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Nostalgiefilter aus, Forschungsbrille auf: Wenn Fans zu Forschenden werden, sind Grenzüberschreitungen inklusive. Citizen Science ermöglicht diesen Seiten- und Perspektivwechsel, der sowohl in der Wissenschaft als auch in der Bürger:innenschaft zu einem produktiven Wissens- und Erfahrungsaustausch führt. Unter dem Titel #KultOrtDUS arbeiten Medien- und Kulturwissenschaftler der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf gemeinsam mit Bürger:innen an dem Aufbau eines Archivs der Medienkulturgeschichte Düsseldorfs. Düsseldorf als Zentrum von Punkmusik, New Wave und Aktionskunst fungiert dabei als urbanen Forschungsfeld, auf dem die Disziplin der "Citizen Science" wissenschaftspraktisch ausprobiert wird. Die Publikation fasst erste Ergebnisse dieses Forschungsprojekts zusammen, indem sie sich auf die Spurensuche zwischen Fans, Prosumer:innen, Bürger:innen und Urban Legends begibt und Perspektiven der Citizen Science- an die Fanforschung anknüpft. Den wissenschaftlichen Meta-Diskurs begleitet ein illustrativ-experimenteller Ansatz, der das kreative Potenzial aus der Forschung im Umfeld von Citizen Science sichtbar macht. When fans become researchers, crossing boundaries is part of it. Citizen science makes it possible to change sides and perspectives, which can lead to productive exchanges of knowledge and experience in scholarship and society. This volume discusses the possibilities and limits of citizen science in media and cultural studies, and is the first to bring together the two disciplines of citizen science and fan research.

Citizen science. --- fan research. --- oral history. --- urban legends.

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Debates over science, facts, and values are pivotal in the struggle for environmental justice. For decades, environmental justice activists have campaigned against the misuse of science, engaging in community-led citizen science that champions knowledge produced by and for ordinary people living with environmental risks and hazards. However, post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Toxic truths examines the relationship between environmental justice and citizen science, focusing on enduring issues and new challenges in a post-truth age.The volume features a range of community-based participatory environmental health and justice research projects that seek to establish different ways of sensing, witnessing, and interpreting environmental injustice. From struggles in American hog country and contaminated indigenous communities, to local environmental controversies in Spain and China, this volume examines political strategies for seeking environmental justice. With international, interdisciplinary contributions from distinguished authors, emerging scholars and community activists, Toxic truths is essential reading for those seeking to understand the cutting edge of citizen science and activism around the world.

environmental justice --- citizen science --- toxic truths --- pollution --- contamination --- environmental injustice --- toxics --- expertise --- toxic geography --- post-truth --- activism

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"Immeasurable Weather demonstrates how the quantitative data produced by American weather scientists as well as citizen scientists has reinforced the project of settler colonialism and altered the living environment in the process. Sara J. Grossman argues that white settlement of the land and domination of its people proceeded by breaking up the complex networks of relationality that bind together the human and non-human worlds. Erasing the relational models of ecology that form the basis of Indigenous environmental knowledge, the emergent discipline of data science-born specifically from the desire to quantify weather-instead reproduced the natural world and natural phenomena as a set of isolated objects to be measured, owned, and exploited. Immeasurable Weather explores the relationship between climate data and state power in key moments in the history of American weather science: the public data-gathering practices of settler farmers and teachers in the 19th century that would later form the basis of the United States Weather Bureau; the centrality of women to data collection and computation, particularly through the Smithsonian Meteorological Project; the automation of weather data in the Dust Bowl of the early 20th century; and, finally, the role of meteorological satellites in data science's formal integration into American "military-meteorological nation-state structures.""--

Meteorology --- Numerical weather forecasting --- Weather forecasting --- Climatic changes --- History. --- Citizen participation. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- United States --- Climate --- Smithsonian Meteorological Project. --- United States Weather Bureau. --- citizen science.

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The book features contributions that report original research in the theoretical, technological, and social aspects of geoinformation methods, as applied to supporting citizen science. Specifically, the book focuses on the technological aspects of the field and their application toward the recruitment of volunteers and the collection, management, and analysis of geotagged information to support volunteer involvement in scientific projects. Internationally renowned research groups share research in three areas: First, the key methods of geoinformatics within citizen science initiatives to support scientists in discovering new knowledge in specific application domains or in performing relevant activities, such as reliable geodata filtering, management, analysis, synthesis, sharing, and visualization; second, the critical aspects of citizen science initiatives that call for emerging or novel approaches of geoinformatics to acquire and handle geoinformation; and third, novel geoinformatics research that could serve in support of citizen science.

education --- geoinformatics --- GIS education --- classification accuracy --- latent class analysis --- location-based social networks (LBSNs) --- geoinformation in citizen science --- toponym --- recruitment --- community mapping --- user preference --- land administration systems --- positional accuracy --- sample size --- spatial proximity --- crowdsourced geoinformation collection and analysis --- air quality estimation --- digital cartography --- crowdsourcing --- VGI in citizen science --- crowdsourced data collection --- social relationship effect --- analysis --- GIS --- data quality --- opportunistic data --- volunteer --- volunteered geographic information (VGI) --- VGI --- data fusion --- algorithms --- OpenStreetMap --- volunteer geographic information --- citizen science --- ensemble --- spatial bias --- projects survey --- Alaska --- marine mammal --- brown marmorated stink bug --- social media --- Environmental niche modeling --- data analysis --- Pentatomidae --- QGIS --- MaxEnt --- spatial accuracy --- clustering --- air pollution --- data import --- sky images

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This volume critically evaluates the present state of research in the domain of inferences in text processing and indicates new areas of research.The book is structured around the following theoretical aspects: - The representational aspect is concerned with the cognitive structure produced by the processed text, e.g. the social, spatial, and motor characteristics of world knowledge. - The procedural aspect investigates the time relationships on forming inferences, e.g. the point of time at which referential relations are constructed. - The contextual a

Cognitive psychology --- Psycholinguistics --- Discourse analysis --- Comprehension --- Inference --- Analyse du discours --- Compréhension --- Inférence (Logique) --- Psychological aspects --- Aspect psychologique --- Cognition --- Decision Making --- Comprehension. --- Inference. --- Ampliative induction --- Induction, Ampliative --- Inference (Logic) --- Reasoning --- Understanding --- Apperception --- Learning, Psychology of --- Memory --- Psychological aspects. --- Cognitive Function --- Cognitions --- Cognitive Functions --- Function, Cognitive --- Functions, Cognitive --- Credit Assignment --- Assignment, Credit --- Assignments, Credit --- Credit Assignments --- Citizen Science --- Problem Solving --- Discourse analysis - Psychological aspects