Research Expertise and Interest

social informatics, digital transformation, knowledge, social and cultural studies

Research Description

Eric T. Meyer is Dean of the School of Information at Berkeley. His research looks at the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices, as described in his 2015 book with co-author Ralph Schroeder Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities. His research has included both qualitative and quantitative work with blockchain developers, marine biologists, genetics researchers, physicists, digital humanities scholars, social scientists using big data, medical doctors, theatre artists, librarians, and organizations involved in computational approaches to research. Dr. Meyer was previously Dean of the School of Information at UT Austin and Professor of Social Informatics at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.