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An earlier definition was given by American computer scientist [[Ben Shneiderman]]: "Web Science" is the processing the information available on the web in similar terms to those applied to natural environment.<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1145/1247001.1247022 | title=Web science | journal=Communications of the ACM | date=2007 | volume=50 | issue=6 | pages=25 | first=Ben | last=Shneiderman}}</ref>

The Web Science Institute describes Web Science as focusing "the analytical power of researchers from disciplines as diverse as mathematics, sociology, economics, psychology, law and computer science to understand and explain the Web. It is necessarily interdisciplinary - as much about social and organizational behaviour as about the underpinning technology."<ref>[http://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/about/what_is_web_science.page? Retrieved 12 June 2014.]</ref>

== Research groups ==

There are numerous academic research groups engaged in Web Science research,<ref>[http://tw.rpi.edu/web/wsrc Web Science Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY]</ref><ref>[http://eng.webst.kaist.ac.kr/ Division of Web Science and Technology, KAIST, Korea]</ref><ref>[http://west.uni-koblenz.de/ Institute for Web Science and Technologies, University of Koblenz-Landau]</ref><ref>[http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/ E-Business and Web Science Research Group at Bundeswehr University Munich]</ref><ref>[http://dtc.webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ The Web Science Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Southampton]</ref><ref>[http://www.jku.at/content/e262/e242/e2380/e131292 The Web Sciences Masters program at the Johannes Kepler University Linz]</ref><ref>[http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/4365 Web Science Institute, University of Southampton]</ref><ref>[http://webscience.blogs.usj.edu.lb The Interdisciplinary Research Unit in Web Science at Saint-Joseph University of Beirut]</ref> many of which are members of WSTNet, the [[Web Science Trust]] Network of research labs. Health Web Science emerged as a sub-discipline of Web Science that studies the role of the Web's impact human health outcomes and how to further utilize the Web to improve health outcomes.<ref>http://www.websci11.org/workshops/health-web-science-workshop/></ref><ref>http://www.websci12.org/workshops/health-web-science-workshop</ref><ref>http://www.jmir.org/2013/8/e166/</ref><ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1561/1800000019 | volume=4 | title=Health Web Science | journal=Foundations and Trends in Web Science | pages=269–419}}</ref>

== Related major conferences ==

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* [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] Web(ACM), ScienceHypertext Conference (HT) sponsored by [[ACM SIGWEB|sigWeb]]

* [[International World Wide Web Conference]] (WWW)

* The [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] SIGCHI [[Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems]] (CHI)

* [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] Hypertext Conference (HT) sponsored by [[ACM_SIGWEB|sigWeb]]

* International [[Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence|AAAI]] Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)

* [[International World Wide Web Conference]] (WWW)

* The [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] SIGCHI [[Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems]] (CHI)

== See also ==

* [[WebDigital Science Trustanthropology]]

* [[Digital sociology]]

* [[Health web science|Health Web Science]]

* [[Sociology of the Internet]]

* [[Digital sociology]]

* [[Digital anthropology]]

* [[Technology and society]]

* [[Web Science Trust]]

== References ==