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What type of user are you?
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The aim of this research project is to assess whether and to what extent the Internet and the Web are transforming access to sources of scientific expertise. Are sources of expertise becoming more concentrated or more diversified? Can we empirically validate the "winner take-all" hypothesis in electronic space? Six global issues will be selected that reflect a range of challenges of world-wide importance - climate change, HIV/AIDS, water and sanitation, governance, trade reform, and terrorism. The project will identify key resources on the Web and analyse online discussion groups devoted to these issues, and will then use a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including new webmetric analyses, to identify how centralized or diffused online resources and information exchanges have become. The findings will support science policy and decision-makers in the distribution of online resources: how could these be better deployed to ensure the widest possible access? The project will also enhance our understanding of the role of science in society: how is this rapidly growing medium used in practice for accessing scientific expertise?
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