Eric T. Meyer is a Senior Fellow of the OII. Professor Meyer’s research focuses on the transition from analog to digital technologies in research and knowledge creation across disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. His research has included both qualitative and quantitative work with marine biologists, genetics researchers, physicists, digital humanities scholars, social scientists using big data, theatre artists, visual artists, librarians, and organizations involved in computational approaches to research.
His work has been published in a variety of journals, books, and conference proceedings, available by following the tabs above. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences around the world, including keynote addresses in Florence, Aberdeen, Prague, The Hague, Leeds, and elsewhere, and has given invited lectures at universities including Harvard, Cambridge, King’s College London, Edinburgh, Chalmers, Borås, Dalhousie, Rensselaer, Sheffield, Bath, Southampton, and others.
Professor Meyer’s research has received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the European Commission, OECD, The Health Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Jisc, Nesta, RIN, and others.
As Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Meyer is responsible for overseeing the overall running of the MSc and DPhil programmes at the OII.
Professor Meyer earned his PhD in information science, specializing in social informatics, at Indiana University, where his award-winning 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.
His professional and personal networks can be found on Google Scholar, LinkedIn, SSRN, Academia.edu, Twitter, and Flickr.
Social informatics, big data, computational research, digital humanities, information practices, information science, social aspects of science and technology, digital photography, scientometrics, digital ethnography
(2017) “Analysing the UK web domain and exploring 15 years of UK universities on the web” In: The Web as History Brugger, N. and Schroeder, R. (eds.). London: UCL Press. 23-44.
(2016) “The net as a knowledge machine: How the Internet became embedded in research“, New Media & Society. 18 (7) 1159-1189.
Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2015) Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Meyer, E.T. (2014) Examining the Hyphen: The Value of Social Informatics for Research and Teaching. In Rosenbaum, H., Fichman, P. (Eds) Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholarly Publishers, Chapter 3.
Gómez-Cruz, E., Meyer, E.T. (2012) Creation and Control in the Photographic Process: iPhones and the emerging fifth moment of photography. Photographies 5 (2) 203-221.
Dutton, W.H., and Meyer, E.T. (2010) Enabling or Mediating the Social Sciences? The 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, pp. 165-184.
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.T. (2009) Moving from small science to big science: Social and organizational impediments to large scale data sharing. In Jankowski, N. (Ed.), e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice (Routledge Advances in Research Methods series). New York: Routledge, pp. 147-159.
This project is a collaboration between the Oxford Internet Institute, the Oxford Department of Engineering Science, and the Oxford Martin School, at the University of Oxford.
Examining organizational and structural changes that the successful application of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) is expected to require in the financial services and the visual arts, and in areas where the two sectors overlap.
In this project we evaluate Human-Machine Networks by focusing on two cases of peer-production in Wikipedia and citizen science projects in Zooniverse by applying quantitative methods to transactional big data.
With Professor Eric T. Meyer
Keynote by Professor Eric Meyer at the National Digital Forum Conference, 21 - 23 November 2016 in New Zealand.
With Professor Eric T. Meyer, Professor Kathryn Eccles, Melissa Highton, Brian Kelly, Dr Jane Winters, Paola Marchionni, and Professor David Robey
This workshop calls researchers, librarians, funding representatives and others interested in understanding the impact of distributing materials online.
With Professor Eric T. Meyer
Knowledge and scholarship are changing in the digital age: many research challenges require ever larger datasets and greater distributed collaboration. How does this transform knowledge production? Does it enable new research questions to be asked?
With Professor Ralph Schroeder, Professor Eric T. Meyer, and Professor James Evans
By Matthew Willis, Paul Duckworth, Logan Graham, Michael Osborne, Eric T. Meyer, and Angela Coulter
To what extent can GPs in England face their challenges through automation? This report, leveraging ethnographic observations in primary care centres, suggests that about 44% of administrative and clerical tasks can be mostly or completely automated.
9 June 2020
• Automation would help ease pressures on staff, improve job quality and improve patient care • No single full-time role in general practice entirely replaceable by automation, finds study
22 May 2018
Launched today in the House of Commons by DACS, a new, ground-breaking report conducted by academics at the Oxford Internet Institute and The Alan Turing Institute envisions a future Fair Art Market model and financialisation of visual arts.
16 May 2018
The University of Texas at Austin has named Oxford Internet Institute’s Professor Eric Meyer the next dean of its School of Information. His appointment will begin on August 1st.
27 June 2016
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.
