The Sociology of the Web

A sociologist's description of the Web as a socially constructed/discovered/encountered piece of technology.

Looking at the Web Science 2009 Conference

The first International Conference on Web Science is taking place in Athens, concurrently with this course. The material here will allow you to get familiar with the conference presentations and posters so that you can write a summary of the conference from a particular topical perspective. (Both the attached HTML summaries are currently in draft form and need to have the preview images and metadata checked.)

WSA Web 2.0 Presentation

by Adam Procter for Learning & Teaching week at University of Southampton 2009

Law, The Universe and Everything. The Regulation of the Web

Web Science lecture about the impact of law on the web and vice versa.

Mapping the Web and Web Science

This tutorial material introduces an activity in which the students are asked to redraw Tim Berners-Lee's map of the Web to include Web Science.

Photoshop web links

Find out more about Photoshop with this share of links.

Who Invented the Web?

It is received wisdom that Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web; but there is a lot more technology and historical context that plays a part.

BLOODHOUND@University web portal

BLOODHOUND@University web portal hosted by the University of the West of England Bristol.

Web 2.0 for Creatives

Lecture on web 2.0 and its impact and use for creative thinkers/artists.

Voices for writing essays, reports, web pages, blogs etc.

Looks at the different ways we write for different audiences.

Communities and the Web

What is a social network? How does an online community differ from a real world community? See also: Anne Hornsby, 'Surfing the net for community: a Durkheimian analysis of electronic gatherings' ch.3 in Peter Kivisto (ed.) Illuminating Social Life (3rd ed 2005). Libr ref HM51KIV. Graham Crow and Catherine Maclean, 'Community' in Geoff Payne (ed.) Social Divisions (2nd ed. 2006) HM821PAY.

Web 2.0. What is it - and is it any different?

Looks at what Web 2.0 is, - people, business and technology and questions whether this is simply a continuation of Web 1.0

Mapping the Web

Different attempts to 'map' different aspects of the web. How do you impose some sort of high level understanding onto the Web Graph?