Posts Tagged ‘community’
WebSci and the Two Hundred Cultures: slides online
Posted by: clare on: May 10, 2013
Hey there Internet! I’ve had requests for access to the slides of my WebSci’13 presentation about the representation of different disciplines within WebSci (a brief overview of the topic is here). The slides are embedded below: I’ll update this post on the weekend to include a link to the paper itself, and you can expect [...]
Web Science and the Two (Hundred) Cultures: Representation of Disciplines Publishing in Web Science
Posted by: clare on: May 3, 2013
Long-term readers may recall that at WebSci’12 last year, I published a paper on representation of disciplines in the Web Science conference series. It was motivated by the ongoing discussion and (at times) uncertainty in the WebSci community about the disciplinary composition of that community, and about defining Web Science itself. The paper explained this [...]
In praise of WAIS
Posted by: clare on: September 26, 2012
There are a few things queued up in my draft blog posts, but I wanted to mention this while it’s fresh in my mind: I’ve spent a few days in WAIS in the last week or so, and in a nutshell it’s been lovely. I guess it’s inevitable that having spent 8 years with ECS [...]
Digital Interaction at Culture Lab
Posted by: clare on: August 7, 2012
So, I have some news — eight months after rocking up to Newcastle University, I’m returning to the south of England. I’m looking forward to the new things ahead, but I remain inspired by the breadth and quality of the work that goes on here in Newcastle. I’d like to illustrate what I mean: A week or [...]
Culture Lab: tight knit and very focused
Posted by: clare on: May 3, 2012
I’ve been at Culture Lab for almost four months: this seems like a good juncture to reflect upon life in the lab. I did my doctorate in ECS at Southampton, and then a postdoc at the Industrial Design department of TU Eindhoven. Culture Lab is totally unlike either of those places: it’s very youthful. There’re [...]
