Deliverable 3.7 Citizen Science as a communication tool in the Post-Factual Era. Deliverable report of project H2020 NEWSERA (grant agreement No 873125).

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.