Digital Modernity “Modernity” is a social, cultural, or historical descriptor for a certain type of society or set of social arrangements. It is a contentious and disputed term, often understood implicitly. It is a way of describing and classifying highly complex, dynamic, and emergent aggregate social phenomena, and so dramatically simplifies such contexts. However, the […]
Following the resignation of Geoffrey Hinton from Google and associated comments regarding his concerns around the direction of AI research WST CEO Dame Wendy Hall spoke to the BBC. BBC_World_News-2023-05-02_15-02-39.mp4 Interview footage provided courtesy of BBC News. Prof. Dame Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton and CEO of the Web Science Trust (WST)
WebSci’23 is now over and we thank everyone who made it such as success. We’ll keep you posted on the proceedings and any follow-up news whilst keeping you up-to-date on preprations for the next event in Stuttgart, Germany May 21 – 24, 2024.
@ststaab and his team of local organizers invites the Web Science Community to Stuttgart, Germany for #WebSci24, taking place May 21 – 24, 2024.
The annual Web Science Trust (WST) Test of Time Award has been awarded to Nam P. Nguyen (Towson University), Guanhua Yan (Binghamton University), My T. Thai (University of Florida) and Stephan Eidenbenz (Los Alamos National Laboratory) for their work titled “Containment of Misinformation Spread in Online Social Networks”. The authors are the second group of […]
Warmest congratulation to Best Paper Winners Satrio Yudhoatmojo, Emiliano De Cristofaro andJeremy Blackburn for their paper titled “Understanding the Use of e-Prints on Redditand 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Board”. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_3″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Congratulations also to Xinyu Wang, Maggie Wu and @rajtmajer_sarah who receive the Best Paper Award (Runner Up) […]