Citizen science on a smartphone: Participants’ motivations and learning

Land-Zandstra, Anne; Devilee, Jeroen; Snik, Frans; Buurmeijer, Franka; Broek, Jos M. van den

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“…Many projects are explicitly designed to have citizen scientists experience the scientific processes; thus, Bonney et al [2009] concluded that most citizen-science projects are designed to help citizen scientists learn scientific knowledge to some degree. Consistent with these efforts, volunteers of citizen-science projects reported that they actually learned about science by participating in the projects [e.g., Brossard, Lewenstein and Bonney, 2005;Land-Zandstra et al, 2016a;Masters et al, 2016].…”

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“…For example, citizen scientists in Zooniverse projects often classify scientific data. Recent surveys and interviews show that citizen science volunteers are motivated to participate in projects by the opportunity to contribute to science [e.g., Brossard, Lewenstein and Bonney, 2005;Land-Zandstra et al, 2016a;Land-Zandstra et al, 2016b;Reed et al, 2013]. The possibility to contribute to science has emerged as a major motivation in several studies.…”

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“…In any case, the success of citizen-science projects is heavily dependent on attracting participation from citizen scientists. Many studies have conducted surveys and interviews with citizen scientists to identify the motivations for their participation [e.g., Curtis, 2015;Land-Zandstra et al, 2016a;Nov, Arazy and Anderson, 2011;Raddick et al, 2010;Wright et al, 2015]. Such research suggests factors that are important in motivating citizen scientists to contribute.…”

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Appealing to different motivations in a message to recruit citizen scientists: results of a field experiment

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This study examines the relative efficacy of citizen science recruitment messages appealing to four motivations that were derived from previous research on motives for participation in citizen-science projects. We report on an experiment (N=36,513) that compared the response to email messages designed to appeal to these four motives for participation. We found that the messages appealing to the possibility of contributing to science and learning about science attracted more attention than did one about helping scientists but that one about helping scientists generated more initial contributions. Overall, the message about contributing to science resulted in the largest volume of contributions and joining a community, the lowest. The results should be informative to those managing citizen-science projects. Abstract Citizen science Keywordshttps://doi

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“…Cooperation requires a thorough understanding of their background, motivations and goals. Understanding why citizen scientists make the commitment they do, and ensuring responsiveness to their concerns and motivations, is necessary if we are to take their engagement seriously (Land-Zandstra et al 2016). This includes citizen scientists' views on data sharing, which are rarely studied empirically.…”

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Sharing biodiversity data: citizen scientists’ concerns and motivations

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Citizen scientists play a pivotal role in providing necessary biodiversity data. To ensure the continued involvement of a strong volunteer base, insight into the concerns and motivations of voluntary recorders is crucial. This paper presents the findings of a largescale survey (N = 2193) among Dutch volunteer biodiversity recorders of diverse taxa, and focuses on three questions: what are the characteristics of these citizen scientists regarding their activities and socio-demographic background, what are their motivations for recording biodiversity, and what are their views on data sharing and ownership? Our findings show that a connection to, interest in and concern for nature are the most important motivations for biodiversity recorders. Volunteer recorders have high expectations regarding the impact of their data, both for their own learning as well as for science and management. Almost half the volunteers consider their data to be public goods, but this does not mean they support unconditional data sharing. Instead, the acceptability of data sharing with third parties seems strongly linked to the goals of the user. We discuss the implications of our findings for practitioners, such as the role of biology curricula and the importance of learning opportunities to redress the lack of younger volunteers. We argue that conceptualising volunteer recorders as data custodians rather than owners helps to Communicated by Peter Bridgewater.This article belongs to the Topical Collection: Biodiversity appreciation and engagement.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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“…More use of online surveys, see for example, [84,85], may help to better meet the needs of citizens in the future. For example, how can citizens be encouraged to map an area that has already been mapped in the last few years or be more actively engaged in change detection mapping?…”

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Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information

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Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information, sometimes entering domains that had until recently been the exclusive realm of authoritative agencies. This activity has a very diverse character as it can, amongst other things, be active or passive, involve spatial or aspatial data and the data provided can be variable in terms of key attributes such as format, description and quality. Unsurprisingly, therefore, there are a variety of terms used to describe data arising from citizens. In this article, the expressions used to describe citizen sensing of geographic information are reviewed and their use over time explored, prior to categorizing them and highlighting key issues in the current state of the subject. The latter involved a review of 100 Internet sites with particular focus on their thematic topic, the nature of the data and issues such as incentives for contributors. This review suggests that most sites involve active rather than passive contribution, with citizens typically motivated by the desire to aid a worthy cause, often receiving little training. As such, this article provides a snapshot of the role of citizens in crowdsourcing geographic information and a guide to the current status of this rapidly emerging and evolving subject.

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Citizen science on a smartphone: Participants’ motivations and learning

Cited by 144 publications

References 33 publications

Appealing to different motivations in a message to recruit citizen scientists: results of a field experiment

Appealing to different motivations in a message to recruit citizen scientists: results of a field experiment

Sharing biodiversity data: citizen scientists’ concerns and motivations

Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information

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