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Going Beyond Hooked Participants: The Nibble-and-Drop Framework for Classifying Citizen Science Participation

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Fischer, Heather, Cho, Holly, and Storksdieck, Martin

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Many citizen science (CS) programs aim to grow and sustain a pool of enthusiastic participants who consistently contribute their efforts to a specific scientific endeavor. Consequently, much research has explored CS participants’ motivations and their relationship to participant recruitment and retention. However, much of this research has focused on actively...

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Boundaries Crossed and Boundaries Made: The Productive Tension Between Learning and Influence in Transformative Networks

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Risien, Julie and Goldstein, Bruce Evan

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We present an in-depth case study of a learning network that aims to transform infrastructure and practice across the research enterprise to advance societal impacts. The theory of social morphogenesis guides our processual qualitative analysis of the network. We describe how different types of boundary work, both building and navigating...

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