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Pandora, Katherine

doi:10.1002/9781118620762.ch10

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“…In so doing, the fluid, unevenly evolving boundaries of scientific communities have been defined contingently, in part, at least as much by rules of exclusion as those of inclusion. Early public science campaigns, typically espousing ecologies of 'vernacular' epistemology, tapped into a myriad of educational strategies intended to expand and enrich what was an elitist, exclusive scientific sphere in the interests of the 'common' or 'ordinary' person turned citizen of science [Irwin, 1995;Pandora, 2016;Turner, 1980]. First published in 1938, Lancelot Hogben's weighty tome Science for the Citizen is often credited with helping to inspire the general science movement calling for scientific education to be much more inclusive.…”

Section: Citizen Science and The 'Democratization Of Positive Knowledge'mentioning

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Making citizen science newsworthy in the era of big data

Allan¹,

Redden²

2017

JCOM

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This article examines certain guiding tenets of science journalism in the era of big data by focusing on its engagement with citizen science. Having placed citizen science in historical context, it highlights early interventions intended to help establish the basis for an alternative epistemological ethos recognising the scientist as citizen and the citizen as scientist. Next, the article assesses further implications for science journalism by examining the challenges posed by big data in the realm of citizen science. Pertinent issues include potential risks associated with data quality, access dynamics, the difficulty investigating algorithms, and concerns about certain constraints impacting on transparency and accountability.

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Section: Citizen Science and The 'Democratization Of Positive Knowledge'mentioning

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Making citizen science newsworthy in the era of big data

Allan¹,

Redden²

2017

JCOM

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„The singular state of the ice“. Das kartografische Wissen des Walfängers William Scoresby

Holtorf

2017

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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“The singular state of the ice”. The Cartographic Knowledge of the Whaler William Scoresby. The English whaler William Scoresby, Jr. (1790–1857) made use of his annual voyages to the Greenland Sea for distinguished scientific work, detailed records and the production of amazing maps. Due to his intensive contacts to scientists as Robert Jameson and politicians as Joseph Banks and John Barrow his research achieved a great deal of attention and set a benchmark for at least half a century. Scoresby combined the adventurous world of Arctic fishery with academic sciences. He attained the northernmost point anybody reached in his time, he extended the cartographic knowledge and forced the conquest and utilisation of the oceans for commercial fishing. But his biography enquires also about who got an opportunity for research and for what. Especially it demonstrates the strong impact practical knowledge of a whaler could have on geographic research and Arctic cartography.

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Visible Labour? Productive Forces and Imaginaries of Participation in European Insect Studies, ca. 1680–1810**

Hünniger

2021

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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The practice of early modern natural history depended on the collective collecting activities of a great variety of people. Among them, artisans played a major role in acquiring and distributing knowledge about the natural world and they contributed significantly to the scholarly labour in natural history. This distributed labour was both acknowledged by contemporaries as well as hidden from sight, reflecting the period's dominant norms for class and gender. By combining an interpretation of the visual representation of labour in European insect studies with an examination of written sources about natural history practices from about 1680 to 1810, this article decodes the oftencodified frontispieces and other more symbolic illustrations to offer new insights into the labour of natural history. Those who identified as scholars and artisans (or both) conceptualised their own intellectual and practical engagement with natural history within the semantic field of work. Some seemed to have even envisioned a new social role for academics as well as artisans. This article analyses the diversity of the "productive forces" in insect studies as they changed over time and it reconstructs what I will call the social imaginaries of participation.

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Amateurs

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Making citizen science newsworthy in the era of big data

Making citizen science newsworthy in the era of big data

„The singular state of the ice“. Das kartografische Wissen des Walfängers William Scoresby

Visible Labour? Productive Forces and Imaginaries of Participation in European Insect Studies, ca. 1680–1810**

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