Social Machines GSS

transcript

David De Roure

Social Machines

More people

This is a Fourth Quadrant Talk

Big DataBig Compute

Conventional Computation

The Future!

SocialNetworking

e-infrastructure

onlineR&D

The Fourth Quadrant B

Nigel Shadbolt et al

Real life is and must be full of all kinds of social constraint – the very processes from which society arises. Computers can help if we use them to create abstract social machines on the Web: processes in which the people do the creative work and the machine does the administration… The stage is set for an evolutionary growth of new social engines.

Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 1999

The Order of Social Machines

Some Social Machines

Scientists

TalkForum

ImageClassification

data reduction

Citizen Scientists

Physical World(people and devices)

Building a Social Machine

Design andComposition

Participation andData supply

Model of social interaction

Virtual World(Network of social interactions)

Dave Robertson

http://www.myexperiment.org/

Whither the Social Machine?

Kevin Page

Trajectories... distinguished by purpose

Kevin PagePage and De Roure, Trajectories through Social Machines, Building Web Observatories Workshop at Web Science 2013, Paris

Cat De Rourehttp://botornot.net

SOCIAM: The Theory and Practiceof Social Machines

http://www.sociam.org/

http://www.smart-society-project.eu/

Web as lens

Web as artefact

Web as

infrastructure

Web Observatorieshttp://www.w3.org/community/webobservatory/

The challenge is to foster the co-constituted socio-technical system on the right i.e. a computationally-enabled sense-making network of expertise, data, models and narratives.

This requires a “social machines” perspective from the outset as well as humanistic input. The Web, and with it Web Science, are an important exemplar.

Big data elephant versus sense-making network?

Iain Buchan

A revolutionary idea…Open Science!

Nullius in verba…take nobody's word for it

Join the W3C Community Group www.w3.org/community/rosc

Jun Zhao

www.researchobject.org

Scholarly SocialMachines Ecosystem

Closing Questions

1. What are the Social Machines of Global Systems Science?

2. How do we study the Social Machines ecosystem?

3. What are the design principles and models of compositionality for Social Machines?

4. What are the implications of the Social Machines ‘sphere’ in Global Systems Science?

david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.ukwww.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder

http://www.scilogs.com/eresearch

Thanks to Nigel Shadbolt, Dave Robertson, Kevin Page, CatDe Roure, Iain Buchan, Jun Zhao and colleagues in SOCIAM,Web Science, myExperiment and Smart Society.

Social Machines GSS

Technology