The Web Economy: Goods, Users, Models, and Policies

Web Science: Understanding the Emergence of Macro-Level Features on the World Wide Web

“…As argued in the first issue of this journal [44], the Web means that the use of data is no longer characterised by scarcity, but rather by abundance. This -as predicted there and elsewhere -has resulted in new markets, assumptions and political forces [354]. And the drive toward abundance has been made more potent by moves toward open data and the provision of personal data to data subjects.…”

“…Web 2.0/Web 3.0 create many opportunities for users to generate content and share it in self-forming networks, and these need to be modelled in economic terms of incentives and rationality (cf. [354]). …”

Negotiating the web science curriculum through shared educational artefacts

“…Socially, these resources will be annotated collaboratively against the Web Science Trust's curriculum categorization [22]. At the same time, the curriculum is an evolving work which can be revised dynamically via a wiki hosted by the Web Science Trust [21] 2 .…”

“…The web science subject categorisation [22] identifies topic areas which describe the curriculum. For the survey we asked participants to identify the depth of coverage of each of the second level headings in the current curriculum categorisation.…”

“…The categorisation enables 7 http://webscience.org/2010/wssc.html existing courses to be mapped against the categorisation. The categorisation is formally published [22]. There is an abridged version, Table 1 at the end of this paper.…”