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 […]
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Spotlight Panel 1: Web Science – now more than ever Rennie Fritchie (Chair), Wendy Hall, James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Daniel Weitzner, Noshir Contractor, Tim Berners-Lee Spotlight Panel 2: Policy and Practices Anni Rowland-Campbell (Chair), Adrian Lovett, David Birch, Harriet Rees, Jie Tang [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.8.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”-33px|||||”] Spotlight Panel 3: Research Roadmap Steffen Staab (Chair), Noshir Contractor, Fabien Gandon, Bettina Berendt, Carolyn Nguyen Spotlight […]
To us you appear to be the only one around who is clinically sane. So concludes Werner Herzog after speaking with Ted Nelson half way through his latest film, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. This may come as no surprise to those who recognise the genius of a director who famously cooked and ate […]
At the Web Science Institute seminar held earlier this week WST board advisor, Anni Rowland-Campbell spoke on the socio-technical changes that are happening in the world as a result of the Social Machine, which began with the World Wide Web. The talk focused on Tim Berners-Lee proposal of the Web where the “people do the creative work and the machine […]