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Web 2.0: the Impact of Bottom- Up Research Innovation Eric T. Meyer and Lucy Power Oxford Internet Institute Oxford e-Social Science Project Slide 2 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) Slide 3 Top down versus bottom up Source: Meyer & Dutton 2008 Slide 4 Source: Dutton & Meyer 2008 Slide 5 Slide 6 Science Blogging Slide 7 Scienceblogs.comPostgenomicResearchBlogging Slide 8 Online tools for research...include blogs, wikis and open notebooks. Slide 9 e-Research in the Life Sciences What impact are these online tools having on the research practices of the life scientists who use them? Status & Rewards Scientific Roles Collaboration Openness Formal & Informal Communications Gatekeepers Public & media engagement with science Slide 10 Journal of Visualized Experiments Slide 11 JOVE Characteristics Video Articles on JOVE, Issue 1-24 Length of VideosAuthorsViews (v.1-15) *Views (v.16-24) N266 17294 Total 57 hours, 3 mins, 8 secs 738 instances of 505 individual authors287500565458 Mean12.42.6616726015 Median11.2214655104 Range2.4-61.61-7170-69471109-26340 s.d.6.71.399084032 * Views as of month 16 Slide 12 JOVE Views Slide 13 JOVE Institutions - North America Slide 14 JOVE Institutions - Global Slide 15 JOVE Topics Slide 16 Credit where credit is due? Views v. citations to JOVE Slide 17 Slide 18 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? Slide 19 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 amplication of DNA with a thermostable DNA polymerase. Science 239, 487491. Slide 20 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) Slide 21 Questions? Eric T. Meyer Research Fellow eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer Lucy Power DPhil Student lucy.power@oii.ox.ac.uk http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/power/ oxford internet institute university of oxford