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Analysing the Network of #FLwebsci Tweets

With the University of Southampton’s first MOOC on Web Science now coming up to its second week, work has been under way to promote and discuss the new course, and – in parallel with the MOOC’s focus on the Web – a lot of this has happened on social media. I recently ran a session with Digital Marketing MSc students at the University, who were asked to post messages promoting the MOOC to their own social networks. Continue reading →

Meet the MOOC-sters, for real!

There’s an opportunity for a face-to-face meet up at Southampton on Nov 18th starting from 4pm GMT - if you are based locally and you’d like to come and talk to us "in the flesh" then please register here If you really want to make a trip of it, the next day sees the Creative Digifest #SXSC3 taking place in Southampton - a free event to find out more about setting up a digital business. A number of the Southampton staff and students will be attending and taking part in this event. Continue reading →

Google Hangout for #FLwebsci on Monday

Very shortly you will have the chance to compare your use of the Web with other MOOC participants across the world, to discover the diversity of experiences that we label “World Wide Web”. This panel discussion will happen on Google Hangout on Monday, 18th November at 12 noon GMT. You will be sent an email with details of how to access this. For those of you unable to make this ‘live’, a recording will be made available to view after the event. Continue reading →

What do the Student Digital Champions do?

MOOC participants may well come across the #digichamps hashtag in social media conversations about the web Science MOOC. But who are the Digichamps and what do they do? Here, one of our new digichamps, Merel van Dijke, sheds some light on the subject: "The Student Digital Literacies Champions (or in short Digichamps) are a group of students from the University of Southampton with a passion for technology and education. Continue reading →

The Age of Cryptocurrencies

My research interest is cryptocurrencies, the most popular of  which you may have heard of is called Bitcoin. Its open source nature has lead to more Bitcoin-inspired cryptocurrencies being created. Cryptocurrencies in Brief Cryptocurrencies are a new form of online currency where payments have a high level of anonymity, they’re quicker and most likely cheaper than existing online payment systems, especially for international transactions. Continue reading →

Let’s Be Open at #DE2013MCUK

MOOC participants may be interested in (and even inspired by) the themes of "Openness" in Wendy's keynote speech at the Digital Economy Conference at Media City Manchester yesterday. The growing openness in data, education and research is what is making this MOOC happen... Web Science staff and students were well represented at the conference, and I'll be updating this introductory post shortly. Check out #DE2013MCUK for a full record of the event. Continue reading →

Why Internet Piracy Research is Unclear

Piracy rate statistics are murky at best. Industry involvement in collection makes numbers hard to interpret and bias likely. But research on Pirates themselves remains murkier still. Law and Property Though we use the term “intellectual property”, copyrights were never really described in a ‘property’ context. The inception of copyright (Statute of Anne, 1710) granted “monopoly” and “responsibility” but not “ownership” outside of a contractual context. Continue reading →