Web 2.0: the Impact of Bottom-Up Research Innovation
Eric T. Meyer and Lucy PowerOxford Internet Institute
Oxford e-Social Science Project
Technology in science, social science and the humanities
Coders, Hackers and Social Actors
Innovation in the development of technology (Rogers ) Innovation in the repurposing of technologies developed by others (Schroeder)
Innovation in research using the tools of others (Lamb)
Top down versus bottom up
Source: Meyer & Dutton 2008
Source: Dutton & Meyer 2008
Source: Dutton & Meyer 2008
Science Blogging
Science Blogging
Scienceblogs.com Postgenomic ResearchBlogging
Online tools for research...include blogs, wikis and open notebooks.
e-Research in the Life Sciences
What impact are these online tools having on the research practices of the life scientists who use them?
JOVE Characteristics
Video Articles on JOVE, Issue 1-24 Length of Videos Authors Views (v.1-15) * Views (v.16-24)N 266 266 172 94
Total57 hours,
3 mins, 8 secs738 instances of 505
individual authors 287500 565458Mean 12.4 2.66 1672 6015Median 11.2 2 1465 5104Range 2.4-61.6 1-7 170-6947 1109-26340s.d. 6.7 1.39 908 4032* Views as of month 16
JOVE Views
JOVE Institutions - North America
JOVE Institutions - Global
JOVE Topics
Credit where credit is due?
Views v. citations to JOVE
Downloads v. citations to GAIN data
Citations OR links to Histpop or other digitized resources
Citations to blogs and wikis?
Credit where credit is due?
Citations of PCR Method
Saiki, R. K., Gelfand, D. H., Stoffel, S., Scharf, S. J., Higuchi, R., Horn, G. T., Mullis, K. B. & Erlich, H. A. (1988). Primer-directed enzymatic amplification of DNA with a thermostable DNA polymerase. Science 239, 487–491.
Technology in science, social science and the humanities
Coders, Hackers and Social Actors
Innovation in the development of technology (Rogers ) Innovation in the repurposing of technologies developed by others (Schroeder)
Innovation in research using the tools of others (Lamb)
Questions?
Eric T. MeyerResearch Fellow
[email protected] http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer
Lucy PowerDPhil Student
[email protected] http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/power/
oxford internet instituteuniversity of oxford
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