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Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
(2015).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24258-3_1
Abstract
Citizen inquiry is an innovative informal science learning approach, which engages members of the general public in scientific investigations sparked by their personal experience of everyday science, and to which other members can contribute. This paper aims to describe the network of interactions and contributions of Weather-it, an online Citizen Inquiry community accommodated by the nQuire-it platform, which involves people in creating and maintaining their own weather missions (investigations). The interaction patterns within Weather-it are mainly explored through social network analysis of community members and missions. The results indicate the quiet and active members within the community, their splitting into sub-communities, and their contribution and data collection methods and preferences. These results provide in-sight into the behaviour of people in such public engagement projects.
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- citizen inquiry; engagement with science; online community; weather investigations; social interactions; social network analysis
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- Institute of Educational Technology (IET)
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