Obywatel współbadacz, czyli o pożytkach z dzielenia laboratorium – renegocjowanie umowy pomiędzy naukowcami a amatorami
Citizen as the Fellow Researcher, or the Benefits of Sharing the Lab: Renegotiating Contract between Scientists and Lay People

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the phenomenon of lay people engagement in the processes of knowledge creation and their impact on the boundary-work between science and non-science. Basing on the examples of lay people involvement on the three areas: environmental science, medicine and syntethetic biology it is argued that in some cases, in accordance with the model of post-normal science, engaged public is able to modify the protocols of scientific investigation. Thus, analysed cases show that participants from beyond the academic system are capable to bring the meaningful contribution into the processes of knowledge creation. Wider citizens’ involvement in this process is considered as a radical form of democratic participation in the technoscience. To put the light on political consequences of this ongoing transformation, Bruno Latour’s notions “work of translation” and “work of purification” are employed.

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