Weather-it Missions: A Social Network Analysis Perspective of an Online Citizen Inquiry Community

作者: Maria Aristeidou , Eileen Scanlon , Mike Sharples

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24258-3_1

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摘要: Citizen inquiry is an innovative informal science learning approach, which engages members of the general public in scientific investigations sparked by their personal experience everyday science, and to other can contribute. This paper aims describe network interactions contributions Weather-it, online Inquiry community accommodated nQuire-it platform, involves people creating maintaining own weather missions (investigations). The interaction patterns within Weather-it are mainly explored through social analysis missions. results indicate quiet active community, splitting into sub-communities, contribution data collection methods preferences. These provide insight behaviour such engagement projects.

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