Digital Planet

By BBC World Service

Can we make the web a better space?

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Published July 07, 2020 3:00pm

What is Web Science, and why does it matter?

The internet is the most complex machine built by humans but it so much more than just the engineering behind it. The internet moves the data around, but the web is the space in which we humans have experiences, think of the web as a sort of super app.

We're interested in the underlying technology, in that it facilitates the movement of data that makes the web possible. But from the human side, we're interested in our interaction with each other as made possible by the...

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