Who speaks for “citizen science” on Twitter? Which territory of citizen science have they made visible so far? This paper offers the first description of the community of users who dedicate their online social media identity to citizen science. It shows that Twitter users who identify with the term “citizen science” are mostly U.S. science professionals in environmental sciences, and rarely projects' participants. In contrast to the original concept of “citizen science”, defined as a direct relationship between scientists and lay participants, this paper makes visible a third category of individual actors, mostly women, who connect these lay participants and scientists: the “citizen science broker”.

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隐形经纪人：推特上的“公民科学”

谁在Twitter上代表“公民科学”？到目前为止，他们在哪个公民科学领域可见？本文首次介绍了将其在线社交媒体身份专用于公民科学的用户社区。它表明，使用“公民科学”一词来识别Twitter的用户主要是环境科学方面的美国科学专业人员，很少是项目的参与者。与“公民科学”的原始概念相反，“公民科学”被定义为科学家和非专业参与者之间的直接关系，本文使第三类个人参与者（主要是女性）与这些非专业参与者和科学家联系起来：“公民科学经纪人” ”。