Web science

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Human behavior co-constituting the web.

Web science is an emerging interdisciplinary field concerned with the study of large-scale socio-technical systems, particularly the World Wide Web.[1][2] It considers the relationship between people and technology, the ways that society and technology co-constitute one another and the impact of this co-constitution on broader society. Web Science combines research from disciplines as diverse as sociology, computer science, economics, and mathematics.[3]

An earlier definition was given by American computer scientist Ben Shneiderman: "Web Science" is processing the information available on the web in similar terms to those applied to natural environment.[4]

The Web Science Institute describes Web Science as focusing "the analytical power of researchers from disciplines as diverse as mathematics, sociology, economics, psychology, law and computer science to understand and explain the Web. It is necessarily interdisciplinary – as much about social and organizational behaviour as about the underpinning technology."[5]

Research groups[]

There are numerous academic research groups engaged in Web Science research,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] many of which are members of WSTNet, the Web Science Trust Network of research labs. Health Web Science emerged as a sub-discipline of Web Science that studies the role of the Web's impact on human's health outcomes and how to further utilize the Web to improve health outcomes.[14][15][16][17]

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References[]

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  2. ^ Hendler, Jim; Shadbolt, Nigel; Hall, Wendy; Berners-Lee, Tim; Weitzner, Daniel (2008). "Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the web" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 51 (7). doi:10.1145/1364782.1364798. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-01-23. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
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  5. ^ "What is Web Science? – Web Science Institute – University of Southampton". Archived from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
  6. ^ "WSTNet at RPI: Web Science Research Center". 30 October 2012. Archived from the original on 25 June 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  7. ^ "웹사이언스 공학". eng.webst.kaist.ac.kr. Archived from the original on 2013-10-17. Retrieved 2013-03-23.
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  9. ^ "E-Business and Web Science Research Group at Bundeswehr University Munich". Archived from the original on 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
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  12. ^ "New Web Science Institute to explore how the Web will shape our future – Electronics and Computer Science – University of Southampton". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
  13. ^ "UIR Web Science @CEMAM – USJ – Beirut / Lebanon". Archived from the original on 2020-07-13. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
  14. ^ http://www.websci11.org/workshops/health-web-science-workshop/ Archived 2013-11-25 at the Wayback Machine>
  15. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2021-11-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. ^ Luciano, Joanne S; Cumming, Grant P; Wilkinson, Mark D; Kahana, Eva (1 January 2013). "The Emergent Discipline of Health Web Science". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 15 (8): e166. doi:10.2196/jmir.2499. PMC 3758025. PMID 23968998. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  17. ^ Luciano, Joanne S. (2013). "Health Web Science". Foundations and Trends in Web Science. 4 (4): 269–419. doi:10.1561/1800000019.

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