<div dir="ltr">You may be an avid user of the Web, but this introductory course in Web Science will help you to understand the Web both as a social system and a technical system: a global information infrastructure built from the interactions of people and technologies.<br>
<br>We will examine the origins and evolution of the Web and consider key questions of Security, Democracy, Networks and Economy from both computational and social science perspectives.<div><br><a href="https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/web-science">https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/web-science</a></div>
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