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Web Science: Do We Need a New Disc. I'm in a panel at WWW2007 on Web Science, essentially a proposal for a new discipline.

Web Science: Do We Need a New Disc

The field would be interdisciplinary, taking things from areas as diverse as sociology, physics, biology, law, and psychology, as well as the areas you might immediately think of like computer science or math. What is Web Science? Here's a quote from a Science paper on Web Science: When we discuss an agenda for a science of the Web, we use the term "science" in two ways. Physical and biological science analyzes the natural world, and tries to find microscopic laws that, extrapolated to the macroscopic realm, would generate the behavior observed.

The Web Science Method, is a cycle, which Tim Berners-Lee used as an underlying framework for his talk this morning. So what makes Web Science worthy of being a new discipline? Peter makes the point that if Web Science is merely a collection of informaticians with a common application area, that's not a new discipline.

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Conférences. Wiki. Tim Berners-Lee Announces Web Science Initiative - Studying the. This morning I participated in a conference call by MIT and the University of Southampton in Britain, announcing an initiative called Web Science.

Tim Berners-Lee Announces Web Science Initiative - Studying the

Tim Berners-Lee is leading the program, which is essentially about formalizing a new kind of scientific discipline called Web Science. The goal is to understand the deeper structure of the social Web and how people are using it. But as well as studying the Web, they also hope to shape the future of the Web. Web science will have both social and engineering dimensions. As the NY Times reported, it will include the emerging research in social networks and the social sciences that is being used to study how people behave on the Web. As Berners-Lee summarized it in a pre-conference interview with the BBC: "What we're saying is that it's becoming so important that things like Wikipedia are being created, new business models are emerging and that it's changing our lives so much that we have to have a science to understand this.

" Summary. Web Studies 2010 // First International Congress. March 3 - 5, 2. Collide2.jpg. Objets-frontière. Revue Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances 2010/1, Retour sur. Web Science - Web Science Trust. Curriculum - WebScienceTrustWiki. From WebScienceTrustWiki This page is for discussions on the curriculum of Web Science degrees at various levels.

Curriculum - WebScienceTrustWiki

If you would like to add a resource, please email Les Carr, lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk . Proposed Curriculum Topics A first draft of a list of topics that should be covered in a Web Science course was discussed at the Network For Web Science Workshop on Web Science Curriculum in September 2008. It is listed in detail on the curriculum topics page.