Citizens’ voices are key in scientific research with social impact

Scientific evidence:

1. Pulido Rodriguez, C. M., Ovseiko, P., Font Palomar, M., Kumpulainen, K., & Ramis, M. (2021). Capturing Emerging Realities in Citizen Engagement in Science in Social Media: A Social Media Analytics Protocol for the Allinteract Study. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20, 16094069211050163. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211050163

2. Flecha, R., & Soler, M. (2014). Communicative Methodology: Successful actions and dialogic democracy. Current Sociology. La Sociologie Contemporaine, 62(2), 232–242. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392113515141

3. Gómez González, A. (2021). Science With and for Society Through Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry: QI, 27(1), 10–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800419863006

Comment:

Previous studies have shown the importance of citizens’ voices in co-creating scientific knowledge (Flecha & Soler, 2014). The more voices, the richer the arguments, and therefore the better the knowledge generated. Moreover, integrating citizens’ voices during the entire research process also have a transformative impact on society (Gómez González, 2021). Recently, researchers presented a novel method for Social Media Analytics with the aim to include the diversity and plurality of citizens’ voices and perspectives. This method for SMA includes both top-down strategies and bottom-up strategies and allows researchers to gather the voices of different social actors in social media on the issues which are most relevant to them (Pulido Rodriguez et al., 2021)

Citizens’ voices are key in scientific research with social impact

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