#WebScience

2025-05-12

🌍 Brave Conversations is coming to Stuttgart! 🚀
🟢 5/7/2025, 10am to 04pm
🟢 @Aquarium Campus Vaihingen
🟢 Pfaffenwaldring 45

Since 2017, Brave Conversations has created spaces around the world for people to explore how emerging technologies are transforming our lives—and how we are shaping them in return. Rooted in the spirit of the Web Science Conferences, these events bring critical discussions into the public sphere, inviting diverse voices to reflect, question, and co-create our digital future.

🗓️ Join us for Brave Conversations: Stuttgart 2025 – a dynamic, day-long event open to everyone interested in the societal impact of digital innovation.
We at IRIS – the 🔵 Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems are proud and excited to co-organize this event alongside School for Talents (with Lisa Kohler), Stuttgarter Change Labs (Spela Setzen), and Intersticia, and to host it at the Universität Stuttgart.
Whether you're a student, researcher, creative thinker, or simply curious about how humans and technologies shape one another — your voice matters in these conversations.

💡 Expect thoughtful dialogue, hands-on learning, and a welcoming atmosphere led by an experienced team of facilitators, including Anni Rowland-Campbell, Hannah Stewart, and Ghada Ibrahim, with contributions from our brilliant team at the University of Stuttgart.

💬 We believe that change begins with dialogue. Come share your perspective and help shape the digital world we want to live in.
📲 Registration: lnkd.in/e4NpUCKz

#BraveConversations
#Stuttgart2025
#IRIS
#DigitalSociety
#WebScience
#HumanTechnology
#DigitalTransformation
#AIandSociety
#TechForGood
#FutureOfTechnology
#EthicsInTech
#DigitalHumanities
#CriticalThinking
#TechDialogue
#DigitalLiteracy
#STEM
#Innovation
#UniversityOfStuttgart
#Intersticia
#ChangeLabs
#SchoolForTalents
#DigitalCulture
#PublicEngagement
#CoCreation
#ReflectivePractices
#CyberValley

IRIS Board of Directors
Prof. Dr. André Bächtiger
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Bauer
Prof. Dr. Sibylle Baumbach
Dr. Miriam K.
Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Wirzberger

If you're part of the IRIS community – like Cyber Valley, @izkt_stuttgart – Internationales Zentrum für Kultur- und Technikforschung der Universität Stuttgart, ARENA2036 or @alexanderbrem we’d love to see you join the conversation!

John S. Erickson 🙏olyerickson
2025-01-14

“Bluesky conversation analysis with local and frontier LLMs with R/Tidyverse” blog.stephenturner.us/p/bluesk

John S. Erickson 🙏olyerickson@fosstodon.org
2024-05-05

Ethan Zuckerman's extensions lawsuit vs. Meta would help #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience researchers -- not to mention, _users_! wired.com/story/meta-section-2

2024-03-28

Interested in #sonification and intersections with #webscience? Come and help us #SonifyWebSci : iaine.github.io/ListentotheWeb

The deadline is April 4th, AoE time. Details on the site.

BildungsSpiegel_newsbildungsspiegel@bildung.social
2023-08-25

Sprachenlernen im digitalen Zeitalter

Audio-Gamifizierung mit Intelligenten Virtuellen Assistenten

Eine aktuelle Studie der ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft belegt: Audio-Gamifizierung mit Intelligenten Virtuellen Assistenten steigert das Sprachenlernen.

bildungsspiegel.de/news/wissen

#BildungsSpiegel #AudioGamifizierung #IVA #Sprachenlernen #WebScience #ZBW #FediLZ

2023-08-15

Ok. So one limitation of #mostr is that it loses links to embedded posts in #nostr.
I was pointing to these #webscience #socialweb and #socialmachine questions:
w3c.social/@dbdc4dc6031900bb2c

John S. Erickson 🙏olyerickson@fosstodon.org
2023-08-07
John S. Erickson 🙏olyerickson@fosstodon.org
2023-08-06

Thiel, D. and DiResta, R. (2023). “Child Safety on Federated Social Media.” Stanford Digital Repository. Available at purl.stanford.edu/vb515nd6874 doi.org/10.25740/vb515nd6874 #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience #CSAM

2023-07-27

Yesterday I sent this e-mail to @w3c Technical Architecture Group.
"#Mastodon Architecture favours Calomnies".
lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w
Ie it is a #socialmachine that (unintentionally) promotes slander.

I hope this will allow #WebScience groups to come up with architectural principles that can allow us to build better decentralised social networks.

I am over at #Nostr. This is one page publishing my post snort.social/p/npub1m0wym3srry

2023-07-26

@natasha514b @maelduin13 @koalie
I must thank @maelduin13 for helping ground the question @w3c must ask regarding the architecture of #Mastodon.
The federated structure leads to calomnies [1] being spread via tags [2], and allows slanderers to put pressure on non-full-time admins to censor toots that restore perspective.
Here we see this in action with US presidential candidates.
We need #WebScience and other groups to look into this.
[1] w3c.social/@bblfish/1107738669
[2] w3c.social/@bblfish/1107680250

John S. Erickson 🙏olyerickson@fosstodon.org
2023-06-17

There's a dearth of scientific studies of children's use of platforms like YouTube and Facebook precisely because those platforms make it difficult for researchers to _conduct_ that research... nytimes.com/2023/06/17/upshot/ via @NYTimes #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience

John S. Erickson 🙏olyerickson@fosstodon.org
2023-06-17

How do the #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience research communities feel about the news that #Reddit will begin to charge for API access? techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/redd

Shawn M. Jones, PhDshawnmjones@hachyderm.io
2023-05-08

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Expo is today 2pm - 4:30pm EDT !!!!

See the GitHub page below for how to attend over Zoom.

Topics include: #WebArchiving #EyeTracking #DigitalPreservation #Accessibility #ScholarlyCommunications #DigitalLibraries #WebScience

PIs include: Michael Nelson, Michele Weigle, Jian Wu, Sampath Jayarathna, Vikas G Ashok, Faryaneh Poursardar

Presenters include: Travis Reid, Gavindya Jayawardena, Yash Prakash, David Calano, & Kehinde Ajayi

github.com/oduwsdl/2023-resear

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