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Fully Funded Studentships 2012

Apply now for a fully funded PhD in Web Science to start in 2012. Deadline is the 31st of May 2012. Students from any discipline can apply for this course which consists of a one year taught MSc and three years independent research in Web Science.

Bio: Russell Newman

I am a digital native; it is difficult to explain what the Web means to me because I have more or less grown up with it. It is a tool that I use day-to-day but do not depend upon. With that in mind, I may summarise my use of the Web as a tool for work, research and recreation. Read the full interview.

DTC Library Resources

The DTC have the following textbooks for any Web Science students to borrow during their MSc or PhD years.

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1984 – George Orwell Published by Penguin Classics. isbn: 014118776X
253 – Geoff Ryman Published by Flamingo. isbn: 9780006550785
A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet – John Naughton Published by Phoenix. isbn:
Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing – David Harel, Yishai Feldman Published by Addison Wesley. isbn: 321117840
Alone Together – Sherry Turkle Published by Basic Books. isbn: 9780465010219
An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies – Sergio Sismondo Published by Wiley-Blackwell. isbn: 9781405187657
Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia – Becky Hogge Published by Barefoot Publishing isbn: 9781906110505
Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World – Hansen, Shneiderman, Smith Published by Morgan Kaufman Publishers. isbn: 9780123822291
Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran (International Library of Iranian Studies) – Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany Published by ibtauris. isbn: 9781845116071
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion – Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis Published by Addison Wesley. isbn: 137135599
Born Digital – John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Published by Basic Books. isbn: 9780465018567
Building Scalable Web Sites – Cal Henderson Published by O’Reilly Media. isbn: 596102356
C++ How to Program – Paul Deitel and Harvey Deitel Published by Pearson. isbn: 9780273752769
Code: Version 2.0 – Lawrence Lessig Published by Basic Books. isbn: 9780465039142
Collaborative Web Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams – Jessica Burdman Published by Addison Wesley. isbn: 201433311
Composition No. 1 – Marc Saporta Published by Visual Editions. isbn: 9780956569226
Computer Science: An Overview – J. Glenn Brookshear Published by Pearson Education. isbn: 321544285
Computer Security – Dieter Gollmann Published by Wiley. isbn: 9780470741153
Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling – Kembrew Mcleod/Peter Dicola Published by Duke University Press. isbn: 9780822348757
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another – Philip Ball Published by Arrow Books Ltd. isbn: 99457865
Crooked Little Vein (P.S.) – Warren Ellis Published by Harper Perennial. isbn: 61252050
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business – Jeff Howe Published by Three Rivers Press. isbn: 9780307396211
Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology, and the New Literacies – Michael Thomas Published by Routledge. isbn: 9780415889964
Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age – Viktor Mayer-Schonberger Published by Princeton. isbn: 9780691138619
Digital Evidence and Computer Crime: Forensic Science, Computers, and the Internet – Eoghan Casey Published by Elsevier. isbn: 9780123742681
Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (Electronic Mediations) – Gary Hall Published by University of Minnesota Press. isbn: 816648719
Earth – David Brin Published by Spectra. isbn: 553057782
Eastern Standard Tribe – Cory Doctorow Published by Tor Books. isbn: 765310457
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the race to electrify the world – Jill Jonnes Published by Random House. isbn: 9780375758843
Everything is Miscellaneous: the power of the new digital disorder – David Weinberger Published by Holt. isbn: 9780805088113
Facebook Cookbook: Building Applications to Grow Your Facebook Empire – Jay Goldman Published by O’Reilly Media. isbn: 059651817X
For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs – Robert A. Heinlein Published by Pocket Books. isbn: 743491548
Free Culture: the Nature and Future of Creativity – Lawrence Lessig Published by Penguin Books. isbn: 9780143034650
Free: The Future of a Radical Price: The Economics of Abundance and Why Zero Pricing Is Changing the Face of Business – Chris Anderson Published by Random House Business. isbn: 1905211473
From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry – M Campbell-Kelly Published by MIT Press. isbn: 026253262X
Geeks Bearing Gifts v.1.1 How the Computer World Got This Way – Ted Nelson Published by Mindful Press. isbn: 9780578004389
Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss Published by Harper Collins. isbn: 9780007158461
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies – Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff Published by Harvard Business School Press. isbn: 1422125009
Handbook of Internet Crime – Yvonne Jewkes, Majid Yar Published by Willan Publishing. isbn: 1843925249
Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together – Clay Shirky Published by Penguin. isbn: 141030623
High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers – Steve Souders Published by O’Reilly Media. isbn: 596529309
How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology – N Oudshoorn Published by MIT Press. isbn: 262651092
Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) – Lucy Sachman Published by Cambridge University Press. isbn: 052167588X
Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalisation – George P Landow Published by the John Hopkins University Press. isbn: 801882575
Inequality.Com: Power, Poverty and the Digital Divide – David Stevens, Kieron O’Hara Published by Oneworld Publications. isbn: 1851684506
Information Age: Rise of the Network Society v.1: Economy, Society and Culture: Rise of the Network Society Vol 1 – Manuel Castells Published by Wiley Blackwell. isbn: 1557866171
Information Technology Law: the law and society – Andrew Murray Published by the Oxford University Press. isbn: 9780199548422
Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory -Allen F. Repko Published by Sage publications. isbn: 9781412959155
Introducing Qualitative Research:A Student Guide to the Craft of Doing qualitative research – Rosaline Barbour Published by Sage Publications. isbn: 9781412934602
Inventing the Internet – J Abbate Published by the MIT Press. isbn: 262511150
Java How to Program Ninth Edition – Paul Deitel and Harvey Deitel Published by Pearson. isbn: 9780273759768
Learning Perl – Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz Published by O’Reilly Media. isbn: 596001320
Learning Python – Mark Lutz, David Ascher Published by O’Reilly Media. isbn: 1565924649
Lectures on Coarse Geometry: University Lecture Series Volume 31 – John Roe Published by American Mathematical Society. isbn: 9780821833322
Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of the Internet – Sherry Turkle Published by Simon & Schuster. isbn: 9782684833484
Linked – The New Science of networks – Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Little Brother – Cory Doctorow Published by Harper Voyager. isbn: 7288425
Macrowikinomics: Rebooting business and the World – Anthony D Williams Published by Portfolio. isbn: 9781591843566
Malware Analyst’s Cookbook and DVD: Tools and Techniques for Fighting malicious code – Michael Hale Ligh, Steven Adair, Blake Hartstein, and Matthew Richard Published by Wiley. isbn: 9780470613030
Meme Media and Meme Market Architectures: Knowledge media for editing, distributing and managing intellectual resources – Yuzuru Tanaka Published by IEEE press. isbn: 9780471453789
Mining the Social Web: Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media sites – Matthew A Russell Published by O’Reilly. isbn: 9781449388348
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence – Andy Clark Published by Oxford University Press. isbn: 195177517
Neighbor Networks: Competitive Advantage Local and Personal – Ronald S Burt Published by Oxford University Press. isbn: 9780199570690
Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online – Robert V.Kozinets Published by Sage Publications. isbn: 9781848606456
Networks Crowds and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World – David Easley and Jon Kleinberg Published by Cambridge University Press. isbn: 9780521195331
Networks: An Introduction – M.E.J. Newman Published by Oxford University Press. isbn: 9780199206650
One Click: Jeff Bezos and the rise of amazon.com – Richard L Brandt Published by Penguin. isbn: 9780670920662
Outliers: The story of success – Malcolm Gladwell Published by Penguin books. isbn: 9780141036250
Pandora’s Box: Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age – Andrew A. Adams, Rachel McCrindle Published by John Wiley & Sons. isbn: 470065532
Personal connections in the digital age – Nancy K Baym Published by Polity Press. isbn: 9780745643328
Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications – Toby Segaran Published by O’Reilly Media. isbn: 596529325
Programming Python: Object-Oriented Scripting – Mark Lutz, Laura Lewin, Frank Willison Published by O’Reilly Media. isbn: 596000855
Reinventing Comics – Scott McCloud Published by HarperCollins. isbn: 60953500
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science – Michael Nielsen Published by Princeton press. isbn: 9780691148908
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet – CL Borgman Published by MIT Press. isbn: 262026198
Selected Stories – E.M. Forster Published by Penguin Classics. isbn: 141186194
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: a unified theory of the web – David Weinberger Published by Basic Books. isbn: 9780738208503
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson Published by Penguin. isbn: 140232923
Social Media Marketing: Strategies for Engaging in Facebook, Twitter & Other Social media – Liana Evans Published by Que. isbn: 9780789742841
Social Media Metrics: How to measure and optimize your marketing investment – Jim Sterne Published by John Wiley & Sons, inc. isbn: 9780470583784
Steve Jobs: Biography – Walter Isaacson Published by Little Brown. isbn: 9781408703748
SVG Essentials – J. Eisenberg Published by O’Reilly Media. isbn: 596002238
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security – Kevin D Mitnick & William L Simon Published by Wiley. isbn: 9780764542800
The art of Intrusion: The real stories behind the exploits of hackers, intruders and deceivers – Kevin D Mitnick & William L Simon Published by Wiley. isbn: 9780764569593
The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers: the Effective of Quantitative Information – Jane E. Miller Published by University of Chicago press. isbn: 226526305
The Crowdsourcing Handbook: The How to on crowdsourcing, complete expert’s hints and tips Guide by the leading experts, everything you need to know about crowdsourcing – Dan Bell isbn: 9781742441856
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage – Cliff Stoll Published by pocket books. isbn: 9781416507789
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer – Neal Stephenson Published by Penguin. isbn: 014027037X
The Digital origins of Dictatorships and democracy: information Technology and Political Islam – Philip N Howard Published by Oxford University Press. isbn: 9780199736423
The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age – Daniel J. Solove Published by New York University Press. isbn: 9780814740378
The Elements of Style – William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White Published by Longman. isbn: 9780205309023
The Facebook Effect: the real inside story of Mark Zuckerberg and the world’s fastest-growing company – David Kirkpatrick Published by Virgin Books. isbn: 9780753522745
The Filter Bubble: what the Internet is hiding from you – Eli Pariser Published by Penguin. isbn: 9780670920389
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-intensive Scientific Discovery – Tony Hey Published by Microsoft PR. isbn: 982544200
The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop it – Jonathan Zittrain Published by Penguin. isbn: 014103159X
The Information: A history, a Theory, a Flood – James Gleick Published by Fourth Estate. isbn: 9780007225736
The Knowledge Web: Learning and Collaborating on the Net – Marc Eisenstadt, Tom Vincent Published by Routledgee. isbn: 749431784
The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the new forces that govern life and business in the digital age – Larry Downes Published by Basic Books. isbn: 9780465018642
The Long Tail: How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand – Chris Anderson Published by Random House Business Books. isbn: 1844138518
The Longer Long Tail: How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand – Chris Anderson Published by Random House Business Books. isbn: 9781847940360
The Master Switch: the Rise and Fall of Information Empires – Tim Wu/td> Published by Atlantic Books. isbn: 9781848879843
The Most Human Human: A defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer – Brian Christian Published by Viking/Penguin books. isbn: 9780670920808
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom – Evgeny Morozov Published by Public Affairs Books. isbn: 9781586488741
The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy and Reputation – Saul Levmore Martha C Nussbaum Published by Harvard University Press. isbn: 9780674050891
The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online – Guobin Yang Published by Columbia University Press. isbn: 9780231144216
The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making – Scott Plous Published by McGraw-Hill Inc. isbn: 9780070504776
The Rise of the Network Society – Manuel Castells Published by Blackwell. isbn: 1557866171
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed our Culture – John Battelle Published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing. isbn: 9781857883626
The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit – Sherry Turkle Published by MIT Press. isbn: 9780262701112
The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember – Nicholas Carr Published by Atlantic Books. isbn: 1848872259
The Social Shaping of Technology – Donald Mackenzie Published by the Open University Press. isbn: 335199135
The Spy in the Coffee Machine: The End of Privacy as We Know It – Kieron O’Hara, Nigel Shadbolt Published by Oneworld Publications. isbn: 1851685545
The Structure and Dynamics of Networks – Mark Newman/ Albert-László Barabási/Duncan J Watts Published by Princeton University Press. isbn: 691113572
The Tipping Point: How little things can make a big difference – Malcolm Gladwell Published by Little, Brown. isbn: 9780349113463
The Unfortunates – B.S. Johnson Published by Picador. isbn: 9780330353298
The Victorian Internet – Tom Standage Published by Walker & Company. isbn: 9780802716040
The Virtual Revolution – DVD
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms markets and Freedom – Yochai Benkler Published by Yale University Press. isbn: 9780300125771
The Web’s Awake: An Introduction to the Field of Web Science and the Concept of Web Life – Philip Tetlow Published by IEEE Press. isbn: 9780470137949
The Wisdom of Crowds – Why the Many are Smarter Than the Few – James Surowiecki Published by Abacus.
The World and Wikipedia: How we are editing reality – Andrew Dalby Published by Siduri Books. isbn: 9780956205209
Theories of Communication Networks – Kieron O’Hara, Nigel Shadbolt Published by Oneworld Publications. isbn: 1851685545
Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity – Francis Fukuyama Published by Penguin Books Ltd. isbn: 140259430
Trust Agents: Using the web to build influence, improve reputation, and earn trust – Chris Brogan and Juilen Smith Published by John Wiley & Sons. isbn: 9780470635490
Truth, Lies and Trust on the Internet – Monica T. Whitty, Adam Joinson Published by Routledge. isbn: 184169584X
Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction – Nick Montfort Published by the MIT press. isbn: 9780262633185
Virtual Ethnography – Christine Hine Published by Sage Publications. isbn: 761958967
Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds – Greg Lastowka Published by Yale University Press. isbn: 9780300141207
Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment – Ben Fry Published by O’Reilly Media. isbn: 596514557
We Live in the Public – DVD
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web – Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Fischetti Published by Harper Business. isbn: 006251587X
What would Google do? – Jeff Jarvis Published by Harper Collins. isbn: 9780007312108
When Computers Were Human – David Alan Grier Published by Princeton University Press. isbn: 691133824
Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World – Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu Published by Oxford University Press. isbn: 9780195340648
Wikinomics – Don Tapscott, Anthony . Williams Published by Atlantic Books. isbn: 184354637X
Writing for Computer Science – Justin Zobel Published by Springer. isbn: 1852338024
You are not a Gadget – Jaron Lanier Published by Penguin Creativity. isbn: 9780141049113
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