The emerging discipline of Web Science

A chapter by Dr. Kieron O’Hara and Professor Dame Wendy Hall in The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, edited by William Dutton, Oxford University Press 2012, discussing the rationale for the new discipline of Web Science, the definition of the Web, Web architecture, the role of government, semantics and linked data.

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/23097/1/ohara-hall-web-science.pdf