• DOI:10.1177/0963662515607406
Corpus ID: 34578076

Can citizen science enhance public understanding of science?

@article{Bonney2016CanCS,
  title={Can citizen science enhance public understanding of science?},
  author={R. Bonney and Tina B. Phillips and H. Ballard and J. Enck},
  journal={Public Understanding of Science},
  year={2016},
  volume={25},
  pages={16 - 2}
}

R. Bonney, Tina B. Phillips, +1 author J. Enck

Published 2016

Sociology, Medicine

Public Understanding of Science

Over the past 20 years, thousands of citizen science projects engaging millions of participants in collecting and/or processing data have sprung up around the world. Here we review documented outcomes from four categories of citizen science projects which are defined by the nature of the activities in which their participants engage – Data Collection, Data Processing, Curriculum-based, and Community Science. We find strong evidence that scientific outcomes of citizen science are well documented… CONTINUE READING

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