Strategies for a Humanistic Digital Future – Third Vienna Workshop on Digital Humanism You can find the full program at https://dighum.ec.tuwien.ac.at/program2020/ Join experts and policy-makers in online discussions on Digital Humanism via Zoom: https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/96389928143?pwd=UU5YRkNuRmdoWHV4MFBwMWRCcUErdz09 (Password: 0dzqxqiy) Date and time: Thursday, 19 November 2020, 4:00-6:45pm CET and Friday, 20 November 2020, 4:00-6:45pm CET or watch via […]
The University of Southampton is hosting the W3S Web Science summer school from the 20th to the 26th of July. The course is aimed at Masters and PhD students studying Web Science or a related discipline who wish to learn more about the tools and methods required to manage and process the increasingly large and […]
The University of Southampton celebrated 10 years of Web Science at a vibrant event at the Royal Society in London yesterday to officially launch the new Web Science Institute (WSI) which brings together the activities of the Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), the Southampton/Fraunhofer joint venture (SoFWired), co-operations with other Web Science research […]
Inspired by the pioneering work of the World Wide Web Foundation and the global ‘Web We Want’ campaign, Southbank Centre announces a major festival spanning Sep 2014 – May 2015 that looks at the extraordinary impact the web has had on individuals, governments and societies at large. The ‘Web We Want’ festival is dedicated to […]
April 5 -6 2014, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA The Build Peace Conference brings together practitioners, activists and technologists from around the world to share experience and ideas on using technology for peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Technology is altering how we engage with the world, offering new avenues for social change. Over the course of […]
The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014) which will be held from April 7 to 11, 2014 in Seoul, Korea. The World Wide Web Conference is an annual international conference on the topics of the future direction of the World Wide Web. The Conference is an outstanding international forum to present and discuss […]
ACM WebSci14 (http://www.websci14.org/) will be hosted by Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. The ACM Web Science 2014 Conference will be hosted on the beautiful campus of Indiana University, Bloomington from June 23 to June 26, 2014. Web Science studies the vast information network of people, communities, organizations, applications, and policies that shape and are shaped by […]
Boston Web Observatory Workshop (WOW) – 2013 Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA (room tbc) Date: 9th October 2013 Time: 09:30 – 17:30 Overview The Boston Web Observatory Workshop (WOW) builds upon the success of the 1st international workshop on ‘Building Web Observatories’ held at Web Science 2013 in Paris, France, the 1st International Web Observatory Workshop […]
Students, researchers and web scientists came together for a hackathon-sytle meet-up hosted by Mark Musen and the team at Stanford. Post-grad researchers Ramine Tinati, Chris Phethean and Ian Brown from Southampton introduced the day with presentations of their research interests including: Social Media effectiveness for Charities, Message propgation in Social Networks and Observation – how […]
The 1st International Web Observatory Workshop WOW2013 in conjunction with WWW Conference 2013 in Rio WOW2013 will be held on May 14th 2013 in conjunction with the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13-17th May 2013. The workshop provides a focus for the emerging Web Observatory community to share tools, […]