The Traces of Participation: An Investigation into the Fate of Collectively Produced Knowledge
📢 New Chapter Published! “The Traces of Participation: An Investigation into the Fate of Collectively Produced Knowledge” (✍️ with Mathilde Garnier ) 👉 Our latest ECODOC paper, just released as part of the volume Global Public Goods Communication: Mapping Actors, Policies, and Narratives (edited by Sónia Pedro Sebastião and Anne-Marie Cotton). 📚 Pages 173-192 📖 In this chapter, we explore the long-term impact of citizen science projects on knowledge production, focusing on the creation and sustainability of knowledge commons. The paper examines how participatory science projects generate and disseminate knowledge, particularly in relation to open access, preservation and editorialisation. A methodological grid is introduced to analyse these outputs as “traces,” utilising concepts such as hints, remains and memory. 👉The findings reveal that while a portion of the knowledge produced is accessible to the public, a significant amount remains restricted or disappears over time due to i...
