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@article{Bautista-Puig2024b,

title = {How do Citizens Engage with Science. Challenges and Recommendations},

author = {Núria Bautista-Puig and Enrique Orduña-Malea},

url = {https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87884},

doi = {/10.3145/epi.2024.0601},

issn = {1699-2407},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-09-03},

urldate = {2025-01-03},

journal = {Profesional De La información},

volume = {33},

issue = {6},

abstract = {Citizen science (CS) has become a crucial form of public participation in science, helping to address global challenges and contribute to more democratic knowledge production. Despite its increasing presence (including literature reviews), uncertainties persist regarding the quality of data collected, the level of citizen participation, and ethical concerns. This editorial explores CS participation, aiming to provide a comprehensive analysis of engagement patterns, and challenges, and offering recommendations to enhance citizen involvement in scientific initiatives. A systematic review of existing literature indexed on Web of Science is conducted, following the PRISMA framework. The review covered 1,613 selected studies examining ‘participation’ across various scientific fields, identifying the methodologies used and the factors influencing engagement, such as benefits, challenges, and ethical concerns. The results reveal a growing trend in CS, particularly in the natural sciences, with citizen involvement mostly limited to data collection rather than higher-level engagement like analysis or decision-making. The study also highlights the underrepresentation of social sciences and the need for more interdisciplinary approaches. In conclusion, the article calls for increased interdisciplinarity, greater integration of citizens in decision-making processes, diversification of participatory methods, and context-specific strategies for participation. It emphasizes the importance of fostering public trust and awareness in science and proposes that these actions will improve the inclusivity and impact of citizen science initiatives.},

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@article{Bautista-Puig2024,

title = {Unraveling public perceptions of the Sustainable Development Goals for better policy implementation},

author = {Núria Bautista-Puig and María Barreiro-Gen and Gustė Statulevičiūtė and Vilius Stančiauskas and Gokhan Dikmener and Dina Akylbekova and Rodrigo Lozano},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723077446},

doi = {/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169114},

issn = {0048-9697},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-02-20},

journal = {Science of The Total Environment},

volume = {912},

pages = {169114},

abstract = {Public participation is crucial for policy-making and can contribute to strengthening democracies and decision-making. Public participation can help to address sustainability challenges and plays a key role in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the SDGs are policy concepts, there has been limited research conducted on how the public perceives the SDGs. Public participation in scientific research has been carried out through citizen science (CS). This paper analyzes the public's perception of the SDGs through CS and how the public can participate in their implementation. The paper uses the OSDG community platform, a citizen science platform with >2000 participants, to analyze public perception of the SDGs. A set of 40,062 excerpts of text (v2023-01-01), a topic modeling and agreement scores by using CorTexT Manager software, was analyzed. The results show that some SDGs, e.g. health (SDG3) or life below water (SDG14), have higher levels of agreement from the public, whilst for other SDGs the public disagree on their perception, (e.g. zero hunger). The paper shows that issues affecting citizens' daily lives (e.g. in People related goals) tend to have a higher level of agreement among volunteers, while economic issues and directives have greater discrepancies. The results provide an overview of the differences in public perception on the SDGs and their implementation. The misperceptions regarding the SDGs should be reduced to achieve a better implementation, improve public participation, and help policy-making processes.},

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@article{Xing2024,

title = {Diving into the divide: a systematic review of cognitive bias-based polarization on social media},

author = {Yunfei Xing and Justin Zuopeng Zhang and Veda C. Storey and Alex Koohang},

url = {https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JEIM-09-2023-0459/full/html},

doi = {/10.1108/JEIM-09-2023-0459},

issn = {1741-0398},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-24},

journal = {Journal of Enterprise Information Management},

abstract = {Purpose

The global prevalence of social media and its potential to cause polarization are highly debated and impactful. The previous literature often assumes that the ideological bias of any media outlet remains static and exogenous to the polarization process. By studying polarization as a whole from an ecosystem approach, the authors aim to identify policies and strategies that can help mitigate the adverse effects of polarization and promote healthier online discourse.



Design/methodology/approach

To investigate online polarization, the authors perform a systematic review and analysis of approximately 400 research articles to explore the connection between cognitive bias and polarization, examining both causal and correlational evidence. The authors extensively evaluate and integrate existing research related to the correlation between online polarization and crucial factors such as public engagement, selective exposure and political democracy. From doing so, the authors then develop a PolarSphere ecosystem that captures and illustrates the process of online polarization formation.



Findings

The authors' review uncovers a wide range of associations, including ideological cognition, bias, public participation, misinformation and miscommunication, political democracy, echo chambers and selective exposure, heterogeneity and trust. Although the impact of bias on social media polarization depends on specific environments and internal/external conditions, certain variables exhibit strong associations across multiple contexts. The authors use these observations as a basis from which to construct PolarSphere, an ecosystem of bias-based polarization on social media, to theorize the process of polarization formation.



Originality/value

Based on the PolarSphere ecosystem, the authors argue that it is crucial for governments and civil societies to maintain vigilance and invest in further research to gain a deep comprehension of how cognitive bias affects online polarization, which could lead to ways to eliminate polarization.},

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@article{Macq2020,

title = {From Deliberation to Production: Public Participation in Science and Technology Policies of the European Commission (1998–2019)},

author = {Hadrien Macq and Elise Tancoigne and Bruno Strasser},

url = {http://hdl.handle.net/2268/246902},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-020-09405-6},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-04-22},

urldate = {2020-04-22},

journal = {Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy},

abstract = {This article investigates how a discourse about the role and value of public participation in science, technology, and innovation emerged and evolved in the research policies of the European Commission. At the beginning of the twenty- first century, two main discourses have been successively institutionalized: the first focused on participation in policy-making, while the second aimed at participation in the production of knowledge and innovation. This paper distinguishes three main institutional phases: (i) a phase dedicated to public participation in the governance of science and technology (2000–2010); (ii) a reframing period of science and tech- nology policies by the Commission to integrate the growing emphasis on innova- tion (2010–2014); (iii) a period focusing on co-creation and citizen science as new ways to involve the public in science and technology (2014-today). Factors such as individual commitments of key policy actors, specific epistemic communities and institutional dynamics within the Commission played a crucial role in shaping the policies of participation. But broader factors are also essential to account for these changes. In this respect, the economic crisis of the late 2000s appears fundamental to understanding how the conception and promotion of public participation in the European science and technology policies have evolved over time. This paper thus offers new insights to the analysis of the political economy of public participation.},

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