{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zooniverse/Panoptes-Front-End/issues/354","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zooniverse/Panoptes-Front-End/issues/354/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zooniverse/Panoptes-Front-End/issues/354/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zooniverse/Panoptes-Front-End/issues/354/events","html_url":"https://github.com/zooniverse/Panoptes-Front-End/issues/354","id":77695620,"number":354,"title":"The term \"citizen science\" on Zooniverse","user":{"login":"DarrenMcRoy","id":8987864,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8987864?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy","html_url":"https://github.com/DarrenMcRoy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":8,"created_at":"2015-05-18T15:19:59Z","updated_at":"2015-05-19T21:17:58Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I think we need to have a discussion about the degree, if any, to which we wish to continue to refer to ourselves as a \"citizen science\" portal as we're developing the new Zooniverse home page.\r\n\r\nI understand that we are expanding into the humanities and beyond, and we don't want to sound exclusionary, but there are complications with jettisoning \"citizen science\" as a term altogether. There's that our administering body is called the Citizen Science Alliance, for one. If you Google \"Zooniverse,\" the second result is Wikipedia calling us a \"citizen science project\" as the very title of the page (and the third is the CSA). And there's the fact that we don't really have an alternative term (\"citizen research?\"); anything that we try to replace it with will involve tracking fresh snow. That or we sort of have to \"write around\" the term, which is doable, but clunky.\r\n\r\nPlus, \"citizen science\" as a brand has a lot of heft right now, doesn't it? It seems to be a major growth area with ever-increasing visibility. Removing ourselves completely from that term strikes me as potentially divorcing ourselves from the overall rise of citizen science that seems to be going on right now, and sacrificing a bit of the identity that we've built so far.\r\n\r\nSo, personally, I would be in favor of trying to keep the term around in some way. Maybe something like \"citizen science and beyond;\" I don't know. It's a thorny problem. \"Citizen science and research,\" even, although that's a bit cumbersome.\r\n\r\nHowever, I'm certainly willing to defer on this, especially if there are better ideas. Have others thought about this more? What's our current line on this? @whyte @mrniaboc @chrislintott @chrissnyder @vrooje \r\n\r\n(EDIT: This also affects if we refer to \"scientists,\" \"scientists and other researchers,\" or just \"researchers,\" or some other term, when talking about project teams. I'm less attached to \"scientists\" as a term than I am to \"citizen science,\" personally, although I do believe \"you get to be a scientist!\" has more appeal than \"you get to be a researcher!\", if only because of the slight romanticized concept of the \"scientist\" in the popular imagination.)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zooniverse/Panoptes-Front-End/issues/comments/103669541","html_url":"https://github.com/zooniverse/Panoptes-Front-End/issues/354#issuecomment-103669541","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zooniverse/Panoptes-Front-End/issues/354","id":103669541,"user":{"login":"DarrenMcRoy","id":8987864,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8987864?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy","html_url":"https://github.com/DarrenMcRoy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DarrenMcRoy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-19T21:17:58Z","updated_at":"2015-05-19T21:17:58Z","body":"I've removed all references to \"citizen science\" from all current Zooniverse Home content."}}