Bücher der Reihe Foundations and Trends (R) in Web Science

Sets out a series of approaches to the analysis and synthesis of the World Wide Web, and other web-like information structures. A comprehensive set of research questions is outlined, together with a sub-disciplinary breakdown, emphasising the multi-faceted nature of the Web, and the multi-disciplinary nature of its study and development.

Presents Health Web Science as a sub-discipline of Web Science that, while being concerned with the Web's impact on health and wellbeing, also examines the impact of the Web's health-related uses on the design, structure, and evolution of the Web itself.

Argues that Natural Language Processing does, and will continue to, underlie the Semantic Web, including its initial construction from unstructured sources like the World Wide Web, in several different ways, and whether its advocates realise this or not.

As the Web allows information sharing, discovery, aggregation, filtering and flow in an unprecedented manner, it becomes difficult to identify the original source that produced information. This survey contends that provenance can and should reliably be tracked and exploited, and investigates the necessary foundations to achieve this.

Provides a comprehensive overview of mining experiential knowledge bearing on human activities, with an emphasis on the use of the Web. Starting with definitions of activities and experiences, the book elaborates on various views of human activities in cognitive science, including knowledge representation schemes.

Understanding the dynamics of collective human attention has been called a key scientific challenge for the information age. Tackling this challenge, this volume explores the dynamics of collective attention related to Internet phenomena such as Internet memes, viral videos, or social media platforms and Web-based businesses.

Situates digital security within the broader landscape of social and political theories of security, and uses a critical security lens to encourage the reader to explore how digitally networked technologies are both included in and influenced by the co-creation of artefacts and practices in open environments.