New WSTNet Lab announced: University of Texas at Austin
We are pleased to announce a new WSTNet Lab as we welcome the University of Texas at Austin under the leadership of Dhiraj Murthy and his Computational Media Lab to the network. We will catch up with Dhiraj and his team over the coming months for an interview and we...
UK regulator AI warnings
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued a warning about the potential risks of artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models. These AI systems, trained on massive, unlabeled data sets, underpin large language models and can be used for various...
WebSci’24 Call for Papers
Call for Papers Important Dates Thu, November 30, 2023: Paper submission deadline Wed, January 31, 2024: Notification Thu, February 29, 2024: Camera-ready versions due Tue-Fri, May 21 – May 24, 2024: Conference dates All dates are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth time ...
WSTNet Interview: Matt Weber
Ian: Matt, it feels strange to welcome you as our newest Lab Director when I think I've known you as part of the Web Science community for at least 10 years Matt: Probably longer - I think my interest in Web Science and particularly Web data goes back to the very...
Brave Conversations London ’23
The next Brave Conversation will take place on Thursday 20th July at Newspeak House in London. Brave Conversations London 2023 This is our 22nd Brave Conversations event and our third in London. At our first in 2018 we had only just launched Brave Conversations and...
Dame Wendy Hall on AI
Dame Wendy Hall gives an interview on Sky News on the future of AI, the possibility of long-term dangers and how we can pragmatically engage with the risks of disinformation in the short term
Digital Modernity
Digital Modernity “Modernity” is a social, cultural, or historical descriptor for a certain type of society or set of social arrangements. It is a contentious and disputed term, often understood implicitly. It is a way of describing and classifying highly...
Wendy Hall on BBC News 24
Following the resignation of Geoffrey Hinton from Google and associated comments regarding his concerns around the direction of AI research WST CEO Dame Wendy Hall spoke to the BBC. Interview footage provided courtesy of BBC News.Prof. Dame Wendy Hall of the...
WebSci’23 is now over and WebSci’24 is coming to Germany
WebSci'23 is now over and we thank everyone who made it such as success. We'll keep you posted on the proceedings and any follow-up news whilst keeping you up-to-date on preprations for the next event in Stuttgart, Germany May 21 – 24, 2024.
ACM WebSci’24 comes to Germany
@ststaab and his team of local organizers invites the Web Science Community to Stuttgart, Germany for #WebSci24, taking place May 21 - 24, 2024.
Web Science Trust selects 2023 winner of Test of Time award
The annual Web Science Trust (WST) Test of Time Award has been awarded to Nam P. Nguyen (Towson University), Guanhua Yan (Binghamton University), My T. Thai (University of Florida) and Stephan Eidenbenz (Los Alamos National Laboratory) for their work titled...
WebSci’23 Best Paper Awards
Warmest congratulation to Best Paper Winners Satrio Yudhoatmojo, Emiliano De Cristofaro andJeremy Blackburn for their paper titled "Understanding the Use of e-Prints on Redditand 4chan's Politically Incorrect Board".Congratulations also to Xinyu Wang, Maggie Wu and...
WebSci’23 News Bulletin 4
15th ACM Web Science Conference: Inequalities in the Face of Concurrent Crises 30 April – 1 May 2023 Austin, Texas, USA (and online) https://websci23.webscience.org/ With less than two weeks to go until the start of this year’s Web Science Conference, here comes our...
Web3 – the promise and the reality
Web3 describes a group of technologies for managing collective interactions on the internet while avoiding centralised control, granting users agency over access to their data, and managing distribution of value as digital assets. The technologies are distributed...
Bob Metcalfe to give Turing Award lecture
CONNECTIVITY The most important new fact about the human condition is that we are now suddenly connected. When I say “suddenly” I refer to the Internet’s birthday, October 29, 1969 and how two thirds of the human race, five billion people, are already on the Internet,...
WebSci’23 News Bulletin
15th ACM Web Science Conference: Inequalities in the Face of Concurrent Crises 30 April – 1 May 2023 Austin, Texas, USA (and online) With the full conference program now being available on our website (https://websci23.webscience.org/program/), this second bulletin...
Upcoming Brave Conversation
The next Brave Conversations event will take place on Friday 12th May, 2023, this time in the heart of the Eurozone in Brussels … this is the public first face to face we’ve held in a few years … See the Brave Conversations website: Brussels 2023...
WebSci’23 Programme
Sun, April 30 7:30 am - 9:00 am: Breakfast (provided) 10:00 am - 10:30 am: Opening Remarks 10:30 am - 11:00 pm: Break (snacks provided) 11:00 pm - 12:30 pm: Politics and Ideology Paper Session 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch (provided) 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Language and...
WebSci’23 Travel Grants
15th ACM Web Science Conference: Inequalities in the Face of Concurrent Crises30 April – 1 May 2023Austin, Texas, USA (and online)https://websci23.webscience.org/ WebSci and SIGWEB are pleased to announce the availability of a fund to help support attendance to WebSci...
WebSci’23 Registration now open
This year, ACM WebSci’23 is co-located with The Web Conference. You can choose to register for both The Web Conference and WebSci or for WebSci only (in person or virtually). Early bird registration ends on 15 March. For WebSci, the registration rates are the same...