Exploring Citizen Science

ResourcesThe COESO website: https://coeso.hypotheses.org/The VERA platform: https://vera.operas-eu.org/Credits Author and host: Alexander Damiano RicciSound design by Jeremy Bocquet.Main soundtrack by Thomas Kusberg.Artwork by Paolo Grasso and the Watermelon collective. Production assistant: Claudia Torrisi. Desk research: Eva Perl.Special collaborators:Alessia Smaniotto, Project coordinator at COESO.Kelly Rose Achenbach, the Head of communications at COESO. This podcast is part of a Bulle Media - Europod production.

Alexander introduces himself and explains why his name is on the podcast: he shares the widespread criticism of academia and scientists through the "ivory tower" metaphor, to which he can relate to based on previous experiences in significant research projects. He argues about how the topic is relevant, sharing news items from political speeches and rhetoric, i.e. anti-elitism and "anti-scientism". Therefore, he outlines the critical mission of COESO as well as starts asking questions about the latter: what is citizen science? And why does it matter today in our societies? Can it have an impact on the way we understand our world?ResourcesThe COESO website: https://coeso.hypotheses.org/The VERA platform: https://vera.operas-eu.org/Credits Author and host: Alexander Damiano RicciSound design by Jeremy Bocquet.Main soundtrack by Thomas Kusberg.Artwork by Paolo Grasso and the Watermelon collective. Production assistant: Claudia Torrisi. Desk research: Eva Perl.Special collaborators:Alessia Smaniotto, Project coordinator at COESO.Kelly Rose Achenbach, the Head of communications at COESO. This podcast is part of a Bulle Media - Europod production.

Puzzled by the relevance of citizen science, Alexander calls Alessia Smaniotto - research project manager of COESO. They talk about Alessia’s job and, more generally, about Philosophy of science. Therefore citizen science and COESO. Alessia answers the questions the first episode ends with.ResourcesThe COESO website: https://coeso.hypotheses.org/The VERA platform: https://vera.operas-eu.org/Credits Author and host: Alexander Damiano RicciSound design by Jeremy Bocquet.Main soundtrack by Thomas Kusberg.Artwork by Paolo Grasso and the Watermelon collective. Production assistant: Claudia Torrisi. Desk research: Eva Perl.Special collaborators:Alessia Smaniotto, Project coordinator at COESO.Kelly Rose Achenbach, the Head of communications at COESO. This podcast is part of a Bulle Media - Europod production.

After having better understood what citizen science is and why it matters in theory, Alexander continues his chat with people from COESO to understand how the project is structured and what its aims are. He talks to Kelly Achenbach, Head of communications at COESO and Alessia Smaniotto.ResourcesThe COESO website: https://coeso.hypotheses.org/The VERA platform: https://vera.operas-eu.org/Credits Author and host: Alexander Damiano RicciSound design by Jeremy Bocquet.Main soundtrack by Thomas Kusberg.Artwork by Paolo Grasso and the Watermelon collective. Production assistant: Claudia Torrisi. Desk research: Eva Perl.Special collaborators:Alessia Smaniotto, Project coordinator at COESO.Kelly Rose Achenbach, the Head of communications at COESO. This podcast is part of a Bulle Media - Europod production.

The first conversations collected by Alexander's colleagues on the overall logic of COESO's pilot 1 - "Mass tourism's impact on urban communities" - left him wonder how citizens perceived the project. In this part 2 of the Lisbon chapter, citizens who took part in citizen science activities share their views on tourism and citizen science practices. Was the pilot a success story?ResourcesThe COESO website: https://coeso.hypotheses.org/Sao José - A transmedia ethnography of tourism in Lisbon: https://saojose.huma-num.fr/The VERA platform: https://vera.operas-eu.org/Credits Author and host: Alexander Damiano RicciSound design by Jeremy Bocquet.Main soundtrack by Thomas Kusberg.Artwork by Paolo Grasso and the Watermelon collective. Production assistant: Claudia Torrisi. Desk research: Eva Perl.Special collaborators: Alessia Smaniotto, Project coordinator at COESO.Kelly Rose Achenbach, the Head of communications at COESO. This podcast is part of a Bulle Media - Europod production.

After the "Lisbon experience", Alexander goes on to talk to researchers and project managers of other pilot projects of COESO. The interviews he runs reveal the wide scope citizen-science can achieve.ResourcesThe COESO website: https://coeso.hypotheses.org/The VERA platform: https://vera.operas-eu.org/Credits Author and host: Alexander Damiano RicciSound design by Jeremy Bocquet.Main soundtrack by Thomas Kusberg.Artwork by Paolo Grasso and the Watermelon collective. Production assistant: Claudia Torrisi. Desk research: Eva Perl.Special collaborators: Alessia Smaniotto, Project coordinator at COESO.Kelly Rose Achenbach, the Head of communications at COESO. This podcast is part of a Bulle Media - Europod production.

After having explored an array of citizen science projects in the field of humanities and social sciences, Alexander wonders what will stay after COESO. So he goes on the trails of VERA: an online platform with the aim of enabling a collaborative build-up of citizen science in and with social sciences and the humanities projects. VERA was build in the context of COESO and should embody the project's long-term legacy.ResourcesThe COESO website: https://coeso.hypotheses.org/The VERA platform: https://vera.operas-eu.org/Credits Author and host: Alexander Damiano RicciSound design by Jeremy Bocquet.Main soundtrack by Thomas Kusberg.Artwork by Paolo Grasso and the Watermelon collective. Production assistant: Claudia Torrisi. Desk research: Eva Perl.Special collaborators: Alessia Smaniotto, Project coordinator at COESO.Kelly Rose Achenbach, the Head of communications at COESO. This podcast is part of a Bulle Media - Europod production.

In the previous episodes of Exploring Citizen Science, Alexander analysed what citizen science is from a theoretical stand-point. Also, he looked at projects on the ground. Eventually, he tried to understand the long-term legacy COESO could bear for the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). But as the first series of Exploring Citizen Science is coming closer to its end, he now wonders about the reasons why all of this - COESO and the focus on citizen science in SSH - is happening right now. And, most importantly, who is behind it. In this episode, Alexander uncovers the investment strategy of the European Commission into citizen science.ResourcesThe COESO website: https://coeso.hypotheses.org/The VERA platform: https://vera.operas-eu.org/Credits Author and host: Alexander Damiano RicciSound design by Jeremy Bocquet.Main soundtrack by Thomas Kusberg.Artwork by Paolo Grasso and the Watermelon collective. Production assistant: Claudia Torrisi. Desk research: Eva Perl.Special collaborators: Alessia Smaniotto, Project coordinator at COESO.Kelly Rose Achenbach, the Head of communications at COESO. This podcast is part of a Bulle Media - Europod production.