Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has been met by unequal responses in different countries and led to unequal impacts to Europe, USA, Asia, and Latin America. The pandemic has made unequal internet access both within and between countries. At the same time, new opportunities also emerge and the Web changes dramatically. The purpose of this panel […]
The Old vs. the New Normal ———————————————–14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022 (WebSci’22)26-29 June, 2022Hybrid conference: Barcelona, Spain, and online (co-located with Hypertext 2022)Deadline for paper submissions: Feb 10, 2022https://websci22.webscience.org/———————————————– Dear colleagues We invite you to submit your contributions to our articles for the 14th ACM Web Science Conference on 26 – 29 June 2022 […]
Abstract As the pandemic keeps influencing our everyday lives, researchers assemble valuable datasets that can help to better understand the impact COVID-19 has on society. This includes both data from the Web or other digital platforms, as well as data about Web usage and information flows. And while the current focus is naturally on understanding […]
In a conversation between Wendy Hall and Baroness Martha Lane Fox the pair discuss baroness Lane Fox’s contributions to public policy and the technological debate. They also explore the legislation processes and work going on within select committees and the House of Lords that is relevant to Web science. About the Video Vault Series In […]
Notes In 2016, an MIT Graduate student gave a TEDx Talk in New York. Joy Buolamwini’s How I am fighting Algorithmic Bias, has been viewed by nearly 1.5 million people, and it later led to a journey of deeper discovery with other researchers and filmmaker Shalini Kantayya. Their resulting film, Coded Bias, was launched at the […]
Notes As a place for organizing and the emergence of new organizations, the Web is a platform that has been evolving for more than 25 years. Digital data from the Web provides a rich platform for observing a wide range of social science phenomena – especially patterns of organizational activity. Simultaneously, Web Science has emphasized […]
The Old vs. the New Normal Web-based technologies have proven to be playing a vital role in enabling us to cope with the global pandemic. Having experienced two years of “crisis,” many new norms have been forming, both socially and technologically. While some people long to return to how things were before the pandemic, others […]
The Old vs. the New Normal Web-based technologies have proven to be playing a vital role in enabling us to cope with the global pandemic. Having experienced two years of “crisis,” many new norms have been forming, both socially and technologically. While some people long to return to how things were before the pandemic, others […]
ACM WebSci14 (http://www.websci14.org/) will be hosted by Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. The ACM Web Science 2014 Conference will be hosted on the beautiful campus of Indiana University, Bloomington from June 23 to June 26, 2014. Web Science studies the vast information network of people, communities, organizations, applications, and policies that shape and are shaped by […]
The conference website can be found at http://websci13.org The individual papers are not available on jounal.webscience.org.