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Título
Technological Ecosystems in Citizen Science: A Framework to Involve Children and Young People
Autor(es)
Materia
citizen science
open science
digital society
gender stereotypes
decision making
young people
technological ecosystem
Clasificación UNESCO
6307.07 Tecnología y Cambio Social
1203.17 Informática
Fecha de publicación
2020
Citación
García-Holgado, A., García-Peñalvo, F. J., & Butler, P. (2020). Technological Ecosystems in Citizen Science: A Framework to Involve Children and Young People. Sustainability, 12(5), 1863. doi:10.3390/su12051863
Resumen
[EN]Young people are distinguished as a social group with the capacity to drive new behaviours
and understandings in today’s society. However, most young people consider that people in charge
of decision-making processes are not addressing their concerns. The WYRED project proposes
a framework for citizen science based on a technological ecosystem to promote the transfer of
perspectives, ideas, and knowledge among young people and decision-makers on issues related
to the digital society. The work goal is to analyse the model proposed through a citizen science
case study centred in identifying the ideas and opinions of children and young people between 7
and 30 years old, concerning gender stereotypes on the Internet. A total of 69 children and young
people from Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom have interacted for two
weeks in a private space guaranteed by the defined ecosystem. The results of the analysis of the
interaction between young people and facilitators (with di erent profiles: educators, researchers and
decision-makers) demonstrate that the use of technological ecosystems to sustain the development of
citizen science projects allows for the improvement of knowledge transfer processes between children
and young people with stakeholders, as well as the analysis of these processes.
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DOI
10.3390/su12051863
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