Making Meaning on the Web
Speakers: Lynn Andrea Stein
Topic(s): Artificial Intelligence,Computers and Society,Web Topics
Abstract
The World Wide Web is increasingly a venue in which we conduct commerce, build relationships, and live out our lives. Underneath the
everyday activity of the web lurks another layer: computers
manipulating symbols and bits to create the infrastructure within
which we act. How do actions on the web, undertaken by individuals or
by automated agents, come to have meaning and force in the physical
world outside the web? This talk examines that question, challenging
some existing theories of "web semantics", providing an alternate
explanation building on linguistic and social constructions of meaning
and exploring the implications of this explanation in both
philosophical and practical contexts.
About this Lecture
Duration: n/a minutes
Languages Available: English
Last Updated: 12-14-2007
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