Making sense of citizen science: Stories as a hermeneutic resource

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 31, Issue , 2017, Pages 41-49

  Ottinger, Gwen ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Citizen science; Environmental justice; Epistemic injustice; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023740761     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.06.014     Document Type: Article

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