The research in this report was conducted over the course of one year, from October 2017 to
September 2018. The completed report was originally delivered to the sponsor in October …

An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering
analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.“Big Data” is …

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the
Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Internet provides key readings for …

This book aims to provide students, researchers and practitioners with the theory and
methods for understanding the web as a socially constructed phenomenon that both reflects …

What is my impact? This question has become ever more pressing for all actors in the
scientific and scholarly system. The shift to web based publishing has enabled new impact …

Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary
fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been …

In this paper, we reflect on the disciplinary contours of contemporary sociology, and social
science more generally, in the age of 'big and broad'social data. Our aim is to suggest how …

In the field of assisted reproductive techniques (ART), computer-assisted sperm analysis
(CASA) systems have proved their utility and potential for assessing sperm quality …

As use of the Internet has become increasingly widespread, the Internet has also become a
natural site for qualitative research. New researchable populations emerge, and illuminating …

Much scholarly attention has focused on possible impediments to both science and
innovation arising from extensions of patent protection to research tools and to other …