Open Science, Public Engagement and the University
Abstract
Contemporary debates on "open science" mostly focus on the pub- lic accessibility of the products of scientific and academic work. In contrast, this paper presents arguments for "opening" the ongoing work of science. That is, this paper is an invitation to rethink the university with an eye toward engaging the public in the dynamic, conceptual and representational work involved in creating scientific knowledge. To this end, we posit that public computing spaces, a genre of open- ended, public learning environment where visitors interact with open source computing platforms to directly access, modify and create complex and authentic scientific work, can serve as a possible model of "open science" in the university.
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@article{arxiv.1702.04855,
title = {Open Science, Public Engagement and the University},
author = {Pratim Sengupta and Marie-Claire Shanahan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.04855},
year = {2017}
}
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This is a white paper commissioned by the NSF and NIH funded conference: http: //www.ncsa.illinois.edu/Conferences/ImagineU/