"Rather than making a contribution to scientific research, these citizen organizations require actionable data (Morita et al. 2013, Morris-Suzuki, 2014) by exploiting technology and science to understand the impact of technology gone awry, as illustrated by this tagline of a Tokyo-based radiation monitoring group: “To measure, to know, to live” (Hakaru, shiru, kurasu; Brochure published by citizen radiation measuring lab based in Tokyo).
The data being collected, then, are issue-driven (Marres, 2005) and serve a public goal, namely that of the community the organization identifies with" (p. 5)
