Invading the Ivory Tower: How to Define and Perform Civic
Science | MIT Center for Civic Media  Invading the Ivory Tower:
How to Define and Perform Civic Science  My project changed
several times over. Initially, I planned to combine my science
background with the class curriculum and my ostensible status as
a journalist to write a news series on civic science projects.
However, the more I researched this subject, the more I realized
that I needed to back up quite a bit before I could attempt such
an undertaking.  First, a little background. Many modern policy
issues explicitly involve science, but we increasingly find that
debate focusing on the facts of the science itself, rather than
finding policy solutions to our science-related problems. This
state is what some call the ‘knowledge war’ – a stark battle
between scientists, whose community tends to be somewhat removed
from general public; and the rest of the population, which has a
uneven connection to and understanding of the scientific
process. And with