Postdigital citizen research

Tolbert, S, Jopling, M, Hayes, S ORCID: 0000-0001-8633-0155 and Jandrić, P (2026) 'Postdigital citizen research.' In: Jandrić, P, ed. Encyclopedia of postdigital science and education. Springer, Cham. ISBN 9783031354694

Abstract

This entry examines postdigital citizen research using the figure of the postdigital citizen researcher. Postdigital citizen research involves both doing and reflecting—a practice of reflection-upon-action that draws from critical pedagogical traditions undergirding postdigital scholarship. Postdigital citizen researchers are much more than data providers for predetermined research questions; they are co-creators of knowledge who critically examine the research process itself. Postdigital citizen researchers occupy diverse and often contradictory possibilities in relation to knowledge production, technological systems, and institutional power. Postdigital citizen researchers are simultaneously empowered and exploited, insiders and outsiders, humans and machines, willing participant-researchers and unwitting data subjects. Understanding postdigital citizen research requires holding these tensions together, exploring them and interrogating them, rather than resolving them.

Item Type:	Book Chapter or Section
Note:	This is classed as a 'living reference work entry' by the publisher.
Keywords:	citizen science, postdigital, collective intelligence, activism, dialogue, postdigital citizen social science, postdigital citizen humanities, postdigital citizen research
Divisions:	School of Education
Date Deposited:	16 Mar 2026 11:55
Last Modified:	16 Mar 2026 11:55
URN:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/17637

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