{"id":4975,"date":"2016-10-12T08:13:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T08:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2016-10-19T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T08:16:54","slug":"web-science-age-social-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/web-science-age-social-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Science: the age of the social machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally written and published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webscience.org\/2016\/10\/13\/web-science-social-machine\/\">Web Science Trust blog<\/a> by Tim O&#8217;Riordan.<\/p>\n<p>At the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/wsi\/news\/events\/2016\/10\/wsi-lunch-seminar.page?\" target=\"_blank\">Web Science Institute seminar<\/a>\u00a0held earlier this week WST board advisor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webscience.org\/faq\/ms-anni-rowland-campbell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anni Rowland-Campbell<\/a> spoke on\u00a0the 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\u00a0Tim Berners-Lee&#8217;s proposal of the Web where\u00a0the \u201cpeople do the creative work and the machine does the administration\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webscience.org\/2016\/10\/13\/web-science-social-machine\/#1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>. Setting out to challenge\u00a0this, Rowland-Campbell argued that\u00a0the balance between \u201cman\u201d and \u201cmachine\u201d is changing, and the idea of humanity is changing as a result. In her talk she\u00a0provides a number of suggestions\u00a0on\u00a0how this\u00a0symbiotic relationship between man and machine may\u00a0play out.\u00a0<a name=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csNXUi9arH8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csNXUi9arH8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Berners-Lee, T and Fischetti, M, <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=556560\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Weaving the Web: The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web<\/em><\/a>, Harper Collins, New York, 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally written and published on the Web Science Trust blog by Tim O&#8217;Riordan. 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