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Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the web

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The Web must be studied as an entity in its own right to ensure it keeps flourishing and prevent unanticipated social effects.

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              Communications of the ACM  Volume 51, Issue 7
              Web science
              July 2008
              100 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/1364782
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