Issue 01, march 2010. Special issue
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editorial Users and peers. From citizen science to P2P science -
22/03/2010
This introduction presents the essays belonging to the JCOM special issue on User-led and peer-to-peer science. It also draws a first map of the main ...
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article Changing the meaning of peer-to-peer? Exploring online comment spaces as sites of negotiated expertise -
22/02/2010
This study examines the nature of peer-to-peer interactions in public online comment spaces. From a theoretical perspective of boundary-work and ...
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article Science blogs and public engagement with science: practices, challenges, and opportunities -
26/02/2010
Digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) are novelty tools that can be used to facilitate broader involvement of citizens in ...
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article The public production and sharing of medical information. An Australian perspective -
02/03/2010
There is a wealth of medical information now available to the public through various sources that are not necessarily controlled by medical ...
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article Social network science: pedagogy, dialogue, deliberation -
09/03/2010
The online world constitutes an ever-expanding store and incubator for scientific information. It is also a social space where forms of ...
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article Open science: policy implications for the evolving phenomenon of user-led scientific innovation -
22/03/2010
From contributions of astronomy data and DNA sequences to disease treatment research, scientific activity by non-scientists is a real and emergent ...
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article Googling your genes: personal genomics and the discourse of citizen bioscience in the network age -
22/03/2010
In this essay, I argue that the rise of personal genomics is technologically, economically, and most importantly, discursively tied to the rise of network ...
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comment Special issue on peer-to-peer and user-led science: invited comments -
22/03/2010
In this commentary, we collected three essays from authors coming from different perspectives. They analyse the problem of power, participation and ...
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review The unsustainable Makers -
22/03/2010
C. Doctorow, The Makers, Tor books (2009)