Contributions in this thematic issue focus explicitly on citizens and their online engagement with European politics. For social media research the Union, remain an understudied actor type comparison political elites or news organizations. The reason, we argue, is four key challenges facing Union: legal, ethical, technical, cultural. To introduce issue, outline these illustrate how they relate ...

Recent literature has highlighted how citizen science approaches can engage volunteers, expand scientific literacy, and accomplish targeted research objectives. However, there is limited information on specific recruitment, retention, engagement strategies enhance outcomes. To help fill this important gap, we detail the use of various to scientists in collection precipitation phase data (rain, ...

Trust, along with transparency, is an important indicator of a satisfactory relationship between a government and the public. Considering transparency as the key to trust in government, the purpose of this paper is to postulate a link between transparency and trust taking into account satisfaction as a psychological factor. This paper tries to find the answer of these questions: “Is there...

In this exploratory study we evaluated the engagement, performance and preferences of older adults who interacted with different citizen science tasks. Out 40 projects recently active on Zooniverse platform selected top ones to be represented by 8 diverse, yet standardized, microtasks, 2 in each category image, audio, text pattern recognition. Next, 33 performed these microtasks at home task ri...