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Trust on the Web: Some Web Science Research Challenges

Kieron O'Hara (kmo@ecs.soton.ac.uk)

Senior research fellow in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom)

Wendy Hall (wh@ecs.soton.ac.uk)

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom)



abstract

Web Science is the interdisciplinary study of the World Wide Web as a first-order object in order to understand its relationship with the wider societies in which it is embedded, and in order to facilitate its future engineering as a beneficial object. In this paper, research issues and challenges relating to the vital topic of trust are reviewed, showing how the Web Science agenda requires trust to be addressed, and how addressing the challenges requires a range of disciplinary skills applied in an integrated manner.

keywords

Web Science, privacy, trust



Submission date:  September 2008
Accepted in:  September 2008
Published in:  October 2008






 
Open summary, issue 7 (2008)

Open summary (iss. 7, 2008)

editorial

Urbanism and Web Science

in-depth

Inaugural lecture of the UOC's 2008-2009
academic year
Planning and Beyond in the Globalising World,by Alfonso Vegara
From the UOC on the Internet to the Network-UOC, foreword by the president Imma Tubella
Against Urbanalisation. Urban policies in
the globalisation of cities,
counterpoint by Francesc Muñoz

dossier

Web Science,
coordinated by Julià Minguillón

Science, the Web and Web Science,
by Daniel Riera

Trust on the Web: Some Web Science Research Challenges,
by Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall

E-learning from the Perspective of Web Science: Looking to the Future,
by Julià Minguillón

miscellany

Collaborative Audiovisual Creation and Production. Social and Cultural Implications
of the Use of Open Source Audiovisual
Resources and Free Software,
by Jordi Alberich and Antoni Roig

XXI An Odyssey in Cyberspace: A Preliminary Look at Cyber-Feminism, by Eva Salas

Social Capital as the Source of Competitive Intelligence in Universities, by Eva Ortoll-Espinet, Alexandre López-Borrull, Josep Cobarsí-Morales, Montserrat Garcia-Alsina and Agustí Canals-Parera

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