While admirable and potentially can contribute much to our knowledge, the citizen science initiative depends upon the trustworthiness and sincerity of the participants. Unfortunately in these times in so many places, one cannot count on that. Which raises the question(s) why now and why here or there. A good citizen science project would be to do a massive and in-depth survey of people's attitudes about science and how they have changed. Richard On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 7:19 AM Llewella Chapman (HIS - Visitor) < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Beginning the 2020/2021 series of the IAMHIST Blog, we start with the > first of a three-part series written by Anna-Luise Kiss regarding her > 'citizen studies' research project, 'The cinematic face of the city of > Potsdam': > http://iamhist.net/2020/09/citizen-science-try-again-fail-again-fail-better-part-1/ > > If anyone would like to contribute a piece to the IAMHIST Blog relating to > any aspect of media history, please do contact me. > > I hope that you are all well, > > Best wishes, > > Llewella > > > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF > Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > -- Richard Butsch Current book projects: *The Importance of the Social.* *Homo Faber: Visual Representations of Manual Labor and Laborers in Twentieth-Century America.* Author: *Screen Culture: A Global History *(Polity) http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745653242 <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745653242http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745653242> ; *The Citizen Audience *(Routledge) https://www.routledge.com/The-Citizen-Audience-Crowds-Publics-and-Individuals/Butsch/p/book/9780415977906*; *and *The Making of American Audiences *(Cambridge) https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/arts-theatre-culture/media-mass-communication/making-american-audiences-stage-television-17501990?format=PB Co-editor, with Sonia Livingstone *Meanings of Audiences* (Routledge) https://www.routledge.com/Meanings-of-Audiences-Comparative-Discourses/Butsch-Livingstone/p/book/9780415837309 Editor: *Media and Public Spheres* (Palgrave), https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230007215 *For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption* (Temple) http://tupress.temple.edu/book/3189 Professor Emeritus of Sociology, American Studies, and Film & Media Studies Rider University, Lawrenceville NJ 08550, USA ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite https://screensite.org/
