Paper Info
Title
Peer-Producing a Common Knowledge Resource for Personal Science
Abstract
ABSTRACT Personal science, the practice of using empirical methods to explore personal questions, has potential to advance discovery in clinical and public health. Yet, this branch of grassroots citizen science experiences important entry barriers: People tend to start their projects from scratch, and have no structured way of accessing community knowledge. In order to accumulate knowledge, similar communities in other domains have successfully made use of peer production technologies, a form of decentralized creation relying on self-organizing communities known from Wikipedia or open source software. To date, literature on implementing peer production approaches in citizen science is rare, and the particularities of personal science, notably the lack of an epistemic need to collaborate, impose barriers to using off-the-shelf approaches. In order to fill this gap, this dissertation is devoted to exploring peer production as a means to create a collective knowledge resource for the personal science community. Specifically, I investigate 1) how citizen science projects implement peer production characteristics by creating a working model from literature and applying it to case studies; and 2) how to enable the peer production of knowledge in the personal science community by engaging in a participatory design approach with the community. In doing so, this work contributes to further the understanding of deepening participation in citizen science, to harness collective intelligence and empower communities to address undone research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3500868.3561403
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Katharina Kloppenborg100.34