Abstract from the NeSC workshop on The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users presentation given by myself and Eric T. Meyer.

In this presentation, Meyer & Power will discuss the various impacts Web 2.0 research tools are having on users. This theme will be developed using data from several projects: a survey of users that indicates the importance of bottom-up innovation in research, a project looking at topics science bloggers address, an analysis of the JOVE online journal for visually sharing and commenting on laboratory methods, and a project to develop a toolkit for measuring the impacts of web-based resources. These projects each illustrate an aspect of how we can understand uses of these new technologies as they move from the innovation space of tool developers into the everyday use space of normal researchers.

Slides are available.