Introduction: Distributed Approaches to Making Science

摘要: This chapter explores how developments in information and communication technologies, the development of Internet, changes data production storage (the so-called ‘data deluge’) have led to emergence online citizen science – projects that are carried out exclusively through where participants process or analyse provided by scientists. Online allow globally distributed access scientific research resulted some important collaborations between specialists non-specialists, yet significant gaps exists our understanding who participates, they participate why participate. These questions addressed this monograph concludes with a description approach.