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Does Citizen Science Bring “Power to the People”? Evaluating a Remote Mapping Project to Identify Best Practices for Positive Impact on Volunteers Cover

Does Citizen Science Bring “Power to the People”? Evaluating a Remote Mapping Project to Identify Best Practices for Positive Impact on Volunteers

Open Access
|Feb 2023

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Figure 1

Citizen science annotation interface (left) alongside the context menu multiple choice questions for each home annotation (right).

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Figure 2

Beta form responses to the question “Did you find the additional information on other pages useful?” (n = 49). Note that most beta testers did not read the information pages beyond what was available on the homepage and the annotation interface.

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Figure 3

Number of posts per Power to the People “Talk” discussion board throughout the project, with moderator and researcher posts excluded.

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Figure 4

An example of a Notes board post where citizen scientists assisted each other with images and discussed features. Usernames have been removed.

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Figure 5

Genders of Power to the People evaluation survey respondents (n = 142). Note the higher proportion of women than men.

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Figure 6

Ages of Power to the People evaluation survey respondents (n = 142).

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Figure 7

Evaluation responses for contributor experience on Power to the People (n = 142). Note the overwhelming positivity, with 87% choosing either “Good” or “Excellent.”

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Figure 8

Motivations reported by the evaluation survey respondents who selected any of the predetermined options (n = 141), for women (n = 84) and for men (n = 50).

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Figure 9

Issues faced by citizen scientists in annotating homes on Power to the People. Individual home annotations are visualized as yellow boxes.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.534 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
Language: English
Submitted on: Jun 15, 2022
Accepted on: Oct 20, 2022
Published on: Feb 6, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2023 Alycia Leonard, Scot Wheeler, Malcolm McCulloch, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.