About the Web Science Conference Web Science is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding the complex and multiple impacts of the Web on society and vice versa. The discipline is well situated to address pressing issues of our time by incorporating various scientific approaches. We welcome quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research, including techniques from […]
In this interview we sit down with Prof. George Metakides, one of our esteemed WST trustees, to talk about democracy in the digital space and why you should be concerned. Ian: George, thanks very much for taking the time to chat with me today. George: Always pleased to take the opportunity to talk about Web […]
View this email in your browser Autumn Issue: 2022 In this issue … ACM Web Science Conference 2023 New WSTNet Labs: Welcome Stuttgart & Rutgers Digital Democracy – In Conversation with George Metakides Publications of Interest Outreach Events ACM Web Science Conference 2023 (WebSci’23) Following this year’s conference in Barcelona, we are delighted to announce […]
Please join me in welcoming Matt Weber as the new WSTNet Lab Director part of the NetSci group in the School of Information and Communication at Rutgers. We’ll be interviewing Matt in the upcoming weeks to talk about his group, his research interests and how how he plans to work with/through WSTNet as our latest […]
Call for Papers About the Web Science Conference Web Science is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding the complex and multiple impacts of the Web on society and vice versa. The discipline is well situated to address pressing issues of our time by incorporating various scientific approaches. We welcome quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research, […]
Data has tremendous potential to build resilience in government. To realize this potential, we need a new, human-centred, distinctly public sector approach to data science and AI, in which these technologies do not just automate or turbocharge what humans can already do well, but rather do things that people cannot. Read full paper Professor Ben […]
Instagram have been accused of failing to safeguard the data of underage users by the Irish data watchdog (DPC). Meta, Instagram’s parent company, have said they plan to appeal the fine which has been set at $400m and is centered around allowing minors (13-17) to set up and operate business accounts which revealed sensitive personal […]
In this interview we welcome a new lab team and an old friend of Web Science Ian: Steffen, thanks for joining us – it seems a little unusual to welcome you as a new Lab Director when you ran one of our other Labs at Koblenz for many years but your team are new so […]
View this email in your browser Summer Issue: 2022 In this issue … WebSci’22 coming right up .. WSTNet Lab Focus: Cardiff In Conversation with Jennifer Zhu Scott Recent Publications Upcoming events around WebSci’22 WebSci’22 coming right up .. This year’s WebSci will be our first hybrid conference offering live and on-line experiences and we […]
The Web Science Trust (WST) announced today that the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award was presented to the authors of the paper “Social media as a measurement tool of depression in populations”, Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech), Scott Counts (Microsoft Research) and Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research). The authors are the first recipients […]