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Können wir das Alter von Webseiten abschätzen, wenn uns nur ein Crawl zur Verfügung steht?

Diese Frage hat Ira Kokoshko und Robert Jäschke beschäftigt – und sie haben dazu den Ancient GeoCities Datensatz auf der Web Science 2026 in Braunschweig vorgestellt. Wie gut ein LLM bei der Schätzung des Alters von Webseiten performt, könnt ihr im Paper nachlesen:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3795766.3799783

#GeoCities #WebScience #WebArchiving

Können wir das Alter von Webseiten abschätzen, wenn uns nur ein Crawl zur Verfügung steht?

Diese Frage hat Ira Kokoshko und Robert Jäschke beschäftigt – und sie haben dazu den Ancient GeoCities Datensatz auf der Web Science 2026 in Braunschweig vorgestellt. Wie gut ein LLM bei der Schätzung des Alters von Webseiten performt, könnt ihr im Paper nachlesen:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3795766.3799783

#GeoCities #WebScience #WebArchiving

Applications are open for the @ACM #Hypertext 2026 Summer School.

Join an international program on hypertext, web science, and digital narratives with leading researchers.

Includes free attendance at the Hypertext Conference 2026 @ht in London.

Ideal for PhD students and early-career researchers in Digital Humanities, HCI, and related fields.

Learn more and apply: https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/summer-school/

#Hypertext #DigitalHumanities #WebScience #PhD #HT2026 #CfP @sigweb

Applications are open for the @ACM #Hypertext 2026 Summer School.

Join an international program on hypertext, web science, and digital narratives with leading researchers.

Includes free attendance at the Hypertext Conference 2026 @ht in London.

Ideal for PhD students and early-career researchers in Digital Humanities, HCI, and related fields.

Learn more and apply: https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/summer-school/

#Hypertext #DigitalHumanities #WebScience #PhD #HT2026 #CfP @sigweb

#introduction

I'm Alexander Loth -- researcher & author in Frankfurt.

PhD: how generative AI reshapes disinformation & trust.

Tools I build:
🔬 JudgeGPT -- humans detect AI news at 52% (coin flip)
🤖 RogueGPT -- controlled misinfo stimuli
🔍 Origin Lens -- on-device C2PA verification
📊 CRED-1 -- domain credibility dataset

Also: books on data viz & AI, iOS apps.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ofZZ8LgAAAAJ
https://github.com/aloth

#AcademicMastodon #GenAI #Disinformation #C2PA #WebScience #AIethics

#introduction

I'm Alexander Loth -- researcher & author in Frankfurt.

PhD: how generative AI reshapes disinformation & trust.

Tools I build:
🔬 JudgeGPT -- humans detect AI news at 52% (coin flip)
🤖 RogueGPT -- controlled misinfo stimuli
🔍 Origin Lens -- on-device C2PA verification
📊 CRED-1 -- domain credibility dataset

Also: books on data viz & AI, iOS apps.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ofZZ8LgAAAAJ
https://github.com/aloth

#AcademicMastodon #GenAI #Disinformation #C2PA #WebScience #AIethics

This 6' 2009 #WebScience conference speech (!) is still rather relevant... Just published on my #Peertube channel! #GDPR #PbD #surveillance #minimisation #DataProtection #profiling #Trump #discrimination #PET #PIR #cloud #MPC #ads Robust #privacy protection for the future #Web p.lu/w/qxSyUuMDSk...

This 6' 2009 #WebScience conference speech (!) is still rather relevant... Just published on my #Peertube channel! #GDPR #PbD #surveillance #minimisation #DataProtection #profiling #Trump #discrimination #PET #PIR #cloud #MPC #ads

Robust #privacy protection for the future #Web https://p.lu/w/qxSyUuMDSkmu6QZktCQcoN

This 6' 2009 #WebScience conference speech (!) is still rather relevant... Just published on my #Peertube channel! #GDPR #PbD #surveillance #minimisation #DataProtection #profiling #Trump #discrimination #PET #PIR #cloud #MPC #ads

Robust #privacy protection for the future #Web https://p.lu/w/qxSyUuMDSkmu6QZktCQcoN

Ethan Zuckerman's extensions lawsuit vs. Meta would help #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience researchers -- not to mention, _users_! https://www.wired.com/story/meta-section-230-users-algorithm/

Ethan Zuckerman's extensions lawsuit vs. Meta would help #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience researchers -- not to mention, _users_! https://www.wired.com/story/meta-section-230-users-algorithm/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan/ #WebScience #ComputationSocialScience

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan/ #WebScience #ComputationSocialScience

Sprachenlernen im digitalen Zeitalter

Audio-Gamifizierung mit Intelligenten Virtuellen Assistenten

Eine aktuelle Studie der ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft belegt: Audio-Gamifizierung mit Intelligenten Virtuellen Assistenten steigert das Sprachenlernen.

https://www.bildungsspiegel.de/news/wissenschaft-forschung-und-lehre-projekte/6557-sprachenlernen-im-digitalen-zeitalter

#BildungsSpiegel #AudioGamifizierung #IVA #Sprachenlernen #WebScience #ZBW #FediLZ

Sprachenlernen im digitalen Zeitalter

Audio-Gamifizierung mit Intelligenten Virtuellen Assistenten

Eine aktuelle Studie der ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft belegt: Audio-Gamifizierung mit Intelligenten Virtuellen Assistenten steigert das Sprachenlernen.

https://www.bildungsspiegel.de/news/wissenschaft-forschung-und-lehre-projekte/6557-sprachenlernen-im-digitalen-zeitalter

#BildungsSpiegel #AudioGamifizierung #IVA #Sprachenlernen #WebScience #ZBW #FediLZ

The possibility of this happening is exactly what I worried about when Butthead took over #TheBirdSite https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/06/musk-black-twitter-spill/ #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience #BlackLivesMatter #BLM

The possibility of this happening is exactly what I worried about when Butthead took over #TheBirdSite https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/06/musk-black-twitter-spill/ #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience #BlackLivesMatter #BLM

Thiel, D. and DiResta, R. (2023). “Child Safety on Federated Social Media.” Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/vb515nd6874 https://doi.org/10.25740/vb515nd6874 #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience #CSAM

Thiel, D. and DiResta, R. (2023). “Child Safety on Federated Social Media.” Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/vb515nd6874 https://doi.org/10.25740/vb515nd6874 #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience #CSAM

Lawsuits like this threaten #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/01/twitter-lawsuit-center-for-countering-digital-hate/ via @washingtonpost

Lawsuits like this threaten #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/01/twitter-lawsuit-center-for-countering-digital-hate/ via @washingtonpost

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/13/threads-mark-zuckerberg-twitter-meta cc #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/13/threads-mark-zuckerberg-twitter-meta cc #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience

How new #Twitter API rules could hinder #warcrimes research and rescue efforts https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/20/twitter-policy-elon-musk-api/ #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience

How new #Twitter API rules could hinder #warcrimes research and rescue efforts https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/20/twitter-policy-elon-musk-api/ #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience

#GOP Targets Researchers Who Study #Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/business/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html @webscience #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience @computationalsocialscience

#GOP Targets Researchers Who Study #Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/business/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html @webscience #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience @computationalsocialscience

There's a dearth of scientific studies of children's use of platforms like YouTube and Facebook precisely because those platforms make it difficult for researchers to _conduct_ that research... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/upshot/social-media-teen-mental-health.html via @NYTimes #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience

There's a dearth of scientific studies of children's use of platforms like YouTube and Facebook precisely because those platforms make it difficult for researchers to _conduct_ that research... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/upshot/social-media-teen-mental-health.html via @NYTimes #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience

How do the #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience research communities feel about the news that #Reddit will begin to charge for API access? https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/reddit-will-begin-charging-for-access-to-its-api/

How do the #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience research communities feel about the news that #Reddit will begin to charge for API access? https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/reddit-will-begin-charging-for-access-to-its-api/

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Expo is today 2pm - 4:30pm EDT !!!!

See the GitHub page below for how to attend over Zoom.

Topics include: #WebArchiving #EyeTracking #DigitalPreservation #Accessibility #ScholarlyCommunications #DigitalLibraries #WebScience

PIs include: Michael Nelson, Michele Weigle, Jian Wu, Sampath Jayarathna, Vikas G Ashok, Faryaneh Poursardar

Presenters include: Travis Reid, Gavindya Jayawardena, Yash Prakash, David Calano, & Kehinde Ajayi

https://github.com/oduwsdl/2023-research-expo

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Expo is today 2pm - 4:30pm EDT !!!!

See the GitHub page below for how to attend over Zoom.

Topics include: #WebArchiving #EyeTracking #DigitalPreservation #Accessibility #ScholarlyCommunications #DigitalLibraries #WebScience

PIs include: Michael Nelson, Michele Weigle, Jian Wu, Sampath Jayarathna, Vikas G Ashok, Faryaneh Poursardar

Presenters include: Travis Reid, Gavindya Jayawardena, Yash Prakash, David Calano, & Kehinde Ajayi

https://github.com/oduwsdl/2023-research-expo

@schochastics Maybe post to #ComputationalSocialScience @computationalsocialscience and #WebScience @webscience

@schochastics Maybe post to #ComputationalSocialScience @computationalsocialscience and #WebScience @webscience

Our department has started to maintain an "awesome computational social science" #GitHub list. To make it truly awesome, we are now looking for contributions from the community. So spread the word and feel free to add any awesome material you are aware of

https://github.com/gesiscss/awesome-computational-social-science/

#ComputationalSocialScience #WebScience

Our department has started to maintain an "awesome computational social science" #GitHub list. To make it truly awesome, we are now looking for contributions from the community. So spread the word and feel free to add any awesome material you are aware of

https://github.com/gesiscss/awesome-computational-social-science/

#ComputationalSocialScience #WebScience

This political science fellowship focusing on #misinformation at Dartmouth (NH) seems very well suited to #WebScience or #ComputationalSocialScience researchers https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37424179/research-fellow-in-political-science-misinformation-/

This political science fellowship focusing on #misinformation at Dartmouth (NH) seems very well suited to #WebScience or #ComputationalSocialScience researchers https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37424179/research-fellow-in-political-science-misinformation-/

#Mastodon #Fediverse is my favorite #SocialNetwork, but, as a #WebScience and #SocialMedia researcher, I have to explore other networks. Today I tried #Nostr.

The requirement to create my own public-private #keys initially turned me off, but as someone who works with #cryptography, I get it. I installed the #iOS client and created a new account. To fully use the web client, I had to install a #browser extension.

This seems like a bit much for most. Who is the target audience for Nostr?

#Mastodon #Fediverse is my favorite #SocialNetwork, but, as a #WebScience and #SocialMedia researcher, I have to explore other networks. Today I tried #Nostr.

The requirement to create my own public-private #keys initially turned me off, but as someone who works with #cryptography, I get it. I installed the #iOS client and created a new account. To fully use the web client, I had to install a #browser extension.

This seems like a bit much for most. Who is the target audience for Nostr?

@katestarbird What “platforms” are you branching your research into? cc #WebScience

@katestarbird What “platforms” are you branching your research into? cc #WebScience

Are you #RethinkingDigitalRecords? Got some results that need more time?

We have extended the #JCDL2023 #deadlines by 1 week to February 19, 2023 for:
* posters
* workshops and tutorials
* late breaking results

We can’t wait to see what you have for #DigitalLibraries, #InformationRetrieval, #DigitalPreservation, #WebArchiving, #WebScience, #Search, #Recommendation, and more.

https://2023.jcdl.org/dates/

#introduction - Hi. I'm Shawn Jones. I'm a cat dad and an ISTI Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

I'm interested in #MachineLearning #caturday #webarchiving #NLP #webscience #computervision #socialmedia #LEGO #IDIC and much more.

I recently moved from mastodon.social to hachyderm.io. I'm a Computer Scientist who moves between software engineering and research. I may post about code, papers, and conferences.

The attached image helps my colleagues differentiate my cats. 🙂 🐈‍⬛ 🐈

@bwaber @bkeegan How is “cultivating” of social media data sources even possible given that exactly one gave us an API, and the others had zero interest? And given that scraping of the others essentially violates their policies? #WebScience focussed on The Bird Site (tm) as much because it _had_to_ as because it could…

Of interest to #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/misinformation-harvard-donovan-close/

This will change things for #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience research... https://www.engadget.com/twitter-charging-developers-api-access-104917093.html cc @webscience @computationalsocialscience

I'm really quite surprised that there is so little traffic on #WebScience / @webscience . Why isn't the Web Science community active in the #Fediverse?