@article{766a801992e04a48846f4d96ade28609,
title = "Affordances and tensions in recording bird observations: how coordinators and volunteers perceive and experience citizen science in birding",
abstract = "Digital citizen science projects differ greatly in their goals and design. Tensions arise when coordinators' design choices and conceptions of citizen science conflict with users' motivations and expectations. In this paper, we use a combination of qualitative methods to gain new insights into the ways citizen science is understood and implemented digitally. This includes a study into the affordances of two citizen science portals for bird observations, and qualitative interviews with users and coordinators of the portals. This reveals tensions related to data sharing, community hierarchies, and communicated expectations. Awareness of these tensions can benefit the future design of online citizen science projects.",
keywords = "Citizen science, Public engagement with science and technology",
author = "Helen Verploegen and Wessel Ganzevoort and {van den Born}, Riyan",
note = "Funding Information: We want to express gratitude to the users and project coordinators for their time and effort in participating in the interviews for this study, and the experts who were open to discuss the characteristics on which sampling was based. We also want to thank Prof. Dr. Ruud Foppen and Albert de Jong for their valuable contribution to this project and their supervision during the first author 's research internship at Sovon. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The Author(s). All Rights Reserved.",
year = "2021",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.22323/2.20020210",
language = "English",
volume = "20",
pages = "1--19",
journal = "Journal of Science Communication",
issn = "1824-2049",
publisher = "Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)",
number = "2",
}