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#webSci21: Final day review

Spotlight Panel 6: Does Decentralisation Help the Disenfranchised? Despite the advantages of blockchain technology, the world has experienced many self-serving projects profiteering from often desperate people in the name of decentralisation. This panel answered some hard questions regarding disenfranchisement and decentralisation. Continue reading →

#websci21: Review of Day 3

Meet the Authors The “Four Internets” chat hosted by Anni Rowland-Campbell featured authors Kieron O’Hara & Wendy Hall discussing their book “Four Internets: Data, Geopolitics and the Governance of Cyberspace” which focuses on how the internet has been fractured by Data, Geopolitics and the Governance of Cyberspace. Continue reading →

#websci21: Review of Day 2

Data Literacy workshop A number of themes were raised in the data literacy workshop which took place at WebSci21 on 22nd of June. These included questions surrounding data literacy and its place in the classroom, how adults from disadvantaged backgrounds could access it, and the ethics of data literacy in fields such as data science. Continue reading →

#websci21: Review of Day 1

We started off day one of the Web Science Conference with the PhD Symposium. Allison Noble, Web Science PhD student, summarised her participation in this event as follows: "A number of experienced academics gathered at the Web Science PhD Symposium in order to provide PhD students (at different stages of their candidature) an opportunity to showcase their research goals and to receive feedback on their ongoing research on an international platform. Continue reading →

NVivo

By Karla de Lima Guedes | iPhD Web Science Student Thanks to the Web Science CDT training fund, I had the opportunity to attend two National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) training courses: (1) Introduction to NVivo in March/21 and (2) Analysing Literature and Documents with NVivo in April/21. Continue reading →

Quantum Computing Fundamentals at the MIT

By Juljan Krause | iPhD Web Science Student Earlier this year, I did a 10-week training course in quantum computing and communication with xPRO, the professional development unit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I’m proud to say that I graduated with an overall mark of 97/100 and a Professional Certificate that carries a whopping 4.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Continue reading →

INLG Conference and the ‘Evaluating NLG Evaluations’ Workshop

By Lesia Tkacz | Web Science iPhD student Thanks to the Web Science CDT training fund, I had the opportunity to attend the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2020) which was held online from Dublin from 15 to 18 December. As a subfield of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Generation (NLG) generates text from data. Continue reading →

Exploring’Being Human’ Through A Computer Generated Novel

Web Science CDT student Lesia Tkacz Winchester School of Art Alumna Dr Noriko Suzuki-Bosco After enjoying the collaboration process on a short WSA community building project, Tkacz and Suzuki-Bosco teamed up again to create a workshop for the University of Southampton’s 2020 Human Worlds Festival. Continue reading →

WebSci’20 – an online event by Ian Coombs and Justyna Lisinska

Back in July, the University hosted the WebSci'20 international conference. This was an opportunity for academics from across the world to descend on Southampton to share their research, discuss topics of common interest, network and otherwise socialise. WebSci'20 brought together researchers from various disciplines including computer and information science, economy, communication and health science. Continue reading →

Making the Web Human-Centric: New Directions in the Web and AI for Countering Violent Extremism – Ashton Kingdon

Thirty years have passed since Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. In his 2019 open letter on the future of this technology, he opined that whilst the Web has created some wonderful opportunities, giving marginalised groups a voice, and making our daily lives easier, it has also created opportunities for the spreading of misinformation, giving a voice to those who disseminate hatred, and made many types of crime easier to commit. Continue reading →

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