• DOI:10.1145/1940761.1940910
Corpus ID: 19598222

eBirding: technology adoption and the transformation of leisure into science

@inproceedings{Wiggins2011eBirdingTA,
  title={eBirding: technology adoption and the transformation of leisure into science},
  author={A. Wiggins},
  booktitle={iConference '11},
  year={2011}
}

• A. Wiggins
• Published in iConference '11 2011
• Political Science, Computer Science

The decreasing cost of technology and Internet access has resulted in increasingly large-scale scientific research projects that rely on technology-mediated public participation. This poster takes a process theory perspective to discuss how technology adoption in a citizen science project influences participation and thereby scientific outcomes. The case study finds that some birders change their established practices upon adopting eBird, an online checklist program for bird observations… Expand

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