Using the Web to do Social Science

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Professor Duncan Watts (Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research) discusses how the Internet is beginning to lift long-time constraints of social science research on emergent collective behaviour, at a lecture given at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

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