RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIES OF CITIZEN SCIENCE

Abstract

The paper examines the theoretical and practical principles of applying citizen science research technologies as a modern tool for interaction between different research areas, sectors of science and society. Key research technologies and their principles that ensure the implementation of citizen science research projects are analyzed. Among them, the emphasis is on technologies of self-observation, digital tracking, biotechnological self-control, and personal self-design. Particular attention is paid to the issue of plasticity as a basis for citizen science research, it allows us to consider research technologies as flexible entities in themselves, which are capable of changing, constantly adapting to new conditions and requirements of the time. Plasticity is important for citizen science, since citizen researchers today can perceive the organism, the environment and biological processes as an open possibility. Our somatic, mental and biological properties are now a field of research and improvement. They are open to experiments, and they cannot be imagined as an unchanging given. In other words, plasticity opens up many new opportunities for citizen science. The role of citizen research technologies is substantiated as developing unpredictable directions that were even difficult to imagine until recently. This applies to biotechnology, cellular and molecular research, dual-purpose technologies (in particular, military). The results of the study can be used to develop models of modern research and implement research projects in the system of informal science, ecology and environmental protection, monitoring biodiversity, air and water quality, medicine and biology, development of medicines, collection of data on population health, tracking epidemics and military operations