Web science
Web science is the study of large-scale socio-technical systems, such as the World Wide Web. It considers the relationship between people and technology, the ways that society and technology co-constitute one another and the impact of this co-constitution on broader society. Web Science is inherently interdisciplinary [1] and combines research from disciplines as diverse as sociology, computer science, economics and mathematics.
An earlier definition was given by American computer scientist Ben Shneiderman: "Web Science" is a term that refers to processing the information available on the web in similar terms to those applied to natural environment.[2]
Research Groups
There are numerous academic research groups engaged in Web Science research,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] many of which are members of WSTNet, the Web Science Trust Network of research labs.
Related major conferences
- ACM Web Science Conference: http://www.websci14.org/
- International World Wide Web Conference (WWW): http://www.www2014.org/
- International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM): http://www.icwsm.org/2013/
- The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI): http://chi2013.acm.org/
See also
References
- ^ James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee, and Daniel Weitzner. 2008. Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the web. Commun. ACM 51, 7 (July 2008), 60-69. DOI=10.1145/1364782.1364798 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1364782.1364798
- ^ Ben Shneiderman. 2007. Web science: a provocative invitation to computer science. Commun. ACM 50, 6 (June 2007), 25-27. DOI=10.1145/1247001.1247022 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1247001.1247022
- ^ http://tw.rpi.edu/web/wsrc Web Science Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- ^ http://eng.webst.kaist.ac.kr/ Division of Web Science and Technology, KAIST, Korea
- ^ Institute for Web Science and Technologies, University of Koblenz-Landau
- ^ E-Business and Web Science Research Group at Bundeswehr University Munich
- ^ The Web Science Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Southampton
- ^ The Web Sciences Masters program at the Johannes Kepler University Linz
- ^ Web Science Institute, University of Southampton
- ^ The Interdisciplinary Research Unit in Web Science at Saint-Joseph University of Beirut
External links
- Why do we need web science research
- A Framework for Web Science
- Talk on web science by W3C
- MSc on Web Science at Institute WeST, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
- MSc on Web Sciences divided into different branches of study at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- MSc on Web Science and Big Data Analytics at University College London, UK
- What is Web Science? (Video clip)
- The Web Science Education Workshop
- The Web Science Education Map
- Master's Programme WebScience at Cologne University of Applied Sciences