Eric Meyer

Role: Senior Programme Committee
Affiliation: University Of Oxford, UK

Eric T. Meyer is Professor of Social Informatics and Director of Graduate Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute, a multidisciplinary department at the University of Oxford which undertakes teaching and research focused on understanding life online.
Eric’s work focuses on shifts in work, knowledge creation, and human interactions when digital technologies replace previously non-digital counterparts. His research in this area has included studies of data sharing among dementia researchers, automation in the health sector, digital practices in the arts, the use of digital images in biology, and digital information practices in the sciences and humanities.
In 2015, he and co-author Ralph Schroeder published a book on these topics titled Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities with the MIT Press. More information is available on his website: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/eric-meyer/