A new book “The Theory and Practice of Social Machines” has been published by Springer. This is an exciting new output from the SOCIAM project in which the University of Southampton was a partner, together with the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Executive Director of the Web Science Trust and Executive […]
The Dagstuhl report is a document which details the findings of 10 years of Web Science. Named after the ‘Perspectives Workshops’ held in Dagstuhl, June 2018, the report seeks to scope the main impacts that the discipline has formed over the years. These have been highlighted and discussed by a wide interdisciplinary team, with backgrounds […]
For the Web to succeed, we need to understand its societal challenges including increased crime, the impact of social platforms and socio-economic discrimination, and we must work towards fairness, social inclusion, and open governance. Web Science is even more important now than it was when the field was launched ten years ago, say Professors Dame […]
Traditional fact checking by expert journalists cannot keep up with the enormous volume of information that is now generated online. Computational fact checking may significantly enhance our ability to evaluate the veracity of dubious information. Here we show that the complexities of human fact checking can be approximated quite well by finding the shortest path […]
This monograph presents Health Web Science as a sub-discipline of Web Science that, while being concerned with the Web’s impact on health and wellbeing, also examines the impact of the Web’s health-related uses on the design, structure, and evolution of the Web itself. Understanding and appreciating the overlapping, yet divergent disciplinary orientation of Health Web […]
The Web Science conference papers are available from 2009, 2010 and 2011 via our ePrints server on http://journal.webscience.org/ Later papers are available via your local Library subscriptions. UPDATE 2021 This site is no longer available – please use the Wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20170730095839/http://journal.webscience.org/
New Web Observatory Publications are available which introduce the Web Observatory The Web Science Observatory Authors: Thanassis Tiropanis, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, David De Roure, Noshir Contractor and Jim Hendler Abstract: The World Wide Web is the largest information fabric in history.People shop, date, trade and communicate with one another using it. Scientists and researchers […]