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...
Call for Interest: WebSci’24 and WebSci’25
Deadline: 3 February 2023 ********************************************************************************************************** The Steering Committee of ACM WebSci is seeking statements of interest from organizations or consortia interested in hosting the 16th...
Book Release: Digital Modernity
In this monograph, O’Hara reviews the literature that characterises what is called digital modernity. Digital modernity narratives focus on the possibilities of the data gathered by an ambient data infrastructure, enabled by ubiquitous devices such as the smartphone,...
WebSci’23 Call for Papers
About the Web Science Conference Web Science is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding the complex and multiple impacts of the Web on society and vice versa. The discipline is well situated to address pressing issues of our time by incorporating various...
In Conversation with: George Metakides
In this interview we sit down with Prof. George Metakides, one of our esteemed WST trustees, to talk about democracy in the digital space and why you should be concerned. Ian: George, thanks very much for taking the time to chat with me today. George: Always pleased...
Autumn 2022 Newsletter
View this email in your browser Autumn Issue: 2022 In this issue … ACM Web Science Conference 2023New WSTNet Labs: Welcome Stuttgart & RutgersDigital Democracy - In Conversation with George MetakidesPublications of InterestOutreach Events ACM Web Science...
Rutgers: Welcome to WSTNet
Please join me in welcoming Matt Weber as the new WSTNet Lab Director part of the NetSci group in the School of Information and Communication at Rutgers. We'll be interviewing Matt in the upcoming weeks to talk about his group, his research interests and how how he...