Web Science: Understanding the Emergence of Macro-Level Features on the World Wide Web (Foundations and Trends (R) in Web Science)

by Kieron Hara, Noshir S. Contractor, Wendy Hall, James A. Hendler, and Nigel Shadbolt

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Understanding the Web is a problem on a par with other complex scientific challenges such as climate change or the human genome. The requirement for understanding should ideally be accompanied by some measure of control, which makes Web Science crucial in the future provision of tools for managing our interactions, our politics, our economics, our entertainment, and - not least - our knowledge and data sharing.

The Web is a critical infrastructure that underpins increasingly many of our transactions, and yet is barely understood by policymakers. This monograph considers the development of Web Science since the publication A...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781601987440
  • Publish Date 18 December 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
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