144636 20260217205548.0 doi 10.1177/14614456241255267 sideral 139339 ART-2024-139339 eng Pérez-Llantada, Carmen Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-4052-1321 Identity construction in digital communication for public engagement in science 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This article explores identity construction in citizen science web texts. Keyness and concordance analyses show that these texts reflect, construct and negotiate identity construction in various ways to ultimately support citizen participation in scientific processes. Scientists primarily construct a professional identity through self-representation markers (‘we’ pronouns). They present themselves as credible professionals, aligned with the socially established values and ideologies of the scientific community. In addition, they appear to create a collective identity to promote empathy and to encourage and maintain citizen engagement in scientific processes. However, processes of indexicality and relationality – that is positioning and dialogism – reveal that the construction of a professional identity is consistently made more relevant than a collective expert-crowd identity, thus exposing overt power asymmetries. Even when dialogue between experts and nonexperts is encouraged, all the monologic and dialogic interactions established by the hypertext structure of the project sites reflect power imbalances. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EUR/ERASMUS +/2020-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000086749 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 1.7 2024 COMMUNICATION 86 / 227 = 0.379 2024 Q2 T2 0.883 2024 Anthropology 2024 Q1 Communication 2024 Q1 Linguistics and Language 2024 Q1 Social Psychology 2024 Q2 3.0 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 27, 1 (2024), [18 pp.] Discourse stud. DISCOURSE STUDIES 1461-4456 601802 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/144636/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 2740024 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/144636/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:144636 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:39:21 ARTICLE