Deliverable 3.7 Citizen Science as a communication tool in the Post-Factual Era. Deliverable report of project H2020 NEWSERA (grant agreement No 873125).
Creators
- 1. Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT)
- 2. Science for Change (SfC)
- 3. Formicablu
Contributors
Others:
- 1. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)
- 2. Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP)
Description
This deliverable aims at initiating a reflection on how citizen science (CS) can
become a science communication tool with potential to tackle misinformation. For
this we envisioned to open the discussion with the CS projects enrolled in
NEWSERA as pilots, as well as, bring both research and practice experts to enrich
the debate and open a new direction in this matter of timely global concern. The
reflection process will have two main objectives: i) better understand the nature of
misinformation; ii) identify the present and future role of citizen science in this
important subject of ethics related to communication. Two workshops were
organized and tested with the collaboration of the NEWSERA pilots and invited
experts. The content and results are hereby described.
Citizens involved in CS projects become important data collectors and producers
and can play a key role when it comes to science information and education. In
this deliverable we analyze the way that CS projects can contribute to tackling one
of the main problems we face nowadays in science communication:
misinformation. After a comprehensive reflection on the matter, in a co-creation
process with the NEWSERA pilots, partners and other stakeholders such as H2020
SwafS-19 sister projects (for instance, TRESCA and ENJOI) and communication
experts, we provide as a main output a set of take-away ideas on how to use data
and information in CS projects to help tackling misinformation.
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