Dr Eric T. Meyer

Eric Meyer has interests in e-Social Science, social informatics, information science, technologies in regular use, regular behaviour of scientists as they use technology, social aspects of science and technology, and digital photography.
Email: eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1865 287218
Profile
Eric Meyer comes to the OII to study the social implications of e-science and e-social science as part of the Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS) project. He brings an understanding of scientific collaboration from both sides: as a social scientist studying scientific behavior, and as a participant in the production of scientific knowledge. For ten years prior to joining OII, he was the national (USA) data manager and a researcher working within a large scientific collaboration spanning twelve universities studying the genetic causes of mental health disorders.
Meyer earned his PhD in Information Science from Indiana University in 2007. His dissertation examined how marine biologists who rely on photographic evidence to identify individual marine mammals have seen significant changes in their everyday work practices as they switched from film photography to digital photography. He has also written papers and presented at conferences on various aspects of digital photography from a social informatics perspective.
Eric Meyer can be found on SSRN, Flickr, Facebook, Slideshare, Academia.edu, and Twitter.
Research interests
e-Social Science, social informatics, information science, technologies in regular use, regular behaviour of scientists as they use technology, social aspects of science and technology, digital photography
Positions held at the OII
- DPhil Programme Director, September 2012 -
- Research Fellow, September 2007 -
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Research
Current projects
Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge
October 2012 - May 2014
The project will follow 'big data' from its public and private origins through open and closed pathways into the social sciences, and document and shape the ways they are being accessed and used to create new knowledge about the social world.
Big Data: Demonstrating the Value of the UK Web Domain Dataset for Social Science Research
February 2012 - July 2013
This project aims to enhance JISC's UK Web Domain archive, a 30 TB archive of the .uk country-code top level domain collected from 1996 to 2010. It will extract link graphs from the data and disseminate social science research using the collection.
SECT: Sustaining the EEBO-TCP Corpus in Transition
February 2012 - July 2013
SECT will carry out an investigation into the sustainability of the EEBO-TCP corpus and aims to develop strategies to secure a sustainable future for the collection.
Past projects
Evaluating Digital Tools for Theatre and Dance: BAC Scratch Online
October 2011 - November 2012
Theatre and dance have fallen a long way behind music in the way they connect with audiences digitally. This project aims to understand how audiences can be engaged in the creative process, by evaluating the BAC's Scratch Online platform.
Digital Impacts: A Synthesis Report and Workshop
February - May 2011
This project was designed to synthesize the evidence about the impact that digital resources are having on various audiences, and how resource providers have stepped up efforts to embed resources into the practices of communities.
Using Web Archives: A Futures Perspective
February - June 2011
Web archives are the best hope for future researchers to understand the web of yesterday and today, but efforts to ensure that archives will be useful are lagging. This report asks what challenges web archives face, and suggests how to address them.
Physical Science Information Practices
September 2010 - July 2011
Exploring the information seeking, organizing, archiving and communicating capacities of physical sciences communities as a study case (and role model) for effective information processing regimes and behaviours in complex problem-solving tasks.
SESERV Consortium: Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects
September 2010 - September 2012
The SESERV consortium aims to maximize research impact by raising awareness of socio-economic trends in the areas of incentives, accounting, Digital Europe, and risk management, and by addressing possible policy priorities within the research community.
KNETWORKS: Dissemination and Networks of Knowledge in the Atlantic Area
July 2010 - July 2012
KNETWORKS aims to create a strong knowledge sharing and dissemination network in the Atlantic area to promote the exchange of good practices and implementation strategies for building and exploiting a 21st century knowledge and information society.
Researcher Engagement with Web Archives
April - August 2010
This project explores how to bridge the gap between archivists and researchers, and how preserved web content archives might be used by researchers and others to ask meaningful new questions.
Humanities Information Practices
February - November 2010
Many humanities scholars are enthusiastic users of digital resources, however there is a potential mismatch between what (and how) resources are offered, and how scholars might use them. How should they be designed to ensure maximum use by scholars?
February 2009 - February 2010
Aiming to better understand the organizational, collaborative and technological developments in e-Infrastructures which are effective in supporting virtual research organizations in different fields.
Digitised Resources: A Usage and Impact Study
June 2008 - April 2009
This project combined quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure the impact of online scholarly resources and to develop a best practices toolkit that allows assessment of the impact of digitisation projects by researchers and funding bodies.
April 2008 - March 2009
Establishing a framework for e-Humanities research using available open source tools and technologies and archived web content to create novel research interfaces to the first of many, scholarly, e-Humanities web collections.
PEACH: Presence Research in Action
May 2006 - April 2010
Presence research focuses on understanding and controlling the cognitive experience of being somewhere, or someone: we are analysing social impact scenarios to raise and address potential ethical and policy issues relating to Presence technologies.
OeSS: The Oxford e-Social Science Project
October 2005 - March 2012
The Oxford e-Social Science project aims to understand how e-Research projects negotiate various social, ethical, legal and organizational forces and constraints, in order to help researchers avoid these problems when building scientific collaborations.
October 2005 - April 2009
The e-Horizons Institute researched the coming technological breakthroughs in e-science that will have cross-sector social and economic implications as they are taken up by business, government and other actors.
Digital Photography and Scientific Practice
October 2004 - August 2007
This dissertation project examines the intersection between technology and scientific practice for marine mammal scientists who use digital photography.
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Publications
Articles
- Barjak, F., Eccles, K., Meyer, E.T., Robinson, S. and Schroeder, R. (2013) The Emerging Governance of e-Infrastructure. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 18 (2) 1-24.
- Cruz, E.G. and Meyer, E. (2012) Creation and Control in the Photographic Process: iPhones and the Emerging Fifth Moment of Photography. Photographies 5 (2) 203-221.
- Eden, G., Jirotka, M. and Meyer, E.T. (2012) Interpreting Digital Images Beyond Just the Visual: Crossmodal Practices in Medieval Musicology. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37 (1) 69–85.
- Eccles, K., Thelwall, M. and Meyer, E.T. (2012) Measuring the Web Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources. Journal of Documentation 68 (4).
- Collins, E., Bulger, M.E. and Meyer, E.T. (2012) Discipline matters: technology use in the humanities. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 11 (1-2) 76-92.
- Meyer, E.T. (2010) Review of 'Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity' by Martin Hand. Information, Communication & Society 13 (7) 1061-1063.
- Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2009) Sifting through the Online Web of Knowledge. Interdisciplines: Scientific Publication 3.0.
- Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2009) The World Wide Web of Research and Access to Knowledge. Journal of Knowledge Management Research and Practice 7 (3) 218-233.
- Dutton, W.H. and Meyer, E.T. (2009) Experience with New Tools and Infrastructures of Research: An exploratory study of distance from, and attitudes toward, e-Research. Prometheus 27 (3) 223-238.
- Meyer, E.T. and Dutton, W.H. (2009) Top-Down e-Infrastructure Meets Bottom-Up Research Innovation: The Social Shaping of e-Research. Prometheus 27 (3) 239-250.
- Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2009) Untangling the Web of e-Research: Towards a Sociology of Online Knowledge. Journal of Informetrics 3 (3) 246-260.
- Meyer, E. (2007) Technological Change and the Form of Science Research Teams: Dealing with the Digitals. Prometheus 25 (4) 345-361.
Books
- Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (forthcoming) Networks of Knowledge in the Digital Age. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Chapters
- Oostveen, A.-M., Meyer, E.T., and Pickering, B. (2013) User Involvement in Future Internet Projects. The Future Internet. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7858 (LNCS), pp. 310-322.
- Oostveen, A.M., Hjorth, I., Pickering, B., Boniface, M., Meyer, E.T., Cobo, C. and Schroeder, R. (2012) Cross-Disciplinary Lessons for the Future Internet. In F.Álvarez et al. (eds) Future Internet - From Technological Promises to Reality. FIA book 2012. Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 7281, pp. 42-54.
- Dutton, W.H. and Meyer, E. (2010) Enabling or Mediating the Social Sciences: Opportunities and Risks of Bottom-Up Innovation. In: W.H.Dutton and P.Jeffreys (eds) World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
- Meyer, E.T., Madsen, C. and Fry, J. (2010) Digital Resources and the Future of Libraries. In: W.H.Dutton and P.Jeffreys (Eds) World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
- Meyer, E.T. (2009) Moving from Small Science to Big Science: Social and Organizational Impediments to Large Scale Data Sharing. In: N.Jankowski (Ed.) e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice. Routledge Advances in Research Methods. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 147-159.
- Meyer, E.T. (2008) Digital Photography. In: K.St Amant and S.Kelsey (eds) Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, pp. 791-803.
- Meyer, E.T. (2007) Framing the Photographs: Digital Photography as a Computerization Movement. In: K.L.Kraemer and M.S.Elliott (eds) Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., pp. 173-199.
- Meyer, E.T. (2006) Socio-technical Interaction Networks: A discussion of the strengths, weaknesses and future of Kling's STIN model. In: J.Berleur, M.I.Numinen and J.Impagliazzo (eds) Social Informatics: An Information Society for All? In Remembrance of Rob Kling. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 223. Springer: Boston, pp. 37-48.
Conference papers
- Schroeder, R., and Meyer, E.T. (2012) The End(s) of e-Research. Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Meeting, Salford, UK.
- Power, L., Schroeder, R., and Meyer, E.T. (2010) e-Research and the Varieties of Online Collaborative Knowledge. Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Schroeder, R., and Meyer, E.T. (2012) Big Data: What's New? Paper presented at Internet, Politics, Policy 2012: Big Data, Big Challenges?, University of Oxford, UK.
- Antonijević, S., Wyatt, S., Bulger, M., and Meyer, E.T. (2012) Digital Humanities in Practice Practices: Challenges, and Directions in Digital Humanities Scholarship. Paper presented at Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield.
- Meyer, E.T., and Hjorth, I. (2012) Connecting performance artists with digital audiences: A case study of Scratch Online. Paper presented at Electronic Visualization and the Arts, London.
- Schroeder, R., and Meyer, E.T. (2011) Digital Transformations of Research. Paper presented at A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, University of Oxford.
- Bulger, M., Eccles, K., Antonijevic, S., and Meyer, E.T. (2011) Humanities Information Practices. Paper presented at A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, University of Oxford.
- Power, L., Bulger, M., and Meyer, E.T. (2011) Physical and Life Sciences Information Practices. Paper presented at A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, University of Oxford.
- Meyer, E.T. (2011) Economics of Privacy: A Social Science View. Paper presented at the Future Internet Assembly, Budapest.
- de la Flor, G., Jirotka, M., and Meyer, E.T. (2011) Accessing Medieval Music: from material codex to digital specimen. Paper presented at Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
- Barjak, F., Schroeder, R., Meyer, E.T., et al. (2010) Mapping the Varieties of e-Research Infrastructure and Virtual Research Communities. Paper presented at UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
- Schroeder, R., and Meyer, E.T. (2010) Digital Data, Styles of Science, and Types of Collaborative Research Organization. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Conference on the Social Life of Methods, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), St Hugh's College, University of Oxford.
- Meyer, E.T., Graham, M., and Schroeder, R. (2010) Online visibility, local practices, and access to global knowledge. Paper presented at the XVII International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2009) Gauging the Impact of e-Research in the Social Sciences. Paper presented at the 104th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 8-11 August 2009.
- Meyer, E.T. (2009) The future of researching the past of the Internet. Paper presented at 'missing links: the enduring web', Digital Preservation Coalition, JISC, and the UK Web Archiving Consortium. The British Library, London, 21 July 2009.
- Schroeder, R. and Meyer, E.T. (2009) Scientific Communication and Online Research. Paper presented at the Australia and New Zealand Communications Association Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 8-10 July 2009.
- Meyer, E.T., Eccles, K. and Madsen, C. (2009) Digitisation as e-Research infrastructure: Access to materials and research capabilities in the Humanities. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, 24-26 June 2009.
- Eccles, K., Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R., Kertcher, Z., Barjak, F., Huesing, T. and Robinson, S. (2009) The Future of e-Research Infrastructures. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, 24-26 June 2009.
- Schroeder, R., Meyer, E.T. and Park, H.W. (2009) Mapping Global e-Research: Scientometrics and Webometrics. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, 24-26 June 2009, Cologne.
- Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R. and Dutton, W.H. (2008) The Role of e-Infrastructures in the Transformation of Research Practices and Outcomes. Paper presented at the 4th Annual SIG-SI Social Informatics Workshop, American Society for Information Science & Technology, Columbus, OH, 25 October 2008.
- Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2008) Rethinking Research: The Social Implications of e-Research technologies. Paper presented at Internet Research 9.0, the annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-18 October 2008.
- Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R. and Madsen, C. (2008) The World Wide Web of Humanities: Archives for Researching the Web. Paper presented at Website Histories - Theories, Methods, Analysis 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, 14 October 2008.
- Meyer, E.T. (2008) e-Infrastructures and Research Practices. Paper presented at the 4th Annual SIG-SI Social Informatics Workshop, American Society for Information Science and Technology, Columbus, Ohio.
- de la Flor, G. and Meyer, E. (2008) Talking 'bout a revolution: Framing e-Research as a computerization movement. eResearch08 Conference, University of Oxford, 11-13 September 2008.
- Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R. and Power, L. (2008) e-Research 2.0: Taking the Measure of Web 2.0 in e-Research. Paper presented at Oxford e-Research 08 Conference, Oxford, UK, 11-13 September 2008.
- Meyer, E.T. and Dutton, W.H. (2008) Top-Down e-Infrastructure Meets Bottom-Up Research Innovation: Fitting e-Social Science Visions to the Realities. Paper presented at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 8-11 September 2008.
- Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2008) Gauging the Impact of e-Research in the Social Sciences. Paper presented at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 8-11 September 2008.
- Schroeder, R. and Meyer, E.T. (2008) e-Research and the Transformations of Knowledge. Paper presented at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 8-11 September 2008.
- Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2008) Rethinking Research: The Social Implications of e-Research technologies. Paper presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 20-23 August 2008.
- Dutton, W.H. and Meyer, E.T. (2008) e-Social Science as an Experience Technology: Distance From, and Attitudes Toward, e-Research. 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, 18-19 June 2008.
- Schroeder, R. and Meyer, E.T. (2008) Towards a Comparative Sociology of Virtual Worlds. Paper presented at the Cultures of Virtual Worlds Conference, University of California, Irvine, CA, 25-26 April 2008.
- Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2008) Managing the Social in Collaborative e-Research. Paper presented at the Project Management in e-Science Conference, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK, 10-11 April 2008.
- Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R., and Dutton, W.H. (2008) The Role of e-Infrastructures in the Transformation of Research Practices and Outcomes. Paper presented at the iConference 2008, iFutures: Systems, Selves, Society, Los Angeles, CA.
- Meyer, E. (2007) Moving from small science to big science: Social and organizational impediments to large scale data sharing. 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 7-9 October 2007.
- Meyer, E.T. (2007) Organize the Whales!: Marine biology and the challenges of organizing scientific digital photographs. Paper presented at Memory practices in computer-mediated communities: a research methods workshop, part of the 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Lansing, MI, 28-30 June 2007.
- Meyer, E.T. (2007) Studying Scientists and their Technology: Digital photography as a lens for understanding how marine biologists use technology in their work. Paper presented at Scientific Practice as Ordinary Action: An International Workshop on Scientists at Work, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 22-23 March 2007.
- Meyer, E.T. (2006) Digital photography use by marine mammal scientists. Paper presented at 'Interrogating the social realities of information and communications systems' ASIST pre-conference workshop, Austin, TX, 4 November 2006.
- Meyer, E. T. (2005) Framing the Photographs: Understanding Digital Photography as a Computerization Movement. Paper presented at the workshop Extending the Contributions of Professor Rob Kling to the Analysis of Computerization Movements, Irvine, CA, 11-12 March 2005.
- Meyer, E.T. (2005) Communication Regimes: A Conceptual Framework for Examining IT and Social Change in Organizations. In: A.Grove (ed.) Proceedings of the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST) 42, Charlotte, NC.
- Meyer, E.T. (2004) Digital Photography as a Computerization Movement: Communication regimes and social change. Paper presented at the Annual Doctoral Research Forum, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
- Meyer, E.T. and Kling, R. (2003) Communication Regimes And Digital Images: Understanding Communication Regimes, Digital Photography And The Internet. Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, 19 October 2003.
- Meyer, E.T. and Kling, R. (2003) To Photoshop or Not to Photoshop: Digital Manipulation and the STIN Framework. Paper presented at the Doctoral Research Forum, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
- Meyer, E.T. (2000) Information Inequality and UCITA. In: D.H.Kraft (Ed.) Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) 37, Chicago, IL, 13-16 November 2000.
- Meyer, E.T. and Kling, R. (2000) The Research Divide: Internet Commons, Scholarly Participation and Pre-print Servers. Proceedings of Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millennium, the Eighth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Bloomington, IN, 31 May - 4 June 2000.
- Meyer, E.T. and Kling, R. (2000) Technology & Unequal Participation: Access to electronic working paper repositories and scholarly participation in elite scientific communities. Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Presentations
- Meyer, E.T. (2011) Web Archiving: The State of the Art and the Future. Invited talk at The Future of the Past of the Web, Digital Preservation Coalition, The British Library, London.
- Power, L., and Meyer, E.T. (2010) Sharing ideas and sharing data: Researchers and Web 2.0. Talk presented at Users, e-Research, and Web 2.0, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford.
- Schroeder, R., Meyer, E.T., and Eccles, K. (2009) Bottom-up, Top-Down, and other social and technological dynamics of e-Research. Talk presented at UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, United Kingdom.
- Turilli, M., Schroeder, R., Jirotka, M., Lloyd, S., and Meyer, E.T. (2009) Web 2.0 Tool for e-Research Project Management. Talk presented at UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, United Kingdom.
- Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R., and Park, H.W. (2009) Mapping e-Research. Presented at Modelling science - Understanding, forecasting, and communicating the science system. Rathenau Institute and Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Meyer, E.T. (2009) Measuring the impact of digitisation projects. Talk presented at the High Volume Digitisation workshop, The New Technology Institute, Birmingham, UK.
- Schroeder, R., Power, L. and Meyer, E. (2009) Community-Driven Discovery in Biology. Presented at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, Brisbane, July 12-16 2009.
- Eccles, K. and Meyer, E.T. (2009) What makes an online resource a well used resource? Users, impact and metrics. Talk at JISC Digital Content Conference 2009, Gloucestershire, UK, 30 June-1 July 2009.
- Meyer, E. and Eccles, K. (2009) Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources: Qualitative Methods. Presented at 'Humanities on the Web: Is it working?', Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 19 March 2009.
- Meyer, E. and Madsen, C. (2009) TIDSR Survey Data. Presented at 'Humanities on the Web: Is it working?', Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 19 March 2009.
- Madsen, C. and Meyer, E. (2009) Selecting and Analysing the WWI and WWII Collections. Presented at 'Humanities on the Web: Is it working?', Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 19 March 2009.
- Meyer, E.T. (2008) Socio-Technical Perspectives on Digital Photography: Scientific Digital Photography Use by Marine Mammal Researchers. Talk presented in special session for recipients of national awards, in recognition of this work's winning the ProQuest Dissertation of the Year Award. American Society for Information Science & Technology, Columbus, OH, 27 October 2008.
- Schroeder, R. and Meyer, E.T. (2008) Second Science: e-Science in Second Life. Panel presentation at Internet Research 9.0, the annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-18 October 2008.
- Eccles, K. and Meyer, E.T. (2008) e-Research, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Gauging the Impact of Online Scholarly Resources. UKOLN Seminar Series, University of Bath, October 2008.
- Dutton, W.H. and Meyer, E.T. (2008) eSocial Science: Awareness, Support and Practice. Presentation to Management Board of the UK National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS), 30 June 2008.
- Dutton, W.H. and Meyer, E.T. (2008) e-Social Science as an Experience Technology: Distance From, and Attitudes Toward, e-Research [Presentation Slides]. 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, 18-19 June 2008.
- Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2008) The World Wide Web of Research and Access to Knowledge. 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, 18-19 June 2008.
- Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R. and Power, L. (2008) e-Research 2.0: Taking the Measure of Web 2.0 in e-Research. 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, 18-19 June 2008.
- Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R. and Dutton, W.H. (2008) The Role of e-Infrastructures in the Transformation of Research Practices and Outcomes. iConference 2008, UCLA, Los Angeles, LA, 28 February-1 March 2008.
- Meyer, E.T. and Jirotka, M. (2008) The Social Shaping of e-Research. Talk presented at the National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) Showcase, Manchester, UK, 16 January 2008.
- Meyer, E. (2007) Tensions between established practice and changing technologies: Marine mammal scientists and digital photography. Society for the Social Studies of Sciences (4S) Annual Conference 2007, Montreal Canada, 11-13 October 2007.
- Meyer, E.T. (2007) Scientific digital photography: The case of marine mammal research. Poster presented at ALISE Doctoral Research Poster Session, ALISE Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 15-18 January 2007.
- Meyer, E.T. (2006) Science and digital photography. Poster presented at iSchool Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, 15-17 October 2006.
- Meyer, E.T. (2006) Socio-technical Interaction Networks: A discussion of the strengths, weaknesses and future of Kling's STIN model. Presented in the plenary session of the Seventh International Conference 'Human Choice and Computers' (HCC7), Maribor, Slovenia, 21-23 September 2006.
- Meyer, E.T., Hara, N. and Rosenbaum, H. (2005) How Photobloggers are Framing a New Computerization Movement. Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 6-9 October 2005.
Reports
- Meyer, E.T. and Hjorth, I. (2013) Digitally Scratching New Theatre: London's Battersea Arts Centre engaging via the web. London: Nesta.
- Meyer, E.T., Bulger, M.E., Kyriakidou-Zacharoudiou, A., Power, L., Williams, P., Ventners, W., Terras, M. and Wyatt, S. (2012) Collaborative Yet Independent: Information Practices in the Physical Sciences. Research Information Network (RIN) Report Series.
- Meyer, E., Oostveen, A., Schroeder, R., Boniface, M., Pickering, J.B., Walland, P., Stiller, B. and Waldburger, M. (2012) Final Report on Social Future Internet Coordination Activities. SESERV Deliverable D3.2, Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects FP7-2010-ICT-258138-CSA.
- Meyer, E., Thomas, A. and Schroeder, R. (2011) Web Archives: The Future(s). Report for the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC).
- Meyer, E. (2011) Splashes and Ripples: Synthesizing the Evidence on the Impacts of Digital Resources. Report for JISC.
- Boniface, M., Pickering, B., Meyer, E., Cobo, C. and Oostveen, A. (2011) Initial SESERV Survey Results, Challenge 1 Projects: Socio-Economic Priorities. Report for the SESERV project.
- Bulger, M., Meyer, E.T., de la Flor, G., Terras, M., Wyatt, S., Jirotka, M., Eccles, K. and Madsen, C. (2011) Reinventing research? Information practices in the humanities. A report of the Research Information Network (RIN), April 2011.
- Oostveen, A., Meyer, E., Cobo, C., Hjorth, I., Reisdorf, B., Papoutsi, C., Power, L., Abdel-Sattar, N., Hale, S. and Waldburger, M. (2011) First Year Report on Scientific Workshop. SESERV Deliverable D1.2, Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects FP7-2010-ICT-258138-CSA.
- Boniface, M., Pickering, B., Meyer, E., Cobo, C., Oostveen, A., Stiller, B. and Waldburger, M. (2011) First Report on Social Future Internet Coordination Activities. SESERV Deliverable D3.1, Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects FP7-2010-ICT-258138-CSA.
- Dougherty, M., Meyer, E.T., Madsen, C., Van den Heuvel, C., Thomas, A. and Wyatt, S. (2010) Researcher Engagement with Web Archives: State of the Art. Final Report for the JISC-funded project 'Researcher Engagement with Web Archives'.
- Thomas, A., Meyer, E.T., Dougherty, M., Van den Heuvel, C., Madsen, C. and Wyatt, S. (2010) Researcher Engagement with Web Archives: Challenges and Opportunities for Investment. Final Report for the JISC-funded project 'Researcher Engagement with Web Archives'.
- Meyer, E.T. (2010) Creation and Distributed Innovation. In Final Report on the Social Impact of ICTs in Europe to the European Commission, SMART No2007/0068, pp. 376-413. Brussels: European Commission.
- Helsper, E., Richter, W., Meyer, E.T. (2010) Consumption, including media and entertainment. In Final Report on the Social Impact of ICTs in Europe to the European Commission, SMART No2007/0068, pp. 181-225. Brussels: European Commission.
- Hüsing, T., Robinson, S., Barjak, F., Bendel, O., Wiegand, G., Eccles, K., Meyer, E., Schroeder, R., Kertcher, Z. and Coslor, E. (2010) The Role of e-Infrastructures in the Creation of Global Virtual Research Communities. Final Report for the eResearch2020 project. European Commission.
- Meyer, E.T., Carpenter, K. and Middleton, M. (2009) World Wide Web of Humanities. Final Project Report to JISC.
- Meyer, E.T., Eccles, K., Thelwall, M. and Madsen, C. (2009) Final Report to JISC on the Usage and Impact Study of JISC-funded Phase 1 Digitisation Projects and the Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (TIDSR).
- Schroeder, R. and Meyer, E.T. (2009) An Emerging Global Brain: How the Internet is Revolutionising Scientific Research. Britain in 2009. Economic and Social Research Council Annual Magazine 113.
- Schroeder, R., Meyer, E.T., and Ziewitz, M. (2009) Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues in Presence Research and Applications. EC Report for Peach FP6 Coordination Action.
- Borgman, C., Fry, J., Lynch, C., Meyer, E.T. and Palmer, C. (2008) e-Research Crosses the Pond: Contrasting transformations in the U.S. and U.K. Chair and participant on panel at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Columbus, OH, 24-29 October 2009.
Theses
- Meyer, E.T. (2007) Socio-Technical Perspectives on Digital Photography: Scientific Digital Photography Use by Marine Mammal Researchers. PhD dissertation, Indiana University, Indiana, Bloomington. ProQuest Digital Dissertations database Publication No. AAT 3278467.
Working papers
- Meyer, E.T. and Kling, R. (2002) Leveling the playing field, or expanding the bleachers? Socio-Technical Interaction Networks and arXiv.org. Indiana University Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Working Paper Series, No. WP-02-10.
- Meyer, E.T. (2000) Information Inequality: UCITA, Public Policy and Information Access. Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting. Indiana University Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Working Paper Series, No. WP-00-06.
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Teaching
Courses taught at the OII
Providing an in-depth understanding about how research and collaboration are changing as they migrate online, and an overview of current findings and major topics in this field.
Social Research Methods and the Internet I: Methods Core
This course provides students with the opportunity to engage with the methodological, ethical and philosophical underpinnings of quantitative and qualitative social science research practices.
Social Research Methods and the Internet II: Advanced Qualitative Analysis
Analysis of qualitative data gathered during the course of social research and the Internet requires both a set of specialized skills and an understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of qualitative approaches to social research.
Social Research Methods and the Internet II: Methods Core
This course provides students with the opportunity to engage with the methodological, ethical and philosophical underpinnings of quantitative and qualitative social science research practices.
DPhil students supervised at the OII
Current students
Thesis title to be confirmed.
Thesis title to be confirmed.
Completed students
e-Research in the Life Sciences
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Webcasts

Leveraging Social Science Tools to Understand the Digital Humanities
Recorded on: 7 February 2013 Duration: 00:13:46
Eric Meyer speaks about how technology is transforming access to and dissemination of knowledge, as part of a series organised by the Cultural Heritage Programme, University of Oxford.
Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources
Recorded on: 1 October 2012 Duration: 00:05:21
Eric Meyer discusses a best practices toolkit, the Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (TIDSR), developed at the OII to assess the impact of digitisation projects.
Digital Methods: Interview with Eric Meyer
Recorded on: 9 July 2012 Duration: 00:03:17
Eric Meyer discusses his talk "From e-Science to Big Data and Beyond: how technological innovations are shaped by disciplines to transform research" at the first Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology seminar (University of the West of England).
Impact and Embedding of Digitised Resources
Recorded on: 20 May 2011 Duration: 01:26:35
Eric Meyer presents a summary and synthesis of JISC-funded work to measure the impact of their digitised resources and develop case studies for embedding them in teaching and research.
The Impact of Digital Content (Roundtable Discussion)
Recorded on: 20 May 2011 Duration: 00:38:33
A panel session to facilitate discussion about the future of digital content, the role that measuring impact will play, and how the value of digital content can be demonstrated.
Tools for Measuring the Impact of Digitised Resources
Recorded on: 20 May 2011 Duration: 00:40:03
Eric Meyer and Kathryn Eccles present the "Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources" and discuss methods for analysing online impact.
Society and the Internet Series. 6: Scholarship in the Digital Age
Recorded on: 15 November 2010 Duration: 00:03:37
Eric Meyer discusses the main themes of his lecture in the OII's "Society and the Internet" lecture series: how does the Internet transform knowledge production? Does it enable new research questions to be asked?
The World Wide Web of Humanities: Project Workshop
Recorded on: 19 March 2009 Duration: 00:52:00
Results of a project that aims to establish a framework for e-Humanities research using open source tools and technologies and archived web content to create novel research interfaces to the first of many, scholarly, e-Humanities web collections.
Toolkits for e-Humanities: Project Workshop
Recorded on: 19 March 2009 Duration: 01:11:16
Presenting the results of the Digitised Resources: A Usage and Impact Study project, which combines quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure the impact of online scholarly resources.
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News
Managing research information: one size does not fit all
25 January 2012 Physorg.com
Eric Mayer and Monica Bulger are authors of a new report by RIN looking at information practices in the physical sciences, and highlighting the richly varied ways in which physical scientists work, collaborate and share information.
Online tools are 'distraction' for science
25 January 2012 Physics World
Eric Mayer and Monica Bulger are authors of a new report by RIN looking at information practices in the physical sciences. They find that physical scientists "are still fairly conservative when it comes to adopting new communications technologies".
Leader: Remember this – but not that
1 September 2011 Times Higher Education
The THE leader column discusses the privacy and legal conflicts in preserving information on the web, quoting both Eric Meyer's work on web archiving and the work of Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on the right to delete information.
1 September 2011 Times Higher Education
How can the vast material on the web be stored and archived for the benefit of researchers in the future? Eric Meyer talks about the challenge of a 'preservation mindset' which doesn't consider properly how websites will be used in the future.
Who, what, where? Magnum is hoping the modern crowd will help them identify a historic archive
5 August 2011 The Independent
Eric Meyer says that crowd-sourcing projects like Galaxy Zoo call on the need people feel to be contribute and belong to something bigger than themselves.
Best bits: breaching the digital divide - how could HE better use the internet?
2 August 2011 The Guardian
"HEIs need to do more to foster a culture of innovation": Eric Meyer contributes to The Guardian's live chat on using the Internet and digital technologies in Higher Education.
Breaching the digital divide: How could HE better use the internet?
1 June 2011 The Guardian
Eric Meyer contributes to The Guardian's live chat on using the Internet and digital technologies in Higher Education.
What impact are your resources making?
20 May 2011 JISC
Eric Meyer's JISC report on "research impact" recommends using a variety of qualitative and quantitative measures to understand the types of impacts resources have on research, teaching, learning, and for the wider public.
12 November 2008 Oxford Internet Institute
Rebecca Eynon and Victoria Nash receive teaching awards, Malte Ziewitz receives PGP Scholarship, the OII/CLG report on Digital Inclusion is released, Yorick Wilks receives the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award, Eric Meyer receives Doctoral Dissertation Award
11 April 2008 Oxford Internet Institute
New project on the 'World Wide Web of Humanities', summary of the OII / Ofcom Social Networking Conference, Jonathan Zittrain book launches, eResearch08 Conference, Student Diary (Berlin Trip / re:publica08)
Successful transatlantic digitisation projects announced
26 March 2008 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
This project will create and assemble a suite of open source tools for data collection and curation, to support new methodologies for Internet research built around large collections of web data, using automated tools to extract, index, and analyze data
Events
Thursday 13 June 2013 12:00 - 13:30
This is part he final part of four seminars on qualitative approaches to exploring the social, cultural and social scientific dimensions of research related to online, virtual and other digitally-mediated evironments.
Thursday 30 May 2013 12:00 - 13:30
This is part three of four seminars on qualitative approaches to exploring the social, cultural and social scientific dimensions of research related to online, virtual and other digitally-mediated environments.
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Blog
Eric Meyer on 29 Oct 2012 15:14PM
Simon Tanner at King’s College London has released his new impact study at http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-balanced-value-impact-model.html. This work provides a model for thinking about, measuring and documenting the impact of [...]
CFP: Small data in a Big Data world
Eric Meyer on 25 Oct 2012 13:21PM
The following call for papers comes in from my friend Lois Scheidt. They will be taking a critical look at big data, and what it means for the practice of research. CFP “Small Data” in a “Big Data” World, Panel at International Congress of Qualitative [...]
Eric Meyer on 25 Oct 2012 12:12PM
The slides here were ones we presented about the end(s) of eresearch and the beginings of big data at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Internet Research 13 (http://ir13.aoir.org/) meeting in Salford. The End(s) of e-Research from Eric Meyer [...]
Last updated on: 22 May 2013



