The Science of Citizen Science

0556723 - ÚGN 2023 RIV CH eng M - Monography Chapter
Butkevičienė, E. - Skarlatidou, A. - Balázs, B. - Duží, Barbora - Massetti, L. - Tsampoulatidis, I. - Tauginienė, L.
Citizen Science Case Studies and Their Impacts on Social Innovation.
The Science of Citizen Science. 1. Cham: Springer, 2021 - (Vohland, K.; Land-Zandstra, A.; Ceccaroni, L.; Lemmens, R.; Perelló, J.; Ponti, M.; Samson, R.; Wagenknecht, K.), s. 309-329. ISBN 978-3-030-58277-7
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : social change * empowerment * societal challenge * digital innovation * active citizenship * environmental issues
OECD category: Environmental sciences (social aspects)
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_16.pdf

Social innovation brings social change and aims to address societal challenges and social needs in a novel way. We therefore consider citizen science as both (1) social innovation in research and (2) an innovative way to develop and foster social innovation. In this chapter, we discuss how citizen science contributes to society’s goals and the development of social innovation, and we conceptualise citizen science as a process that creates social innovation. We argue that both citizen science and social innovation can be analysed using three dimensions – content, process, and empowerment (impact). Using these three dimensions as a framework for our analysis, we present five citizen science cases to demonstrate how citizen science leads to social innovation. As a result of our case study analysis, we identify the major challenges for citizen science in stimulating social innovation.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0330879