Expertise-centric citizen science games (ECCSGs) can be powerful tools for crowdsourcing
scientific knowledge production. However, to be effective these games must train their …

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of big team science (BTS), endeavours where
a comparatively large number of researchers pool their intellectual and/or material …

Crowdfunding is a novel mechanism for garnering monetary support from the online public,
and increasingly it is being used to fund science. This article reports a small-scale study …

Given the importance of the issue of scientific objectivity in our democratic societies and the
significant development of citizen science, it is crucial to investigate how citizen science may …

This article explores the intersection of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) and Actor-Network
Theory (ANT). These two traditions are particularly important in the Canadian research …

Video games are more than just entertainment. In fact, video games like Minecraft develop
“Four Cs” skills in young gamers. These 21st century skills include critical thinking, creativity …

We examine the rhetorical activity employed within software development communities in
code texts. For technical communicators, the rhetoricity of code is crucial for the …

If all games are understood as ultimately driven by the operation of their mechanics, then
that operation cannot fully exist without the interaction of a player, and by extension the …

This chapter reports on a study of communication related to the emerging scientific practice
of citizen science, a practice with multiple definitions, but which, in simplest terms, denotes" …

In the expertise-centric citizen science game (ECCSG) model of scientific research,
researchers develop a game which enables citizen scientists to gain a complementary …