Descripción del proyecto
Atención sobre las interacciones entre los grupos de ciencia ciudadana comunitaria y las instituciones formales
La ciencia ciudadana comunitaria basada en los datos puede ayudar a arrojar luz sobre los cambios en la gobernanza de los problemas mundiales. El proyecto GRACE, financiado con fondos europeos, investigará cómo los aficionados a la ciencia comunitaria de Asia oriental, Europa occidental y África central utilizan los nuevos dispositivos de datos y las nuevas tecnologías para superar las amenazas medioambientales, y cómo responden las instituciones formales a las prácticas de datos medioambientales impulsadas por ciudadanos. El proyecto, que tendrá en cuenta las preocupaciones de las partes interesadas, pretende abordar los retos y peligros que surgen de estos procesos, a fin de desarrollar métodos de gestión de datos medioambientales mutuamente sensibles.
Objetivo
This research project uses data-led grassroots citizen science as a lens through which to consider actual and pending shifts in the governance of pressing global issues. Combining methods in Science and Technology Studies and Policy Analysis, it discerns how grassroots citizen scientists in three world regions (East Asia, Western Europe, Central Africa) mobilize new data devices and technologies to tackle environmental threats emanating from public concerns over environmental radiation, air pollution, and climate change. Recognizing that these complex, interdependent problems require a multi-stakeholder approach, it analyzes and compares how grassroots citizen data practices are received by local and global rules-based democratic and market institutions, including public authorities, research communities, businesses, mass media, and educational organizations. With concerned stakeholders, it addresses the tensions and pitfalls that emerge in these processes, as citizens create and value environmental data distinct from official institutional approaches. Its findings serve to incite collective learning about these tensions with the aim of facilitating mutually responsive environmental data governance. The project builds on the fellow’s research on citizen science in post-Fukushima Japan and his expertise in public engagement with new and emerging technologies. It will be carried out in close collaboration with Professor of Sociology Jennifer Gabrys (University of Cambridge), who is a leading expert in environmental sociology, digital technologies, and citizen participation.
Ámbito científico
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- social sciencessociologyanthropologyscience and technology studies
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
CB2 1TN Cambridge
Reino Unido