{"id":1661,"date":"2006-11-05T15:25:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T20:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2006-11-05T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T20:25:32","slug":"webology-or-information-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/webology-or-information-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Webology or Information Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sayanc.net\/\">Sayan<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<p>I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/6108578.stm\">this article on BBC<\/a> where TBL says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When you look at university courses, web science isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there &#8211; it seems to fall through the cracks \u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The latter half of the article is entirely devoted to this idea. I think this is a good opportunity for SILS to pursue. Just my $0.02 Love to hear your take on the issue and what SILS is planning to do about this. <\/p>\n<p>I reply:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/news\/1047\">The announcement from Southhampton and MIT gives a little more background. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I see this announcement as Computer Science trying to pick up all the threads they lost when they ignored anything besides technology. Web 2.0 and News 2.0 and Business 2.0 use technologies but the secret sauce that makes GooTube, Flickr, Blogger, even NetFlix and Amazon work and be worth millions isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the technologies \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I keep saying.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Sierra has a nice and timely bit on her <a href=\"http:\/\/headrush.typepad.com\/creating_passionate_users\/\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Creating Passionate Users\u00e2\u20ac\u009d blog<\/a> called <a href=\"http:\/\/headrush.typepad.com\/creating_passionate_users\/2006\/11\/why_does_engine.html\">&#8220;Why does Science\/math\/engineering education education in the US suck?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a>. Kathy is on to what&#8217;s left out and why Information Science done right won&#8217;t turn out mere engineers.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/ils.unc.edu\">UNC SILS<\/a>, we like to think we are already there using sociology, psychology, history, story telling, systems thinking, etc starting from a human interaction perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sayan writes: I came across this article on BBC where TBL says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When you look at university courses, web science isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there &#8211; it seems to fall through the cracks \u00e2\u20ac\u009d The latter half of the article is entirely devoted to this idea. I think this is a good opportunity for SILS to pursue. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-information-commons","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}