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4S Conference 2019 New Orleans Presentation Slides and submitted Abstract to Open Panel - 87. Knowing Democracy The contribution examined different designs of Citizen Science initiatives and showed that democratic values have been mostly absent in Citizen Science classifications so far. We argue that, in order to get a better understanding of Citizen Science, the normative structure of proclaimed democratic knowledge practices should be explored using a pragmatist approach: Showing networks of power and patterns of representation that shape the politics of Citizen Science. ; This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) under grant no. 16DII111 ("Deutsches Internet-Institut").

Recently, a larger public has started to critically discuss scientific knowledge and its role in political decision making. In this discussion, scientific and civic epistemologies are put into connection with each other. Just as post-democratic theory argues in relation to political decisions, the production of scientific knowledge is criticized as a non-inclusive process, too. The Citizen Science movement tries to resolve this deficit by involving citizens into research. In this paper, we introduce agency as an analytical category into the discussion, focussing on how participants are represented in Citizen Science. We highlight the interdependencies between the degree of agency granted to the participants in Citizen Science projects and the degree of their representation in knowledge production. ; This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) under grant no. 16DII111 ("Deutsches Internet-Institut").