The web as an application platform
(1DV527)
Web Science
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The vision
A platform which support learning, collaboration, spreading of ideas and productive discussions for the good of society!
Consumers, Producers, Procumers
The web has change the world! - Academic
Commerce
The web has change the world!
- ...
- Press and information
- News reporting
- Media
- Entertainment
- Military
- Cyber attacks
- Laws and rules
- The web is global
- ...
A call for a new science! - Web Science
- How does the web affect the society?
- How do the web and it services change our behavior
- How does the society affect the web?
- demands of laws
- requirements of security, policing, commercial demands
What science is Web Science?
- Computer science and the web
- Web architecture, protocols
- Programing, web technologies, algorithms
- Big data, web intelligence, AI
- Could computer science alone answer these questions?
- Study of the effect the web have, not only on computing, but also on society
- Web Science - A socio-technical view
Web Science - The study of the web
- Web Technologies - Architecture, protocols etc.
- Handle the growth of the web
- The web of data
- Linked data, the semantic web
- Big Data, Web Mining, Web Intelligence, AI
- The web and society
- Social machines, Social media and personalized web
- Balance between data ownership and privacy protection
- Balance between over-whelming surveillance and prevention of terrorism
- Social machines, Social media and personalized web
- Web Observatory
- Analyze past patterns of web usage to create forecast models to understand impacts of emerging technologies
Social machines
- “Processes in which the people do the creative work and the machine does the administration”
- How to use the cognitive capacities of many million people
- Developing principles for successful design and governance of these sites
- Social Media
- Zooniverse (citizen science)
- Galaxy Zoo (crowdsourced astronomy)
Resources
The essay
- Webben som en kommunikationsplattform
- Stödjande för en kollektiv intelligens eller en skog av troll
- Web AI och de etiska aspekterna
- Förstår vi när vi tappat kontrollen?
- Bitcoin och dess blockkedja
- Kryptovalutor, miljövidrigt eller demokratiskt?
Social media and news feeds
- Social media is a good idea?
- Arabic spring...
- Is social media free?
- They want our attention
- Get information, present relevant ads
- Optimized algorithms for news feeds
- Could they create polarisation in our society?
- They want our attention
- Do Facebook or Twitter have to take responsibility for this?
AI and ethics
- Technology vs. ethics
- Fooling chat boots
- Self driving cars - who will be responsible?
- Automated discrimination
- Your digital behavior will judge you
- Weblining
- Web tracking
- Are we risking of delaying development?