Participant motivation to engage in a citizen science campaign: the case of the TESS network
Open Access
- 11 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Sissa Medialab Srl in Journal of Science Communication
- Vol. 20 (06), A03
- https://doi.org/10.22323/2.20060203
Abstract
Citizen science involves laymen in some steps of a scientific experiment: citizens are volunteers devoting their free time to citizen science projects. Therefore it is important to investigate the factors influencing their motivation and engagement. In this paper, we present our study to investigate the motivation factors of the TESS photometer network participants, anKeywords
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