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https://twitter.com/ClareJHooper/status/1281276754137473026 Posted on behalf of Ian Brown In Thursday’s “Meet the Author” session Dame Wendy Hall (Exec Director of Southampton’s Web Science institute) spoke to Prof. Phil Howard Director of the Oxford Internet Institute about his work in Web Science and his latest book “Lie Machines”. Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Maria Priestley Our intention behind the “Evolutionary Thinking for the Web” workshop was to explore some of the metaphors that compare the Web to an evolving ecosystem, and to discuss how this process can be studied scientifically. This year’s online conference format provided a unique opportunity to bring together academics who may otherwise not have had a chance to meet. Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Robert Thorburn Day two of the 2020 Web Science conference saw a series of workshops covering topics ranging from Cyber Crime to Digital (In)Equality. The fourth of these workshops, chaired by Prof Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, investigated whether explanations for AI are computable. Focus areas included the participation of AI systems in socially sensitive decision making and how to approach such systems when they function as black boxes. Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Juljan Krause In this engaging keynote, James Hendler called on everyone who researches the Web to get involved in shaping it. Jim first made clear that the Web and the Internet are not the same and explained how some of the misconceptions that people used to have played out at the time when the Web was just one of many edge network applications that sit on the Internet. Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Sebastien Combret Keynote talk: Whose Web? A call to action for doing web science in uncertain times. Keynote speaker: Professor Gina Neff; Pauline Leonard: Programme Chair. Professor Gina Neff is a Senior research fellow and associate professor at the Oxford Internet Institute and department of sociology at the University of Oxford. She is a pioneer in the area of human-centred data science. Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Nina Schuller Session on Politics:  Politics on Digital Platforms This session, chaired by Claire Hooper, explored findings from four studies on Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram. Corrado Monti and colleagues had developed predictive modelling of who would join a Reddit pro-Trump community.  They found that groups and homophily played a greater role than linguistics features. Continue reading →

Posted on Behalf of Nina Schuller Spotlight Panel 2 on Policies and Practices:  Covid 19, digital Inclusion and the issues of identity and trust   Anni Rowland-Campbell began the session by asking the Panel how they felt the Web should change, and why it should change. Each of the panellists, including Adrian Lovett, David Birch, Harriet Rees, Jie Tang, responded with presentations looking at specific policy and practice issues.  Common ground was quickly established. Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Juljan Krause Paper Session 3: Networks Session Chair: Stuart Middleton It was all nodes, edges, webs and cores in today’s packed paper sessions on networks. The six presenters were asked to give an overview of 5min each (the full 20-min papers are available on the conference website). Kai from Arizona State University introduced his team’s work on ‘Joint Local and Global Sequence Modeling in Temporal Correlation Networks for Trending Topic Detection’. Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Sofia Kitromili Web Science now more than ever The first spotlight panel of the Web Science conference 2020 saw the chair Rennie Fritchie welcoming attendees and introducing an elite of panellists (Wendy Hall, James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Daniel Weitzner, Noshir Contractor, Tim Berners-Lee) who were involved in the web science initiative that led to the web science that we know today. Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Ian Brown Meet the Author: In Wednesday’s "Meet the Author" session Sasha Costanza-Chock, author of “Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need” spoke with Bindi Shah researcher at University of Southampton about Sasha’s work on Social Justice both as a methodology based on key design principles and also as a community of practice who are actively engaging in community-led design. Continue reading →