TRACES II: a Scientist Perspective

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mp4

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Contributed date

August 29, 2019 - 11:38pm

Critical Commentary

Can citizen science be considered actual science? 
At first, this question was quickly discarded by my postgraduate research study group as irrelevant. The topic, however, has constantly emerged during my fieldwork and interviews.

I documented the answer to this question by Carlos, the Director of one of the citizen science programs in Mexico. His response was very enlightening about the usefulness for environmental knowledge of having thousand, millions, of volunteers monitoring biodiversity. Also, it highlights the wide gaps that still exist in our knowledge of nature. Gaps, that citizen science can potentially help with.

Source

This video was taken during my field work.

Language

Spanish

Cite as

Arturo Vallejo, "TRACES II: a Scientist Perspective", contributed by Arturo Vallejo, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 24 October 2020, accessed 24 December 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/traces-ii-scientist-perspective