Course: Web Science: How the Web Is Changing the World

The third in a weekly series of dialogues between Professor Dame Wendy Hall & Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt (leading academics in Web Science from the University of Southampton).

The Web we have now would have astonished Web users from 10 years ago; how will we be astonished in 10 years’ time? Leading academics Professor Dame Wendy Hall and …

Hackers and Cyber-criminals are ever-present in the media, the ‘folk devils’ (see the definition in the ‘Glossary of criminological terminology’ PDF available at the bottom of this page) of recent …

The ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) is an idea about what happens when you embed communications and intelligence into household appliances, white goods, street furniture, clothing, medical devices, vehicles and everything …

In this video, Les and Susan introduce the Semantic Web and the Internet of Things by talking about how we are moving from a Web of documents to a Web …

We hope you’ve enjoyed this course. The University of Southampton combines academic excellence with an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to research, supporting a culture that engages and challenges students and …

The Semantic Web is Tim Berners-Lee’s name for the version of the Web that links together ideas, concepts and facts instead of documents and pages. It’s sometimes called Web 3.0, …

In this video, Professor Les Carr presents arguments for net neutrality whilst reminding us that although the Web can be considered as a public open system it is built on …

In this video, of Professor Les Carr presents some arguments against net neutrality. Here Les takes a less idealistic and more pragmatic position. He recognises that we may have to …

In this video, Professor Les Carr and Professor Susan Halford talk about how the Web is continually changing. They also point out that the whilst the Web, until recently, mainly …

In this video, Professor Les Carr introduce the concept of net neutrality by asking: should the people who provide access to the internet be able to interfere in or to …

The Web was not the first attempt to create a global information sharing system. Since 1850, various other attempts have been made and, in this video lecture, Professor Les Carr …

In this video, Professor Les Carr explains how the hypertext technologies used on the internet infrastructure became the Web as we know it today. Technically, there are three specific big …

In this short video you meet Professor Les Carr and Professor Susan Halford, the lead educators, who talk about what drew them to Web Science. In this step we would …

A short history of the Web: the Web as a sociotechnical network of networks. How did the World Wide Web emerge from the physics laboratories at CERN to become the …