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A review by logarithms
Citizen Science: How Ordinary People are Changing the Face of Discovery by Caren Cooper
4.0
Good book! Very interesting and informative. Some parts were....not so much. But overall a very good read! Last few chapters especially were SO INTERESTING. i have gone down a research rabbithole
Some of the ideas were a bit conflicting - but it's a big field so I can see how not everything would line up (extending science to the public means SO MANY more conflicting views and approaches)
Big data....hmm big topic. This topic is very controversial for me, especially from privacy side (ESPECIALLY in relation to the chapters about medical/health monitoring). There was a line like "the good of the research outweighs the privacy breaches" but - does it? dude. Privacy breaches in health are serious - it can affect livelihood, access to treatment, insurance... Also even if data is anonymised - serious attackers can piece data together by collecting known data points, narrowing down the target, etc. Privacy is so serious in big data and I can't say I'm comfortable with having all my metadata collected every single day, to be sold to whatever company wants to sell me things. Big data is happening too fast for ethics and laws to catch up and....its kinda concerning. Though the impacts for science are clearly GOOD the personal impacts should still be considered....(although the data being discussed in this book is collected with volunteer informed consent, so?) (idk man I just got into information privacy and security and now im deep in research also paranoia)
Did not like: brony chapter.....i just.......cant do this
nitpick: pokego is augmented reality not virtual (the difference is important TO ME)
PTN (pointer to notes - this is my new official acronym wow): URGENT coptic book. there are...a lot of notes
i would like to thank being stuck in a car for 7 hours for helping me finish this book (i am an unmotivated reader even when i like the book what can i say u_u)
Some of the ideas were a bit conflicting - but it's a big field so I can see how not everything would line up (extending science to the public means SO MANY more conflicting views and approaches)
Big data....hmm big topic. This topic is very controversial for me, especially from privacy side (ESPECIALLY in relation to the chapters about medical/health monitoring). There was a line like "the good of the research outweighs the privacy breaches" but - does it? dude. Privacy breaches in health are serious - it can affect livelihood, access to treatment, insurance... Also even if data is anonymised - serious attackers can piece data together by collecting known data points, narrowing down the target, etc. Privacy is so serious in big data and I can't say I'm comfortable with having all my metadata collected every single day, to be sold to whatever company wants to sell me things. Big data is happening too fast for ethics and laws to catch up and....its kinda concerning. Though the impacts for science are clearly GOOD the personal impacts should still be considered....(although the data being discussed in this book is collected with volunteer informed consent, so?) (idk man I just got into information privacy and security and now im deep in research also paranoia)
Did not like: brony chapter.....i just.......cant do this
nitpick: pokego is augmented reality not virtual (the difference is important TO ME)
PTN (pointer to notes - this is my new official acronym wow): URGENT coptic book. there are...a lot of notes
i would like to thank being stuck in a car for 7 hours for helping me finish this book (i am an unmotivated reader even when i like the book what can i say u_u)