From citizen science to citizen action: analysing the potential for a digital platform to cultivate attachments to nature
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Yn: Journal of Science Communication, Cyfrol 18, Rhif 1, A07, 17.01.2019.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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T1 - From citizen science to citizen action: analysing the potential for a digital platform to cultivate attachments to nature
AU - Sharma, Nirwan
AU - Greaves, Sam
AU - Siddharthan, Advaith
AU - Anderson, Helen B.
AU - Robinson, Annie
AU - Colucci-Gray, Laura
AU - Wibowo, Agung T.
AU - Bostock, Helen
AU - Salisbury, Andrew
AU - Roberts, Stuart
AU - Slawson, David
AU - van der Wal, René
PY - 2019/1/17
Y1 - 2019/1/17
N2 - Identifying private gardens in the U.K. as key sites of environmentalengagement, we look at how a longer-term online citizen scienceprogramme facilitated the development of new and personal attachmentsof nature. These were visible through new or renewed interest inwildlife-friendly gardening practices and attitudinal shifts in a largeproportion of its participants. Qualitative and quantitative data, collectedvia interviews, focus groups, surveys and logging of user behaviours,revealed that cultivating a fascination with species identification was key toboth ‘helping nature’ and wider learning, with the programme creating aspace where scientific and non-scientific knowledge could co-exist andreinforce one another.
AB - Identifying private gardens in the U.K. as key sites of environmentalengagement, we look at how a longer-term online citizen scienceprogramme facilitated the development of new and personal attachmentsof nature. These were visible through new or renewed interest inwildlife-friendly gardening practices and attitudinal shifts in a largeproportion of its participants. Qualitative and quantitative data, collectedvia interviews, focus groups, surveys and logging of user behaviours,revealed that cultivating a fascination with species identification was key toboth ‘helping nature’ and wider learning, with the programme creating aspace where scientific and non-scientific knowledge could co-exist andreinforce one another.
KW - Citizen science
KW - Environmental communication
KW - Public understanding of science and technology
U2 - 10.22323/2.18010207
DO - 10.22323/2.18010207
M3 - Article
VL - 18
JO - Journal of Science Communication
JF - Journal of Science Communication
IS - 1
M1 - A07
ER -