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Florian CharvolinKeywords
sociology of scienceornithology
statistics
citizenship
sociology of social movements
ornithologie
sociologie des sciences
statistique
citoyenneté
sociologie des mouvements sociaux
Environmental sciences
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Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
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DOAJ:Environmental Sciences
DOAJ:Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Le projet américain Feederwatch a pour but de compter les oiseaux aux mangeoires des particuliers de novembre à avril de chaque année depuis 1988. Ce programme s’appuie sur l’outil statistique pour dégager des tendances sur plusieurs années de l’évolution des populations et de leurs aires de distribution, outil nécessité par l’envergure de l’effort de recherche qui concerne chaque année près de 16 000 profanes. C’est un cas de vulgarisation scientifique réussie, avec une participation des profanes dans un projet scientifique authentique. Cet article décrit et discute les mécanismes de codage et de traitement statistiques qui assurent à chaque étape l’alignement entre scientifiques et profanes, dans ce que le Laboratoire d’Ornithologie de Cornell, organisateur du projet, appelle une initiative de « science citoyenne ».<br>Feederwatch program is a project dedicated to counting birds at feeders in the backyard of participants from November to April, since 1988. This program uses statistical means to calculate trends in the evolution of bird populations and areas of distribution, in order to cope, each year, with the huge cover of the program (North American continent) and consequently the huge number of lay people involved (16 000 in 2003). This case documents a successful program in « public understanding of science » oriented toward real science. This paper describes and discuss the various mechanisms aligning scientists and lay people, at each stage of the process of data collecting and processing, in what the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology calls an example of « citizen science ».Date
2004-06-01Type
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