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

O’Hara, Kieron; Contractor, Noshir; Hall, Wendy

doi:10.1561/1800000017

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“…According to Hall and Tiropanis (2012), in its still short life, the Web Science encouraged the creation of a very interesting community of researchers, possessing today a diverse set of theories and methods, beginning to gather scientific evidences and allowing idealists and policymakers to ensure that the effects of the Web on society are largely beneficial. Meanwhile, O'Hara, Contractor, Hall, Hendler, & Shadbolt (2013) confirmed the expectation of Berners-Lee (2007), which expected that:…”

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confidence: 52%

Methodology for the development of an ontology network on the Brazilian national system for the evaluation of higher education (Ontosinaes)

2018

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Ontologies occupy a central position in any conceptual model of the Semantic Web, aiming fundamentally to add explicit semantics to the contents available in the Web. In the domain of Brazilian higher education, especially with regard to the National System for the Evaluation of Higher Education (SINAES), still lacks a reference ontology that can provide a basic conceptualization common to the different stakeholders of the domain. In this work we discuss the role of an ontology network developed with the purpose of improving the quality of the data produced by the different actors, institutions and systems within the domain of SINAES, in addition to facilitating their publication as open and connected data. In particular, we highlight the importance of the NeOn methodology to be followed during the development of an ontology network, demonstrating its role in defining the life cycle and in the articulation of the various processes and activities in the OntoSINAES ontological network development process.

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Methodology for the development of an ontology network on the Brazilian national system for the evaluation of higher education (Ontosinaes)

2018

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“…Much depends on the perspective one takes on Web phenomena, which are often emergent from micro‐scale events, actions, or agents (O'Hara, Contractor, Hall, Hendler, & Shadbolt, ). For instance, Wikipedia qua encyclopedia is an impressive and counterintuitive crowdsourced achievement.…”

Section: Echo Chambers and Public Forumsmentioning

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“…Of course, feedback is key to the emergence of useful macro‐level properties. As long as decisions feed back into the wider system, a parameter—the price, the ranking of a webpage, new links—is determined which will in turn affect further decisions (O'Hara et al, ). Experts can insulate themselves from criticism through their social networks.…”

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Echo Chambers and Online Radicalism: Assessing the Internet's Complicity in Violent Extremism

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Stevens²

2015

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Abstract:The authors consider claims made by various authors that the use of filtering and recommendation technology on the Internet can deprive certain communities of feedback, and instead amplify groups' viewpoints, leading to polarization of opinion across communities, and increases in extremism. The 'echo chamber' arguments of Cass Sunstein are taken as representative of this point of view, and examined in detail in the context of a range of research, theoretical and empirical, quantitative and qualitative, in political science and the sociology of religion, from the last quarter century. The authors conclude that the case has not been made either (a) that echo chambers are necessarily harmful, or (b) that the Internet is complicit in their formation.

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“…That article, and several others that followed, [2][3][4][5][6] led to an emerging field now known as Web Science, which has been growing in the years since that first publication.…”

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Web Science: Now More Than Ever

Hendler

Hall

Contractor³

2018

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

Cited by 25 publications

References 300 publications

Methodology for the development of an ontology network on the Brazilian national system for the evaluation of higher education (Ontosinaes)

Methodology for the development of an ontology network on the Brazilian national system for the evaluation of higher education (Ontosinaes)

Echo Chambers and Online Radicalism: Assessing the Internet's Complicity in Violent Extremism

Web Science: Now More Than Ever

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