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Data Wars During COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey: Regulatory Science, Trust, Risk, and Citizen Science

verfasst von : Ali O. Ilhan, Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu

Erschienen in: Citizen-Centered Public Policy Making in Turkey

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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There is a growing body of research in the democratization of science, participatory governance, and citizen science within the extant Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature. The COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge not only in the medical sense but also for public policy due to limited data availability and deliberation process in policy making. This study focuses on the role of data activists in citizen-centered public policy making during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. We examine two cases to argue that there was a data vacuum and data activists got extremely creative with the available data to satisfy the public’s hunger for information and to facilitate the deliberation process through Twitter. In each case, data activists challenged the official discourse and provided their data analysis in a clear and concise manner that could be understood by the public easily. Twitter’s growing importance in the democratization of science became obvious, as it was the medium where most interaction happened.

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Because of limited space, we only included a few examples here.

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Case numbers are correlated with testing capacity and implementation, and Turkey’s response on both fronts was less than stellar.

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This journal is also known to have some predatory publishing practices.

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Titel: Data Wars During COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey: Regulatory Science, Trust, Risk, and Citizen Science
verfasst von: Ali O. Ilhan
Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Citizen-Centered Public Policy Making in Turkey
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-35363-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-35364-2

Copyright-Jahr: 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35364-2_16

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