Top-Down e-Infrastructure Meets Bottom-Up Research Innovation: The Social Shaping of e-Research
Top-Down e-Infrastructure Meets Bottom-Up Research Innovation: The Social Shaping of e-Research
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自上而下的电子基础设施遇见自下而上的研究创新：电子研究的社会塑造
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10.1080/08109020903127810
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2009
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Meyer E
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信息通信技术的进步是否使学术研究实践发生积极转变？本文探讨了2008年一项研究人员调查中出现的关键主题，该调查旨在确定先进信息通信技术在研究中的使用和不使用。电子研究的确定性观点表明，新的电子基础设施将以可预测的方式重塑研究，例如通过促进更多的合作。相比之下，社会塑造视角导致期望现有的实践和制度将塑造电子研究的使用方式。这项探索性研究发现，研究人员之间的个体差异聚集在研究实践的可识别分组中，这有助于阐明e - research的参与情况，以及跨学科使用的方法和研究软件的差异。从社会塑造的角度来看，研究结果表明，在社会科学中，自上而下的电子基础设施发展愿景需要与自下而上的电子研究方法创新模式的现实联系起来。
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 expectation that existing practices and institutions will shape the ways in which e‐Research is employed. This exploratory study found that individual variations across researchers cluster into identifiable groupings of research practices, which help to illuminate involvement in e‐Research, and differences in methods and research software used across the disciplines. In line with a social shaping perspective, the findings suggest that, in the social sciences, top‐down visions of e‐infrastructure development need to be tied to the realities of bottom‐up patterns of innovation in approaches to e‐Research.