Web 2.0: the Impact of BottomUp Research Innovation
Eric T. Meyer and Lucy Power
Oxford 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
Status & Rewards
Public & media
engagement
with science
Gatekeepers
Formal &
Informal
Communications
Scientific Roles
Collaboration
Openness
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
N
266
57 hours,
Total
3 mins, 8 secs
Mean
12.4
Median
11.2
Range
2.4-61.6
s.d.
6.7
* Views as of month 16
Authors
266
Views (v.1-15) *
172
Views (v.16-24)
94
738 instances of 505
individual authors
2.66
2
1-7
1.39
287500
1672
1465
170-6947
908
565458
6015
5104
1109-26340
4032
Length of Video Articles, JOVE (n=266)
120
Number of Articles
100
80
60
40
20
0
>30
20-30
15-20
10-15
Time in Minutes
5-10
<5
JOVE Views
5000
Views per month of 100 most recent articles, 2009 and 2008
4500
Views per month (Issue 16-24)
Views per month (Issue 6-15)
4000
3500
Views
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
Articles
JOVE Institutions - North America
JOVE Institutions - Global
JOVE Topics
Credit where credit is due?
Views v. citations to JOVE
30000
Overall Views per Article
n=277, Issue 1-24
25000
Views
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
Credit where credit is due?
Downloads v. citations to GAIN data
Citations OR links to Histpop or other digitized resources
Citations to blogs and wikis?
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. 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