2004
Volume 28, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 1385-1535
  • E-ISSN: 1875-7324

Abstract

Abstract

Developments in science and society show that there is a change from individual analyses and truths to more collective processes. Citizen science and participatory research play an increasing role in these processes. The cases of Open Online Research and Panel show how the translation from science to citizens could occur. It shows that citizen science is not only an instrument through which society contributes to science, but that this participatory interpretation tool itself can also make a meaningful contribution to society.

The shift from individual to collective interpretation requires new, innovative forms of participation in both social science and society. In this article we discuss the current criteria for the quality of interpretations and apply them to participatory interpretation. We embrace the notion that different perspectives and interpretations are of higher importance than classical ideas on science. Criteria of quality are in this case not about quantity and not even always about the quality or thoroughness of an interpretation, but about the variety of interpretations.

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