Publications

Papers

Search or select  recommended Web Science papers.

Books

Search or select recent and recommended books including some from the founders of Web Science.

Wider Reading

As a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach Web Science topics are often hidden in different titles and topics. Here are are few “accidental”  Web Science pieces.

Journals

Featuring our own Journal of Web Science and the proceedings of the ACM Web Science conference.

Web3: The Promise and the Reality

Web3: The Promise and the Reality

Privacy, Privacy Enhancing Technologies & the Individual

Privacy, Privacy Enhancing Technologies & the Individual

Atlas of AI

Atlas of AI

An Ugly Truth

An Ugly Truth

Perspectives on Digital Humanism

Perspectives on Digital Humanism

Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency,

Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency,

#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice,

#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice,

Facebook: The Inside Story,

Facebook: The Inside Story,

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

Researching Internet Governance: Methods, Frameworks, Futures

Researching Internet Governance: Methods, Frameworks, Futures

The Anonymisation Decision-Making Framework: European Practitioners’ Guide

The Anonymisation Decision-Making Framework: European Practitioners’ Guide

No Filter: The Inside Story of How Instagram Transformed Business, Celebrity and Our Culture

No Filter: The Inside Story of How Instagram Transformed Business, Celebrity and Our Culture

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency

Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency

If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future

If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future

Big Data and Democracy

Big Data and Democracy

Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, From the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, From the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

Open: The Story of Human Progress

Open: The Story of Human Progress

Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

A First Course in Network Science,

A First Course in Network Science,

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond,

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond,

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir,

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir,

A Europe fit for the Digital Age

A Europe fit for the Digital Age

Valuing data: foundations for data policy

Valuing data: foundations for data policy

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices To Build The Worlds We Need

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices To Build The Worlds We Need

Web Science: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Web

Web Science: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Web

Web Science: a new frontier

Web Science: a new frontier

A Manifesto for Web Science @10

A Manifesto for Web Science @10

Web Science in Europe: Beyond Boundaries

Web Science in Europe: Beyond Boundaries

Web Science Emerges

Web Science Emerges

The Web Observatory Extension: Facilitating Web Science Collaboration through Semantic Markup

The Web Observatory Extension: Facilitating Web Science Collaboration through Semantic Markup

Web Evolution and Web Science

Web Evolution and Web Science

The Web Observatory: A Middle Layer for Broad Data

The Web Observatory: A Middle Layer for Broad Data

The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

The Web Science Observatory

The Web Science Observatory

Web Science: Understanding the Emergence of Macro-Level Features on the World Wide Web

Web Science: Understanding the Emergence of Macro-Level Features on the World Wide Web

Social Machines: The Coming Collision of AI, Social Networking & Humanity

Social Machines: The Coming Collision of AI, Social Networking & Humanity

10 Years of Web Science

10 Years of Web Science

Health Web Science

Health Web Science

A framework for Web Science

A framework for Web Science

Broad Data: Exploring the emerging web of data

Broad Data: Exploring the emerging web of data

Four Internets: The Geopolitics of Digital Governance

Four Internets: The Geopolitics of Digital Governance

Journal of Web Science

Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast information network of people and communities. It also includes the study of people and communities by using the digital records of user activity mediated by the Web.

An understanding of human behavior and social interaction can contribute to our understanding of the Web, and data obtained from the Web can contribute to our understanding of human behavior and social interaction. Accordingly, Web Science involves analysis and design of Web architecture and applications, as well as studies of the people, organizations, and policies that shape and are shaped by the Web.

To address these diverse goals, The Journal of Web Science is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, and other disciplines. We therefore invite research papers describing original research from all the above disciplines, as well as those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries.

In order to best serve the community, The Journal of Web Science will provide immediate open access to its content. Accepted papers will be published online immediately upon acceptance. The copyright of the published articles stays with the authors. It is free for authors as well as for readers.

Wolfgang Nejdl

Editor-in-Chief

Foundations & Trends in Web Science

The growth in all aspects of research in the last decade has led to a multitude of new publications and an exponential increase in published research. Finding a way through the excellent existing literature and keeping up to date has become a major time-consuming problem. Electronic publishing has given researchers instant access to more articles than ever before. But which articles are the essential ones that should be read to understand and keep abreast with developments of any topic? To address this problem Foundations and Trends® in Web Science publishes high-quality survey and tutorial monographs of the field.

Each issue of Foundations and Trends®in Web Science comprises a 50-100 page monograph written by research leaders in the field. Monographs that give tutorial coverage of subjects, research retrospectives as well as survey papers that offer state-of-the-art reviews fall within the scope of the journal.

Wendy Hall

Editor-in-Chief

Noshir Contractor

Editor-in-Chief

Kieron O'Hara

Editor-in-Chief