Crowdsourced science: sociotechnical epistemology in the e-research paradigm

David Watson, Luciano Floridi — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 19:00:01 +0000

Abstract: Recent years have seen a surge in online collaboration between experts and amateurs on scientific research. In this article, we analyse the epistemological implications of these crowdsourced projects, with a focus on Zooniverse, the world’s largest citizen science web portal. We use quantitative methods to evaluate the platform’s success in producing large volumes of...

philosophy of science – Citizen Science Today

Crowdsourced science: sociotechnical epistemology in the e-research paradigm