Citizen Science in the Digital Age
Subtitle: Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780817319434
Subjects: Science; Mass media; Technology, social aspects; Digital media
Description: James Wynn’s timely investigation highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies employ. Many of these endeavors, such as the widely used SETI@home project, simply draw on the processing power of participants’ home computers; others, like the protein-folding game FoldIt, ask users to take a more active role in solving scientific problems. In Citizen Science in the Digital Age: Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement, Wynn analyzes the discourse that enables these scientific ventures, as well as the difficulties that arise in communication between scientists and lay people and the potential for misuse of publicly gathered data.