web 2.0: the impact of bottom-up research innovation

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?

Journal of Visualized Experiments

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

eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer

Lucy PowerDPhil Student

lucy.power@oii.ox.ac.uk http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/power/

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