Why the Web Should be an Open Platform
As an open access advocate involved in developing technologies and policies to help the scientific and research communities share knowledge, I often find myself talking about Open Access, Open...
View ArticleWhat Web Science studies is "the InterWebs"
The Internet is made of cats according to the researchers on the YouTube rathergoodstuff channel, although a closer reading of their work reveals a more subtle cat - tube duality reflecting the popular...
View ArticleResearch Ethics and the Webs Private & Public Spaces
In a paper (Six Provocations for Big Data, section 5) related to her forthcoming keynote at the Oxford Internet Institute's "Decade in Internet Time" conference, danah boyd talks about "being in...
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Open vs Closed? An Explosion of Generativity
In a previous posting I have mentioned Jonathan Zittrain's book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, in which he argues that the Internet needs to be open as a "generative system" to allow...
View ArticleThe Sky is Falling (again)
Matt Honan's recent article The Case Against Google tells us that Google is Evil, people are abandoning the Open Web in favour of Closed Ecosystems and it's impossible to search the web without...
View ArticleQueen Anne, Copyright and Illegal Numbers
I have spent a lot of time as a web scientist and open access advocate considering the role of copyright in the web, where by "considering" I mean "banging my head against a wall" and by "role" I mean...
View ArticleEveryone is Deeply Intertwingled
We are only a small way though creating the Web - this network of interlinked documents (Web 1.0), interlinked personal activities (Web 2.0) and interlinked facts (Web 3.0) has only just started to...
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Web Science - Industry Partnerships
The Web Science Doctoral Training Centre has always aimed to have a close relationship with industry, as part of its mission to provide a leadership role in the UK's Digital Economy. With 63 members of...
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The Importance of PhDs
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD is the latest article to come across my social feed whose intent is to pour cold water on the idea of studying for a PhD. It's reproduced in Business Insider, although...
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