do you think the internet has helped scientific research? or that it has limited the intellectual abilities of researchers?
The internet as a research tool has rather broadened the repertoire of informational resources needed in producing quality and original scientific researches. It is the giver of a zillion of information to help create new ideas from existing ones； a prompter and a faithful security guiding against repetitive researches； a swift circulator of research findings for their effects to be felt and properly utilize in the numerous socieities globally.
The internet as a research tool has rather broadened the repertoire of informational resources needed in producing quality and original scientific researches. It is the giver of a zillion of information to help create new ideas from existing ones； a prompter and a faithful security guiding against repetitive researches； a swift circulator of research findings for their effects to be felt and properly utilize in the numerous socieities globally.
Introduction of Internet has become the addiction for student to more businessmen to the level of intellectual & scientific researcher . Internet has help the researcher to carry out his program in more convenient & fast way but at the same time due to the depended on the internet the researcher has lost the credit of his mind & remain depended on Internet .
With this i have also expressed my views in my publication for internet for my article '' Internet - A Short time of Journey !!. which i submit herewith for your perusal .
This is my personal opinion
Thank you for the question I think that the Internet has helped a lot of scientific researcher through the information provided in the scientific sites greetings
The Internet has a great role in developing the ability to search for various information, as the Internet has facilitated the search process that follows the writing of scientific research.
Do you think the internet has helped scientific research? or that it has limited the intellectual abilities of researchers?
Think Internet has its strengths & weaknesses in many fronts. Generally speaking, Internet brings more benefits or has helped scientific research e.g. speed up literature review, ease of accessing needed journal articles, ease of getting latest information / artifacts, provide research platform like RG for knowledge sharing, research collaboration via virtual confcall / video conferencing, virtual presentation / lectures, thesis viva exam via Skype etc. Personally I find that Internet is just an enabler to enhance today's researchers how best they can conduct research, success of any research also depending on other non-Internet factors like innovative / creative thinking, passion, perseverance, determination etc.
In case you want to find out how ICT has impacted social science research, you can refer to this RG link:
Article Effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on...
I think it has helped scientific research, in terms of the speed with which one can acquire information. But I don't think it builds research skills, which is why students don't necessarily write or analyze better even though they have a wealth of information at their fingertips.
Internet has been very important to shape the world aa we know it today. We have access to data never thought before. Having a 1200 page book was hard to find what we wanted. Today we search, copy the material for citation etc and yet we mau access to the authors of the texts.
Vilemar
"Free" online journal articles and "Open access" journal articles without fees give access to research results to money-strapped research scientists.
Dennis
Dennis Mazur
Hello,
In general, a researcher needs many resources at his/her disposal. I believe the internet and social media play a significant role in the development of scientific borders. However, mere reliance on the internet without increasing the level of their knowing , researchers are prone to superficiality missing the deeper side of the undertaking which is growing because of the fluid nature of evolving paradigms influencing scientific domains. Therefore, it can be stated that the internet is necessary but not sufficient for catering to the needs of the researchers.
Best regards,
R. Biria
Yes, I think it help the researchers to get knowledge from other scientists and to express his/her research outcome to others.
But like all other great discoveries, it can also be used in bad purposes. In the field of scientific research, the copy paste research and the copy paste article publication is such a dark side.
But for that type of activity, internet can not be blamed, the concerned persons may be blamed or punished.
The Internet eases of communication to the researchers; because it serves as a guidance and original source of information. It is very easy to access and at the same time saves time thereby allowing an individual to manager his/her resources better and effectively. Additionally, the Internet is very convenient because an individual can easily carry out a research work at home with much comfort and convenience. The internet is a valuable search tool and has been informative for academic research, as it helps significantly to improve research skills, and makes learning visual and easy to follow.
Surely internet provides a valuable contribution to the research of material useful for scientific activity.
Possible limits to the intellectual abilities of researchers are to be found in the researchers themselves (who can not be defined as such).
Yes, the Internet has helped in all fields of scientific research
The Internet is a powerful tool that can be used by the scientific researcher to enhance their abilities; I even consider that it is an amplifier of your senses, as a technological prosthesis, an auxiliary of your intelligence and that allows you to make community with other scientists of the world, exchanging experiences and research works.
The internet has enabled more plagiarism, but also, it is much easier to check for plagiarism.
The internet has brought sharing and improved scientific communication.
Fine blog!
How the Internet Changed Science Research and Academic Publishing, Creating the New Research Economy!
The Internet has impacted all industries in ways we could not have imagined three decades ago. But nowhere has that impact been felt more so than in science research and academic publishing, especially during last 15 years of transition from hard copy to electronic files and the more recent emergence of networked science...
A more significant advancement in the past five years has been the emergence of “networked science” — the concept that scientific content cannot, and should not, exist in a vacuum. Articles by different authors are now linked to banks of data sets, reference books, videos, presentations and audio tracks. Scientists and engineers representing a wide variety of cross-disciplines can debate research findings in online forums, and society will ultimately benefit from the resulting scientific discourse that will open up limitless new avenues for search and discovery...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/olivier-dumon/how-the-internet-changed_b_2405006.html
All depends on the quality of websites providing scientific knowledge. In an other side internet killed books.
There is no reason to think that the internet has limited the abilities of researchers in any way. One must examine the "population" studied in any studies of the internet limiting abilities.
One example, the provision of word games, logical games, etc., for individuals with memory problems help these individuals. You need long-term studies of researchers before one can draw any conclusions about benefit and risk to researchers.
Dennis
Dennis Mazur
It might have promoted laziness in that you can find things without doing much but it has promoted research through making almost all body of information that is available more accessible to researchers
Dear Malaoui ,
Indeed the internet has become a fundamental and valuable tool to perform extended bibliographic research on any field of science.
To me, as a medical researcher, I wouldn't think of presenting the results of my research, without previous thorough evaluation of Pubmed articles. Most often, we get amazed at the similarity of ideas, in modern scientific endeavours. (This would also prevent unnecessary claims for "plagiarism", when we think our ideas and methods are original, but we come to a point where so many others are silently researching through the same paths !)
On the other hand, (and RG is here to proove this), we should value the fact that the internet brings us together, from distant geografic lands, to join hands in our common language, to exchange views, and also to build new ties that permit us to work in collaboration.
I have done so, in different occasions and with different distant colleagues, to produce good original work that gains from our diversity of thoughts and methods.
This singular new approach to science clearly demonstrates that, instead of limiting our intellectual capacities, the internet can enhance the end-product of our abilities, when bringing to collaboration distant international individuals.
I am very thankful to the internet. I only wish that it could somehow return to its original form of totally free interchange, instead of the modern concept of economic gaining ...
Thanks to you, wonderful discussion and convergent ideas, you can not compare before and after the Internet As in the case of developing countries, when I did a master's thesis in the 1980s, I waited two full months for a major research to compare with my results at the time, apart from the difficulty of improving university libraries to include all disciplines, Financing the participation in scientific journals available at the time
The Internet is a mercy for researchers and science students, certainly for every area of negativity and positive, limited thought is for those who are well with or without the Internet
Internet made every thing easy for human being. I'm still wondering what the field of research should have been without Internet.
Internet helped very much in developing researches quality through exchange information with colleagues in a similar topics ,and through webs published any thing related with what we wish to know.
Internet gives answers in a few minutes. You may find supporting material for any problem. Clever people spend less time to solve their problems. On the other hand, Internet has created the impression that , in the millions of published papers, anyone can steal the idea of anybody else and present it as his own without even mentioning the original source.
Obviously, Internet helped and still helping. Imagine the flexibility, accessibility to information, visibility, communication, distribution, Networking etc.
What about the Speed and ease of processing and getting a lot done?
I do agree with dear @Theodore, Internet has provided huge copy/paste plagiarism, which is evident also here at RG!
Is the internet has limited intellectual abilities of researchers ? It seems unlikely to me, But our dependence on the internet may has a dark side.
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