By James Riley and Will Mason-Wilkes.
In the realm of citizen science, where public participation meets scientific inquiry, a complex landscape emerges. While citizen science projects hold the promise of enhancing democratic governance and engagement with science, not all initiatives that resemble citizen science adhere to these democratic ideals. In the digital age, citizens can find themselves unwittingly contributing to technoscientific knowledge production, a phenomenon that we termed 'Dark Citizen Science.'
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James Riley is a mixed-methods researcher with interests in science communication, science and society, and science and belief. He has a background in public engagement research and practice, with a particular focus on innovative modes of science–society interaction.
Will Mason-Wilkes is a Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholar interested in media and popular culture representations of science and technology and the interactions and intersections between science and technology, media, belief, citizens and society. He has authored and co-authored several journal articles and chapters in edited books in the fields of STS, science communication and science and belief, and is a co-author of The Face-to-Face Principle: Science, Trust, Democracy and the Internet (Cardiff University Press).