Top‐Down e‐Infrastructure Meets Bottom‐Up Research Innovation: The Social Shaping of e‐Research

Prometheus (United Kingdom)

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 239-250

  Meyer, Eric T ^a   Dutton, William H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

e Research; e Social Science; research software; survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959972073     PISSN: 08109028     EISSN: 14701030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08109020903127810     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. This work is based on the e-Infrastructure Project of the National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) conducted by the Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS) node at the University of Oxford, supported by a grant from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (RES-149-25- 1022). We thank all the members of the NCeSS Strategy Board, who collectively reacted to early versions of the questionnaire, and advised us on ways to refine the study. Rob Procter and Peter Halfpenny of NCeSS, and Ralph Schroeder and Marina Jirotka of OeSS were more directly involved in supporting the design and conduct of this study. Monica Gerber and Ellen Helsper provided invaluable assistance and feedback with our data analysis. We thank these colleagues.
2. Christine L. Borgman, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007
3. William H. Dutton and Paul Jeffreys (eds), World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, forthcoming, 2010
4. Nicholas Jankowski (ed.), E-Research: Transformations in Scholarly Practice, Routledge, London, 2009.
5. Grace de la Flor and Eric T. Meyer, 'Framing e-Research: understanding e-Research as a computerization movement', Oxford e-Research 08 Conference, Oxford, UK, 2008.
6. Peter Halfpenny, Commenting in Introduction to NCeSS Showcase, Manchester, 2008.
7. Robin Williams and David Edge, 'The social shaping of technology', in W. H. Dutton (ed.), Information and Communication Technologies-Visions and Realities, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996, pp. 53-67.
8. William H. Dutton and Eric T. Meyer, 'Enabling or mediating the social sciences? The opportunities and risks of bottom-up innovation', in W. H. Dutton and P. Jeffreys (eds), World Wide Science, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, forthcoming, 2010.
9. Original survey, including variable names and descriptions, is available at: http:// www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/oess/survey/.
10. The methods for this project have been described in detail elsewhere in this issue, so we will provide a slightly abbreviated version here.
11. William H. Dutton and Eric T. Meyer, 'Experience with new tools and infrastructures of research: an exploratory study of distance from, and attitudes toward, e-Research', Prometheus, 27, 3, 2009, pp. 223-238.
12. David De Roure and Carole Goble, 'Software design for empowering scientists', IEEE Software, 26, 1, 2009, pp. 88-95.
13. William H. Dutton and Eric T. Meyer, 'Experience with new tools and infrastructures of research: an exploratory study of distance from, and attitudes toward, e-Research', Prometheus, 27, 3, 2009, pp. 223-238.