Eric T Meyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4907776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric T Meyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric T |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER E T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1998-7162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Newsrooms accommodate data-based news work
Similar to prior cycles of newsroom specialization, news organizations must integrate the expertise of data journalists. Based upon 18 in-depth interviews with data journalism leaders within American newspapers, this study examines how newsrooms are restructuring to accommodate data news work. More specifically, the research identifies four “critical junctures” by which newspapers expand data journalism operations. The interviews establish that e…
The net as a knowledge machine: How the Internet became embedded in research
In this article, we examine the growth of the Internet as a research topic across the disciplines and the embedding of the Internet into the very fabric of research. While this is a trend that ‘everyone knows’, prior to this study, no work had quantified the extent to which this common sense knowledge was true or how the embedding actually took place. Using scientometric data extracted from Scopus, we explore how the Internet has become a powerfu…
Letting the Data Speak: Role perceptions of data journalists in fostering democratic conversation
Journalists in democratic societies perceive their role as guardian of the public’s trust. This ethic of social responsibility has been infused into all tasks related to news production—particularly the act of convening debate surrounding salient issues. The entry of data journalists into the newsroom has upended this shared occupational schema. In processing big data for a lay audience, data journalists place greatest emphasis upon their role as…
Emerging practices and perspectives on Big Data analysis in economics: Bigger and better or more of the same
Although the terminology of Big Data has so far gained little traction in economics, the availability of unprecedentedly rich datasets and the need for new approaches - both epistemological and computational - to deal with them is an emerging issue for the discipline. Using interviews conducted with a cross-section of economists, this paper examines perspectives on Big Data across the discipline, the new types of data being used by researchers on…
The Emerging Governance of E-Infrastructure: The Emerging Governance of E-Infrastructure
The paper studies the transition to ICT-based support systems for scientific research. These systems currently attempt the transition from the project stage to the more permanent stage of an infrastructure. The transition leads to several challenges, including in the area of establishing adequate governance regimes, which not all projects master successfully. Studying a set of cases from Europe and America, we look at patterns in the size and sco…
Creation and Control in the Photographic Process: IPhones and the emerging fifth moment of photography
This article underlines some aspects that relate, on the one side, to the technological devices necessary to photography production and, on the other, the kind of practices that shape and are shaped by those devices. It discusses how those relationships have shaped different visual regimes. Based on theoretical approaches like Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the Socio-technical Interactions Network (STIN) perspective, the article starts …
Interpreting Digital Images Beyond Just the Visual: Crossmodal Practices in Medieval Musicology
The scholarly study of medieval music manuscripts has traditionally required that musicologists travel to libraries and museums where the artefacts of interest, the complete manuscript or fragments of manuscripts, are physically held. However, with the introduction of digital image archives these scholars now have the ability to conduct much of their research through both the inspection and manipulation of digital images. When digital images are …
Discipline matters: Technology use in the humanities
In recent years, many studies have highlighted the changing nature of scholarly research, reflecting the new digital tools and techniques that have been developed. But researcher uptake of these tools is strongly influenced by existing information behaviour, itself affected by a number of factors, particularly discipline. This article outlines findings from a recent study which used six case studies to look at the information behaviours of resear…
Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity
Martin Hand, Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008), 186 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-4840-6 (hbk), £55.00. Martin Hand, an Assis
Experience with New Tools and Infrastructures of Research: An Exploratory Study of Distance From, and Attitudes Toward, e‐Research
e‐Research initiatives have been launched around the world, but have they captured the imagination of researchers across the disciplines? This paper reports on a web‐based survey designed to gauge awareness of and support for e‐Research initiatives. Early adoption and interest in e‐Research practices represent a wide range of methodological traditions, but those most interested in e‐Research tend to be among a cohort of more recent graduates of d…
Top‐Down e‐Infrastructure Meets Bottom‐Up Research Innovation: The Social Shaping of e‐Research
Are advances in ICTs enabling positive transformations in academic research practices? This paper explores key themes emerging from a 2008 survey of researchers aimed at identifying use and non‐use of advanced ICTs for research. Deterministic perspectives on e‐Research suggest that new e‐infrastructures will reshape research in predictable ways, such as by fostering more collaboration. In contrast, social shaping perspectives lead to the expectat…
Technological Change and the Form of Science Research Teams: Dealing with the Digitals
During the late 1990s, photography moved from being a primarily analogue medium to being an almost entirely digital medium. The development of digital cameras and software for working with photographs has led to the wholesale computerization of photography in many different domains. This paper reports on the findings of a study of the social and organizational changes experienced by marine mammal scientists who have changed from film‐based photog…
Causal Modeling: New Directions for Statistical Explanation
Causal modeling methods such as path analysis, used in the social and natural sciences, are also highly relevant to philosophical problems of probabilistic causation and statistical explanation. We show how these methods can be effectively used (1) to improve and extend Salmon's S-R basis for statistical explanation, and (2) to repair Cartwright's resolution of Simpson's paradox, clarifying the relationship between statistical and causal claims
Letting the Data Speak: Role perceptions of data journalists in fostering democratic conversation
Journalists in democratic societies perceive their role as guardian of the public’s trust. This ethic of social responsibility has been infused into all tasks related to news production—particularly the act of convening debate surrounding salient issues. The entry of data journalists into the newsroom has upended this shared occupational schema. In processing big data for a lay audience, data journalists place greatest emphasis upon their role as…
Creation and Control in the Photographic Process: IPhones and the emerging fifth moment of photography
This article underlines some aspects that relate, on the one side, to the technological devices necessary to photography production and, on the other, the kind of practices that shape and are shaped by those devices. It discusses how those relationships have shaped different visual regimes. Based on theoretical approaches like Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the Socio-technical Interactions Network (STIN) perspective, the article starts …
Newsrooms accommodate data-based news work
Similar to prior cycles of newsroom specialization, news organizations must integrate the expertise of data journalists. Based upon 18 in-depth interviews with data journalism leaders within American newspapers, this study examines how newsrooms are restructuring to accommodate data news work. More specifically, the research identifies four “critical junctures” by which newspapers expand data journalism operations. The interviews establish that e…
Emerging practices and perspectives on Big Data analysis in economics: Bigger and better or more of the same
Although the terminology of Big Data has so far gained little traction in economics, the availability of unprecedentedly rich datasets and the need for new approaches - both epistemological and computational - to deal with them is an emerging issue for the discipline. Using interviews conducted with a cross-section of economists, this paper examines perspectives on Big Data across the discipline, the new types of data being used by researchers on…
The net as a knowledge machine: How the Internet became embedded in research
In this article, we examine the growth of the Internet as a research topic across the disciplines and the embedding of the Internet into the very fabric of research. While this is a trend that ‘everyone knows’, prior to this study, no work had quantified the extent to which this common sense knowledge was true or how the embedding actually took place. Using scientometric data extracted from Scopus, we explore how the Internet has become a powerfu…
The Emerging Governance of E-Infrastructure: The Emerging Governance of E-Infrastructure
The paper studies the transition to ICT-based support systems for scientific research. These systems currently attempt the transition from the project stage to the more permanent stage of an infrastructure. The transition leads to several challenges, including in the area of establishing adequate governance regimes, which not all projects master successfully. Studying a set of cases from Europe and America, we look at patterns in the size and sco…
Causal Modeling: New Directions for Statistical Explanation
Causal modeling methods such as path analysis, used in the social and natural sciences, are also highly relevant to philosophical problems of probabilistic causation and statistical explanation. We show how these methods can be effectively used (1) to improve and extend Salmon's S-R basis for statistical explanation, and (2) to repair Cartwright's resolution of Simpson's paradox, clarifying the relationship between statistical and causal claims
Causal Modeling: New Directions for Statistical Explanation
Causal modeling methods such as path analysis, used in the social and natural sciences, are also highly relevant to philosophical problems of probabilistic causation and statistical explanation. We show how these methods can be effectively used (1) to improve and extend Salmon's S-R basis for statistical explanation, and (2) to repair Cartwright's resolution of Simpson's paradox, clarifying the relationship between statistical and causal claims
Technological Change and the Form of Science Research Teams: Dealing with the Digitals
During the late 1990s, photography moved from being a primarily analogue medium to being an almost entirely digital medium. The development of digital cameras and software for working with photographs has led to the wholesale computerization of photography in many different domains. This paper reports on the findings of a study of the social and organizational changes experienced by marine mammal scientists who have changed from film‐based photog…
Experience with New Tools and Infrastructures of Research: An Exploratory Study of Distance From, and Attitudes Toward, e‐Research
e‐Research initiatives have been launched around the world, but have they captured the imagination of researchers across the disciplines? This paper reports on a web‐based survey designed to gauge awareness of and support for e‐Research initiatives. Early adoption and interest in e‐Research practices represent a wide range of methodological traditions, but those most interested in e‐Research tend to be among a cohort of more recent graduates of d…
Top‐Down e‐Infrastructure Meets Bottom‐Up Research Innovation: The Social Shaping of e‐Research
Are advances in ICTs enabling positive transformations in academic research practices? This paper explores key themes emerging from a 2008 survey of researchers aimed at identifying use and non‐use of advanced ICTs for research. Deterministic perspectives on e‐Research suggest that new e‐infrastructures will reshape research in predictable ways, such as by fostering more collaboration. In contrast, social shaping perspectives lead to the expectat…
Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity
Martin Hand, Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008), 186 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-4840-6 (hbk), £55.00. Martin Hand, an Assis
Discipline matters: Technology use in the humanities
In recent years, many studies have highlighted the changing nature of scholarly research, reflecting the new digital tools and techniques that have been developed. But researcher uptake of these tools is strongly influenced by existing information behaviour, itself affected by a number of factors, particularly discipline. This article outlines findings from a recent study which used six case studies to look at the information behaviours of resear…
Creation and Control in the Photographic Process: IPhones and the emerging fifth moment of photography
This article underlines some aspects that relate, on the one side, to the technological devices necessary to photography production and, on the other, the kind of practices that shape and are shaped by those devices. It discusses how those relationships have shaped different visual regimes. Based on theoretical approaches like Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the Socio-technical Interactions Network (STIN) perspective, the article starts …
Interpreting Digital Images Beyond Just the Visual: Crossmodal Practices in Medieval Musicology
The scholarly study of medieval music manuscripts has traditionally required that musicologists travel to libraries and museums where the artefacts of interest, the complete manuscript or fragments of manuscripts, are physically held. However, with the introduction of digital image archives these scholars now have the ability to conduct much of their research through both the inspection and manipulation of digital images. When digital images are …
The Emerging Governance of E-Infrastructure: The Emerging Governance of E-Infrastructure
The paper studies the transition to ICT-based support systems for scientific research. These systems currently attempt the transition from the project stage to the more permanent stage of an infrastructure. The transition leads to several challenges, including in the area of establishing adequate governance regimes, which not all projects master successfully. Studying a set of cases from Europe and America, we look at patterns in the size and sco…
Emerging practices and perspectives on Big Data analysis in economics: Bigger and better or more of the same
Although the terminology of Big Data has so far gained little traction in economics, the availability of unprecedentedly rich datasets and the need for new approaches - both epistemological and computational - to deal with them is an emerging issue for the discipline. Using interviews conducted with a cross-section of economists, this paper examines perspectives on Big Data across the discipline, the new types of data being used by researchers on…
The net as a knowledge machine: How the Internet became embedded in research
In this article, we examine the growth of the Internet as a research topic across the disciplines and the embedding of the Internet into the very fabric of research. While this is a trend that ‘everyone knows’, prior to this study, no work had quantified the extent to which this common sense knowledge was true or how the embedding actually took place. Using scientometric data extracted from Scopus, we explore how the Internet has become a powerfu…
Letting the Data Speak: Role perceptions of data journalists in fostering democratic conversation
Journalists in democratic societies perceive their role as guardian of the public’s trust. This ethic of social responsibility has been infused into all tasks related to news production—particularly the act of convening debate surrounding salient issues. The entry of data journalists into the newsroom has upended this shared occupational schema. In processing big data for a lay audience, data journalists place greatest emphasis upon their role as…
Newsrooms accommodate data-based news work
Similar to prior cycles of newsroom specialization, news organizations must integrate the expertise of data journalists. Based upon 18 in-depth interviews with data journalism leaders within American newspapers, this study examines how newsrooms are restructuring to accommodate data news work. More specifically, the research identifies four “critical junctures” by which newspapers expand data journalism operations. The interviews establish that e…
Computer Science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Data science (3 works) · Economics (3 works)