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Weather-it Missions: A Social Network Analysis Perspective of an Online Citizen Inquiry Community

verfasst von : Maria Aristeidou, Eileen Scanlon, Mike Sharples

Erschienen in: Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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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 insight into the behaviour of people in such public engagement projects.

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Metadaten
Titel
Weather-it Missions: A Social Network Analysis Perspective of an Online Citizen Inquiry Community
verfasst von
Maria Aristeidou
Eileen Scanlon
Mike Sharples
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24258-3_1