G'day Barry ! Replying publicly as well - might be of interest to others on the list, too: I attended WebSci '09 in Athens. For a flavour of the presentations, see my conference blog at http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/103 Overall, this was an enjoyable event with a number of useful keynotes, though from my perspective the humanities and social sciences tended to be underrepresented, with computer science dominating - which tends to result in rather too much belief in the power of technology to address all challenges, and a lack of understanding for the complexities of human activities online. -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ - http://produsage.org/ ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation http://cci.edu.au/ Associate Professor, Media & Communication a.bruns@qut.edu.au Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP Twitter: @snurb_dot_info Queensland University of Technology +61 7 31385548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:37:22 -0400 From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> To: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org>, communication and information technology section asa <citasa@list.citasa.org> Subject: [Air-L] Web Science Conference Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.64.1007121036290.6532375@origin.chass.utoronto.ca> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

Does anyone have any experience with the Web Science conference, held 2 years ago in Greece, and this year in USA?

Pls email me privately.

Barry Wellman