Public report on current methods in CS Engagement CSI-COP EU H2020 project (Report D2.1, CSI-COP)
Creators: name: Tiberius, Ignat
name: Stepankova Olga
name: Shah Huma
name: Celentano Ulrico
name: Zhitormsky-Geffet Maayan
name: Gialelis Yiannis
name: Robin, Pierce
name: Vallverdú Jordi
name: Damla, Bal
name: Persic Sanja
name: Bencze Julia
name: Wyler Daniel
name: Ozdemir Deniz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: citizen science, cookies, data collection, dark patterns, data protection, data protection laws, digital divide, ePrivacy, GDPR, gender, geographical location, motivation, privacy, privacy-by-default, privacy-by-design, socio-economic factors, tracking

description: CSI-COP deliverable D2.1 is a public research report realised from the exhaustive literature review<br> conducted for Task 2.1 by the involved partners in the research phase of the EU Horizon2020 science<br> with and for society (SwafS) project Citizen scientists investigating cookies and app GDPR<br> compliance (CSI-COP). With the report produced from the next T2.2 research task, deliverable D2.2<br> (due M06), D2.1 will lead to the development of CSI-COP project’s framework for best practices in<br> inclusive citizen science recruitment and engagement. <br> D2.1 focused on CSI-COP’s research questions:<br> 1. Whether citizen scientists developed scientific skills and competences?<br> 2. If participation acted as a motivator leading to informal and formal science education of<br> young people and adults?<br> 3. Whether participation countered perceived anti-intellectual attitudes in society?<br> 4. Whether participation raised the scientific literacy of European citizens?<br> 5. Whether participation promotes social inclusion and employability?<br> 6. Best tools for citizen science reporting and interaction with researchers?<br> 7. Best platform for managing citizen science’s data collection?<br> 8. What are the existing types of platforms used by citizen scientists and their experiences with<br> them?<br> 9. Challenges in the management of collected data?<br> 10. Online support - requirements and experiences of citizen scientists? Summary of findings are:<br> A. Participation in citizen science projects provides further learning opportunities for inquiring<br> minds, with the activities extending the learning experience. As an informal learning<br> experience, citizen science is notable for involving many of the procedures of formal science,<br> including gathering data, testing hypotheses, and modeling outcomes. Through engagement<br> with professional scientists, citizen scientists gain valuable access to opportunity to learn and<br> to generate new knowledge.<br> B. Volunteers participate in citizen science projects for many reasons, such as a willingness and<br> a desire to contribute to science, learn science, and for fun. Studies showed that volunteers&amp;#39;<br> motivation to participate included a number of factors such as values, altruism and concern<br> for others, understanding, social, career, ego protective, escape from negative feelings, ego<br> enhancement, personal growth and self-esteem. CSI-COP referred to various sources of information: journal articles, webpages, official reports,<br> books, book chapters, professional blogs, conference proceedings, doctoral theses, and other sources<br> of reliable information. The vast majority of the sources are journal articles (just under 56%).<br> Citizen science activity is well communicated through webpages and blogs (aggregate number of CSI-<br> COP D2.1 source, 23.48%). Figure 1 illustrates a map of the spread of these sources. A massive<br> concentration of citizen science activities exist in USA, Germany, UK, Australia and a few other<br> countries. CSI-COP D2.1 full report of ‘citizen science best practices’, with detailed answers to the project’s<br> research questions, please download from:<br> 1. CSI-COP website ‘Project Results’ page here: https://csi-cop.eu/projects/<br> 2. Pure portal, Coventry University from here: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/projects/cs-<br> research-report-public-report-on-current-methods-in-cs-engagem