The advent of social computing on the Web has led to a new generation of Web applications
that are powerful and world-changing. However, we argue that we are just at the beginning …

Background Over the last years, multidisciplinary pulmonary embolism response teams
(PERTs) have emerged to encounter the increasing variety and complexity in the …

This paper promotes the concept of smart and connected communities SCC, which is
evolving from the concept of smart cities. SCC are envisioned to address synergistically the …

Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the
analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information …

This essay argues for a paradigm shift in the study of the Internet and digital/social media.
Big data analytics is the dominant paradigm. It receives large amounts of funding, is …

Trust is an integral component in many kinds of human interaction, allowing people to act
under uncertainty and with the risk of negative consequences. For example, exchanging …

The rise of the press, radio, television and other mass media enabled the development of an
independent institution: the 'Fourth Estate', central to pluralist democratic processes. The …

This third volume in Christian Fuchs's Media, Communication and Society book series
illuminates what it means to live in an age of digital capitalism, analysing its various aspects …

Web science Page 1 60 communications of the acm | JULY 2008 | voL. 51 | no. 7 DESPITE THE
WEB’S great success as a technology and the significant amount of computing infrastructure …

Provenance, ie, the origin or source of something, is becoming an important concern, since it
offers the means to verify data products, to infer their quality, to analyse the processes that …