“Interdisciplinary” has become a buzzword in science in recent years. According to David Heeger, a professor of psychology and neural science at New York University (NYU), “You don’t do interdisciplinary science by putting a physicist and a biologist in the same office. Nor do you make interdisciplinary science happen by taking a grant proposal and assigning it for review to people from a diffe...

In this position paper, we argue that the different disciplines in Web Science do not work together in an interdisciplinary way. We attribute this to a fundamental difference in approaching research between social scientists and computer scientists, which we call the patterns vs. model problem. We reason that interdisciplinary teamwork is needed to overcome the patterns vs. model problem. We th...