Citizen social science and citizen data? Methodological and ethical challenges for social research

Current Sociology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 374-392

  Purdam, Kingsley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen; crowd source; emancipatory social science; observation; volunteer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898984658     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392114527997     Document Type: Article

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