Citizen Science in the Digital Age by James Wynn - 9780817359522

Citizen Science in the Digital AgeRhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement\nAuthor(s): James Wynn\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817359522, 978-0817359522\nSynopsis\nA discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen sciencescientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection.\n\n James Wynn's timely investigation highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies employ. Many of these endeavors, such as the widely used SETI@home project, simply draw on the processing power of participants' home computers; others, like the protein-folding game FoldIt, ask users to take a more active role in solving scientific problems. In Citizen Science in the Digital Age: Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement, Wynn analyzes the discourse that enables these scientific ventures, as well as the difficu.