Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Soc Stud Sci. 2018 Aug;48(4):564-588. doi: 10.1177/0306312718778806. Epub 2018 May 23.
In the past decade, some areas of science have begun turning to masses of online volunteers through open calls for generating and classifying very large sets of data. The purpose of this study is to investigate the epistemic culture of a large-scale online citizen science project, the Galaxy Zoo, that turns to volunteers for the classification of images of galaxies. For this task, we chose to apply the concepts of programs and antiprograms to examine the 'essential tensions' that arise in relation to the mobilizing values of a citizen science project and the epistemic subjects and cultures that are enacted by its volunteers. Our premise is that these tensions reveal central features of the epistemic subjects and distributed cognition of epistemic cultures in these large-scale citizen science projects.
在过去的十年中，一些科学领域开始通过公开呼吁，让大量在线志愿者参与进来，以生成和分类非常庞大的数据集合。本研究旨在调查一个大规模在线公民科学项目——星系动物园的认识文化，该项目依靠志愿者对星系图像进行分类。为此，我们选择应用程序和反程序的概念来检验在公民科学项目的动员价值和其志愿者所实施的认识主体和文化之间产生的“基本张力”。我们的前提是，这些张力揭示了这些大规模公民科学项目中的认识主体和认识文化的分布式认知的核心特征。
