Community Psychology in Global Perspective

Citizens’ sustainable engagement in Citizen Social Science (CSS) projects: The experience of the YOUCOUNT project

Abstract

Albert, A., Balázs, B., Butkevičienė, E., Mayer, K., & Perelló, J. (2021). Citizen Social Science: New and Established Approaches to Participation in Social Research. In K. Vohland, A. Land-Zandstra, L. Ceccaroni, R. Lemmens, J. Perelló, M. Ponti, R. Samson, & K. Wagenknecht (eds.), The Science of Citizen Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_7

Bonney, R. (1996). Citizen science: A lab tradition. Living Bird, 15(4), 7-15.

Bonney, R., Shirk, J.L., Phillips, T.B., Wiggins, A., Ballard, H.L., Miller-Rushing, A.J., & Parrish, J. K. (2014). Next steps for citizen science. Science, 343(6178), 1436-1437. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1251554

Braun, V. & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative research in psychology, 3(2), 77-101. https://doi.org/10.1191/1478088706qp063oa

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Harvard University Press.

Butkevičienė, E., Pučėtaitė, R., Budrytė, P., Vaičiūnienė, J., Norvoll, R., Canto, P., Lorenz U., Juricek, S., Freiling, I., Matthes, J., Jørgensen, M.S., Pataki, G., Czeglédi, A., Gatti, F., & Procentese, F. (2021). Report on the conceptual, innovative, evaluation and ethical framework for youth citizen social science. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5810259

Cammarota, J., & Fine, M. (Eds.). (2008). Revolutionizing education: Youth participatory action research in motion. Taylor & Francis.

Cox, J., Oh, E. Y., Simmons, B., Graham, G., Greenhill, A., Lintott, C., Masters, K., & Woodcock, J. (2018). Doing good online: The changing relationships between motivations, activity, and retention among online volunteers. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47(5), 1031-1056. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764018783066

Crain, R., Cooper, C., & Dickinson, J.L. (2014). Citizen science: a tool for integrating studies of human and natural systems. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 39, 641-665. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-030713-154609

de Vries, M.J., Land-Zandstra, A.M., & Smeets, I. (2019). Citizen scientists’ preferences for communication of scientific output: a literature review. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 4(1).

Deci, E.L., & Ryan, R.M. (2012). Self-determination theory. In P.A.M. Van Lange, E.T. Higgins, & A.W. Kruglanski (Eds.), Handbook of theories of social psychology (pp. 416-436). Sage Publications.

Dietz, A.S., & Porter, C. (2012). Making sense of social value creation: Three organizational case studies. Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 14(3), 23–43.

Dixon, J., Cakal, H., Khan, W., Osmany, M., Majumdar, S., & Hassan, M. (2017). Contact, political solidarity and collective action: An Indian case study of relations between historically disadvantaged communities. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 27, 83–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2296

Donati, P. (2013). The added value of social relations. Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 5(1), 19–35. https://doi.org/10.14658/PUPJ-IJSE-2013-1-2

Donati, P. (2014). Social capital and the added value of social relations. International Review of Sociology 24(2), 291-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2014.933028

Göbel, C., Mauermeister, S., & Henke, J. (2022). Citizen Social Science in Germany—cooperation beyond invited and uninvited participation. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 9(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01198-1

Guba, E.G. (1981). Criteria for assessing the trustworthiness of naturalistic inquiries. ECTJ, 29, 75–91. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02766777

Haklay, M.E. (2013). Citizen science and volunteered geographic information: Overview and typology of participation. Crowdsourcing geographic knowledge: Volunteered geographic information (VGI) in theory and practice, 105-122. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4587-2_7

Haklay, M.E. (2015). Citizen science and policy: a European perspective. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Hartshorne, J.K., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Pinker, S. (2018). A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers. Cognition, 177, 263-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.04.007

Hecker, S., Garbe, L., & Bonn, A. (2018). The European citizen science landscape–a snapshot. UCL Press.

Heiss, R., & Matthes, J. (2017). Citizen science in the social sciences: A call for more evidence. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 26(1), 22-26. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.26.1.7

Hyde, M., & Chavis, D. M. (2007). Sense of community and community building. In R. A. Cnaan, & C. Milofsky (Eds.), Handbook of community movements and local organizations, pp. 179–192. Springer.

Iacovides, I., Jennett, C., Cornish-Trestrail, C., & Cox, A.L. (2013). Do games attract or sustain engagement in citizen science? A study of volunteer motivations. CHI'13 extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems, 1101-1106. https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468553

Irwin, A. (1995). Citizen science: a study of people, expertise, and sustainable development. Routledge.

Juvonen, J., Lessard, L.M., Rastogi, R., Schacter, H.L., & Smith, D.S. (2019). Promoting social inclusion in educational settings: Challenges and opportunities. Educational Psychologist, 54(4), 250-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2019.1655645

Kanjo, E. (2010). Noisespy: A real-time mobile phone platform for urban noise monitoring and mapping. Mobile Networks and Applications, 15, 562-574. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-009-0217-y

Kullenberg, C., & Kasperowski, D. (2016) What is citizen science? A scientometric meta-analysis. PloS one, 11(1), e0147152. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147152

Kythreotis, A.P., Mantyka-Pringle, C., Mercer, T.G., Whitmarsh, L.E., Corner, A., Paavola, J., Chambers, C., Miller, B.A., & Castree, N. (2019). Citizen social science for more integrative and effective climate action: A science-policy perspective. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00010

Levontin, L., Gilad, Z., Shuster, B., Chako, S., Land-Zandstra, A., Lavie-Alon, N., & Shwartz, A. (2022). Standardizing the Assessment of Citizen Scientists’ Motivations: A Motivational Goal-Based Approach. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.459

Lewin, K. (1951). Field theory in social science: selected theoretical papers. Harpers.

Littman, D.M. (2021). Third Places, Social Capital, and Sense of Community as Mechanisms of Adaptive Responding for Young People Who Experience Social Marginalization. American Journal of Community Psychology, 69(3-4), 436-450. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12531

Lotfian, M., Ingensand, J., & Brovelli, M.A. (2020). A framework for classifying participant motivation that considers the typology of citizen science projects. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9(12), 704. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9120704

Mačiulienė, M., Butkevičienė, E., Vaidelytė, E., & Balázs, B. (2021) Co-creating Social Change through Citizen Science: Systematic Literature Analysis. Filosofija. Sociologija, 32(2), 159-168.

Mannarini, T., Talò, C., D’Aprile, G., & Ingusci, E. (2018). A psychosocial measure of social added value in non-profit and voluntary organizations: Findings from a study in the south of Italy. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 29, 1315-1329. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-018-00061-9

March, G., & Olsen, J.P. (1989). Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics; Free Press.

Mody, R.N., Willis, K.S., & Kerstein, R. (2009). WiMo: location-based emotion tagging. MUM ’09: Proceedings of the 8th international Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1145/1658550.1658564

Moreno, N., Savage, S., Leal, A., Cornick, J., Turk, M., & Höllerer, T. (2015). Motivating crowds to volunteer neighborhood data. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 235–238). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2699015

Naqshbandi, K. Z., Jeon, Y. H., & Ahmadpour, N. (2023). Exploring Volunteer Motivation, Identity and Meaning-Making in Digital Science-Based Research Volunteering. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 39(20), 4090-4111. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2022.2109246

Nov, O., Arazy, O., & Anderson, D. (2011). Technology-mediated citizen science participation: A motivational model. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 5 (1), 249-256. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v5i1.14113

Nov, O., Arazy, O., & Anderson, D. (2014). Scientists@ Home: what drives the quantity and quality of online citizen science participation? PloS one 9(4), e90375. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090375

Omoto, A.M., & Snyder, M. (1995). Sustained helping without obligation: motivation, longevity of service, and perceived attitude change among AIDS volunteers. Journal of personality and social psychology, 68(4), 671-686. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.68.4.671

Pataki, G., Czeglédi, A., Ridley, J., Turda, M., Procentese, F., Gatti, F., Brattbakk, I., Landsverk Hagen, A., & Søgaard Jørgensen, M. (2023). Meta-report on the typology of drivers and model for social inclusion. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10230577

Peters, D., Calvo, R. A., & Ryan, R. M. (2018). Designing for motivation, engagement and wellbeing in digital experience. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 797. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00797

Preist, C., Massung, E., & Coyle, D. (2014). Competing or aiming to be average? Normification as a means of engaging digital volunteers. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 1222–1233). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531615

Prilleltensky, I. (2005). Promoting well-being: Time for a paradigm shift in health and human services. Scandinavian Journal of public health, 33(66_suppl), 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/14034950510033381

Prilleltensky, I., Dietz, S., Prilleltensky, O., Myers, N.D., Rubenstein, C.L., Jin, Y., & McMahon, A. (2015). Assessing multidimensional well‐being: Development and validation of the I COPPE scale. Journal of Community Psychology, 43(2), 199-226. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.21674

Procentese, F., & Gatti, F. (2024). Citizen Social Science for Social inclusion. In Borgström, D., Canto-Farachala, P., Hagen, A. L., Norvoll, R., Rådmark, L. & Lorenzen, S.B. (Eds.). Handbook of Youth Citizen Social Science. Working with Young People and the Local Community for Social Change. CERN, Zenodo, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10566411

Ridley, J., Brattbakk, I., Pataki, G, Czegledi, A., Procentese, F., Gatti, F., & Norvoll. R. (2022). Methodological Framework for Data Collection and Analysis. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6303118

Ridley, J., Turda, M., Brattbakk, I., & Norvoll, R. (2023). Meta Report of the YouCount Experiences with Case Study Implementation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10417001

Sadiković, S., Branovački, B., Oljača, M., Mitrović, D., Pajić, D., & Smederevac, S. (2020). Daily monitoring of emotional responses to the coronavirus pandemic in Serbia: A citizen science approach. Frontiers in psychology, 11, 2133. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02133

Tauginienė, L., Butkevičienė, E., Vohland, K., Heinisch, B., Daskolia, M., Suškevičs, M., Portela, M., Balázs, B., & Prūse, B. (2020). Citizen science in the social sciences and humanities: The power of interdisciplinarity. Palgrave Communications, 6(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0471-y

Tiago, P., Gouveia, M.J., Capinha, C., Santos-Reis, M., & Pereira, H.M. (2017). The influence of motivational factors on the frequency of participation in citizen science activities. Nature Conservation, 18, 61-78. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.18.13429

Uhlaner, C.J. (1989). “Relational goods” and participation: Incorporating sociability into a theory of rational action. Public choice, 62(3), 253-285. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02337745

Van Zomermen, M., Postmes, T., & Spears, R. (2008). Toward an integrative social identity model of collective action: a quantitative research synthesis of three socio-psychological perspectives. Psychological Bulletin, 134(4), 504-535. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.134.4.504

Viswanathan, M., Ammerman, A., Eng, E., Garlehner, G., Lohr, K. N., Griffith, D., Rhodes, S., Samuel-Hodge, C., Maty, S., Lux, L., Webb, L., Sutton, S. F., Swinson, T., Jackman, A., & Whitener, L. (2004). Community-Based Participatory Research: Assessing the Evidence. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Report N. 99 (Prepared by RTI–University of North Carolina Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-02-0016).

Von Bertalanffy, L. (1968). General systems theory as integrating factor in contemporary science. Akten des XIV. Internationalen Kongresses für Philosophie 2, 335-340. https://doi.org/10.5840/wcp1419682120

Youyou, W., Stillwell, D., Schwartz, H.A., & Kosinski, M. (2017). Birds of a feather do flock together: Behavior-based personality-assessment method reveals personality similarity among couples and friends. Psychological science, 28(3), 276-284. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616678

Wiesenfeld, E. (1996). The concept of “we”: A community social psychology myth? Journal of Community Psychology, 24(4), 337-346. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1520-6629(199610)24:43.0.CO;2-R