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Understanding drivers, barriers and information sources for public participation in marine citizen science
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-18, 19:03 authored by Martin, VY, Christidis, L, Lloyd, DJ, Gretta PeclGretta PeclInterviews were conducted with 110 marine users to elicit their salient beliefs about recording marine species in a citizen science project. The results showed that many interviewees believe participation would increase knowledge (either scientific, the community’s, or their own). While almost half of the interviewees saw no negative outcomes, a small number expressed concerns about targeting of marine species by others, or restrictions on public access to marine sites. Most of the people surveyed (n = 106) emphasised the importance of well-designed technological interfaces to assist their data collection, without which they would be unlikely to engage in the project.
History
Publication title
Journal of Science CommunicationVolume
15Article number
A02Number
A02Pagination
1-19ISSN
1824-2049Department/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)Place of publication
ItalyRights statement
Copyright 2016 The Authors. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Repository Status
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