Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fan, Fa-ti
• Chen, Shun-Ling

Titel

Citizen, Science, and Citizen Science

Ist Teil von

• East Asian science, technology and society, 2019-06, Vol.13 (2), p.181-193

Ort / Verlag

Taipei: Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The term citizen science has become very popular among scholars as well as the general public, and, given its growing presence in East Asia, it is perhaps not a moment too soon to have a special issue of EASTS on the topic. However, the quick expansion of citizen science, as a notion and a practice, has also spawned a mass of blurred meanings. The term is ill-defined and has been used in diverse ways. To avoid confusion, it is necessary to categorize the various and often ambiguous usages of the term and clarify their meanings. As in any taxonomy, there are as many typologies as the particular perspectives, parameters, and criteria adopted for classification. There have been helpful attempts at classifying...