Episode 5: The Bits and Bots of the Web with Fil Menczer For this episode (30 min. long), we talk with Fil Menczer, whose work is awesome. No, seriously — he’s the director of OSoMe, which is pronounced “awesome” and stands for the Observatory on Social Media. Fil’s research spans web science, computational social science, network science, […]
Hosted by the University of Southampton, UK, delivered online https://websci21.webscience.org/ Globalisation, Inclusion and the Web in the Context of COVID The Web has enabled a globally connected network of individuals and communities, but divides still exist and emerge in various online environments. Fostering an inclusive and just online environment is a persistent challenge: Web technologies […]
Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering, the Northwestern School of Communication, and the Kellogg School of Management, and director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group. He is a foremost researcher of network science, computational social science, and web science, specifically examining […]
Apple rolls out new app “packaging” to highlight what apps do with data and howmthey handle user privacy. Click here to read the full article
December 14, 2020 Evanston, IL – In partnership with the Northwestern University’s Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group, the Web Science Trust (WST) is launching a new podcast entitled ”Untangling the Web”. This new series is hosted by Web Science expert, Northwestern University professor and President-Elect-Select of the International Communications Association (ICA), Noshir […]
Episode 4: From Social Networking to Social Petworking with Jen Golbeck For this episode, (24 min. long) we talk with Jen Golbeck, who is known for her work in computational social network analysis. Her models for computing trust between people in social networks were amongst the first in the field. Now, she’s a professor in the […]
The University of Southampton India Centre are delighted to invite you to the below seminar at part of the Changing the World 4 Better Series. iPowerz – A New Digital System for Fast-tracking Entrepreneurship and Small Business GrowthDr Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, Associate Professor, Department of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Southampton Business SchoolThursday 26 November 2020, […]
Strategies for a Humanistic Digital Future – Third Vienna Workshop on Digital Humanism You can find the full program at https://dighum.ec.tuwien.ac.at/program2020/ Join experts and policy-makers in online discussions on Digital Humanism via Zoom: https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/96389928143?pwd=UU5YRkNuRmdoWHV4MFBwMWRCcUErdz09 (Password: 0dzqxqiy) Date and time: Thursday, 19 November 2020, 4:00-6:45pm CET and Friday, 20 November 2020, 4:00-6:45pm CET or watch via […]
Inrupt, the startup from World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, announced an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform today, which allows large organizations and governments to build applications that put users in control of their data. Inrupt is an attempting to “redecentralise the Web, bringing data back into the ownership and control of web […]
Episode 3: Web Science — From the Beginning and Beyond with Dame Wendy Hall In this episode, (26 min. long) we talk with Dame Wendy Hall, who was involved with creating the very field of web science. Wendy was a Founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative, is the Managing director of the Web […]