Citizen Science/Communicating Citizen Science/Citizen Social Science

“Social research is becoming an area of activity for the private sector and citizens themselves are also engaging. As such, the boundary of social science has itself become the subject of debate.” - Data Horizons Report http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/publications/Data_Horizons_Report.pdf EXPERIMONTH - Museum of Life and Science http://lifeandscience.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=90bfea598695502771d70b932&id=2cb389281e CITIZEN SCIENCE GAMES FOR CHANGE http://www.gamesforchange.org/festival2013/program/citizen-social-science-games/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azUqpKyzGtU CROWDSOURCING MEMORIES OF HISTORICAL EVENTS The Great War Archive - http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/ CROWDSOURCING PERSONAL STORIES http://storycorps.org/ QUANTIFIED SELF http://quantifiedself.com/ OPEN CIVIC DATA opendata.gov COMMUNITY MAPPING openpaths.cc openstreetmap.org http://walking-papers.org/ http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk/ SURVEY CREATION APPS surveymonkey Qualtrics DATA VIZ & ANALYSIS APPS Ushahidi http://www.ushahidi.com/products/ushahidi-platform ACADEMIC Enabling Social Media Research Through Citizen Social Science To test the feasibility of citizen social science for social media analytics we are building a webbased tool, which volunteers will be able to use to access social research collected by COSMOS and perform simple annotation tasks. These volunteered annotations will then be used to check and improve the quality of the COSMOS computationally-generated annotations. Our approach is modelled on a crowdsourcing facility now being piloted by the BBC to put massive, searchable media archives online using a combination of algorithms and crowdsourcing (Raimond and Lowis, 2012). BBC Research & Development has built a browsable and searchable online archive, which uses crowdsourcing to validate and improve the quality of computationallygenerated annotations. Registered users can listen to programmes in the archive, add new annotations and vote on the quality of existing annotations. http://cs.au.dk/~mkorn/ECSCW_2013_Adjunct_Proceedings-web.pdf http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/rob_procter/ Visualising PolySocial Reality http://jitso.org/2012/12/03/visualising-polysocial-reality-revised/ GOVERNMENT Yougov.com “Can open government data and internet-based information be expanded to empower citizens and workers to help regulate markets and press governments and firms toward reforming the economy? Can the success of citizen science initiatives be a model for projects that can galvanize citizen social science and public governance initiatives? Can petitions and internet activism have significant impact to press major institutions to change policies?” - HARVARD LAW REPORT http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/reports/2012_10_lwp.pdf Article on how there is not enough citizen social science: http://dailycrowdsource.com/crowdsourcing/articles/opinions-discussion/1158-oh-man-the-crowd-is-getting-an-f-in-social-science USC gametech lab Simulating peace in the Sudan - the SUDAN game Landwehr et al., 2012 Fable III - understanding ethics through game play Schrier, 2012 https://www.google.com/search?q=experimonth&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=Fable+iii+ethics+games&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial