Citizen Science/Communicating Citizen Science

Like all research, the value of contributions in citizen science are greatest when communicated effectively. Further, citizen science in particular stands to benefit from the opportunities and affordances of openness, both in terms of open access (broadcast) and open collaboration (feedback). Digital and network technologies, especially the web, enable many substantive opportunities to practice and communicate citizen science. Blogging General Science http://scienceblogs.com/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/ http://arstechnica.com/author/john-timmer/ http://blogs.plos.org/citizensci/ Life Sciences http://www.xconomy.com/life-sciences/ http://scienceblogs.com/channel/life-science/ http://www.theguardian.com/profile/mo-costandi http://www.bamh1.com http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/author/maryn/ http://scienceblogs.com/channel/medicine/ http://www.upwell.us/blog http://www.thestreet.com/topic/45381/adam-feuersteins-biotech-blog.html http://www.genengnews.com/blog-biotech http://lifescivc.com/ http://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/ http://invivoblog.blogspot.com/ Social Sciences http://citizensocialscience.wordpress.com/ Physical Sciences http://scienceblogs.com/channel/life-science/ Technology http://scienceblogs.com/channel/technology/ http://io9.com/ DIY Bio Hackteria blog & Hakcteria wiki Articles Projects The Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://www.birds.cornell.edu/page.aspx?pid=1664 Zooniverse http://www.zooniverse.org OpenScientist http://www.openscientist.org/2013/09/announcing-new-citizen-science.html Citizen Social Science Wiki list of projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citizen_science_projects Journals Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment http://www.esajournals.org/toc/fron/10/6 BioOne http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1641/B580303 International Journal of Zoology http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijz/2012/349630/ https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ http://www.openjournalproject.org/ http://jmlr.org/ http://arxiv.org/ https://www.plos.org/ http://elifesciences.org/ Organizations promoting open science http://mozillascience.org/ http://software-carpentry.org/ http://science.okfn.org/ Crowdfunding eg. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wemu-a-revolution-in-epilepsy-monitoring-and-diagnosis - epilepsy monitoring clothing on indiegogo kickstarter/indiegogo doesn't provide any verification that the thing can actually be developed, scientific evaluation better: http://www.sciencestarter.de/home.html https://experiment.com/ people based, not project based: https://www.gittip.com/ Document Writing http://sharelatex.com http://authorea.com Collaborative Reading/Annotation http://peerlibrary.org http://openannotation.org/ https://hypothes.is/ Connecting with engaged people/resources for getting started Post to a list on http://lists.okfn.org, find help from some engaged people. https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science (see also country-specific variations) If local, recruit from the community. Hacker spaces (for software): http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ Organize/Promote through Science Hack Day. http://scistarter.org http://scienceonline.com #scio14 #scicomm