Citizen Science in Spain. Social Impact of Science-Society Collaboration

Benjamín Tejerina Artículo en Actas de Congreso 2019 CEIC, Grupo Consolidado

Benjamín Tejerina, Cristina Miranda de Almeida e Ignacia Perugorría (eds.). Sharing Society. The Impact of Collaborative Collective Actions in the Transformation of Contemporary Societies

It is now 40 years since Paul Feyerabend published Science in a free society (1978) where he denounced the surprising prestige of science in the West and its incompatibility with a democratic society. Since then, scientific experiences based on the participation in various forms of numerous citizens have continued to increase both in Europe and in the rest of the world (Haklay 2012; Irwin 1995; Irwin and Michael 2003; Lewenstein 2004). This communication has three objectives: 1) to identify the different forms of participation between citizens and scientists (Lafuente 2013; EU 2014); 2) to try to respond to the characteristics, means, purposes, social impacts and resistances of this form of collaborative collective action between citizens and professional scientists; and 3) to present the current debates on the role of participation of citizens in scientific projects in the scientific field.

Tejerina, B. (2019). Citizen Science in Spain. Social Impact of Science-Society Collaboration. En B. Tejerina, C. Miranda de Almeida e I. Perugorría, Sharing Society. The Impact of Collaborative Collective Actions in the Transformation of Contemporary Societies (pp. 478-488). Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea