The Web: Scientific Creativity, Technological Innovation and Society

This book analyzes the Web as an expression of scientific creativity, technological innovation, and social interaction. (i) Web science is configured as a design science, giving rise to a social science in an interdisciplinary setting and fostering the development of other disciplines, such as the science of education and economics. (ii) Technological innovation allows the Web, as the second major layer of the network of networks, to be supported by the Internet (first major layer) and linked to the cloud computing, apps, and mobile Internet (third major layer). (iii) Society is in dynamic interaction with the Web, which has fostered successive versions of this structure of the knowledge society.

Within this thematic framework, following a Preface providing general context for the book, the volume consists of four parts: I) The design of the Web and philosophical problems; II) From the present of the Web to the possible future; III) The Web, the problem of fake news and civil society; and IV) The Web in education and the relevance of innovation and responsibility. Initially, the internal perspective predominates, focusing on the structure and dynamics of the Web, and thereafter, attention is placed on aspects external to the Web itself, in terms of the social milieu and its impact on that setting. The book can attract the attention of a wide audience.