The public Web and the public good

Rafael Melgarejo-Heredia; Leslie Carr; Susan Halford

doi:10.1145/2908131.2908181

The public Web and the public good

Rafael Melgarejo-Heredia
, Leslie Carr
, Susan Halford

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

3 Scopus citations

Abstract

The Web is imagined to provide a global, public role in the dissemination of knowledge and communication between individuals and there are many examples of the Web being used by a variety of 'publics' as a mechanism for independently achieving their political, cultural and social goals. But beliefs about the benefits of the public web have co-evolved with the technological infrastructure of the Web, from a public information dissemination service to a shared participatory space, to a data trading environment. Powerful Web stakeholders (governments, ISPs, platform owners) have focused the governance debate on economic, political and security. The future of the Web needs to readdress the balance preserving the "public good" of the "public web".Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WebSci 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Web Science Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	330-332
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450342087
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2908131.2908181
State	Published - 22 May 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	8th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2016 - Hannover, Germany Duration: 22 May 2016 → 25 May 2016

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Name	WebSci 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Web Science Conference

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Conference	8th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2016
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hannover
Period	22/05/16 → 25/05/16

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Keywords

Access
Big data
Collaboration
Externalities
Information asymmetries
Interdependence
Open data
Public goods
Space and place
Spillovers
The public

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Melgarejo-Heredia, R, Carr, L & Halford, S 2016, The public Web and the public good. in WebSci 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Web Science Conference. WebSci 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Web Science Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 330-332, 8th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2016, Hannover, Germany, 22/05/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2908131.2908181

The public Web and the public good. / Melgarejo-Heredia, Rafael; Carr, Leslie; Halford, Susan.
WebSci 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Web Science Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 330-332 (WebSci 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Web Science Conference).

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