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  <title type='text'>Why Study the Web? Social Machines and the Virtual Revolution</title>
  <description type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 2em 2em 2em 2em; border: black 1pt solid; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Video Archive&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To see the archived video of the event, please select one of the following links:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Introduction by&amp;nbsp;Nigel Shadbolt, &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.zepler.tv/266/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://archive.zepler.tv/266/&lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;li&gt;Introduction slides in &lt;a href=&quot;http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18577/2/Why_Study_the_Web.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;PDF format&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Panel chaired by Dr Aleks Krotoski, &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.zepler.tv/267/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://archive.zepler.tv/267/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Opportunities for Studying Web Science, &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.zepler.tv/268/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://archive.zepler.tv/268&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The Web Science Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Southampton&amp;nbsp;teamed up with the Web Science Trust to promote opportunities to study the new discipline of Web Science.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dr Aleks Krotoski, presenter of BBC&#039;s &quot;The Virtual Revolution&quot;, Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Government Information Adviser, who are&amp;nbsp;leading experts discussed the future of the Web and why we need to study it now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;19:00 Professor Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton): What is Web Science?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;19:10 Panel Discussion&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;margin-left: 2em;&quot;&gt;Dr Aleks Krotoski, Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee (MIT), Professor Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University), Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute), JP Rangaswami (BT)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;20:10 Opportunities to study Web Science&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;margin-left: 2em;&quot;&gt;Professor Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton), Professor Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechic Institute), Professor Bill Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;20:30 Close&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For more information about the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre please visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dtc/&quot;&gt;http://webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dtc/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To contact the organisers, email &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:info@webscience.org&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #006597;&quot;&gt;info@webscience.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #006597;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Studying Web Science in the UK&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Doctoral Training Centre for Web Science at the University of Southampton,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dtc/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dtc/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Oxford Internet Institute, &lt;a href=&quot;http://oii.ox.ac.uk/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://oii.ox.ac.uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Studying Web Science in the US&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csail.mit.edu/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.csail.mit.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;School of Communication at Northwestern University,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tw.rpi.edu/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://tw.rpi.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please contact the organisers to have your institution added to the list.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  <end type='datetime'>2010-03-08 20:30:00</end>
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  <location type='text'>The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, UK</location>
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