The Future of Web and Society

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The Future of the Web and Society. Web Science, as an interdiscipline, is celebrating its 15th year of interrogating how the Web has shaped Society and how Society has shaped the Web. During this period, we have witnessed avalanches of disruptive ?exponential? technologies emerge from tectonic shifts between four (or more!) Internets with their various sensibilities and sensitivities concerning openness, commerce, authoritarianism & human rights. The closing panel reflects on how all of these socio-cultural-political developments (re)shape the agenda for Web Science over the next 15 years and beyond. Specifically, panelists will consider the future of Web Science research and what it means for practitioners, policy makers and publics.