2019 year’s web science summer school was held in Southampton, UK between the 8th and 13th of September. The summer school created its own site so click here for more information.
The #Websci19 conference program is now online! This year’s Websci conference theme is “Synergies for the Good: The Web and Society” and we have gathered an exciting and multifaceted program of interdisciplinary perspectives on the web, engaging with novel and thought-provoking ideas and discussing original research, work in progress, analysis, and practice in the field […]
Register and find out more from the main conference website
3rd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science (#eurocss) This year’s focus: Polarization and Radicalization Venue: ETH Zurich, Switzerland Dates: September 2-4, 2019 Website: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu ——————————- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ——————————- Andreas Flache (University of Groningen) Philip Leifeld (University of Essex) Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute & The Alan Turing Institute) Alice E. Marwick (University […]
Welcome to our new series on Web Science Lab profiles. In this series we’ll be visiting WSTnet labs across the globe and showcasing their unique research in Web Science. In our first profile, we’ll be showcasing the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI (RBC-DSAI) at the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras (IIT […]
Welcome to our new series on PhD student profiles. In this series, we’ll be visiting PhD students across the globe and showcasing their unique research in Web Science. In our profile, we’d like you to meet Ipek Baris – a first year PhD student at WeST University of Koblenz-Landau. Ipek’s research is sponsored by the […]
In a world where society and technology are developing rapidly, writers, scientists and individuals alike have long since asked, how exactly will this affect our futures? This represents one of the core principles of Web Science and is the focus of a recent presentation from Professor Susan Halford, who highlights the ways in which Web […]