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Amateur Knowledge: Public Art and Citizen Science
- Configurations
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 19, Number 1, Winter 2011
- pp. 101-115
- 10.1353/con.2011.0009
- Article
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The science studies literatures on amateurs and citizen science have remained largely unconnected despite similarities between the two categories. The essay connects amateur knowledge and citizen science through examples from public art. Through an analysis of the use of the term "amateur" by contemporary artists working to engage the public in critiques of science, connections in the ideals of democratic knowledge making by amateurs and citizen scientists are further explored.