Web Science - Field of Study

It's good to read that Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the www-technology, is leading an initiative to make web science a field of study. I've been waiting for this. I'm totally joining these guys.

"The Web has become such a force in commerce and culture that a group of leading university researchers now deems it worthy of its own field of study.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in Britain plan to announce today that they are starting a joint research program in Web science."