Web science

The transdisciplinary field of Web science is taking the Web as its primary object of study. It is focused in the significant interplay among the social interactions enabled by the Web’s design, the scalable and open applications development mandated to support them, and the architectural and data requirements of these large-scale applications. A basic question for Web Science is what changes need to be incorporated in the Web evolution to best serve human beings.

Last decade, digital goods and the Web have transformed the patterns of production, exchange and consumption. The value creation mechanisms in this new economy are based on knowledge, creating the so called "knowledge-based" economy. In the "Applied Economics" course we identify the fundamental elements of this new economic environment in micro and macro level.