressed as an approach capable to bring together both scientist and non-specialized citizens in research projects (Irwin, 1994) promoted by academical and social members to orient and share aims, implementation phases as well as data gathering and analytical procedures with citizens. This approach contributes to the learning processes for scientifical investigation and to the best comprehension of research results (Riesch & Potter 2014). On the bases of these assumptions, the aim of this paper is oriented to encourage a first reflection concerning the scientific communication for CS. Which are the main features of the communication strategies adopted by expert in CS projects? How the expert and non-expert relations feature because of these strategies? Starting from the relevant contributions of the literature related to CS, an explorative focus on a specific case study is proposed. Qualitative research techniques have been held to investigate on a CS project recently implemented in the metropolitan area of Naples focused on the environmental sensibilization. In this way, approaching CS as a field that supports research and responsible innovation processes (Sutcliffe 2011; Wickson & Carew, 2014) the attended results of this first exploration strive to help in shading light on the communication relevance and the potentialities for the open science realization.
Citizen Science: A Reflection on New Ways in Communicating Science / Crescentini, Noemi. - (2022). (Intervento presentato al convegno Reinventing science communication? Challenges for the post truth-era tenutosi a University of Ljubljana nel 13/10/2022).
Citizen Science: A Reflection on New Ways in Communicating Science
CRESCENTINI NOEMI
2022
Abstract
The public participation in the field of science and technology is mainly driven by the empower of citizenship and democratic participation (Bucchi, 2006) as well as by the need to address the techno-scientifical controversies. On the base of this assumptions more scholars don’t limit their work to the knowledge dissemination by media, but instead avail of new approaches as the Citizen Science (CS) intended as the contemporary frontier of science and society framework. CS, framed as a critical factor for the science democratization, concerns the innovation project aimed to involve citizens in scientific research activities: an expanding field addressed as an approach capable to bring together both scientist and non-specialized citizens in research projects (Irwin, 1994) promoted by academical and social members to orient and share aims, implementation phases as well as data gathering and analytical procedures with citizens. This approach contributes to the learning processes for scientifical investigation and to the best comprehension of research results (Riesch & Potter 2014). On the bases of these assumptions, the aim of this paper is oriented to encourage a first reflection concerning the scientific communication for CS. Which are the main features of the communication strategies adopted by expert in CS projects? How the expert and non-expert relations feature because of these strategies? Starting from the relevant contributions of the literature related to CS, an explorative focus on a specific case study is proposed. Qualitative research techniques have been held to investigate on a CS project recently implemented in the metropolitan area of Naples focused on the environmental sensibilization. In this way, approaching CS as a field that supports research and responsible innovation processes (Sutcliffe 2011; Wickson & Carew, 2014) the attended results of this first exploration strive to help in shading light on the communication relevance and the potentialities for the open science realization.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
