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 […]
For the 2016 US Presidential election, researchers at the University of Southampton with support from the EPSRC funded project SOCIAM, built a real-time data visualization that combined traditional polling data with social media posts. The application was built and designed for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute EMPAC Campfire, a novel multi-user, collaborative, immersive, computing interface that consist of a desk height […]
WSTNet Lab Directors got together at the start of the Web Science Conference this week in Hannover, Germany. Highlights of the meeting include the election of Steffen Staab as Chair and Pete Burnap as Vice-Chair, planning for this years’ Web Science Summer School at University of Koblenz (30 June to 6 July – #wwsss16), and firming up of arrangements for […]
ACM Web Science 2015 28 June to 1 July 2015 University of Oxford, UK http://websci15.org/ Call for Papers & Posters Web Science is the emergent study of the people and technologies, applications, processes and practices that shape and are shaped by the World Wide Web. Web Science aims to draw together theories, methods and findings from […]
In an article about the newly announced Digital Advisory Board of experts to advise and support the Government Digital Service, Board Member Helen Margetts said “we need to make sure that interacting with the government is easy to do”. Full Article
Slate reports on a controversial pre-crime screening programme being developed by the US Department of Homeland Security. It refers to and quotes from an article by OII student Alexander Furnes in The Atlantic arguing that it will never work. Full Article
Professor Helen Margetts has been awarded an ESRC Professorial Fellowship for ‘The Internet and Political Science: re-examining collective action, governance and citizen-government interactions in the digital era’ for the period 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2014. The aim of this research is to assess: Where political science understanding, knowledge and theory should be re-examined and […]