Episode 6: “Hashtag Activism” and #WebScience with Brooke Foucault Welles Our guest for this episode (19 min. long) is Brooke Foucault Welles. She recently co-authored the award-winning book, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice. Brooke studies how online communication networks enable and constrain behavior, with particular emphasis on how these networks both enhance and mitigate […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Episode 2: Symphonic Social Science – and Web Science with Susan Halford For this episode, (20 min. long) we talk with Susan Halford, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Futures at the University of Bristol in the UK. Susan has been at the forefront of championing a deeper engagement between social […]
Episode 1: Web Science – Why now more than ever? with Jim Hendler In this episode, (27 min. long) we talk with Jim Hendler, Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in the US. Jim was one of the pioneers who envisioned the need to develop an interdisciplinary […]