Comments on: Thoughts on CyberScience conference http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/09/06/cyberscience-conference/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:11:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Suw Charman-Anderson http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/09/06/cyberscience-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-4742 Suw Charman-Anderson Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:42:55 +0000 http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/?p=1051#comment-4742 I couldn't agree more! I was quite disappointed that there wasn't more discussion of the social aspects of citizen science. There's a huge opportunity here for citizen scientists to work with the social media community who have, after all, been doing this sort of work for quite some time now! I'd very much like to see the two communities come together to tackle this problem, as I believe both sides would find it a valuable experience. I wrote in more depth about this on my own blog: http://charman-anderson.com/2010/09/06/the-social-side-of-citizen-science/ I couldn’t agree more! I was quite disappointed that there wasn’t more discussion of the social aspects of citizen science. There’s a huge opportunity here for citizen scientists to work with the social media community who have, after all, been doing this sort of work for quite some time now! I’d very much like to see the two communities come together to tackle this problem, as I believe both sides would find it a valuable experience.

I wrote in more depth about this on my own blog:

http://charman-anderson.com/2010/09/06/the-social-side-of-citizen-science/

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