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Abstract
In the past 30 years the Web has developed from its inception as a layer of protocols on top of the internet, to use by over 5bn people and organizations. This has driven the creation of vast quantities of digital data and – in turn – to deep concerns about the politics of digital data and computational methods. To date, critical investigation of these concerns has focussed on large commercial platforms built on top of the Web, and their use of machine learning methods. Meanwhile, less attention has been paid to the underlying design and protocols of Web itself, and how these might be implicated in the very same process and concerns. We explore ongoing endeavours to transform the Web from a library of documents intended for humans to a ‘semantic Web’ using symbolic Artificial Intelligence to enable machine reasoning across multiple heterogenous data sources. In principle this would transform the production and circulation of knowledge at Web scale. We present the findings from an experimental, interdisciplinary study exploring the epistemological politics and sociomaterial practices involved in situated accomplishment of the semantic Web. Our findings have consequences for the future of the Web and the future of Web based platforms.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Science, Technology and Human Values |
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| Publication status | Published - 6 May 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2024.
Research Groups and Themes
- ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Keywords
- semantic web, infrastructure, platforms, machine learning, symbolic artificial intelligence, interdisciplinarity, autoethnography.
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CenSoF: ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Halford, S. (Principal Investigator), Southerton, D. (Co-Investigator), Manchester, H. (Co-Investigator), Evans, D. M. (Co-Investigator), Watson, D. L. (Co-Investigator), Anderson, B. (Co-Investigator), Cater, K. F. (Co-Investigator), Carver, N. (Co-Investigator), Clarke, P. H. (Co-Investigator), Dermott, E. (Co-Investigator), Facer, K. (Co-Investigator), Hauert, S. (Co-Investigator), Liu, W. (Co-Investigator), Liveley, G. (Co-Investigator), McQuillan, D. (Co-Investigator), O'Kane, A. A. (Co-Investigator), Owen, R. (Co-Investigator), Parker, M. (Co-Investigator), Preist, C. W. (Co-Investigator), Schien, D. (Co-Investigator), Sriprakash, A. (Co-Investigator), Milivojevic, S. (Co-Investigator), Hussain, R. (Co-Investigator), Gutierrez Lopez, M. (Researcher), Cheilan, L. (Researcher), Thomas, L. M. (Researcher), Van Isacker, T. (Researcher), Valladares Celis, C. (Researcher), Atkins, E. (Student), Knight, E. W. (Student), Pykett, J. (Co-Investigator), Pitts, H. (Co-Investigator), Williamson, B. (Co-Investigator), Lagedamont, M. (Co-Investigator), Dowse, M. (Researcher), Brand, J. F. (Student), James, R. (Student), Okafo, D. (Student), Horsley, N. (Researcher), Jansen, A. H. (Administrator), Stevenson, T. P. (Other ), Hill, J. M. (Manager), Abu-Aisheh, R. (Researcher), Bo, H. (Researcher), Hemming, R. (Researcher), Huang, L. Z. (Researcher) & Ward, K. J. (Other )
1/05/22 → 30/04/27
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