Web Science Trust

Webwissenschaft is a scientific research discipline, which examines the importance, effect, development, and social dimensions of the Internet and the World Wide Web. It deals with issues of structures, evaluation, classification, media impact, media convergence and principle of media development in the field of online media. The Webwissenschaft endeavors on the basis and to develop an independent webwissenschaftlichen approach involving media and communication research methods and findings.

Definition

The Webwissenschaft is a transdisciplinary research approach of media and communication science, law, economics, sociology, computer technology, and philosophy. In addition to the theoretical analysis of the Web and a media concept definition of the Internet or the Web it is also operated as an applied science, in which case the concrete development of web design, content production, the retrieval, navigation and usability in the spotlight. stand For the theory of Webwissenschaft both the medial repertoire of the Web ( and the exact amount of necessary media-specific delineation of these forms of representation to the Internet) as well as its socio- cultural significance play a major role. To be clarified is whether the media / mass media Web is regarded as a hybrid medium and how Webtheorien of the traditional single media know chat union discourses benefit.

Formation

Tim Berners -Lee called for in 2006 in his essay "Creating a Science of the Web" in the journal Science, the establishment of an independent Webwissenschaft.

Lee describes the Web as a constructed from specific formal language and protocols room. In this form the human interactions between the creators of websites and their links specific independent and growing structures. These human interactions are regulated by social conventions and laws. Therefore, a Webwissenschaft their nature must be interdisciplinary and aim according to understand the growth of the Web and to formulate approaches produce new and useful models.

Establishment

Tim Berners -Lee has worked with Wendy Hall, James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel J. Weitzner, 2006, the Web Science Research Initiative ( WSRI ) as a merger of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the School of Electronics and Computer Science ( ECS) at the University of Southampton was founded. The aim of the WSRI is to enable the basic scientific approach to deal with the future development of the World Wide Web. The Web Science Trust, the project among others Tim Berners -Lee, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt and Steffen Staab is advised annually of the curriculum in the area of ​​Web Science.

In German-speaking Webwissenschaft is far institutionally established at the following universities:

  • Fachhochschule Köln in the framework of the program " online editor ". This by Prof. Dr. Helmut Volpers ( Institute of Information Science of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne) built BA program exists since 2002 and contains elements of applied Webwissenschaft. Since 2007 Helmut Volpers has held the first professorship for media and Webwissenschaft in Germany.
  • University of Koblenz- Landau, Institute for Web Science and Technologies - WeST as master degree program, completion M.Sc.Web Science, developed by Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab. The course is interdisciplinary and internationally, in addition to the computer science and technical aspects of the Internet are also sociological, linguistic and economic scientific approaches components of the curriculum. The Institute for Web Science and Technologies - WeST is connected to the Web Science Trust.
  • At the University of Koblenz -Landau, a Web Science Summer Academy was first offered in 2010, which will be continued annually since then.
  • The Johannes Kepler University of Linz has introduced a master's degree Webwissenschaften in the winter semester 2011/2012. It is interdisciplinary oriented and open to graduates of various undergraduate studies. It is divided into different branches of study: Social Web, Web Art & Design, Web Business & Economy, Web Engineering, Web and law.
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