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Learning in the Network Age: Round 2

Our Learning in the Network Age MOOC with FutureLearn is running again for two weeks from 24th July. You can sign up here. The web is having a significant impact on the way we learn. Learning today is much more than just attending lectures and classes. It involves interacting with a powerful online and offline network of people, technology, services and information in ways, places and times of our choosing. Continue reading →

Learning in the Network Age MOOC – starts 24th April

Our latest course in the Web Science series of MOOCs is called Learning in the Network Age and it begins on 24th April. The course will be run by Lisa Harris and Nic Fair from the Web Science Institute and it includes contributions from a number of other university staff, students and alumni. Continue reading →

WSI Lunch Seminar: Data Literacy

Last week at our regular WSI lunch event, two of the guest editors of the Journal of Community of Informatics Special Issue on Data Literacy, Johanna Walker and Mark Frank, presented an overview of the journal and talked about some of their own adventures in data literacy that had brought them to the subject. In the first part of the talk they discussed approaches to defining data literacy. Continue reading →

10 years of Web Science #WebSci10

It was great to see so much energy and enthusiasm on display at the 10th Birthday of Web Science - both online and offline. The view from outside the London venue was spectacular and #WebSci10 was also trending on Twitter :-) https://twitter. Continue reading →

Real-time Twitter Visualisations for the US 2016 Presidential Elections

Authored by Dominic DiFranzo, and originally published on the Web Science Trust Blog For the 2016 US Presidential election, researchers at the University of Southampton with support from the EPSRC funded project SOCIAM, built a real-time data visualisation that combined traditional polling data with social media posts. Continue reading →

Web Science students interview Vice Chancellor

Web Science undergraduates and Student Digital Champions Tom Davidson and Tom Rowledge, together with Education PhD students Sharifa Al'Adawi and Abdulsalam Almanthari, recently interviewed the Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Christopher Snowden. The objective was to raise awareness of the Researching Assessment Practices (RAP) strategy and encourage more students to participate in the project. https://www.youtube. Continue reading →

Celebrating 10 years of Web Science

On Tuesday 29th November we will be celebrating 10 years of Web Science by bringing together an international group of leading web scientists and industry experts. We will be looking back at how the digital world has transformed all our lives over the last decade, and looking forward to what the next ten years and beyond might bring. https://www.youtube. Continue reading →

A triple bill of great events

Adapted from a post published on the Digichamps blog written by Tom Davidson Busy week: Anni Rowland-Campbell, W3C UKI Launch, and Professor Jeanette Hoffman/ Digichamps ©2016 Friday, 14 October was a busy day to round off a busy week for the Southampton Web Science Institute. On Tuesday, the Institute held the first distinguished lecture of the week, welcoming Anni Rowland-Campbell who spoke about social machines in a talk that was very interesting and well received. Continue reading →

Web Science: the age of the social machine

Originally written and published on the Web Science Trust blog by Tim O'Riordan. At the Web Science Institute seminar held earlier this week WST board advisor, Anni Rowland-Campbell spoke on the socio-technical changes that are happening in the world as a result of the Social Machine, which began with the World Wide Web. The talk focused on Tim Berners-Lee's proposal of the Web where the “people do the creative work and the machine does the administration”1. Continue reading →

A Personal Review of my Year as a Digichamp

Post authored by Tom Davidson and originally published on the Digichamps blog Summer is traditionally thought of as a time of reflection for students (whatever you might think, it is!) and that is exactly what I aim to do in this article. Specifically, I'm going to reflect on my role as a DigiChamp over the course of the past year. Continue reading →

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Lisa Harris

Educational innovator & disruptor at University of Southampton. Champion of Web Science, Digital Literacies & Digital Marketing MOOC. Open access only please. Fascinated by transformative potential of technology for education and business.

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